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Grand Slam (figure skating), winning all three major annual senior-level international competitions within a single season; Grand Slam (rugby union), one national team defeating all others in the Six Nations Championship; Grand Slam (shinty), one club winning four annual shinty trophies; Grand slam, in roller derby, a five-point scoring pass
The Creamline Cool Smashers are a Filipino professional women's volleyball team playing in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL). The team is owned by food company Rebisco and named after its Creamline Creamy Ice Cream brand. They are the most successful team in the PVL, having won ten championships.
She is the beach volleyball leader in career victories as of 2016 having won 135 international and domestic tournaments. [2] Walsh Jennings and teammate Misty May-Treanor were the gold medalists in beach volleyball at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. They also won the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007.
Hubby-wife or Campfire : In beach volleyball, when a serve drops between two players because the players don't decide in time who will pass it; Jet Nai Heed : The act of intentionally blocking a spike from the opposing team; Jungleball or Barbecue ball or Picnic ball : A volleyball game played by inexperienced players with little ball control
Paolini was also the runner-up in the singles final at Roland Garros to four-time champion Iga Swiatek on Saturday. Swiatek beat Gauff in the singles semifinal. “The last two weeks were very ...
The four major (Grand Slam) tournaments progressively expanded from 8-seed format to 16-seed, then to the current 32-seed format, which was adopted in the middle of the 2001 season, after French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten had complained that clay-court specialists were at a disadvantage with just 16 seeds. [3]
There were four Grand Slam tournaments. These events give a higher number of points and more money than the rest of the tournaments. [1] Paris, France – Henkel Grand Slam, June 19 - 24, 2007; Stavanger, Norway – ConocoPhillips Grand Slam, June 26 - July 1, 2007; Berlin, Germany – Smart Grand Slam, July 11 - 15, 2007
A three-time Grand Slam champion, she won the 2023 US Open doubles title, partnering Erin Routliffe, [2] and also the 2017 French Open mixed-doubles title, with Rohan Bopanna, becoming the first Canadian woman to win a senior Grand Slam title, [3] and the 2018 Australian Open with Mate Pavić. [4]