Sentence examples for first tournaments from inspiring English sources

She drove him to his first tournaments until Earl, the former Green Beret, took over after retiring from a civilian job at McDonnell Douglas in 1988.

The first tournaments were held in 1973 in Brooklyn and the Catskills, and while New York is still Scrabble's nerve center, world-class players have emerged in Australia, Nigeria and even non-English-speaking countries like Thailand.

Andy Murray and Anne Keothavong were continents apart yesterday but the two British No 1s found themselves on the same path as they reached the quarter-finals of their first tournaments of the season.

They did not play junior tournaments after the age of 10, so that the first tournaments they played were WTA Tour events, in which they did well right away.

"It started out as a bet in the beginning, because I was playing really bad in the first tournaments here in the U.S., so my coach told me, 'If you win today and beat Petrova, you have to dance or do something special,' " she said.

In the first tournaments without headgear, this was highlighted by controversy that followed athletes being disqualified with facial lacerations [45].

At six, they won their first tournament.

He won his first tournament.

First tournament, first men's singles champion: 1877.

My first tournament was in Tucson.

This is her first tournament since Wimbledon.