drop off, fall back, fall behind, lose, losings, losses, recede

clinch, defeat, beat, finish, triumphing, trounce, outscore, hat trick, sweep, routs, romped, winning streak, play, outplay, upsets, pipping, leapfrog, snatch, outshoot, overtake, earn, outlast, thrilling, drubbed, scoring, steamroll, dominating, dethrone, coasted, avenged, draw, tie, thrashing, thumped, losing, steamrolled, blanked, compete, squeak, losing streak, prevail, outgun, shellacking, consolation prize, cruised, nilled, outscored, regroup, jinx, outpower, medalling, arow, fought, homecourt advantage, outclass, bounce, besting, match, overconfident, wild card, qualify, outpoint, outdistance, notching, dejecting, lead, gold medal, evened, whupped, fluked, whomped, equalling, overmatched, deserved, round, trot, wrest, resounding, trailed, goose egg, gimme, stun, succeed, convincing, contest, stepping stone, seeded, matman, grand slam, final four, topple, ironheads, outfighting, unseat, conceding, boilover, knockout punch, playdown, medaling, humbling, south shields, grabs, wins, hit, victory, kill, shot, victories, hits, pick, single, take, innings, winners, bet, break, catch, comeback, dozens, jumps, outsourcing, workable, feasible, noncooperative, satisfactory, unsatisfactory, expedient, gradualist, multiperiod, nonoptimal, partnering, sum, centric, cooperative, costeffective, franchising, mentoring, optimal, preferable, sharing

beat out, carry, cozen, crush, steal, take the cake, triumph, vanquish

., acquire, althea gibson, arthur ashe, arthur robert ashe, ashe, attention, beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, bootlicking, budge, by all odds, cakewalk, carnegie, carry, cheer, cheer up, choker, co-opt, coattails effect, connolly, dale carnegie, dark horse, defeat, deuce, device, disarm, don budge, euchre, fantan, favorite, favourite, fawning, feebly, five hundred, front-runner, fruit machine, gain, gambling, game, gamesmanship, gaming, gene sarazen, get the better of, gibson, hereafter, hoper, john donald budge, laver, letter, little mo connolly, long run, long shot, lose, loss, match, match point, maureen catherine connolly, mention, no-win, obsequious, outsider, overbid, overcome, parliament, persuade, play, pleasing, probably, rodney george laver, rod laver, romp, sarazen, set point, sevens, strip-jack-naked, sure as shooting, sway, sweep, sycophantic, toadyish, toss-up, triple crown, upseta, visibility, won-lost record, wrongly

close, contend, financial gain, get, vie

advance, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, profits, winnings