Sentence examples for preliminary tournament from inspiring English sources

It soon hopes to take part in the Libertadores Cup and will stage a preliminary tournament in six cities in the United States early next year in which Mexican clubs will vie for two spots in the Libertadores Cup.

Sam Warburton, Toby Faletau, Danny Lydiate, Ryan Jones, Jonathan Thomas, Justin Tipuric, Josh Turnbull and Gareth Delve were also in Wales' preliminary tournament squad.

Preliminary tournament squad members Scott Andrews, Jonathan Thomas, Justin Tipuric, Josh Turnbull and Gareth Delve also also failed to make Gatland's party.

McEnroe skipped a preliminary tournament at Queen's Club to avoid them.

Then it's on to the Pacific League individuals preliminary tournament next week at Burroughs High before the playoffs begin.

Because the Olympics were in the United States, where the majority of NHL teams are located, teams participating in the preliminary tournament were allowed to use NHL players who were not obligated to play with their NHL club.

The best guide to which of these are on form is provided by the 37 preliminary tournaments at the WSOP that have been going on during the last few weeks.

The latest, won by Sergei Rublevsky, was an all-grandmaster affair, a round-robin competition held in Moscow from Dec. 19 to 30, with an entry list of 12 players who qualified from powerful preliminary tournaments.

With the huge entry split into three days of preliminary tournaments to shrink them into a more manageable 2,000 for the next round, there have been some shock eliminations, including the current No. 1 tournament money earner, Daniel Negranu and the top woman, Kathy Liebert.

Justine Henin, the Belgian star who was the finest clay-court player of this generation, is retired, and Kim Clijsters, who beat Li in the Australian Open and likes clay, was unable to play any preliminary tournaments on clay after being injured in a freakish accident while dancing at a wedding.

Japanese dancers qualify for the international final through preliminary tournaments held in the country but foreign dancers do not qualify through tournaments because 30 of the top-ranked foreign dancers are automatically invited to participate in the final.