Sentence examples for tournament proper from inspiring English sources

In the tournament proper, Havret holed an eight-footer on the 18th for a 14-under total to deny Hartlepool's Graeme Storm by a stroke.

Australia launched itself into the tournament proper by beating Pakistan by 34 runs, a large margin in a 20-over-a-side match.

This year was the first time in the modern era when all U.S.-based Division I, II and III professional clubs participated in tournament proper.

Yes, England surrendered meekly to 10-man Brazil in the tournament proper but it was very hot and Brazil were the best team in an admittedly mediocre tournament.

Next week he and his coaching staff will go a long way towards identifying the 31 he wants to take into the tournament proper.

Seve's memory will be celebrated with the appearance of his youngest son in the tournament proper, as well as at Tuesday's special event.

A pity that, having taken the team to two World Cups and a European Championship, this successful club coach was unable to hack it in the tournaments proper.

Today, this year's tournament became a proper one as Japan and Serbia booked passage for the Beijing Games by winning their respective Olympic qualifying matches in Tokyo.

Stop patronising them by making them play in a sad preliminary round on bad pitches in empty stadiums and insisting it is part of the proper tournament, when some Test sides hadn't even arrived in the country.

Tremendous excitement suffused Alexandra Palace in north London on Monday night when Sky's cameras picked out the elfin features of Prince Harry among the crowd at the PDC World Darts Championship (the proper tournament; not the British Darts Organisation version for Men Who Try Hard But Aren't Very Good At Darts, soon to begin on the BBC).

But repeating the two defeats out of four in a proper tournament – say, the Six Nations' Championship in the new year or the World Cup in New Zealand in September – would spell second place or worse in one and early elimination from the other.