The Australian Open champion has won seven Grand Slam titles and is the best returner in the game. |
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She had won 17 tournaments worldwide including two Grand Slam events, the 2000 Wimbledon and US Opens. |
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We need to win it to avoid a wooden spoon and to rescue our season, they need to win it to win a Grand Slam. |
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Today the congregation will regather in St Andrews to acclaim the youngest-ever winner of golf's Grand Slam. |
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It was the second straight shellacking Pierce has taken in a Grand Slam final. |
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England were dreaming of the Grand Slam today after completing the third leg of a potential Six Nations Championship clean sweep. |
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Naturally when you start winning matches in a Grand Slam, it is bound to have a snowballing effect in terms of gaining confidence. |
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Only the other week you had a former Grand Slam captain saying we should be semi-pro. |
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The Live Poets will battle it out in verse and rhyme at the popular Poetry Slam, next Wednesday, June 19, at the Rous Hotel in Lismore. |
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She lost to Iva Majoli, blowing a chance to take a sweep of all four Grand Slam titles in the same year. |
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The Martin rink was preparing to compete on the fledgling professional curling tour at the Grand Slam of Curling. |
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Slam tequilas, mix margaritas and groove to South Island's hottest salsa and house as DJ's turn the volume up. |
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For instance, to complete the Slam, I had to win at St. Andrews, the home of golf. |
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Williams, bidding for her fifth Grand Slam title and her first since 2001, overcame five set points in the tiebreaker. |
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It was his 200th Grand Slam match, but the 31-year-old Australian Open champion said he was still in tip-top shape. |
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The two former world number ones and Grand Slam titlists had contrasting results in the semifinals. |
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His rise to prominence, culminating at this year's French Open where he reached his first Grand Slam semifinal, has been a hard slog. |
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Last spring, Alexis O'Hara brought her third year of organizing the Montreal Slam to a halt in order to pursue her own artistic goals. |
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Grand Slam, Pique, Repiqued and capotted, call it what you will but you have nipped the demon of insurgence and despair in the bud. |
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It is the one Grand Slam she has not won and, provided she can regain enough puff, she wants to have a crack at redressing that balance. |
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Among the triumphs was the 1978 Grand Slam tour of Britain, in which he captained the first New Zealand team to beat the four home unions. |
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Going into the French Open, he had never won a match at a Grand Slam event. |
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He will enter next week's Australian Open as one of the favourites, alongside holder Novak Djokovic, after winning his first Slam at last year's US Open. |
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To win his first Slam at Wimbledon, the most prestigious one, the most traditional one, the oldest one, is something that I don't think even he could have imagined. |
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The traps of Anti-Oedipus are those of humor: so many invitations to let oneself be put out, to take one's leave of the text and slam the door shut. |
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Since 1994, Vancouver has been host to an annual skateboarding competition known as The Slam City Jam. |
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Graf was having the year of her career and was on the way to four Grand Slam victories and Olympic gold. |
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Gulliver has set herself high standards and will be sure to make a resolute defence of her title and the Grand Slam. |
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Slam City Jam illuminated both the worst and the best aspects of modern skateboarding. |
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Then he starts a Slam Dunk competition between Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady. |
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Coming into the final Grand Slam of a dismal season, Sampras had been knocked out early in a tune-up event, but refused to hang his head. |
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Tiger Woods poses with wahine hula girls and the winner's trophy after his victory in the 23rd PGA Grand Slam of Golf on Wednesday. |
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I've probably had better performances in Grand Slam finals but you can't win them all. |
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Jack Crawford, Lew Hoad, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams won the first three events, but lost the last grand slam tournament. |
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Wales next won the Five Nations outright in 1975, and in 1976, Wales won their second Grand slam of the decade. |
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On Saturday, she also heralded a new era in the women's game when getting the better of her opponent in the second all-Belgium Grand Slam decider of the year. |
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Wales were narrowly ahead in a Grand Slam, winner-takes-all brute of a game against France, who were cranking up the pressure through their fearsome pack. |
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People were reluctant to slam a bonnet shut in those days. One just did not slam bonnets and doors. |
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I remember the Grand Slam year of 1990 with particular affection, all my schoolmates would re-enact moves from those games when we played among ourselves. |
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Grand slam has been used in golf since 1930, when Bobby Jones won the four major championships, two British and two American. |
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She's 46-0 in first-round matches at Grand Slam tournaments. |
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What about the failure of England to finish off the Grand Slam over the past couple of seasons when they were stopped on the final day by unfancied Welsh and Scottish teams? |
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But they won only two Grand Slam events in their best years. |
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She reached the final four of the 2000 Australian Open, her first Grand Slam semifinal in nine years. |
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Before 2007, among grand slam tournaments, Wimbledon and the French Open awarded more prize money in men's events than in women's events. |
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Grand slam for all of the tricks, in contrast to small slam or little slam for all but one, dates from early in the 19th century. |
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He has won 18 grand slam titles and 6 world tour finals, the most for any male player. |
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Andre Agassi raised the stakes in the men's game at the Australian Open when he displayed a mental and physical toughness to win his sixth Grand Slam title. |
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The 2013 and 2016 Wimbledon champion, Scotland's Andy Murray, is Britain's most recent Grand Slam winner. |
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The 3D conversion was performed by Stereo D and Sony with Slam Content's Panther Records remastering the soundtrack. |
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England, the Grand Slam champions of the two previous seasons were the first visitors to Murrayfield. |
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Scotland recovered their form in 1984 and achieved their second Grand Slam, and their first since 1925, under the captaincy of Jim Aitken. |
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Jim Telfer stood down after the Grand Slam to concentrate on his professional career as a school master. |
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Their greatest year in the modern era was 1990, and with it their third Grand Slam. |
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The English national team is currently the second best team in the history of the Six Nations Championship with three titles and one Grand Slam. |
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Like the modern Grand Slam, the Triple Crown was an informal honour to a team that won the Championship with straight victories. |
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In most of the remainder of Latin America, Wimbledon airs on ESPN, as do the other Grand Slam tournaments. |
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He subsequently won the other three majors, making him the only man in the history of the sport to win the Grand Slam. |
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But I could also see Nerdo was expecting a verbal body slam. |
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Another notable player is Billy Cleaver from Treorchy, a member of the 1950 Grand Slam winning team. |
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Following the sport allowing professionalism in 1995, Wales hosted the 1999 World Cup and, in 2005, won their first Six Nations Grand Slam. |
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That was the first Grand Slam won by a team playing most of the matches away from home. |
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They eventually won all their Championship matches, conceding only two tries in the process, to claim another Grand Slam. |
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Following a Grand Slam win in the 2005 Six Nations, they rose to a ranking position of 5th. |
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Tennis player Rafael Nadal, winner of 16 Grand Slam single titles, and former world no. |
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Several major tennis tournaments take place in France, including the Paris Masters and the French Open, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments. |
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Rafael Nadal is the leading Spanish tennis player and has won several Grand Slam titles including the Wimbledon 2010 men's singles. |
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Last year, Ms. Merino became one of just over 300 people to complete the Grand Slam of ultrarunning. |
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Classes include Quidditch, Psychology of Optical Illusions, How to Succeed in Theater, Slam Poetry and How to Get to Congress. |
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The odds aren't very long that Rafa will be able to break Federer's 17 Grand Slam titles. |
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The reappearance of Slam in the Axminster Carpets EBF Maiden Stakes is eagerly anticipated. |
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Jaypro's Little Slam Batting Cage offers heavy-duty construction with a full line of features. |
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Louk Sorensen's days of anonymity ended in a flash after he became the first Irishman to win a match at a Grand Slam. |
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Peter's chose him as the spitting image of Welsh double Grand Slam winner Tom Shanklin after a month's search across Wales to find 10 Mini-mes. |
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It was said that Bercow has watched the Grand Slam titlist play 65 times before Bercow nailed him for an interview. |
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It also stars the amazing Slam as well as all the usual residents, hangers-on and general noisemakers. |
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While McEnroe won seven Grand Slam titles, before retiring from the professional tour in 1992 and going on to commentate on tennis. |
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A discussion between Palmer and Pittsburgh golf writer Bob Drum led to the concept of the modern Grand Slam of Golf. |
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Poets will compete at local Poetry Slams in order to make the ICT Slam Team. |
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Currently, the Grand Slam tournaments are the only tour events that have mixed doubles contests. |
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Given this staggering data slam, it is quite possible that the best and most relevant data and information needed to produce the most appropriate knowledge slips by unnoticed. |
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He was the first player to win all four Grand Slam singles titles and helped lead the Great Britain team to four Davis Cup wins. |
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Junior tournaments do not offer prize money except for the Grand Slam tournaments, which are the most prestigious junior events. |
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In the four Grand Slam tournaments, the singles draws are limited to 128 players for each gender. |
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The four Grand Slam tournaments are considered to be the most prestigious tennis events in the world. |
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Grand Slam tournaments are among the small number of events that last two weeks, the others being the Indian Wells Masters and the Miami Masters. |
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She remains the last British female to have won a Grand Slam singles title. |
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Grand Slam tournaments are held in conjunction with wheelchair tennis tournaments and junior tennis competitions. |
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Premier events for women form the most prestigious level of events on the Women's Tennis Association Tour after the Grand Slam tournaments. |
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The PDC's major tournaments are the World Championship, Premier League, UK Open, World Matchplay, World Grand Prix and the Grand Slam of Darts. |
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A Five Nations Grand Slam was then achieved in 1913 and 1914 as well as in 1921 following the First World War. |
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They lost to Scotland in their last game however, giving Scotland a Grand Slam. |
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The next year, England completed another Grand Slam and did not lose that year, including a victory over the Springboks. |
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He retired from Test rugby after he led England to a Six Nations Grand Slam and World Cup victory in 2003 and has since become the team Manager. |
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England won the championship, however they missed a Grand Slam after losing their final match against Scotland. |
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England won their remaining fixtures against Wales and Italy but France went on to complete a Grand Slam. |
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The opening match of the 2003 Six Nations Championship saw France, the reigning champions and Grand Slam winners, play England. |
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Now considered favourites to win the tournament, as well as possibly a Grand Slam, England defeated Wales, Italy and Scotland. |
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The last of these was Bobby Jones' third Open and part of his celebrated Grand Slam. |
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Wimbledon is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the others being the Australian Open, the French Open and the US Open. |
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In most of Latin America, Wimbledon airs on ESPN, as the other Grand Slam tournaments. |
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It was his second Grand Slam Men's Doubles title and his first title at Wimbledon. |
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Serena Williams won her 14th Grand Slam Doubles title along with older sister Venus. |
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It was her first senior Grand Slam title and she was the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1987 to win the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. |
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The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis events. |
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In doubles, one team may accomplish a Grand Slam playing together or one player may achieve it with different partners. |
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To date, 17 players have completed a Grand Slam, though only six in the most prestigious singles titles. |
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The four Junior disciplines, boys' and girls' singles and doubles, provide limited opportunities to achieve a Grand Slam. |
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Even before the ITF had announced their bonus, the Grand Slam controversy had taken on a life of its own. |
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The career achievement of all four major championships in one format is termed a Career Grand Slam in that format. |
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The remainder of this section is a complete list, by format, of all players who have won the Career Grand Slam. |
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Five of the 21 men achieved at least a double career Slam at Men's Doubles, led by Roy Emerson and John Newcombe with triple Slams. |
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Eight of the 22 achieved at least a double career Slam at Women's Doubles, led by Martina Navratilova with seven or more titles in each Major. |
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Also three of the 15 players have accomplished multiple career Grand Slams in mixed doubles, led by Margaret Court's quadruple Slam. |
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Serena Williams is the only player to have achieved a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles. |
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Players who have won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year. |
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Winning singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at one Grand Slam event is called a Triple Crown. |
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Wade's second Grand Slam singles championship came in 1972 at the Australian Open. |
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As well as taking his 54th career win, Hamilton led every lap and set the fastest lap to give the Mercedes driver his third career Grand Slam. |
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Players who had reached the finals of each organisations major tournaments for the previous two years were invited to compete in the Grand Slam. |
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Taylor then went on to win the World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, the inaugural European Darts Championship, and the Grand Slam of Darts. |
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Taylor comfortably progressed to the final of the Grand Slam and a meeting with Dave Chisnall. |
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Southern Hemisphere teams who beat all four home nations in one tour are said to have a Grand Slam Tour. |
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In 1926, Ireland went into their final Five Nations match unbeaten and with the Grand Slam at stake lost to Wales in Swansea. |
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Ireland's first Grand Slam occurred in the 1948 season and their second in the 2009 season. |
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With clubs as the agreed trump suit five no-trumps, the Grand Slam Force, sees partner bid seven clubs. |
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So we added the writing workshop, and we produce plays and do the Crip Slam. |
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Patrick Rafter destroyed Spanish kid Galo Blanco to reach his first tennis Grand Slam semi-final yesterday. |
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That hurt, especially given the fact that it was Lions year, but not as much as the Grand Slam depriver 12 months before. |
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It's 14-6 in tournament finals, 9-2 in Grand Slam matches and 6-2 in Grand Slam finals. |
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I'm so happy they have won and taken on the mantle, more so because they are a side worthy of the Grand Slam. |
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New licensing partnerships are in the works for Grand Slam Wear that will yield new Baseball Bracelet products. |
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If you look at the resumes, every player is kind of measured by the Grand Slams and if they have ever won a Grand Slam,'' she said. |
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The Welsh coach warned he will return to the hard-nosed approach which brought 2008 Grand Slam success. |
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Husband and wife team Steve and Suzanne Rees have come up with the perfect item for rugby fans in the land of song, a Wurlitzer Wales Grand Slam jukebox. |
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The US Open, held at New York City, is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, whereas Washington Open is part of the ATP World Tour 500 series. |
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The Grand Slam itinerary consists of the Australian Open in mid January, the French Open in May and June, Wimbledon in June and July, and the US Open in August and September. |
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In golf, Gary Player is generally regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time, having won the Career Grand Slam, one of five golfers to have done so. |
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Their latest Grand Slam was won against France on 17 March 2012, and they claimed their most recent Triple Crown on 25 February 2012 against England. |
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Australia went on to win their first Home Nations Grand Slam. |
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The All Blacks went on to secure their first Home Nations Grand Slam. |
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A trophy is awarded to each player in the Doubles pair, unlike the other Grand Slam tournaments where the winning Doubles duo shares a single trophy. |
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It would be nearly forty years before they achieved a Grand Slam again. |
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Andy Murray is hoping to help British prospect Oli Golding hit the road to Grand Slam success after inviting the youngster to train with him in Miami. |
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In 1926, Scotland became the first Home nation side to defeat England at Twickenham after England had won the Grand Slam five times in eight seasons. |
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Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam event played on grass courts. |
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In 2003, England won the Grand Slam for the first time since 1995, followed by wins over Australia and the All Blacks on their Summer tour in June. |
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The PDC's World Championship, Premier League, UK Open, Grand Slam of Darts, World Matchplay and the World Grand Prix are all televised live on Sky. |
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Jones made Wimbledon 1969 her last Grand Slam singles event. |
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In film, Ealing Studios' 1949 comedy A Run for Your Money and the 1979 BBC Wales television film Grand Slam both centre on fans attending a match. |
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The 41-year-old graphic designer has just walked away as winner of the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Poetry Slam, in which he beat off stiff competition from more established artists. |
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In 1948, Ireland clinched their first Grand Slam in the Five Nations. |
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They were also invited to compete in the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts. |
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They will also be invited to compete in the Grand Slam of Darts. |
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A player who wins all four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympic gold medal during his or her career is said to have achieved a Career Golden Slam. |
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Players are ordered chronologically by their completion of the Slam. |
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Some media outlets did, indeed, say that she had won a Grand Slam. |
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The second-year swingman was one of four players picked to compete in the annual NBA Slam Dunk Contest Saturday night during All-Star weekend in Las Vegas. |
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Slam Dunk was a convincing winner with an assured performance. |
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Qatar have signed with FIVB to stage the Qatar Open Beach Volleyball Tournament for three years and it is now setting their eyes on a Grand Slam Tour event. |
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Rusedki further said that with his offensive baseliner, powerful first serve and solid groundstrokes, Del Potro was in strong consideration for his first Slam title. |
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David Copplestone is happy to introduce his Orbiter Classic Grand Slam ring toss game, the game that he hopes will help make his creative island dream come true. |
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However, the ambiguous way the ITF described the Grand Slam in their Constitution led to journalists continuing to make the same assumption as Vecsey over two decades later. |
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Nuyorican Poets Cafe Short Story Slam winner Sierra Kay's new suspense novel From Behind The Curtain is to be released this month, it was reported on Tuesday. |
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Now it was time for the grandest turkey of the World Slam, the Ocellated. |
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Only Stefan Edberg has completed the Grand Slam in a Junior discipline. |
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