Sentences with phrase «last grand slam»

That was also her last Grand Slam title.

Federer put the tennis world on notice when he won the Australian Open earlier in 2017, five years after his last Grand Slam win.

Stan Wawrinka and Angelique Kerber will defend their singles titles in what should be eagerly awaited last grand slam of the year.

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.

It's unusual that his first and last Grand Slams came at the same track.

Not exact matches

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

Last year, the PGA of America announced its partnership with Trump, which included this year's Grand Slam as well as several future tournaments slated to take place at Trump golf clubs around the U.S..

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 is why, particularly as capital has flooded the Valley over the last decade, preserving the chance to make grand slam investments has been paramount.

Facing Bob Gibson, the man he hit the grand slam off in last year's old - timers» game, Reggie has the count going his way, 3 and 0.

Now she's won two of the last four Grand Slam tournaments and is ranked No 2.

Australia's Rod Laver proved again at Forest Hills last week that the best players in the world are no match for him as he waltzed away with the men's singles title to complete his second Grand Slam

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.

She is Margaret Court of Australia, and last week at Forest Hills she moved in on one of the rarest prizes in world - class tennis — a Grand Slam

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Cardinals were bounced from last year's super regional round on a dramatic walk - off grand slam by UC Santa Barbara.

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.

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.

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?

Despite the Sept. 11 attacks, Andre Agassi's sixth annual Grand Slam for Children benefit went on as scheduled last Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

It all began with a miracle comeback against St. Louis, when the Braves, propelled by Gary Matthews» grand slam, scored 14 runs in the last four innings to win 15 - 12.

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.

Djokovic has now won four of the last five Grand Slams, and has a chance to be the defending champ at all of them if he can manage to overcome his greatest weakness, and Nadal's greatest strength, on clay at the French Open later this year.

Two - time F1 champion and Scottish racing legend Jim Clark holds the title for the most Grand Slams with eight in total, the first coming at Aintree in 1962 and the last being scored at the Nurburgring in 1965.

In last night's game, shortstop Addison Russell belted a grand slam, third baseman Kris Bryant went 4 - for - 5 with a home run and first baseman Anthony Rizzo went 3 - for - 5 with a home run, as the Cubs cruised to a 9 - 3 victory.

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.

For Day, who battled a bout of vertigo last month at Chambers Bay, it marked the second straight grand slam event in which he has had a portion of the 54 - hole lead.

«No way,» the winner of four grand slam events said last week about Day's chances to grab the award.

In winning the British — her second major W and fourth overall of the season — Park has now won six of the last 14 grand slam events.

The World Cup winning women's rugby team were honoured ahead of their Tri Nations and European Grand Slam winning male counterparts in recognition for their achievement in London last September in winning the world crown for the fourth consecutive time.

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.

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.

Tyrannosaur, the Grand Slam first film for writer - director Paddy Considine set TIFF ablaze last week, eliciting a standing ovation at its premiere and creating a bit of a circus in my twitter feed.

ABOVE VIDEO: Supermodel and actress Kate Upton was back in Brevard last March to host the Grand Slam Adoption Event at Space Coast Stadium, sponsored by the Brevard County Sheriff's Office and Matthew Development, LLC.

With 2k's excellent Top Spin and EA's underappreciated Grand Slam Tennis the last in the line and now apparently both dead, the pickings have been slim in the current generation.