Sentences with phrase «grand slam since»

And, if she is able to win the US Open in September, she will be the first woman to win a calendar grand slam since Steffi Graf did it over 25 years ago.

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.

Governor Cuomo is calling this year's budget a grand slam since it was the fourth on - time budget in a row.

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.

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.

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.

(Jimmy Connors is the only American man since then to win three Grand Slam singles events in the same year.)

It's been more than three decades since Tony Trabert, who won five Grand Slam singles titles, slipped on sneakers and whacked a ball across the net in his last professional match, but just because he's no longer a tennis player doesn't mean he's no longer a player in tennis.

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

Since you're wondering, Roman Reigns, like Rollins, is also just an IC reign away from a Grand Slam.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Even casual fans know that it's now six years and counting since Woods last lifted the trophy in a grand slam event, and if Tiger's will to win has anything to do with his recovery, he'll be back in the hunt as ferocious a competitor as he's ever been and stay there for some time.

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.

He had been one of the most consistent players on tour the past few years, missing out on the semifinals in a Grand Slam for just the second time since 2010 (third if you count this year's French Open, in which he didn't participate).

Jack Nicklaus wrote it on the greens and fairways of Merion, during the World Team Championship, with the best display by an amateur since Bobby Jones's Grand Slam in 1930.

The Phillies hit two grand slams in a game for the first time since 2009.

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.

On a day that saw Wales» rugby team seal a Six Nations Grand Slam, Brendan Rodgers's side — off the back of a shock 1 - 0 win at home to Manchester City — were barely threatened by the Whites, whose individual errors Sigurdsson exploited to take his tally to five goals in eight matches since joining on loan from Hoffenheim.

Venus is the oldest Grand Slam singles finalist since Martina Navratilova finished runner - up at Wimbledon in 1994.

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.

I have since served as the team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition, climbed the highest peak on every continent (known as the «seven Summits»), and skied to both the North and South Poles, an accomplishment known as the Adventure Grand Slam.

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