Sentences with phrase «win on the clay»

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

The Mallorcan surpassed John McEnroe's previous record of 49 consecutive sets on carpet which had stood since 1984 by seeing off 13th seed Schwartzman and claiming a 21st consecutive win on clay.

Not exact matches

Aim for the brightest and most ambitious students on campus: If you convince them that their professors have feet of clay, you will have won half the battle.

In an almost anguished passage, he speculates on the way events probably would have unfolded had Henry Clay, the Whig, not Democrat James K. Polk, won the 1844 election.

The first two were held on slow Florida clay and were won by the mistress of that medium, Evert.

Two weeks after the shocker at the Garden, Martina came back and won the Family Circle Cup at Hilton Head on clay, a surface that is said to be inimical to her aggressive style of play.

Muguruza had won their only other meeting in 2017, on the clay courts of Rome.

They are going to take it easy today, Clay says at practice on the Monday after the win.

That's because this bunch needed all the cover it could get as it sweated out an uninspiring 3 - 2 win over Ecuador in the heat and humidity on the clay courts of the Guayaquil Tennis Club.

In 1974, N.C. State won the national championship without ever having to leave the red Carolina clay, and it was in the wake of that situation that the rule against teams» playing on their home courts in regionals was enacted.

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.

The 19 - year old Spaniard Rafael Nadal currently owns a 53 - match winning streak on clay.

Earlier on and the junior races had seen a British double as triathlete Alex Yee won the 6 km event in 19:23 and European junior 1500m champion Bobby Clay the 4 km.

Since returning from his six month injury lay - off, the 35 - year - old Federer has also won the Australian Open and Indian Wells and he heads into the clay season as, once again, the dominant presence on the ATP Tour.

The fifth seed won 6 - 4 6 - 2 as he continued with the scintillating form which ended top seed Rafa Nadal's year - long unbeaten run on clay the day before.

By Gloria Clay Gloria won The Vegan Mac Down in Columbia, SC on 9/10/17 with this recipe.

The pressure to win the class titles may be off, but the Corvette team has unfinished business in the 10 - hour / 1, 000 - mile endurance contest in the red clay hills of northern Georgia on Saturday, Oct. 20.

Here's another for our list: Next fall, you can get your hands on Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (BookPage interviewed him about the novel here).

Join Aussie actor Clay Watson on fun & relaxing 3 to 5 cellar door plus lunch tours through the multi award - winning Daylesford region.

Part of the appeal of Gormley's sculpture, from the vast Angel of the North on a hill in Gateshead to the army of tiny clay figures with which he won the Turner Prize in 1994, is the way we, the viewers, project on to them.