Sentences with phrase «by winning tournaments»

Players could improve their character as they progressed through the game's Royal Tennis Academy by winning tournaments, defeating opponents in challenges, and playing training mini-games.

You gain experience, unlock new clubs and balls, and a bunch of character customization items by winning tournaments and defeating challengers.

In turn, with so much on the line given the opportunity to qualify for the Champions League by winning the tournament, fans will be delighted with their progress to this point but they will also be desperate to march on.

Against popular demand of selecting Toronto FC's diminutive superstar Sebastian Giovinco and in - form forward Leonardo Pavoletti, Conte entrusted players who he felt, in his mind, adhered to his methods, and could carry out his master plan to hopefully defy oddsmakers by winning the tournament his way.

In this graphic novel Dunk, a former squire, sets out to reinvent himself as a knight by winning a tournament, and along the way he picks up a squire of his own, Egg.

Not exact matches

But the size of crowds did not bother Japan's Kei Nishikori, who opened the men's singles tennis tournament on center court by knocking out Spain's Albert Ramos - Viñolas with ease, winning 6 - 2 6 - 4 in two sets.

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.

By the time he won the world championship in 1921, he had played in only two strong international tournaments (San Sebastian 1909 and St. Petersburg 1914).

The team had just won the state tournament and the pastor, caught up in the enthusiasm of a little town swept away by such glory, wanted to congratulate these boys.

Home to some of California's most popular golf tournaments, Journey at the Pechanga Resort & Casino, is an award - winning 18 - hole golf course consistently rated among the nation's best courses by Golf Week magazine.

The Houston Astros may have vanquished the Sports Illustrated cover jinx by winning the World Series, but shortly after we put the finishing touches on our initial 1 — 351, bad news struck two of the teams we predicted would make the NCAA tournament for the first time in over a decade.

The midfielder recently captained Nigeria at the U-17 World Cup as the Super Eaglets won the competition, and also cemented his place as one of the outstanding individuals of his age group by winning the competition's Golden Ball for the best player of the tournament.

PGA Had Phoenix Open winner Rocco Mediate continued to run away with the tournament — he led by six shots after the third round — he could have become the fifth player to win the event by more than 10 strokes, a Tour record....

Just a few weeks ago, Klinsmann he led the United States to a surprise Group A win in the Copa America Centenario tournament followed by an upset win over Ecuador to secure a spot in the Semi-Finals.

No surprise to see Garcia as the favorite, as he's the highest ranked player in the field by a decently wide margin... Vegas continues to list Ollie Schneiderjans among the top 20 favorites to win a tournament despite the fact that he hasn't finished better than t41 since the first week of February... Snedeker seems like good value at 35 - 1... Niemann, for those concerned, is +30000 or 300 - 1.

Middle Tennessee has won an NCAA tournament game each of the last two seasons and might have had its best overall team this year, winning Conference - USA in the regular season by finishing 24 - 7.

It one - upped UNC by also winning all three of its conference tournament games by 10 points or more.

By winning the conference tournament she automatically advances to the North Coast Section Championships.

After he had scored 22 points in an 83 - 74 win over SMU on Jan. 12, Hawaii senior guard, Predrag Savovic, was stymied by a question: If the Rainbows were somehow to outdo the accomplishments of Hawaii's 1971 - 72 team — which finished 24 - 3 and was the school's first to make the NCAA tournament — what should this year's team be called?

Against Hofstra in the initial round of the NCAAs, they set a tournament record by taking 80 shots in another 19 - 11 win.

At this point, the only way Boise, or any other non-Nevada Mountain West squad for that matter, will reach the field is by winning three or four games in the league tournament in Las Vegas.

Bayern have been made the favourites by bookmakers to win the tournament, although will need to improve on this showing when they host Shakhtar at the Allianz Arena in two weeks time if they are to live up to that billing.

Mahan had been leading by two strokes, but bogeyed on No. 14 to set up what could be a wild finish as Petterson needs a win to earn a spot in the 2012 Masters Tournament.

We can track where Izzo ranks among all tournament coaches in the 64 - team bracket era1 by comparing his actual wins to the number we'd expect of a team with the same seedings and pre-tournamentSimple Rating System (SRS) ratings.

The Tiger Effect: CBS delivered a 4.6 overnight for the AT&T National, up +188 % from last year's tournament, which was won by Nick Watney.

«It took money to play in the big tournaments, and the only way I could get the money was by winning it.»

Villanova is a -110 favorite to win the Big East Tournament at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.

The conference was dominated by Middle Tennessee, a program that had won an NCAA tournament game the last two seasons and looked primed to do it again.

«No offense to any of those other guys, but I think he's the only guy to win three tournaments on tour this year,» Van Pelt told reporters after finally blinking on the 17th hole, allowing Woods (8 - under) to win the AT&T National by two strokes.

Thomas won more than $ 1.2 million last week by taking the 2017 opener, the SBS Tournament of Champions, in Maui.

Often he thinks back to the times in the Army when he regularly won service tournaments by 20 or 30 strokes.

Virginia is a co-favorite on the odds to win the NCAA tournament going off at +550 at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.

I'm talking about the 6 - 11 seeds that generate next to no buzz in the days leading up to the tournament, can ruin just about everyone's bracket by winning three or four more games than anyone expects.

GOLF — KENNY KNOX won $ 90,000 when he beat Clarence Rose, Andy Bean, John Mahaffey and Jodie Mudd by one stroke at a PGA tournament in Coral Springs, Fla..

The Bearcats won by 38 but lost in the next round to UCLA, making it possible for a kid who picked the first 16/1 upset in the history of the NCAA Tournament to finish in the top 10 of a contest on a major national website.

Mary Beth Zimmerman sank a birdie putt on the final hole to win an LPGA tournament and $ 49,500, in Costa Mesa, Calif., by one stroke over Laura Baugh and Pat Bradley.

Here are lively descriptions of courses (Pine Valley and St. Andrews), tournaments (the 1913 U.S. Open, won by Francis Ouimet, and the 1927 British Open, won by Bobby Jones) and lady golfers (Mary Queen of Scots and Babe Didrikson Zaharias).

After all, the Sun Devils were undefeated during the season, winning eight tournaments by an average of 25 strokes.

Despite this, Israel qualified for the main WBC tournament by winning their fourth of a smaller tournament a year ago, then they advanced to the second round after going undefeated in Pool A action.

The AD wants an NCAA tournament win, and the sure way to get that is to fire a long tenured coach who has built your program up from nothing and is considered to be excellent by pretty much everyone.

The Dutch blanked Argentina 2 - 0 in the final, winning their third match by shutout of the Olympic tournament.

There are, by minimum count, four good teams that could beat the Blue Devils to the finals: West Virginia, Ohio State (if State can win the Big Ten championship and get into the tournament at all), Loyola of Chicago and Mississippi State.

Big East Quarterfinals Connecticut will look to further help its case by ending top - seeded Syracuse's conference tournament stay for the second consecutive year (12 p.m. ET, ESPN), while an Orange win would keep them in the hunt for the overall No. 1 spot in the NCAA bracket.

Since then State has won two more championships, and last season at the NCAA tournament it firmly proved the new status of Southwest basketball by beating Seattle and USC before finally losing to Utah.

In Indiana folklore the Daly saga already approaches the Bob Knight chair - throwing episode, and it teaches that Hoosier golf tournaments are won by brash youths of Bunyanesque strength and mysterious origin.

The future star caught the eye of Arsenal when helping his Nigeria Under - 17 side to win the U17 World Cup in November, and was awarded the award for Most Valuable Player of the Tournament, previously won by Cesc Fabregas, Toni Kroos and Man City's Kelechi Iheanacho.

They got run over by a Michigan team that went on to win the B1G tournament and then roll over a bunch of teams on the way to getting crushed by Villanova like everyone else did.

Bossert won each of his first three matches in the tournament by pin.

They have won, by my count, 47 conference titles and 28 conference tournament titles.

Fueled by an incredibly deep and consistent roster, Foothill opened its season by winning two of its three tournaments «'' Marin Catholic's Wildcat Invitational and Liberty's Aiello Invitational «'' and going 6 - 0 over its first stretch of dual matches.