Sentence examples for tournament versus from inspiring English sources

The British hope and form player at this year's tournament versus the world number one and 2008 champion.

At first glance, the games might not look like best-sellers – Namibia (5,000/1 outsiders for the tournament) versus Tonga and Italy versus Romania.

Great Britain will be hoping to add to their goal tally (15 this tournament versus New Zealand's 11 [not including shoot-outs]) to bring home a medal.

In the final game of the tournament versus Sweden, Canada suffered a 6 4 loss and finished fourth overall for the tournament, missing out on their opportunity for a bronze medal that would have come with a win versus Sweden.

In September, in Prague, at the first-ever Laver Cup — a two-team exhibition tournament, Europeans versus the Rest of the World, spearheaded by Roger Federer, to honor the seventy-nine-year-old Australian great Rod Laver — all matches tied after two sets were decided by a brisk, first-to-ten-points-by-two "super tiebreak".

In the tournament quarterfinals versus Germany, Brewer scored the game-winning goal 37 seconds into overtime to give Canada a 3 2 victory.

When it came to the second match of the tournament, B.G. James and Cassidy Reilly versus Ron Killings and Sonjay Dutt, Caldwell felt that James and Killings "undermined the spirit of the Candido tournament" by dancing mid-way through their encounter.

Which is more important right now: a road win at the Crew, a fellow middling Eastern Conference foe who the Fire trail by five points (with a game in hand), or a single-elimination U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal battle at home versus tournament darlings Orlando City, the third division (USL Pro) side who achieved the improbable by shutting out 2012 Cup champs Sporting Kansas City on the road?

The premiere builds to a droll "death bracket" elimination tournament mocking N.C.A.A. basketball: fireworks versus lightning; spider bites versus bee stings; flood versus avalanche.

CAF, the organizer of this tournament, had billed Egypt versus Algeria as a match of reconciliation.

Granted, it was merely an exhibition round the actual robot versus human tournament airs in mid-February but it portends somid-February butc: a world where our benevolent masters, mechanital men, will lead us to sweet salvation.