Sentences with phrase «open grand slam»

While it's great to see that Big Ant Studios manages to recreate the arenas from the Australian Open grand slam tournament, it's the character models that still look bland and fake.

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Even if Spieth doesn't end up completing a Grand Slam this year, adding aBritish Open title would set up huge anticipation for the PGA Championship in August.

Yes, the year's biggest story was Serena Williams and her push to become the fourth woman ever to complete a calendar grand slam (win all four of the sport's Majors in one year) by winning this Open — a push that ended Friday in a crushing defeat that did not take away from the achievement of how close she came.

IBM previously put Watson to work picking video highlights from last fall's U.S. Open tennis grand slam tournament in New York.

In addition to setting the new record for number of Open - era grand slam titles (23) and being the highest - paid female athlete ($ 27 million over the past 12 months from June), the tennis pro has flexed her muscles on and off the clay court (and done it while pregnant to boot).

The venue was originally called Show Court One when it opened in 1988 but was renamed in 2003 in tribute to the 24 - time Grand Slam winner.

In a French Open that required more grit than grace, Monica Seles outlasted Steffi Graf to win her third consecutive Grand Slam title

Woods, who has not won a grand slam tourney since the 2008 U.S. Open — or a PGA Tour event since 2013 — scuffled out of the gate on Thursday with a 75 on a course that yielded birdies galore to his opponents.

(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.)

He notched his most recent W anywhere at the 2013 Bridgestone Invitational and won his last Grand Slam event at the 2008 U.S. Open.

Stephens» previous best finish at a Grand Slam was when she advanced to the fourth round of the 2012 French Open.

Third - seeded Serena Williams will seek to continue her bid to win a 16th Grand Slam title and a sixth Australian Open title when she faces fellow American and No. 29 seed Sloane Stephens on Wednesday at Rod Laver arena at noon local time.

Despite a few hiccups down the stretch of the British Open, McIlroy posted a relatively pressure - free, two - shot win at Hoylake to chalk up the third leg of a career grand slam.

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.

While Evert Lloyd, at age 27, has won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, Martina, at 25, has won but three — Wimbledon in 1978 and 1979 and the Australian Open just last December.

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.

Muguruza has also won a Grand Slam title, but just one — taking home the win on the clay of Roland Garros, the French Open.

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As for Davenport, she hasn't won a Grand Slam title since the 2000 Australian Open, and she turns 25 this week.

Nadal is trying to become just the second player in the Open era (after Rod Laver) to win all four Grand Slams at least twice, and he's looked as good as anyone in the field so far.

In addition to her second place finish at Wimbledon, she won her first grand slam this January at the Australian Open.

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.

Taking the championship at the Australian Open, winning the US Open will give him three of the four Grand Slam tourney wins and a record 20th title.

Top contenders for the US open With the conclusion of Wimbledon last month, the grand slam tournaments...

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

Despite not starting a Grand Slam event since he missed the cut at the 2015 PGA Championship (with MCs at that year's British and U.S. Opens after a T17 at the Masters), one bookmaker has Woods at 5 - 1 to break his majors drought on the 10th anniversary (if not before) of his last major victory: the 2008 U.S. Open.

With seven Grand Slam men's single titles under his belt, «Djokovic is now the world number one and is hotly tipped to be this year's US Open winner.

Neither venus nor Serena Williams has won a Grand Slam singles title in more than a year, and if both falter at the U.S. Open this week, we can administer last rites to the era of their dominance.

Now any player hoping to win the sport's grand slam — Wimbledon and the French, U.S. and Aussie Opens — must show up in Melbourne.

Where each player completed their Grand Slam: Sarazen: Masters Hogan: British Player: U.S. Open Nicklaus: British Tiger: British

The 143rd Open Championship will be remembered as the tournament that got Rory McIlroy three - fourths of the way to the career grand slam.

Mickelson will try to join the exclusive grand slam fraternity at a venue on which he notched his first of a record six second - place outcomes in his nation's Open.

After winning the British Open to set up his first chance at the career grand slam, Spieth went 1 - over on Thursday and is +2 for the day after making the turn and bogeying the 10th.

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.

Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka captured his first ever Grand Slam title after beating Rafa Nadal in the Australian Open on Sunday, 6 - 3, 6 - 2, 3 - 6, 6 - 3.

Though desperate to add the lone missing piece to the career grand slam and, really, his Hall of Fame career, Phil Mickelson claims he has plenty of time to grab that elusive U.S. Open title.

He has far less experience, but he does have a Grand Slam win, earning the US Open title in 2014.

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.

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.

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

Federer, the second seed, came into the Australian Open as one of the favorites, and searching for his 20th Grand Slam title.

Serena was upset by Garbine Muguruza at the French Open and was upset by Angelique Kerber in the Australian Open, otherwise she'd also be chasing all four Grand Slam events this year.

Last tennis grand slam of the year US Open 2017 will take place from Monday, 28 August to Sunday, 10 September 2017 in Flushing Meadows, New York.

Spieth picked up his third career grand slam victory last year in the Open Championship while his first grand slam win came at Augusta when he won the Masters in 2015.

Cilic has won a Grand Slam title before (2014 US Open) and has played very well in recent Wimbledons.

Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka captured his first ever Grand Slam title after beating Rafa Nadal in the Australian Open on Sunday, 6 - 3,...

USTA has announced another 10 % increase in prize money making US Open 2017 as the most lucrative tennis grand slam in the world.

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 overopen after beating Novak Djokovic in the final to win his very first US Open and third grand slam overOpen and third grand slam overall.