Sentences with phrase «grand slam champion»

In addition to the exhibitions and presentations, this year's conference features a keynote address by eight - time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi.

The 30 - year - old 12 - time Grand Slam champion played a game of «Target Practice,» naturally, with host James dressed up as a ball with a water bottle on his head.

«I like lifting weights,» says the two - time Grand Slam champion, «but tennis players do a lot of different kinds of exercises - gym, muscle training, sprints; footwork, coordination.

Twelve - time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic and his wife Jelena have become parents of a baby girl, local media reported on Sunday.

Sharapova, the world's highest - paid female athlete and a five - times Grand Slam champion, stunned the sporting world in March when she announced that she had tested positive for meldonium, a substance she had been taking since 2006 but one that was added to the banned list on January 1 this year.

«My whole life I was working really hard and now I'm here and I can say I'm a Grand Slam champion, so it sounds really crazy,» she said, choking back tears.

This year, fans will be treated to another stellar player field as five - time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova comes back to Stanford.

Seth Rollins is the Intercontinental Champion, and he's the newest Grand Slam champion: every member of the Shield is now a Grand Slam champion!

«Novak has had a tremendous year,» said the 17 - time Grand Slam champion.

How did it feel to come up short, he was asked, thus depriving Great Britain of its first homegrown Grand Slam champion since the Bronze Age?

But when asked whether you would become a Grand Slam champion, I couldn't contain my skepticism.

If Ambrose wins the tag titles, he'll also be the 16th Grand Slam champion ever, as he's already been WWE Champion, United States Champion, and Intercontinental Champion.

«I'm going to be more relieved now, coming as a Grand Slam champion to all the tournaments in this season,» he says.

Nike suspended its relationship, pending an investigation, with five - time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova after she announced on March 7 that she testing positive for meldonium, a heart medication that can boost athletic performance.

The five - time grand slam champion and the highest paid woman in sports will be provisionally suspended starting March 12.

Flay joins other A-listers who have already put their dollars behind Daily Harvest: Oscar winning - actress Gwyneth Paltrow and 23 time Grand Slam champion star Serena Williams participated in the firm's Series A round of financing alongside WME Venture, Collaborative Fund, 14W, and Rubicon Venture Global announced June.

On Saturday night, Venus» availability for doubles was put in doubt by U.S. women's tennis coach Mary Joe Fernandez, who said the four - time gold medalist and seven - time Grand Slam champion had cramping, dehydration and an upset stomach following a first - round loss in singles.

Doors open at 8 pm and show starts at 8:30 pm hosted by Shihan, with a mix up of Highways» previous grand slam champions, past to current.

Not exact matches

The last of the year's four tennis Grand Slam tournaments crowns its champions this weekend and women's favorite Serena Williams is looking to make history by becoming the first woman to win all four Grand Slam events in the same calendar year since Steffi Graf in 1988.

On Navaratilova - who has called for the Melbourne Park arena to be renamed in honour of Australia's seven - time grand slam singles champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley - Court says she should focus on events closer to the 60 - year - old Czech - American's home.

Multiple Grand Slam winning tennis champion, Billie Jean King, in her induction speech sited Mom's tenacity on the court.

2011 Rafael Nadal, ATP world - ranked number one and winner of nine Grand Slam championships, becomes the Bacardi Limited Social Responsibility Ambassador and face of the award - winning «Champions Drink Responsibly» international social responsibility campaign.

(The joke going around the clubhouse was that the PGA of America had asked U.S. Open champion Steve Jones to drop out of the Grand Slam of Golf so Woods could play.)

The Championship pedigree on this Roster is second to none and for Co-Captains Joe Hakimian and Benny Lalez, the Chicago Co-Ed League is the only thing keeping them from being the first Grand - Slam Champions in All Sports Series history..

Reed is going for his first major title, while his four - time major champion opponents needs the win to complete the career grand slam.

The four - putt double - bogey on 12, though, sealed the fate of the four - time major champion, who still needs one green jacket to complete a career grand slam.

There's also the little matter of getting «match ready» for the final major of the season for the 14 - time major champion who last won a grand slam event in 2008.

Among other lit groups, defending champ Sergio Garcia, reigning PGA champion Justin Thomas, and top U.S. amateur Doc Redman, will tee off at 10:53 a.m.; two - time Masters winner Bubba Watson, Jason Day, and Henrik Stenson go off at 11; 04 a.m.; Rory McIlroy will launch his latest attempt to complete the career grand slam at 1:38 p.m. with 2013 Masters winner Adam Scott, and the fiery Jon Rahm; and Jordan Spieth kicks off his effort to earn a second green jacket at 1:49 p.m. with Alex Noren and 2010 British Open winner Louis Oosthuizen.

Two - time F1 champion and Scottish racing legend Jim Clark holds the title for the most Grand Slams with eight in total, the first coming at Aintree in 1962 and the last being scored at the Nurburgring in 1965.

Another incredible Scottish F1 driver, three - time champion Stewart picked up four Grand Slams during his many years in the sport.

Seven - time champion Schumacher is tied for second place with Ascari when it comes to Grand Slams.

Jade Jones» wait for a career grand slam goes on after the double Olympic champion had to settle for bronze at the World Taekwondo Championships in Muju, South Korea.

United beat Ajax 2 - 0 in last season's final to qualify for this season's Champions League to complete a grand slam of European trophies.

The «grand slam» long jump champion continued his winning streak in Olympic year by leaping 8.20 m at the street athletics event, while Kim Collins and Dafne Schippers stormed to 100m victory down Deansgate

Scottish National party leader and first minister Alex Salmond declared: «Now Olympic and US Open champion, Andy truly is a Scottish sporting legend and I'm certain that more grand slam titles will follow.»

It was at this time when the U.S. Open became the first grand slam tennis tournament to offer equal prizemoney for the men's and women's champions.

The five - time Grand Slam tennis champion has been suspended from the sport after testing positive for the drug Meldonium, which had recently been...

Billie Jean King, winner of 39 Grand Slam titles famously put it simply, «Champions keep playing until they get it right».

Besides winning 23 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals, tennis master Serena Williams is a champion of education equity too — and, like everything she does, she's really good at it.