Sentence examples for final facing from inspiring English sources

A tad more than two weeks ago, Samantha Stosur played in her first Grand Slam final, facing Francesca Schiavone for the French Open title.

With Le Moyne in the Division II final, facing C.W. Post; with Cortland in the Division III final, against Gettysburg; and with Onondaga Community College having already won the junior college title, the land of Genesee beer, Wegmans supermarkets and the Finger Lakes could also have all four men's major lacrosse national titles.

The Hayne Drain reared his head in the 2009 grand final: facing Melbourne and attempting to guide Parramatta to their first premiership since 1986, Hayne, whose contest against opposing full-back Billy Slater had been eagerly anticipated, spent 80 minutes shuffling about the field with all the urgency and interest of an animatronic ham.

Canada entered the final facing pressure to defeat the Soviets.

In 1999, Bayern Munich reached the 1999 Champions League Final, facing Manchester United at Camp Nou.

The Roosters defeated the Newcastle Knights 40 14 in week three of the NRL finals, progressing to the 2013 NRL grand final, facing the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, winning 26 18.

MATCH POINTS Second-seeded ANDY RODDICK, in his first Nasdaq-100 Open final, faces third-seeded GUILLERMO CORIA on Sunday.

The Australian, who beat Graeme Dott in last year's final, faces China Open winner Judd Trump in the first round.

Both of the other competitors in the final faced some technical issues, including a tube pressurization problem for Paradigm that meant they did their run in less than vacuum conditions, and some connectivity problems for Swissloop.

The 2011 final faced scheduling problems.

In the show's final, "face to face," a wealthy Florentine couple are immortalized in separate but matching frames.