Sentence examples for anticipated match from inspiring English sources

Federer had to work harder and longer on Wednesday to make their latest, much anticipated match a reality.

They are also only two points behind the league leaders, Hull FC, before an eagerly anticipated match between the two on Friday.

Ferguson suggested that the focus on what had been the most keenly anticipated match of the season might have contributed to the stalemate in which a low shot from Patrice Evra and a Dimitar Berbatov scissor-kick were the highlights.

It was an eagerly anticipated match, pitting a self-described feminist who has welcomed more than 40,000 Syrian refugees to his country against a president who once bragged about grabbing women and has sought to crack down on immigration.

Canada will meet the United States on Sunday for the Olympic gold medal, a highly anticipated match that will be the defining moment of these Winter Games for the host nation and one that will fascinate millions of its neighbors.

While Didier Drogba has gone home with a broken arm, and Wayne Rooney and Lionel Messi have departed with shattered expectations, it is Villa who is tied for the lead in the tournament with five goals, putting Spain into the semifinals for the first time in a highly anticipated match against Germany here on Wednesday.

Athletes sometimes say that a game, especially a championship contest or some other highly anticipated match-up, seemed "fast" — it whizzed by like a video on fast forward, sometimes too quickly for them to keep their composure and perform properly.

That highly anticipated match-up of undefeated teams, the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts, delivered more than 32 million viewers in its final half-hour, according to Nielsen's preliminary estimates.

Novak Djokovic vs. Grigor Dimitrov One of the most highly anticipated matches when the main draw came out, Novak Djokovic and Grigor Dimitrov both easily won the requisite two matches to set up this highly-hyped third-rounder.

On the eve of Hagler-Hearns, the Chicago Tribune wrote: "Boxing has had enough autopsies to hire its own morgue, and it has of late been widely regarded as doomed". The Washington Post went with: "Hearns-Hagler to the rescue". Much the same has been written about next month's eagerly anticipated match-up between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

The Classic lost mare Beholder on Thursday when she dropped out because of a fever, spoiling the highly anticipated match-up between her and American Pharoah, who is running for the last time.