Sentence examples for won a set from from inspiring English sources

The 32-year-old Tauziat had never won a set from the 26-year-old Seles in nine previous meetings.

Hanescu won a set from Federer for the first time in their five meetings, but his hopes were dashed quickly in the final set.

She not only had not beaten Azarenka in six career meetings, but she also had not won a set from her.

Though no one had won a set from Agassi in this event since Nicolas Escudé took one in the third round last year, Safin held his ground against Agassi from the start.

As Jimmy's game developed, along with Two-Mom they began traveling to distant tournaments together, and when Jimmy was 16, he was hitting with enough depth and pace that on a practice court in Kalamazoo, Mich., he finally won a set from Gloria: "I was upset, I was crying, telling her I didn't mean to.

The closest Borg has come in eight previous attempts was in winning a set from Jimmy Connors in the 1976 finals.

Jaziri, who qualified and won a round at the 2011 United States Open, had proved worthy of the wild card he received in January at a smaller tournament in Doha, Qatar, winning a set from the eventual champion, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, ranked sixth at the time.

John and Cindy McCain were up there on the podium conceding the South Carolina primary on Saturday night, and they were smiling and nuzzling as if they had just won a dining room set from Bob Eubanks.

Within another 90 minutes, however, Edmund's day ended in tears as Goffin won a match from two sets down for the first time in his career.

It is the ninth time in his career that Federer has won a match from two sets down and puts him within two victories of a first US Open title since 2008.

Rather than thinking about another time, she'd won from a set down, he said, she would be thinking about when she had lost from a set up, and she would put Capriati in that position in her mind.