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Their university's star-crossed history made their breakthrough all that much sweeter, writes Ivan Maisel on ESPN.com.

Gradually, though, England began to stem the flow of runs and, with Cook inching his way to three figures, made their breakthrough.

The pair made their breakthrough on the world stage in 2010, when at the world rowing championships on New Zealand's Lake Karapiro, they clung on to the coat-tails of the host nation, then the world champions, to clinch silver.

Napoli, though, kept on coming and in the 37th minute they made their breakthrough, Lorenzo Insigne launching a perfect cross over from deep on the left for Callejón to tap home on the far side.

Then against 10-man Everton in the Merseyside derby – Jack Rodwell, who was effectively cancelling out Adam, having been incorrectly sent off – it was still only after Adam and Downing went off, andwere replaced by Steven Gerrard and Craig Bellamy that Liverpool finally made their breakthrough, Carroll scoring his first goal of the season.

A spectacular overhead kick from Billy Clarke just failed before Crawley made their breakthrough.

Sabine Lisicki and Maria Sharapova are living their own, and now they will meet on Thursday in the semifinals of the tournament where they both made their breakthroughs.

PAGE B10 SHARAPOVA TO SEMIFINALS Maria Sharapova of Russia and Sabine Lisicki of Germany are living their own Wimbledon comeback stories, and they will meet Thursday in the semifinals of the tournament where they both made their breakthroughs.

Cauthen and Piggott were both teenaged sensations of some standing when they made their breakthroughs, Piggott having ridden his first winner at the age of 12. Barzalona has emerged from obscurity to scale one of the sport's most demanding peaks in a matter of months and he has done so, crucially, in a style that no one who witnessed it will ever forget.

But as genomics and proteomics have made their breakthroughs, huge numbers of targets have been discovered.

Pauling came very close, but stumbled just as Watson and Crick were making their breakthrough.