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She reached the semifinals or better, in singles, of 52 of the 56 Grand Slams she played, including the semifinals or better of 34 consecutive Grand Slams played from the 1971 U. S. Open through the 1983 French Open.
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She was well suited to the precise work but later wrote, " this was the lowest depth I ever reached in commercial art, and although it was a period when youth and romance were in their first attendance on me, I remember it with gloom and record it with shame.
She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).
She slowly began to turn into a black poplar, the bark spreading up her legs from the earth, but just before the woody stiffness finally reached her throat and as her arms began sprouting twigs her husband Andraemon heard her cries and came to her.
She arrived in New York City in November 1938, five days before Kristallnacht, or ' night of broken glass '; when news of the event reached the U. S., Riefenstahl maintained that Hitler was innocent.
Among the tracks on The Paul Simon Songbook that were rerecorded ( some with electric backing ) for Sound of Silence were " I Am a Rock " ( which as a single reached U. S. No. 3 in the summer of 1966 ), " Leaves That Are Green ", " April Come She Will ", " A Most Peculiar Man ", and " Kathy's Song ".
" She reached up and scratched her long fingernails down both my cheeks so deeply that I had marks for about a week ,” Cowles wrote.
But they soon had another US No. 2 hit with a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's " A Hazy Shade of Winter " from the soundtrack of the film Less Than Zero, and the melancholic " If She Knew What She Wants ", written by Jules Shear, reached the U. S. Top 30 and the German Top 20.
She reached the third round at the 1993 Wimbledon Championships, and at the 1993 US Open, the American reached the fourth round ranked no.
She reached two more finals during 2002, losing in Moscow to Magdalena Maleeva and in Zürich to Patty Schnyder.
She reached the final in that event, but after knocking over the second hurdle, she abandoned the race.
* " She scored a tremendous hit in Down to the Sea in Ships ..( and ).. has reached the front rank of motion picture principal players ".
She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single " O Superman " reached number two on the UK pop charts.
She was posthumously described as the " undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom " who reached the status of " one of the world's leading female singers.
She was never far from controversy which reached a fever pitch when the trade unions rebelled against her proposals to reduce their powers in her 1969 white paper, ' In Place of Strife '.
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She then lost to Monica Seles in the final at Los Angeles, after beating top-ranked Martina Hingis in the semifinals.
She did not win a tournament but consistently reached tournament finals and semifinals, with the highlight being her semifinal loss to Navratilova at the US Open.
She reached her fifth final of the year at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California, defeating World No. 6 Monica Seles in the semifinals before losing to World No. 1 Davenport.
She lost in the second round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Filderstadt before losing in the final of the Tier I Swisscom Challenge in Zürich to World No. 1 Davenport and the semifinals of the Tier I Kremlin Cup in Moscow to Pierce.
She won her first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating World No. 1 Martina Hingis in the quarterfinals, sister Serena in the semifinals, and defending champion Lindsay Davenport in the final.
She defeated Hingis in the semifinals and World No. 4 Jennifer Capriati in the final, after saving eight championship points.
She reached the semifinals at the year-ending Sanex Championships after defeating Seles in the quarterfinals, but she then was forced to retire against Clijsters due to injury.
She then won three very close matches against Petra Mandula, Shikha Uberoi and Chanda Rubin to make the fourth round of the US Open where she lost to Davenport, the first time she had ever lost at the US Open prior to the semifinals.
She reached the semifinals after recovering from a 1 – 5 third set deficit to Laura Pous Tió in the quarterfinals.
She defeated World No. 9 Agnieszka Radwańska in the quarterfinals and World No. 13 Marion Bartoli in the semifinals to reach her third straight WTA tour final and fourth Sony Ericsson Open final.
She defeated World No. 20 Shahar Pe ' er in the semifinals, 6 – 3, 6 – 2, and reached her third final in five tournaments this year.
She was the youngest player to reach a tour final, the youngest player to reach the semifinals at the French Open, the youngest seed ever at Wimbledon, and the youngest player to qualify for the season-ending championships.
She rebounded at the year-ending championships, reaching the semifinals for the first time, losing to Serena Williams ( ranked number one in the world ).
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