Sentence examples for overpower opponents from inspiring English sources

Roddick has the best serve in tennis, which can overpower opponents and dominate matches on the Open's quick hardcourt surfaces.

To this point, Kerber has been able to rely on her big ground game to overpower opponents, something she will not be able to do to Stosur, who is coming off a 6-3, 6-3 dismissal of the No. 2 seed Vera Zvonareva.

"I want to say, I made the Olympic team, and that's all I dream about all the time — going to fight for that gold medal," said De Leon, who is known as a slugger who tends to overpower opponents, but has been adapting his game to fight worldwide.

Despite Mathewson's prediction that naturally gifted players "were no match for the scientific brainy players of inside baseball which had developed in the college," many of the game's stars, from Mickey Mantle to Reggie Jackson to Nolan Ryan, are remembered more for their Ruthian ability to overpower opponents.

Throughout his 19 year career, O'Neal has used his size, strength and skill to overpower opponents.

Meanwhile James, who is about to turn 31, still has the iron will to overpower opponents and if there is any decline in his game, you have to look pretty hard to find it.

They had hardly overpowered opponents.

Raonic's serve overpowered opponents, particularly indoors, with his legs serving as the springboard.

After a month, although I was ignorant of most of the sport's intricacies, I overpowered opponents in my first tournament, pinning two of them.

Significantly, they stayed largely injury-free, the players embracing Klopp's methods and overpowering opponents with a thrilling, rampant brand of football.

Amarillo Slim, the pencil-slender, cornpone-spouting Texan who became poker's first superstar by overpowering opponents with charm, cunning and preternatural coolness, died on Sunday in Amarillo, Tex.