Sentences with phrase «grand slam final»

Venus and Serena Williams beat their respective opponents to qualify for the Australian Open final and will be meeting in a Grand Slam final for the 9th time.

This should be an exciting matchup, as Li seeks her second major title and Cibulkova plays in her first ever Grand Slam final.

Novak Djokovic crafted his game around beating Rafael Nadal, and he has done just that in the last three grand slam finals.

Both have failed and rebounded: While Agassi was losing three Grand Slam finals, Shields's film career was floundering.

She's also lost six of the eight Grand Slam finals she's played against her younger sister, and is 11 - 16 in their career meeting at tour - level.

Not exact matches

In 2003, she became one of six women to earn a career Grand Slam (or «Serena Slam,» as she calls it) in the open era when she won the Australian Open, again defeating Venus in the final.

Lucie Ludvigova LIBEREC, CZECH REPUBLIC Ludvigova, a junior tennis player at Texas, set an NCAA women's record by reaching the final of her third straight collegiate grand slam tournament, the ITA Indoor National.

Though Sharapova was not exactly in the Zone in the final, she still turned in a steady, businesslike performance and outplayed the pleasant Serbian Ana Ivanovic to win her third Grand Slam title, 7 - 5, 6 - 3.

Halep made it to the finals of the French Open, but fell short of her first Grand Slam win when she lost to the unseeded Ostapenko.

That was also the last time she won a Grand Slam, though she came close earlier this year when she played in the Australian Open finals.

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.

Losing just one set in the entire tournament, Williams finished off Angelique Kerber in the finals to tie Steffi Graf for first with 22 Grand Slam titles in the open era.

Halep made it to the finals of the French Open and seemed poised to win her first ever Grand Slam title.

«What a great story it would be if Phil completed the grand slam here,» Stewart's daughter Chelsea Stewart said on the grounds where her father earned his final victory before dying in a plane crash four months later.

Jordan Spieth, who staged a furious comeback Sunday to win the British Open and avoid another potential major championship nightmare like the one he endured at last year's Masters, has the chance to become the first golfer in history to complete the career grand slam at the men's final major of the season.

He has never made the final of a Grand Slam event.

The top - ranked female is Martina Hingis, whose loss in the final to Iva Majoli in»97 was all that kept her from a Grand Slam.

In the women's final, Caroline Wozniacki bested Simona Halep to win her first ever Grand Slam title, wrapping up that portion of the year's first Major.

Roger Federer, at 36 years old, has won his 20th Grand Slam singles title with a win over Marin Cilic in the finals of the 2018 Australian Open.

Tore his knee days before last season started, had to watch LSU from the bench go all the way to the CWS finals, and then comes up with a monumental grand slam in his first game back, in the Box?

Cilic came into the final having won just one Grand Slam before, at the US Open in 2014.

It will be the first grand slam of the year and will be played through 15days till 28th January when mens final take place.

Stan Wawrinka won the 2016 US open after beating Novak Djokovic in the final to win his very first US Open and third grand slam overall.

It was the longest final in Grand Slam history, the longest one - day match in Grand Slam history, and by the fourth set it resembled more of a 12 - round match between heavyweights with steel chins than a tennis match.

These Frenchmen had been winning what we now refer to as Grand Slam events, but in «international play,» which mattered more in those days (the Davis Cup finals were roughly equivalent to soccer's World Cup finals today) the U.S. was considered unbeatable.

Spieth, with a T10 finish in his final PGA tuneup at Firestone last week after firing a final - round 4 - under 66, had his bid for the calendar grand slam come to an end when he came up one shot shy of making it to extra frames at St. Andrews.

Jordan Spieth, but for an uncharacteristically balky flat stick in the final round of last month's British Open, might be going for the calendar grand slam this week at the PGA Championship.

With Serena Williams going for the tennis single season Grand Slam this week at the US Open, Inbee Park's efforts to soar to a career slam in the final women's golf major of the season may fly well under the raSlam this week at the US Open, Inbee Park's efforts to soar to a career slam in the final women's golf major of the season may fly well under the raslam in the final women's golf major of the season may fly well under the radar.

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.

Her run also includes an eye - catching second - round win over Spanish third seed Garbine Muguruza and makes her the first Latvian woman to make a Grand Slam quarter - final since Larisa Neiland at Wimbledon in 1994.

Williams, the world number one, had won all six previous Melbourne Park finals she had played and had also triumphed in her last eight Grand Slam deciders.

And certainly thanks to her, tickets to the U.S. Open women's final sold out before the men's for the first time ever, as she attempts to become the first woman to win a single - season Grand Slam since 1988.