Sentence examples for a bad tournament from inspiring English sources

"I had a bad tournament," he says.

After a start of 76, it wasn't a bad tournament".

"It was a bad tournament for us but I'll tell you what, I had a bit of a moment after the last game against Costa Rica," Lampard said.

Few are expecting the USA to win the World Cup but, equally, for all the talk of "connecting the dots" and long-term success, any coach's tenure can be undermined by a bad tournament.

It has been a bad tournament for prominent Americans as well, and it got worse today when Andy Roddick, the hard-swinging teenager of the moment, retired early in the second set of his second-round match with Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia after reinjuring his right ankle.

I can walk down the street now and people will say: "I saw you on TV last Saturday!" Steph Houghton Even at the Euros, where England had a bad tournament, it was really evident how the media coverage pushed the game on further.

But this was a very bad tournament for us.

"It seems to be just a really bad tournament for the seeds," Venus Williams said after her visibly painful 6-3, 6-4 victory over a fellow American, Kristina Brandi, in the second round Wednesday night.

So a couple bad tournaments or a bad round, I wasn't getting phone calls from my parents or my aunt".

In the end it wasn't a bad personal tournament for Bradley Jr, but as the team trudged off the field, it was hard not to think of his father Bob, the former US coach.

"Novak is still clearly No1 in the world right now, he is not just going to go away because he has had one bad tournament," he said.