Sentences with phrase «woman players»

She keeps her emotions inside, along with concentration and determination that may already have made her the best woman player ever.

What I said was that I was not so sure the best women players could beat an old man like me.

According to reports in Nigeria, the striker — who was named African Womens Player of the Year in 2014 — will discuss personal terms with the Gunners, and thrash out the small print of the contract, before deciding whether she will swap life in Merseyside for a switch to London.

Since then Billie Jean has been, more or less, the leading woman player in the U.S. — ranked at or near the top, a valued member of the Wightman and Federation cup teams — a bouncy little girl who lacks Margaret Smith's power and Maria Bueno's grace but is second to no one as a scrambler and a fighter.

The film runs more than two hours as it is, and it's more about the long game — King's determination to get equal rights for women players — than the fate of any one match.

Led by reigning Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion Billie Jean King (Stone), a group of leading women players broke away from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in search of better pay.

It was also revealed that the former African Woman Player of the Year will now discuss personal terms before joining the Arsenal Ladies.

And at Wimbledon in»92 the British tabloids dubbed Krajicek the Rotterdam Rotter for saying, «Eighty percent of the top women players are fat, lazy pigs who should not be allowed on the show courts.»

The group included players from all walks of basketball — role players, veterans, players with short - lived careers, star college players, successful women players — who had traveled from around the country, through a snowy New York, for the meeting.

Her protègèe for the last two years has been 34 - year - old Martina Navratilova, perhaps the greatest woman player who ever lived.

Philippe Coutinho: I'll be a Barça fan on Wednesday FC Barcelona The Brazilian Philippe Coutinho and the Barça Women player Alexia Putellas have given their thoughts on their respective teams current form during the presentation of the MIC tournament in Barcelona.

It was an amazing feat as she is the first Malaysian women player to win the China Open.

The results, obtained after monitoring over 100 men and women players participating in UEFA Champions League matches, could be summed up in two aspects: firstly, the physical one, in which women run a shorter distance overall and at high intensities and, unlike the men, display fatigue during the second half of the match; and, secondly, the technique - tactics aspect, where there were no differences in the number of ball touches, time in possession of the ball and total duels won.

In recent years, the amount of top Russian women players has been considerable, with both Maria Sharapova and Dinara Safina reaching number one in the WTA rankings.

The film's jumping ground sees King, fresh from her 1972 US Open win, learning of the United States Lawn Tennis Association's new prize fund which sees women players offered eight times less than men.

In 1973, the 55 - year old Bobby Riggs (a former # 1 - ranked men's tennis player) and 29 - year old Billie Jean King (highly ranked on the women's tennis circuit) played a match to see whether a man, even at his age, could beat a top flight woman player.

When they were refused equal pay despite equal ticket sales, champion tennis player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and her manager Gladys Heldman (Sarah Silverman) persuaded other women players to set up their own tennis tour.

In terms of the gender divide, men tend to make up the majority of online gaming users, however gaming companies are intending to attract more women players by adding more female characters into their games.

I have also used the personal statements of some of the Manchester City Women players to bring my recommendations to life.

The Guerreiras Project started in 2012 as a way for women players to share stories of prejudice they experienced and the fight they had to go through to play this sport.

Veteran U.S. stars Beth Daniel, Betsy King and Patty Sheehan were all jumpy at The Greenbrier, and Mochrie was painfully aware that as perhaps the best woman player in the world going into the 1992 event, she had succumbed to pressure and fatigue and failed to win a point.

Jean is regarded as the best woman player in the country and the superior of 98 % of the men.

THERESA HIRSCHAUER CINCINNATI Hirschauer, a senior striker, became the leading women's soccer career goalscorer for both Brown (62) and the Ivy League (29) in her four varsity seasons.She was named the conference's woman player of the year last season.

The tennis great, who is expecting her first child this fall with Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, said her hope is to further that goal for the next generation of women players.

The field had been ballyhooed as the «top 16 women players in the world,» which was not quite true.

Chris Evert may have had her detractors among the women players at Forest Hills, but to the crowd she was a heroine

The defeat certainly did nothing to enhance Navratilova's contention that she is the world's best woman player.

She became «On my left the woman player from the United States.»

September 13 — While Australia's A-League club owners continue battle the Football Federation Australia (FFA) over their share of the increased A$ 346 million ($ 277.6 million) six - year broadcast deal, Australia's women players have been won a pay agreement that will double their wages.

The study results indicate that women players are not affected by negative stereotypes about women's chess abilities during competition games, in contrast with previous research on the phenomenon of «stereotype threat» which has suggested that awareness of negative stereotypes can hamper women's performance.

One would need to know the maximums and particular speed and stamina thresholds for each woman player, and this is delicate information that teams «scrupulously» conceal so as not to give their rivals any clues.

«What's a Grand Slam without the world's best women players?»

It works well for the whizzing story, following King as she stages a mutiny against the tennis establishment in protest of their treatment of women players, then begins to question her sexuality, then squares off against the storm of silliness and desperation that was Riggs.

During the 2009 - 12 quadrennium, 1,273 men and women players and 235 coaches participated in USA Basketball, including USA Basketball teams and trials, and USA Basketball 3x3 FIBA championships.