1 Amélie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals, but was forced to retire with a right shoulder injury while playing Justine Henin in the final.

Williams then successfully defended her Wimbledon title, defeating third-seeded Davenport in the semifinals and eighth-seeded Henin in three sets in Henin's first Wimbledon final.

Williams began 2002 by winning the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts in Gold Coast, Australia, defeating Henin in the final.

Williams then went on to win the Open Gaz de France in Paris when Jelena Dokić withdrew from the final, and the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, defeating Henin in the final.

However, she made a strong start to the clay-court season, winning the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, defeating Henin in the final.

As the top seed at Wimbledon, Williams defeated Henin in the semifinals to make the final for the third consecutive year.

Williams started 2003 by defeating fifth seed Justine Henin to make the final of the Australian Open for the first time.

Mauresmo won a silver medal in singles at the Olympic Games in Athens, where she was defeated by Belgian Justine Henin in the final.

Both opponents retired from their respective matches, Clijsters with a right ankle sprain in the third set of their semifinal and Henin from gastroenteritis in the final.

She defeated Anastasia Myskina in a quarterfinal and Maria Sharapova in a semifinal, and then came back to defeat Henin in the final.

To conclude the year, Mauresmo reached the final of the WTA Tour Championships in Madrid, losing to Henin, 4 – 6, 3 – 6.

Mauresmo then played the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open, where she lost to Justine Henin in the final.

After losing to Henin in the final of the International Women's Open in Eastbourne, 5 – 7, 7 – 6 ( 4 ), 6 – 7 ( 2 ), after being up 4 – 1 in the deciding set, defending champion Mauresmo went into Wimbledon saying that she was ready to win another major title.

" Henin made a return to the WTA in early 2010, losing the final of the Australian Open in only her 2nd tournament back.

Henin saw the 1992 final involving her idol Steffi Graf and Monica Seles.

Henin established herself as a major competitor in 2001 when she reached the women's singles semifinals of the French Open and then upset the reigning Australian Open and French Open champion Jennifer Capriati in the semifinals of Wimbledon, losing to defending champion Venus Williams in three sets in the final.

In a match lasting more than three hours, Henin overcame a 4 – 1 final set deficit, high temperatures, and muscle cramps to defeat Davenport for the first time in her career.

At the Dubai Tennis Championships one week later, Henin defeated former World No. 1 Monica Seles in the final 4 – 6, 7 – 6, 7 – 5 after Seles had a match point at 5 – 4 in the second set.

At the clay court Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, Henin defeated World No. 1 Serena Williams in the final.

In the final, Henin saved three match points in the third set before defeating Clijsters.

In the final, Henin defeated Clijsters in straight sets.

At the grass court Ordina Open in Rosmalen, Henin lost in the final to Clijsters when Henin was forced to retire from the match after injuring her finger.

At the Tier I Acura Classic in San Diego, the third-seeded Henin defeated the top-seeded Clijsters in the final.

Pakistan overcame a dismal start to emerge as winners, defeating England by 22 runs in the final.

In 1995, the Steelers overcame a 3 – 4 start ( including a 20 – 16 upset loss to the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars ) to win 8 of their final 9 games and finished with an 11 – 5 record, the second best in the AFC.

Further highlights include his presence in the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon as Celtic overcame Internazionale in the 1967 European Cup Final, at Wembley as Manchester United defeated Benfica to capture the 1968 European Cup and also the BBC's main man at the 1970 World Cup, commentating on the final between Brazil and Italy.

In a remarkable season, Carlton languished with a record of 3 – 6 after nine weeks, but won ten of the remaining eleven home-and-away matches to finish fourth ; Carlton then comfortably beat in the first semi-final, overcame a 28-point deficit in the final quarter to beat Collingwood in the preliminary final, then beat South Melbourne in the notoriously brutal and violent Bloodbath Grand Final.

In a close French Open final, Graf again overcame Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, taking the third-set 10 – 8.

In 1971 – 72, the Jags overcame favourites, Celtic in the League Cup final.

While the UK railway system persisted until post-nationalisation in 1948 with " unfitted " ( discontinuously braked ) trains and loose couplings ( the final unfitted trains ran in the 1980s ), other systems, such as the North American adoption of the Janney coupler, overcame the same railway safety issues in a different manner.

Keegan scored twice in the first leg of the final as Liverpool overcame Borussia Mönchengladbach 3 – 2 on aggregate.

They were first brought into the time trialling public eye in the 1989 Tour de France when Greg Lemond overcame a 50-second deficit in the final day's time trial to win the Tour by 8 seconds from Frenchman Laurent Fignon.

His ( and his parents ') wise, brave choices in living a brief life fully overcame any final destruction of the spirit that a fear of oncoming death might have otherwise wrought.

Britain overcame France 13-4 to qualify for the final with outstanding second-rower Phil Lowe scoring two tries.

Leonard Nimoy, in his 1995 book I am Spock, writes that " frankly during the entire shooting of that episode, I was embarrassed — a feeling that overcame me many times during the final season of Star Trek.

Spencer defeated John Pulman ( 5 – 3 ), Eddie Charlton ( 5 – 2 ) and overcame Ray Reardon 9 – 8 on the final black in the final.

Cape Cod repeated as PDL champs in 2003, beating the Chicago Fire Reserves in the final ( and despite the presence of Jürgen Klinsmann playing for Orange County Blue Star ), while 2004 saw the title head to Florida for the first time as the Central Florida Kraze overcame perennial bridesmaids Boulder Rapids Reserve.

They were unlucky to miss out on the finals, going down to the Brisbane Broncos 24 – 2 in the final round of the competition, which allowed the New Zealand Warriors ( who easily overcame the Parramatta Eels ) to take 8th place.

In the 2010 – 11 UEFA Champions League season, Sheriff defeated Dinamo Tirana in the second qualifying round and then overcame Dinamo Zagreb on penalties to reach the play-off round, the final stage before the lucrative Champions League Group stage.

His path to a Wembley final was again halted at the League Cup semi-final but, in the FA Cup, Tottenham overcame Nottingham Forest 2 – 1 in the final, with Nayim replacing injured Paul Gascoigne early in the match, and setting up both of his team's goals to bring success to White Hart Lane.

In this final season as manager, Smith led Rangers to a back-to-back domestic double, winning the League Cup as well as their 54th league championship, a world record, which was secured on the final day of the season, when Rangers overcame Kilmarnock at Rugby Park 5 – 1.

Featuring the first ever gym test ( devised by Pickering, and comprising circuit running, a medicine ball throw, parallel bar dips and squat thrusts ) the event came down to the final steeplechase, where Hemery overcame a 100m handicap to pass Barry John with 60 metres left.