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Grand and Slam
With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002.
Category: Grand Slam ( tennis ) champions in women's doubles
Avro Lancaster dropping 22, 000 lb Grand Slam bomb
* GS — Grand Slam: a home run with the bases loaded, resulting in four runs scoring, and four RBI credited to the batter.
* 2009 – Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam title in tennis, winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
In 2000, Hewitt reached his first Grand Slam final at the Wimbledon mixed doubles partnering Belgian Kim Clijsters.
Hewitt later won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open when he along with Max Mirnyi claimed the men's doubles championship ; thus becoming the youngest male ( at 19 years, 6 months ) to win a Grand Slam doubles crown in the open era.
He captured his first Grand Slam singles title at the US Open in 2001, when he beat former world no.
This win made Hewitt, Pat Rafter, and Kafelnikov the only active ATP players to win a Grand Slam singles and doubles title during their career.
Hewitt was only the third defending Grand Slam champion in the open era to lose in the first round, after Boris Becker at the 1997 Australian Open and Patrick Rafter at the 1999 US Open.
In 2004, Hewitt became the first man in history to lose in each Grand Slam singles tournament to the eventual champion.
Hewitt had at this point lost to the eventual champion at seven consecutive Grand Slam tournaments he played ( he missed the 2005 French Open because of injury ).
She won five Grand Slam singles titles ( three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open ).
She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

Grand and tournaments
Level three tournaments consist of Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix event.
Tennis is enjoyed by millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments ( also referred to as the " Majors "): the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.
On the professional circuit, men play best-of-five-set matches at all four Grand Slam tournaments, Davis Cup, and the final of the Olympic Games and best-of-three-set matches at all other tournaments, while women play best-of-three-set matches at all tournaments.
Junior tournaments do not offer prize money except for the Grand Slam tournaments, which are the most prestigious junior events.
In the four Grand Slam tournaments, the singles draws are limited to 128 players for each gender.
The four Grand Slam tournaments are considered to be the most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world.
Grand Slam men's tournaments have best-of-five set matches while the women play best-of-three.
Currently, the Grand Slam tournaments are the only tour events that have mixed doubles contests.
Grand Slam tournaments are held in conjunction with wheelchair tennis tournaments and junior tennis competitions.
Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open and Australian Open use hard courts ( though both used grass courts in the past, and the US Open used clay courts from 1975 through 1977 ), the French Open is played on clay ( though it too was played on grass before 1928 ), and Wimbledon has always been played on grass.
* Grand Slam ( golf ), the achievement of winning all the annual major golf tournaments
* Grand Slam ( tennis ), the four major tennis tournaments
* Grand Slam ( real tennis ), winning the four major real tennis tournaments in the same calendar year
* Grand Slam Chess Association, most prestigious chess tournaments besides the World Chess Championship cycle
The stadium accommodates the French Open, one of tennis ' Grand Slam tournaments.
There are six Grand Sumo tournaments ( or honbasho ) each year: three at The Sumo Hall ( or Ryōgoku Kokugikan ) in Ryōgoku, Tokyo ( January, May, and September ), and one each in Osaka ( March ), Nagoya ( July ) and Fukuoka ( November ).
She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles.

Grand and are
Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.
Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).
Taylor's GA and x14 series and Martin's 000-xxx series are well-known examples of the Grand Auditorium style.
Similarly, in Avery Corman's book The Old Neighborhood ( 1980 ), an upper-middle class white protagonist returns to his birth neighborhood ( Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse ), and learns that even though the folks are poor, Hispanic and African-American, they are good people.
Downriver of Grand Coulee, each dam's reservoir is closely regulated by the Bonneville Power Administration ( BPA ), the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and various Washington public utility districts to ensure flow, flood control, and power generation objectives are met.
Five of the districts are located on the main island, Grand Cayman.
In contemporary times, both King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg are members of this family, both through the Bourbon branch of the dynasty.
Bays are as follows from the northern tip of the island in a clockwise direction: Agoucha Bay, Autrou Bay, Sandwich Bay, Grand Baptiste Bay, Petit Bapitiste Bay, La Taille Bay, Rough Bay, Marigot Bay, Walker's Rest Bay, Sophia Bay, Londonderry Bay, Mango Hole Bay, Middle Bay, Panto Hole Bay, Petite Soufriere Bay, Soufriere Bay, Woodbridge Bay, Pringles Bay, Prince Rupert Bay, Douglas Bay, Toucari Bay, Marceau Bay.
Rockstar North, most famously known for creating the Grand Theft Auto series, are based in Edinburgh.
Each year, most of the trackside fencing, pedestrian overpasses, grandstands and other motorsport infrastructure are erected approximately a month prior to the Grand Prix weekend and removed within 6 weeks after the event.
That year's race was the first Grand Prix where grid positions were decided, as they are now, by practice time rather than the established method of balloting.
The Labour Charter of 1927, promulgated by the Grand Council of Fascism, stated in article 7: " The corporative State considers private initiative, in the field of production, as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation ", then continued in article 9: " State intervention in economic production may take place only where private initiative is lacking or is insufficient, or when are at stakes the political interest of the State.
There are a few crater lakes, the largest of which is Grand Etang.
There are seven of these steps, so at the top the Grand Gallery is only wide.
A Grand Unified Theory, ( GUT ), is a model in particle physics in which at high energy, the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model which define the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, are merged into one single interaction characterized by one larger gauge symmetry and thus one unified coupling constant.
Models that do not unify all interactions using one simple Lie group as the gauge symmetry, but do so using semisimple groups, can exhibit similar properties and are sometimes referred to as Grand Unified Theories as well.
Grand Unification is reminiscent of the unification of electric and magnetic forces by Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism in the 19th century, but its physical implications and mathematical structure are qualitatively different.
His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture – such as " La donna è mobile " from Rigoletto, " Va, pensiero " ( The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ) from Nabucco, " Libiamo ne ' lieti calici " ( The Drinking Song ) from La traviata and the " Grand March " from Aida.
" Several of the later operas are similarly set in foreign or fictional locales, including The Gondoliers, Utopia Limited, and The Grand Duke.
In the Raphael Rooms in the Vatican Palace, allegories and historical scenes are mixed together, and the Raphael Cartoons show scenes from the Gospels, all in the Grand Manner that from the High Renaissance became associated with, and often expected in, history painting.
* Grand River-Jackson County and Hillsdale County are the starting point of Michigan's longest river.
There are several varieties commonly available, including White Vienna, Purple Vienna, Grand Duke, Gigante ( also known as " Superschmelz "), Purple Danube, and White Danube.
Comprehensive bus services linking the towns and villages of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are controlled by the RGTR ( Régime général des transports routiers ) under the Ministry of Transport.
The Grand Duke and the Chief of Defence are the only generals, with colonels as Deputy Chief of Defence and head of the Military Training Centre.

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