Sentence examples for open upsetting from inspiring English sources
Stanislas Wawrinka stormed his way to the quarterfinals of the Open, upsetting No. 4 Andy Murray en route.
Playing her very first Grand Slam event as a 16-year-old, Evert raced to the semifinals of the 1971 U.S. Open, upsetting No. 5 seed Francoise Durr in the third round before falling to top seed and eventual champion Billie Jean King in the semifinals.
Mima Jausovec (1976) – With only one win in her previous two trips to New York, Yugoslavian Jausovec rolled through the 1976 U.S. Open, upsetting No. 4 seed Virginia Wade in the second round and not dropping a set until her dismissal at the hands of Chris Evert in the semifinal.
The world's most prominent rectangle of red clay has staged many a tennis drama in the Paris spring: major French Open upsets and major French Open victories.
The day after his United States Open upset of Andy Roddick, John Isner spent a couple of hours drafting players for his N.F.L. fantasy football team.
Samantha Stosur of Australia, a finalist a year ago at the French Open, upset Vera Zvonareva of Russia, 6-3, 6-3, on Thursday to catapult into the women's semifinals of the U.S. Open.
You could see it as Angelique Kerber, the No. 5 women's seed, lay flat on her stomach being treated for a back problem on a changeover during her 7-5, 6-4 loss to the Australian Open upset specialist Ekaterina Makarova.
Robin Soderling caused one of the greatest French Open upsets of all time by beating Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 in the fourth round of the men's singles.
On Tuesday night Arthurs, who qualified for the United States Open, upset second-seeded Gustavo Kuerten, slamming 26 aces that registered up to 134 miles an hour on the radar gun.
In one particularly nasty exchange at the 2009 British Open, Sandy Lyle — upset that he had been passed over as the 2010 European Ryder Cup captain — dredged up an accusation about a questionable drop four years earlier made by his fellow Scotsman Colin Montgomerie, the current Ryder Cup captain.
U.S. Open: Venus Williams upsets Clijsters' protege Kirsten Flipkens.
