With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002.

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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.

* DARPA Grand Challenge-driverless car competition

However, in spite of many claims to the contrary, it is widely held that Cauchy recognized the importance of Galois ' work, and that he merely suggested combining the two papers into one in order to enter it in the competition for the Academy's Grand Prize in Mathematics.

The military significance of the Grand Duchy of Finland had been increasing for the Russians from the mid-19th century with the rising tensions and competition among the major European powers.

Through alliances and conquest, in competition with the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Lithuanians eventually gained control of significant parts ( western and southern portions ) of the formerly Kievan Rus ' territory.

GDW threatened to cancel the tournament if Lenat entered a fleet again, so Lenat retired from competition, and GDW gave him the title " Grand Admiral " as consolation.

The higher levels of competition, such as " A " rated shows in the United States, or the international " Grand Prix " circuit, present more technical and complex courses.

* PGA Grand Slam of Golf, an annual competition

* Pepsi Grand Slam, a former men's tennis competition

* Grand Slam ( rugby union ), defeating all other teams in the Six Nations Championship ( or its predecessors ) during one year's competition

* Grand Slam Paris, judo competition

* Grand Slam Tokyo, judo competition

Kelly led the Swans to the AFL Grand Final in 1996 — its first since 1945 — and was considered one of the best players in the competition during the mid-1990s, but from 1998 onwards was severely hampered by injuries.

Prior to round one of the 1998 season, Carey booted six second half goals in the Ansett Cup Grand Final against St Kilda, earning himself the Michael Tuck Medal, as the best on ground in the pre-season Grand Final, and issuing an ominous warning to the rest of the competition that he was over his injury woes of the previous year.

The highest level of modern competition is at the Grand Prix level.

Andrew Hoy did come close, however, and in 2010 Oliver Townend was competing for this coveted " Grand Slam " at Rolex Kentucky when he suffered a fall at obstacle # 20 which eliminated him from competition.

In the 1950s, sports car racing was regarded as almost as important as Grand Prix competition, with major marques like Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar and Aston Martin investing much effort in their works programmes and supplying cars to customers ; sports racers lost their close relationship to road-going sports cars in the 1950s and the major races were contested by dedicated competition cars such as the Jaguar C and D types, the Mercedes 300SLR, Maserati 300S, Aston Martin DBR1 and assorted Ferraris including the first Testa Rossas.

* Grand Prix de Futsal, international futsal competition

* Strikeforce Grand Prix, the name for a competition run by Strikeforce

Ossa would win four Grand Prix races with the monocoque bike before their rider was killed during the 1970 Isle of Man TT, causing the Ossa factory to withdraw from Grand Prix competition.

In 2004 Sosnowiec authorities and designers were awarded the Grand Prix for the rebuilding of the downtown area in a competition for the best public space in the Śląskie Provinces.

The film was part of the competition for the Palme d ' Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, where it won three awards including the Grand Prize of the Jury and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

In 2004 the British hip hop group The Streets released A Grand Don't Come for Free, a concept album charting a period of the protagonists life in which he meets a girl, starts a relationship with her and then breaks up with her after finding out she has been cheating on him.

She had ceased to attend the meetings when she was nominated to be the first woman Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, but the nomination was withdrawn at the request of her husband, Thomas Reggie, who said that due to the Alzheimer's progress the award and ceremony would be at best confusing and likely upsetting to her.

Vittoria, last descendant of the della Rovere family ( she was the only child of Federico Ubaldo ), married Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

At thirteen, she was recording ( the single " Puppy Love ") on a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

The first European woman to have been granted an order of knighthood was Queen Mary, when she was made a Knight Grand Commander of the same order, by special statute, in celebration of the Delhi Durbar of 1911.

In particular, the Grand Duchesses were scandalized at the thought of being made permanently subordinate to Catherine Dolgoruki, since as an Empress she would have precedence over all of them.

* February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

* In the 1950s, Anna Anderson claimed that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

* The dialogue scene before " There grew a little flower " ( No. 25 ) was considerably shortened ; the first version exploring the topsy-turvy idea that if Sir Roderic and Dame Hannah were married, her husband would be a ghost, and she would therefore be a wife and a widow at the same time ( this concept was recycled in The Grand Duke ).

By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress.

Still believing she could be useful, the Death Star's commander, Grand Moff Tarkin, threatens to destroy Alderaan with the super weapon unless she reveals the location of the hidden Rebel base.

She kills, among other villainous characters, Jabba the Hutt, choking him with the very chain that bound her to him ; Leia is also responsible for Grand Admiral Thrawn's death, since she turns the Noghri against him.

At the Australian Open, she reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, defeating no.

In the final, she defeated Steffi Graf in Graf's last career Grand Slam match.

At the remaining Grand Slam tournaments of the year, she lost in the French Open fourth round, the Wimbledon quarterfinals, and the US Open semifinals.

She defeated Venus and Serena Williams for the first time since 2000, which she said instilled belief in her that she could win more Grand Slam tournaments.

Davenport's success continued into 2005, when she reached her first Grand Slam final, at the Australian Open, since the 2000 US Open ; she fell to Serena Williams in three sets.

In her book By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, she memorably intertwined the callous police interrogation under this law with quotations about love from the Song of Songs.

When Cixi received an ultimatum demanding that China surrender total control over all its military and financial affairs to foreigners, she defiantly stated before the entire Grand Council, " Now they Powers have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent.