Sentence examples for before the first match from inspiring English sources

It was 6am, 90 minutes before the first match.

"Everything is impressive," Beckenbauer said before the first match.

"I think before the first match — and probably anything before the first match — there will be nerves there," he said.

"There are always nerves before the first match in a grand slam".

Had she withdrawn before the first match, Serena Williams could have replaced her in the singles.

Easyodds also show that Sri Lanka were 7/1 to win the tournament before the first match was played.

It took the program 50 hours to run through more than 1,800 papers, but it was not long before the first matches appeared, he said, and they showed the papers to be virtual replicas.

Cook will not be given the chance to find form with Essex before England start the first match of a five-Test series against India on 9 July.

She scored 30 from 47 balls in the first match before making her ODI top-score of 86 the next day.

Twellman, a rising star at the time of the first game, had retired before the second match was played.

Before the third match, his teammates urged the coach to start the kid from Santos, who wore No. 10, the traditional number of the playmaker.