An emphatic forehand winner to the deuce court gave Murray a 5-2 lead and he completed his victory with a running forehand put-away.
They range from one-syllable shots like the Ace, the Deuce, the Dot and the Dart to names with mythological, military and poetic associations: the Argus, the Homer, the Colonel, the Scout, Eureka and Black Beauty.
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Joe and Niggy Marino used to box the cards -- fix the deck -- or they'd play partners, and kick each other to signal for discards: five kicks meant to throw the five, two for the deuce, etc.
In Rome this year, Nadal attempted 15 first serves to Djokovic's forehand in the deuce court, compared to 10 down the center "T" to his backhand, according to Craig O'Shannessy, a strategy analyst who compiles data on pro tennis.
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More than just a frisson of fear shivered through the crew of Deuce when this hulking, 1930s-vintage iceboat found itself caught by a sudden gust of wind on a Wisconsin lake a few years ago.
When Nadal earned a break point in the final game of the match, Djokovic hit a forceful forehand for deuce, made the sign of the cross and then finished off the match two points later.
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But in the fourth game, playing at deuce, Delbonis pushed Nadal deep into the alley on the forehand side.
After two days with no wind--the first such episode locals could remember--he and his crew loaded Deuce back on the trailer and drove back to Racine.
Federer came into the match as the firm favourite but, from the moment he was taken to deuce in game one, it was clear the 16-time Grand Slam champion was not going to have everything his own way.
Ward began to show nerves in the fourth game of the second set, when he was taken to deuce on his serve for the first time, and two service games later, the pressure got to him.
Deuce marked the evolutionary high point for stern steerers, embodying such important innovations as a winglike mast, designed by aeronautical engineers, which swivels with the wind.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Billie Jean King supports no-ad scoring to speed things along meaning that at deuce, the winner of the next point would win the game.
The next game went to deuce seven times, with Sharapova repeatedly erasing a deficit, until Vesnina dumped a weary second serve into the net on break point.
Liberty, prosperity, justice come from the hand of a wild deuce man or woman.
The Scot comfortably held his next service game and took Federer to deuce in game nine, but he could not stop his opponent taking the match into a deciding set.
He twice pegged Murray back to deuce at 3-3 before the Briton made another couple of errors to hand Nadal the advantage.
After taking three games in a row Nadal earned two break points at 4-3, but a pumped-up Murray got back to deuce with a brave forehand down the line and regained control of the match.
Nadal broke back and it looked headed for a tiebreaker until he wobbled in the 10th game on his own service, Soderling taking the opener as Nadal made two forehand errors from deuce.
And then, if they get tired of him, they've got this big bull of a running back, Deuce McAllister, who can just give them the strong pounding running game.
Deuce is a stern steerer, so called because the vehicle is steered via a single pivoting skate fixed to the back end of a long central spine analogous to a boat's hull.
Deuce dates from a later era, when midwestern dynasties like the Wrigleys joined the competition.
Serena trailed 2-1 after an early break, but then after a marathon seven-deuce game she won five in a row to take out the first set, and had few problems in raising her game when necessary in the second.
Murray fought hard in the second set, clinging on to his own service despite being taken to deuce four times.
But Murray clearly had other ideas and fought back aggressively to deuce before breaking serve when Garcia-Lopez clipped a forehand into the tramlines.
With a 52-foot mast, Deuce carries 840 square feet of sail, better than 12 times that of the more common, ubiquitous DN class of iceboat (named for a design contest sponsored by the Detroit News in the 1930s).
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