Sentences with phrase «first grand slam»

Jackie, Serena William's Jack Russell terrier, was there for her when she got home after she won her very first Grand Slam.

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.

After a captivating tussle played out in stifling humidity at a floodlit Rod Laver Arena, the Dane stood firm to claim her first Grand Slam title

It spelled the end of the road for the American as Kerber held her nerve to win her first Grand Slam when Williams put another volley long.

Tennis season started with the very first Grand Slam of the year in Australia and this is time of the year when we take a look at some of the finest up and coming young players in women tennis.

The old man among the Millenials (Spieth's 24, Matsuyama 25, and Rahm 22) acknowledged that the competition has gotten steeper even in the relatively short time since he won his first grand slam tournament at Congressional.

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.

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

The 203rd - ranked Ivo Karlovic, a 24 - year - old Croat burdened by a speech impediment and the knowledge that he'd won only four of his 10 career matches on the ATP tour, was playing in his first Grand Slam event.

LSU reliever Hunter Newman also gave up the first grand slam in a College World Series in TD Ameritrade Park.

In only his fourth career MLB game, the 22 - year - old hit his first Grand Slam against the Atlanta Braves on Thursday.

So on July 6, Hot Rod didn't just hit the Mets» first grand slam, he won 50,000 King Korn trading stamps for doing so.

The many pros Haney has spoken with don't share gamblers» optimism about Woods» ability to capture that elusive 15th major at the men's first grand slam event of the 2018 season.

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

But nobody apparently told that to Harrison, who proceeded to rock a wondrous smash out into the left - field bleachers, thus earning the first grand slam in TD Ameritrade's College World Series history.

Azarenka won her first Grand Slam in Melbourne last year and gained the No. 1 ranking — which has kind of served as a death rattle for future Grand Slam title hopes in the women's game recently — and hasn't relinquished it since.

Andre Agassi embodied substance over style in winning Wimbledon for his first Grand Slam title

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.

Monica Seles won her first Grand Slam title at 16.

Stephens, a 19 - year - old out of Coral Gables, Fla., is looking to win her first Grand Slam title and will have to go through the veteran to have a shot at either No. 1 seed Victoria Azarenka of Russia or unseeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semifinals.

He had won his first Grand Slam title, and one has to believe there are more where that came from.

The first Grand Slam of 2012 is always good for some surprises.

The world number six player snags his first grand slam crown after surviving a controversial intervention by officials.

Not exact matches

President Ryan Meczyk knows that when you first start out you can't always hit that grand slam, but rather start with a single and take your time around the bases.

With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and gymnastics gold medal favorite Simone Biles looking on, seven - times grand slam winner Williams won the first set but became frustrated as the match wore on, losing 4 - 6 6 - 3 7 - 6 (5) to the world number 62.

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.

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.

That SolarCity would become «a grand slam 10 times over,» as DBL partner Nancy Pfund put it, was anything but inevitable in 2008, when DBL first invested in the company.

I'll be the first to admit that not everything I whip up in the kitchen is a home run, but this smoothie is an out - of - the - park grand slam.

Nava became only the fourth player in major league history to hit a grand slam in his first at bat and the second to do it on the first pitch.

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.

He needed an even split to bring home his grand slam, and when he won the first trick with dummy's ace of diamonds and led a trump to his hand, he disgustedly conceded, «Down two.»

For Serena, who had already completed the career grand slam, it's her first gold medal, making her just the second women's player to accomplish the career Golden Slam (Steffi Graf being the othslam, it's her first gold medal, making her just the second women's player to accomplish the career Golden Slam (Steffi Graf being the othSlam (Steffi Graf being the other).

Garbiñe Muguruza has beaten Venus Williams to win her second Grand Slam and first title at Wimbledon, winning in straight sets, 7 - 5, 6 - 0.

1 p.m. — Jordan Spieth's quest for a career grand slam took a bit of a hit after he went 2 - over through his first 14 holes at the PGA Championship on Thursday.

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

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.

When Willie Stargell began Saturday's game with a first - inning grand slam, it seemed certain the Phillie lead would be cut to a half game.

It should be a phenomenal match, and it could even reach historic levels of significance if Djokovic is at his peak and Nadal is even slightly off; the Djoker is hoping to become the first men's player since Rod Laver to hold all four Grand Slam titles at once.

Phil Mickelson, who earned his first of three green jackets 10 years ago, had a different take on what a finish without Woods might entail, suggesting that winning a grand slam event without his long - time rival in the field took a bit of the luster off the trophy.

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

Should he win it in June, he would become the first American since Don Budge (in 1938) to have won all four Grand Slam titles.

Dicky V has said that Davis could be the first freshman to hit a grand slam, meaning he could win National Freshman of the Year, National Player of the Year, Defensive player of the Year, and be the first pick in the NBA draft.

He'll also become the first European with the career grand slam.

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?

For 10 yearsthey'd been telling the same stories — at Immaculata High School in Somerville, N.J., where the legend bookended a grand slam in his first at bat as a freshmanwith a blast in his last at bat as a senior; at the neighborhood diner Jerry «sPlace, where the legend's photo hangs next to one of Mickey Mantle; and here atthis warehouse turned hitting complex, where the legend's newspaper clippingsand old jerseys line the walls.

First of all, I remember the walk - off three - run home run (not grand slam) that Marco Scutaro hit against Rivera.

Graf was a teenager when she won her first six Grand Slam titles.

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.