0 (in tennis and some other games) two mistakes made one after the other by a player who is beginning a game by hitting the ball --
If the second service is also a fault, the server "double faults," and the receiver wins the point.
The match ended with 2 double faults and 59 minutes.
Her tendency to take risks on her second serve could sometimes result in a high number of double faults.
Nineteen months later, after endless footfaults, double faults and mishits, he was struggling with a tie-break.
An example situation when a double fault would occur is when an interrupt is triggered but the segment in which the interrupt handler resides is invalid.
A double fault will then be a situation where another exception happens while the processor is still using the contents of these registers to process the exception.
Also, he was 4-2 up in the tie-break but could not keep his cool because of making a double fault.
If the processor encounters a problem when calling the double fault handler, a triple fault is generated and the processor shuts down.
