Sentence examples for strange tournament from inspiring English sources

Will likely go on to earn plenty of full international caps Danny Ings 6 A strange tournament for the Liverpool-bound striker.

It has been a strange tournament for McNamara, yet if he were to leave now he could feel proud at what he has achieved.

But it has been a strange tournament, particularly on the women's side, and it has resulted in one of the most unexpected Grand Slam finals in years as Marion Bartoli, the 15th seed, will take on No. 23 Sabine Lisicki.

The East Asian Cup, which permanently features China, Japan and South Korea and one qualifier (this time Australia) who play each other in the round-robin style, is a strange tournament.

So it continued, this strange tournament for American women, where up is down and right is left, where Serena Williams lost in the first round of a Grand Slam event for the first time in her career and the two Americans who remain among the final 16 are named Lepchenko and Stephens, as in Sloane.

It is a difficult tournament, a very strange tournament".

At this strangest of tournaments, nothing can really be ruled out, after all a bet that Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Sharapova would all be eliminated by the first Saturday would have made you a pretty penny.

"They prepared today like they would for a big tournament," Strange countered.

Soccer did that, not politics". The black-white match was the final of a strange and twisted tournament called the Embassy Multi-National Series, the first official competition to include teams from each of South Africa's apartheid-era races: white, black, colored and Indian.

"This tournament was strange from the beginning until the end," replied the Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper.

"This tournament was strange from the beginning until the end," he deadpanned.