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In her first clay-court tournament since 2005, Davenport reached the semifinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, where she defaulted her match with Sharapova before it began, due to illness.
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her and first
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
It was her first smile.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.
She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.
Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.
Cautiously she sampled her first pineapple and another fruit whose taste she likened to that of `` a rich pear ''.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.
Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.
Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.
To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.
Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.
her and clay-court
Davenport began her clay-court season by winning the tournament in Amelia Island, Florida.
Williams began to find her form at the beginning of the clay-court season.
Going into the French Open, Williams had the best clay-court record among the women and was among the favorites to win the title ; however, after making the quarterfinals to extend her winning streak on the surface to 19 matches, she lost to eventual champion Anastasia Myskina.
In May, Williams won her first title in over a year at the clay-court Istanbul Cup, defeating Nicole Vaidišová in the final.
Capriati produced her best results of the year during the European clay-court season.
This injury kept her out of the European clay-court season, the grass-court season, and most of the North American hard-court season.
Zvonareva kicked off her clay-court season at the 2011 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany.
Hantuchová then reached her first career clay-court semifinal at the Internazionali BNL d ' Italia in Rome.
Her fourth event was the Warsaw Open, where she reached her second career clay-court semifinal, but lost to Romanian qualifier and eventual champion Alexandra Dulgheru, 4 – 6, 7 – 6 ( 2 ), 1 – 6.
However, she fell to fourth seed and eventual champion Samantha Stosur in her third career clay-court semifinal, 3 – 6, 6 – 7 ( 2 ).
After a forgettable singles clay-court season ( culminating in her second loss to Sugiyama at her native Grand Slam event ), she rose back up the rankings by reaching the third round of Wimbledon ( losing to Sugiyama for the second successive Grand Slam ).
The only match she played in the clay-court season was her straight-sets first-round loss to Shahar Pe ' er at the French Open ( where she was seeded for the first time, 28th ).
Bartoli then began to find her form during the clay-court season, which had previously not been a successful surface for her.
Bartoli then began her clay-court season at the 2010 Family Circle Cup, a Premier Event in Charleston.
Bartoli then competed at her final clay-court tournament before the French Open, the 2010 Polsat Warsaw Open, where she was seeded 4th.
her and tournament
In April 1986, nine-year-old Judit played in her first rated tournament in the U. S., finishing first in the unrated section of the New York Open, winning $ 1, 000.
Susan, 16-years-old, competed in the grandmaster section and had a victory against GM Walter Browne and Sophia, 11-years-old, finished second in her section, but Judit gathered most of the attention in the tournament.
Polgár won the double round-robin tournament of four GMs scoring five points in the six games and winning both her games against Short.
Her result was considered exceptional considering the strength of the tournament, average 2701, and she was praised for her tactical skills in her game against Ivanchuk.
In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.
However, Polgár drew both her games with Kasparov, the first time in her career she had done this under tournament time controls.
In 2003, Polgár scored one of her best results: an undefeated clear second place in the Category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, just a half-point behind future World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and a full point ahead of then-world champion Vladimir Kramnik.
She appeared headed for a first place victory in the tournament, but lost her game against compatriot Péter Lékó.
" However, in her game against Veselin Topalov, Polgár pushed the eventual tournament winner and world champion to a seven-hour marathon before succumbing.
Some chess pundits said she was unprepared for the tournament and appeared affected by the fact that she'd played less chess in the last three years to concentrate on her two children.
However, she was still credited with the most beautiful attack of the tournament in her fifth game victory.
Richard first grew closer to her at a tournament held in Berengaria's native Navarre.
Prior to the tournament he meets Natalia Katkov ( Watson ) and he falls in love with her almost immediately.
The female Governor of Osaka from 2000 – 2008, Fusae Ohta, when called upon to present the Governor's Prize to the champion of the annual Osaka tournament, was required to do so on the walkway beside the ring or send a male representative in her place.
Davenport entered the top 20, despite coming into her first tournament that year ranked no.
On clay, Davenport won the tournament in Strasbourg on her first attempt, defeating Kimiko Date in the final.
During the summer, Davenport won the tournament in Los Angeles, defeating Graf for the first time in her career in the semifinals, before defeating Anke Huber in the final.
At her next tournament in Los Angeles, she lost in the final to Chanda Rubin.
Davenport played her first doubles tournament of the year in Filderstadt in October, where she partnered with Lisa Raymond to win the title.
Davenport returned to the WTA Tour in August, winning her comeback tournament in New Haven without dropping a set.
On February 22, 2006, Davenport became just the eighth woman in WTA history to win 700 singles matches, when she handed out her fourth career " double bagel ", defeating Elena Likhovtseva in the second round of the Dubai tournament.
Davenport attributed the loss to her having resumed training only three weeks prior to the start of the tournament.
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