His career achievements include winning the 2000 US Open men's doubles, the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles, and back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup ( now called the ATP World Tour Finals ) titles ( 2001 and 2002 ).

At the end of the year, Hewitt became the first teenager in ATP history to qualify for the year-end Tennis Masters Cup ( ATP World Tour Finals ).

Lleyton went on to win the Tokyo Open and again qualify for the year-end Tennis Masters Cup held in Sydney.

For his third straight year, He qualified for the year-end Tennis Masters Cup held in Shanghai and successfully defended his title by defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final, 7 – 5, 7 – 5, 2 – 6, 2 – 6, 6 – 4.

At the year ending 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, Hewitt defeated Andy Roddick to advance to the final, but was yet again defeated by defending champion Federer.

Hewitt pulled out of the Tennis Masters Cup tournament in Shanghai in November 2005 so that he could be with his wife Bec, who was due to give birth.

The US Open, Miami Masters, US Open Series, and World Team Tennis started using this challenge system in 2006 and the Australian Open and Wimbledon introduced the system in 2007.

Sampras in 1991 captured the first of his five career titles at the year-end Tennis Masters Cup.

He lost another semifinal at the Tennis Masters Cup to eventual champion Àlex Corretja.

Agassi took over the top ranking and held it for the rest of the season, but Sampras recovered and managed to beat him in the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup for the fifth and final time, enabling Sampras to place third in the rankings.

Sampras won 64 top-level singles titles ( including 14 Grand Slam titles, 11 Super 9 / ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles and five Tennis Masters Cup titles ) and two doubles titles.

* Tennis Masters Series, a former name for the Association of Tennis Professionals ' Masters Series, a professional tennis tour

Area attractions and local businesses include Kings Island amusement park, Great Wolf Lodge hotel / indoor water park, Procter & Gamble's Mason Business Center, the headquarters of Luxottica Retail, Cintas corporate headquarters, and the Lindner Family Tennis Center which hosts the historic Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament.

Williams also reached the semifinals of the Tier I Tennis Masters Series tournament in Indian Wells, California, where she controversially defaulted her match with sister Serena just before the match started.

On 25 March, after more than six months away from competition, Henin returned to the Women's Tennis Association tour at the Miami Masters.

His career highlights include reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open ( 2008 ) and US Open ( 2005, 2006 ).

For the first time, Blake qualified for the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai.

Blake lost in the third round of Paris to Richard Gasquet and thus finished outside the top eight players, losing his chance to defend the points he gained as finalist in the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup.

2004 would be the last time Henman participated in the Tennis Masters Cup ( a tournament between the eight best players of the world ).

At the time of his retirement, Henman had already committed to playing a Charity Exhibition at London's Royal Albert Hall during the Seniors Tennis Event The Blackrock Masters in December 2007.

* In John Christopher's 1967-68 trilogy of novels The Tripods, an alien race known as " the Masters " live in three huge, domed arcologies built on Earth to use as a base from which to colonise the planet.

The structures are made from a golden material, and are capped with a crystal that replicates the atmospheric conditions of the Masters ' home planet.

The game of Crown Green Bowls is looking to grow with the introduction of the Portuguese Masters in October and recent interest from Sky TV to re-televise the sport.

* The costume of the character He-Man from Masters of the Universe includes a baldric.

He completed his Masters degree, receiving Master of Medicine in 1953 from the University of Cape Town.

in English from Wabash College in 1970, and, in 1971, a Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Despite receiving some criticism from his peers, he continued to front the BBC's coverage of the Masters and The Open, where he put his language skills to good use by giving an impromptu interview in Spanish with Argentinian Andrés Romero.

in the book, Masters of Doom, it is said that the group was identified itself as " ideas from the deep " in the early days of Softdisk, but in the end the name ' id ' came from the phrase, " in demand.

Khan Alam soon returned with valuable gifts and groups of Mir Shikar ( Hunt Masters ) from both Safavid Persia and even the Khanates of Central Asia.

Frank Redelius, one of Maroger's protégés from the Baltimore Realists group, wrote a book that updates, builds upon and revises Jacques Maroger's research of the painting techniques and formulas of the Old Masters.

Masters of karate in Tokyo ( c. 1930s ) Kanken Toyama, Hironori Otsuka, Takeshi Shimoda, Gichin Funakoshi, Motobu Chōki, Kenwa Mabuni, Genwa Nakasone, and Shinken Taira ( from left to right )

In the United States, those who staff library reference desks are usually required to have an accredited Masters degree in Library Science from the American Library Association.

After graduating from CCNY in 1900 he went to Columbia University studying philosophy, sociology and education receiving a Masters Degree and a Doctorate.

), astrological philosophy from Hellenistic Alexandria, early Christian mysticism, early Gnostics, the Hebrew system of the Kabbalah, The Hindu Vedas, the Chinese " Circle of the Dead ", Egyptian " Book of the Masters of the Secret House " ( Ritual of the Dead ).

Learn from the Masters !.

It was much later, in the 1600s, with the increased popularity of writing, especially in the copperplate style promoted by the many printed manuals available from the ' Writing Masters ,' that quills became more pointed and flexible.

The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

Filmation later went on to produce the hit He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ( 1983 – 85 ), which occasionally used modified character and set designs from Star Trek: The Animated Series, mostly as background material.

Aside from the historical significance of these events, they also carry larger prize funds than any other tour event and are worth double the number of ranking points to the champion than in the next echelon of tournaments, the Masters 1000 ( men ) and Premier events ( women ).

" teachings of Dao ") – A family of organized religious movements sharing concepts or terminology derived from Daojia ; the first of these is recognized as the Celestial Masters school.

The first organized form of Taoism, the Tianshi ( Celestial Masters ') school ( later known as Zhengyi school ), developed from the Five Pecks of Rice movement at the end of the 2nd century AD ; the latter had been founded by Zhang Daoling, who claimed that Laozi appeared to him in the year 142.

The following is a chronology from the Annals of the Four Masters ; based on reign-lengths given in Geoffrey Keating's Forus Feasa ar Erinn.

Boccaccio, though, may have directly taken the tale from The Seven Wise Masters, which, although oriental in origin, was widely circulating in Latin at the time the Decameron was written.