Meaning

2 senses
  1. The missing of both the first serve and second serve, resulting in a point for the receiver.

    Doppelfehler

    двойна́я оши́бкаdvojnája ošíbka

  2. An exception thrown by the CPU while trying to call the handler of another exception (e.g. the exception handler is invalid or the call stack has overflowed).

More definitions
  • (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Gonzalez's first double fault came at the most inopportune moment when he was down a set point.

    ruГонсалес впервые допустил двойную в самый неподходящий момент — на сетболе соперника.

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  2. I'd never seen someone lose a tiebreak where their opponent double faulted four times, until now. What a crazy choke!

    ruНикогда ещё не видел, чтобы игрок проиграл тайбрейк, в котором его соперник допустил четыре двойных ошибки, – теперь увидел. Вот это безумный слив!

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
missing of both the first serve and second serve:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
missing of both the first serve and second serve:

Forms

plural: double faults
Singulardouble fault
Pluraldouble faults

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

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