After receiving a bye from the quarterfinal playoff games, Birmingham beat the Western Division-winning The Hawaiians in the semifinals, 22 – 19, in front of a sparse 15, 379 at Legion Field.

Further, Brewer gained his first NHL playoff experience, a quarterfinal series versus the Dallas Stars.

During the club's playoff run Testo scored in the quarterfinal match against Portland Timbers.

He recorded his first playoff goal in the quarterfinal match against Charleston Battery.

Kesler returned to the Canucks lineup for the first game of their quarterfinal playoff series versus the Dallas Stars.

* 1954 – The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.

In the 1965 cycle, he beat Paul Keres in the quarterfinal round at Riga 1965 with careful strategy, triumphing in the last game to win 6 – 4 (+ 4 − 2 = 4 ).

The team was upset in the quarterfinal round in overtime of game 7 by the Toronto Maple Leafs.

In 2002 Bruce Arena led a mix of veterans and MLS-seasoned youth to a quarterfinal appearance, dispatching contenders Portugal in group play and archrivals Mexico in the Round of 16, before losing a closely fought game with eventual Runners-Up Germany in the quarterfinal.

The 2002 season was clearly a transition year for the franchise, as they muddled through a difficult season to finish at 8-8 before falling in a quarterfinal game against the Washington Power.

Arena switched the team back to a 4-4-2 for their quarterfinal against Germany, and the team continued to surprise many by dominating stretches of the game.

In the post-game show of the Canada-Russia quarterfinal, Milbury said that Russia brought their " Eurotrash game.

It was the third quarterfinal game ( best of seven ) in the KölnArena in Cologne in front of an audience of 17. 000.

It was game five of an NHL Eastern Conference quarterfinal series between the Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils.

Established her place among the game elite with a win in Sarasota, Myskina also had mediocre results during the summer season were followed by a quarterfinal appearance at the US Open, back-to-back titles in Leipzig ( defeating No. 1 Kim Clijsters and No. 2 Justine Henin ) and Moscow, which was her first Tier I title.

During the first knockout stage of the competition, Deco received two yellow cards in the game against Netherlands with the first given for a rash tackle on John Heitinga, suspending him from the quarterfinal win against England, as he already picked up a caution in the match with Iran.

In the 2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak on March 14, 2008, during the 2008 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament, a tornado ripped two holes in the dome during the Alabama – Mississippi State quarterfinal game, which delayed the game for one hour and three minutes.

The quarterfinal game to follow between the Kentucky Wildcats and Georgia Bulldogs was postponed to the following day.

The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament, with a bronze medal game for semifinal losers and classification games for the quarterfinal losers to determine fifth to eighth places.

They took a 1-0 lead in their quarterfinal game against Germany as well, but again conceded two late goals to lose.

In the quarterfinal itself, against Daejeon Citizen, the game finished as a one all draw, Daegu's goal coming from Lee Seul-Ki.

* Instead of a best-of-three series, the MLS Cup Playoffs changed their format so that the quarterfinal fixtures ( or conference semifinals ) would be a home and away aggregate over two matches, the team with the higher seed would have the home game in the second leg.

Gomez played a key role in Kansas City's road to MLS Cup 2000 scoring the game winner in quarterfinal game against the Colorado Rapids.

After Greece's lost quarterfinal to on 22 June, a game which Chalkias watched from the bench, he announced his withdrawal from the national team alongside Nikos Liberopoulos.

In 2000, the Times Union Center hosted a regional quarterfinal between St. Lawrence University and Boston University, which went into quadruple overtime ; becoming the longest game in the history of the tournament and the second longest game in Division I men's college hockey history ( it is currently the third longest game ).

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

Graf lost an Australian Open quarterfinal to Jana Novotná, the first time she did not reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam singles tournament since the 1986 French Open.

After winning two more indoor tournaments at Zürich and Brighton, she failed once again in the Virginia Slims Championships, losing her quarterfinal to Novotná.

At Wimbledon, after struggling through early-round three-setters against lowly ranked Mariaan de Swardt and Patty Fendick, she easily defeated Natasha Zvereva in a quarterfinal, Sabatini in a semifinal, and Seles in the final 6 – 2, 6 – 1, with Seles playing in almost complete silence because of widespread media and player criticism of her grunting.

She then won her eighth German Open, but there were signs that her form was worsening as she almost lost to Julie Halard in a quarterfinal. Back-to-back losses followed ; Graf lost to Mary Pierce in a French Open semifinal, 6 – 2, 6 – 2, and followed that with a first-round straight-sets loss at Wimbledon to Lori McNeil, her first loss in a first round Grand Slam tournament in ten years.

She took the following nine weeks off, returning only for the Virginia Slims Championships where she lost to Pierce in a quarterfinal.

The injury forced Williams to pull out of the Fed Cup quarterfinal against Belgium, the Dubai Tennis Championships, and the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, where she was the two-time defending champion in both tournaments.

In capturing the title, she defeated Kuznetsova in the fourth round, Sharapova in a quarterfinal, and Petrova in a semifinal.

On grass, she won the tournament in Eastbourne, United Kingdom without losing a set before Pam Shriver beat her in a Wimbledon quarterfinal 7 – 5, 6 – 4.

At Osaka, Mirza won against 5th seed Shahar Pe ' er and Viktoriya Kutuzova and in the quarterfinal she defeated 2nd seed Marion Bartoli 6 – 4, 2 – 0 by retirement.

In September, Mirza competed in the 2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open where she made her first quarterfinal of the season.

Next she defeated 6th seed Zhang Shuai in straight sets 6 – 2, 6 – 2 to enter into quarterfinal.

In quarterfinal Mirza won against 2nd seed Tamarine Tanasugarn 6 – 2, 6 – 3 to move in semi final, where she went down fighting to 3rd seed Akgul Amanmuradova 7 – 6 ( 7 ), 3 – 6, 4 – 6 and won Bronze Medal in singles.

In singles, she made her first Premier quarterfinal since San Diego in August 2007.

In October, Date played her first tournament out of Japan since November 1996: she had a quarterfinal showing at the OEC Taipei Ladies Open.

She played in the Sydney Olympics and reached her first Tier I quarterfinal in Zürich, where she lost to world number 1 Martina Hingis.

In the fourth round she faced unseeded Alla Kudrayatseva who just came off a win over 3rd seed Maria Sharapova ; Petrova won 6 – 1, 6 – 4 to reach her second quarterfinal at Wimbledon.

During the US Open, she again reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal, this time losing to top seed Amélie Mauresmo.

After a quarterfinal appearance at the 1998 French Open, she failed to reach the fourth round of any subsequent Grand Slam singles tournament.

In the first round of the Women's Under 49 kg event she defeated Brigitte Yague of Spain, and in the quarterfinal was defeated by Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz of Cuba.

She reached the top ten on the WTA tour for the first time in early 2005 following her first Grand Slam quarterfinal singles appearance, at the Australian Open, where she lost 9 – 7 in the final set to Lindsay Davenport.

Following that, she made her first quarterfinal of the year in Tokyo for the second straight year, losing to Kuznetsova, 6 – 7 ( 4 ), 6 – 7 ( 4 ).

Then, she made another quarterfinal at her next tournament in Dubai, losing to Serena Williams, 4 – 6, 3 – 6.