She lost the title match last year at Hiroshima, Japan.
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She brought a lot of momentum into Sunday's title match.
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In Sunday's title match, Nadal will compete against Russia's Daniil Medvedev.
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Neither player had reached a Masters title match until this week.
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He lost to Novak Djokovic in the 2018 U.S. Open title match.
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Murray notched a straight-set win in the title match in Rome.
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Humbert, 21, will be playing in his first ATP Tour title match.
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Check out the amazing title match between Bob Lanier and Jo Jo White.
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The defending champion Takahashi Meijin is furiously training for the arcade heavyweight title match.
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The title match and the third-place game are set for Wednesday in Frisco.
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Houston will play host to the 105th U.S. Open Cup title match on Sept. 843.
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That angered the crowd, which heavily booed Serena during the title match, which she won.
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Muguruza said her huge advantage in experience might not count for much during Saturday's title match.
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Jamaica was a surprising opponent, but it reached the title match for a second straight time.
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Some 45 minutes later, he broke up the Hogan-Piper title match by doing the same thing.
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The third seeds face American Nicole Melichar and Czech Kveta Peschke, seeded 12th, in the title match.
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Vekic will face either top-seeded Caroline Garcia of France or Jennifer Brady in the title match.
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It will be a non-title match, and Brock versus Hunt will continue to be the headliner.
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The players met in Baguio City, the Philippines, in a title match that had elements of farce.
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On Sunday, Croatia will face France in the title match, while England and Belgium battle for third.
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Halep reached the Melbourne title match in 2018 but lost a three-set thriller to Caroline Wozniacki.
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Tig, who is aiming for her first career title, will face Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina in the title match.
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As we reported ... Amanda pulled out of UFC 213 last minute Saturday, only hours before her title match.
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Two years ago at home, the French surprisingly lost to Portugal 1-0 in the Euro 2016 title match.
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Del Potro beat Raonic in last week's semi-finals in California before edging out Federer in the title match.
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The duo was there for UFC 205 to watch the lightweight title match between Conor McGregor and Eddie Alvarez.
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A washout on Wednesday means no rest day, with semis on Friday and a potential title match on Saturday.
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It was Becky Lynch's "heel turn" after the three way Smackdown women's title match, between Lynch, Charlotte, and Carmella.
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Russia's Potapova, also 23, was playing in her first final, making it to the title match as a wild card.
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Kerber will face No. 7-seeded Sloane Stephens on Saturday in Charleston, S.C., for a spot in the title match.
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By the same metric of centipawn loss, the gap between the competitors' performances was the smallest ever in a title match.
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Ruffels was the third Australian finalist, after Lindy Goggin (1981) and Anne-Marie Knight (1995), who both lost the title match.
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The game was a hotly anticipated district title match between two Oklahoma high schools: Crooked Oak High and Newkirk High School.
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Beggs' title match was similar to that of last year's as he beat Sanchez then too, and endured boos from the crowd.
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Their interactions have resulted in a Las Vegas brawl, death threats on a hot mic, internet insults, and one brutal title match.
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The victory was a bit of revenge for the Courage, which lost by 22016-0 to the Thorns in last year's title match.
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Amanda Nunes has mysteriously pulled out of her title match with Valentina Shevchenko ... and we say mysterious because that's the way UFC views it.
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The US title match between Switchblade Jay White and Hangman Adam Page was a story of two wrestlers potentially heading in very different directions.
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Importantly, Omega only beat Okada when the title wasn't on the line, a day after last year's Dominion and a loss in a title match.
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What has raised eyebrows is the profile of his opponent, a quite different proposition from the men Djokovic has faced before in the title match.
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Muguruza, the only woman to beat Venus and Serena Williams in Grand Slam finals, will play her first major title match since her Wimbledon triumph.
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As for the title match with Goldberg, PreWrestlingSheet says Reigns will be replaced by another superstar ... but it's unclear who will get the call right now.
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When there&aposs a big title match coming up and they get the two sides to trash talk each other as to increase interest in the match.
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Isner will face seventh-seeded Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the title match as he attempts to win the event for the fourth time (2011, 2012, 2017).
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He's been in many world-title matches, including the very first ROH world title match, but he never got over the hump to become the main guy.
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He is the oldest man in a French Open title match since Niki Pilic was 33 when he was the runner-up to Ilie Nastase in 1973.
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Tsitsipas, 21, became the youngest champion at the year-end event since 2001, winning a back-and-forth title match that extended to a third-set tiebreaker.
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Pliskova, whose appearance in the 2016 United States Open final was her only previous major title match, has won two of her previous three matches against Osaka.
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After that, he knocked out Eddie Alvarez in a lightweight championship fight, left UFC for two years, and returned to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov, losing a lightweight title match.
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Now the 26-year-old Romanian will bid to go a step further than she has ever gone before by beating American Sloane Stephens in Saturday's title match.
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He retired in 1979, when he was 37, but, seeking to replenish his dwindling personal fortune, returned in 1980 for a title match against Larry Holmes, which he lost.
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The fourth-seeded Cilic will play Feliciano López — a 7-5, 3-6, 6-33 winner over Grigor Dimitrov — in Sunday's title match at the Wimbledon warm-up event.
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The Romanian will face red-hot Elena Rybakina in the title match after the Kazakhstani beat Croatia's Petra Martic 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2) in the other semifinal.
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He'll meet Pablo Carreno Busta in the title match after the Spaniard knocked off No. 8 seed Denis Shapovalov of Canada 6-3, 6-4 in the other semifinal.
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On August 1, 2015, Rousey stopped Correia's somewhat entertaining trash-talking act dead with a knockout punch at just 34 seconds into their first round of their title match.
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He's been one of Kobach's and Brownback's fiercest critics in the Legislature and I'm picturing a state fair debate between him and Kobach going down like a vintage WWF title match.
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Toss in Chris Jericho's Intercontinental title match and a significant portion of the show is guys who are very likely to not be there a scant few days after it's done.
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What had all the makings of a crowning morphed into a real contest thanks to Nadal's opponent, Daniil Medvedev, a man a decade younger and appearing in his first major title match.
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Humbert, 21, was playing in his first ATP Tour title match and had beaten No. 2 seed Denis Shapovalov of Canada and No. 4 John Isner before facing the fifth-seeded Paire.
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Roger Federer, nursing a back injury, pulled out of playing in the title match of the 2014 Tour Finals just a week before helping Switzerland to win the team competition in 2014.
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Sakkari, who won her first career title at the Morocco Open in May, seeks her second straight final appearance in San Jose, having lost to Romania's Mihaela Buzarnescu in 2018's title match.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Considering where Novak Djokovic began his year he was able to quickly put his defeat by fast-rising German Alexander Zverev in the ATP Finals title match into perspective on Sunday.
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It was the life's work of Bela Szilagyi, a classical pianist and passionate fight enthusiast, who started the collection in 1979 when he taped a featherweight title match on a Quasar videocassette recorder.
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Daniil Medvedev finished off David Goffin in style on Sunday with three straight aces to record a 26-24 (27), 33-23 win in the title match of the Western & Southern Open near Cincinnati.
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The 26-year-old has pedigree on clay, knows what it feels like to step out on Court Philippe Chatrier to contest the title match and holds a 5-2 winning record over Stephens.
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Alexa Bliss and Mickie James wrestled an extremely good title match which showcased both Bliss's burgeoning ability to capture a crowd as a cowardly but competent heel and James's late career in-ring gravitas.
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Svitolina, who will face Simona Halep, a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 winner over Maria Sharapova, in the title match, said that she had grown into the confidence required of a defending champion.
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The twice Grand Slam champion will meet former finalist Simona Halep on Thursday for a place in the title match after another confidence-building performance at Melbourne Park on a sunbathed Rod Laver Arena.
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Saying it was a "title match" is also a bit of hyperbole; the two contested for the International Boxing Council championship, which is only recognized as a legitimate title for the purposes of a movie.
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In his docs, Chiesa claims the UFC had reached out to him about filling in for Holloway in the title match at UFC 223, but Chiesa says his injuries prevented him from taking the fight.
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With five of the top 10 in the current rankings aged 28 or older, form suggests another pair of seasoned campaigners could contest the title match at the French Open, which starts in Paris on Sunday.
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Three years after failing to convert a match point in the Queen's Club title match against the Bulgarian, the 216-year-old left-hander avenged that loss with a 7-5 3-6 6-2 victory.
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Even the steady chants of "Waw-rin-ka, Waw-rin-ka" from the noisy crowd could not distract Murray or deny him a win that means he had now reached the title match at all four majors.
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They more than met their match in the Swiss, however, with men's slalom silver medalist Zenhaeusern leading the fightback after they had gone 1-0 down in the title match when Denise Feierabend lost to Katharina Liensberger.
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He fought three more times through 1968 and was disqualified in the eighth round of his final European title match for head-butting the British fighter Henry Cooper at Empire Pool (now the SSE Arena) in London.
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In five matches—the Spaniard won the tournament, defeating Greek prospect Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final on August 12th—Mr Nadal averaged 47.2 seconds per point, including 50.9 seconds per point in the title match against Mr Tsitsipas.
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All eight games at Evo would be playing out their championship rounds on the main stage of the Mandalay Bay Event Center, and with each new title match, more people flooded in to pack the arena's 12,000 seats.
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The main event, a six man title match with AJ Styles, John Cena, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Dolph Ziggler, and Baron Corbin, ended up being a riotous clusterfuck which set up at least three storylines going into WrestleMania.
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While reaching the title match at Roland Garros is a major milestone for a player who had never won a claycourt title before 2015, he is eager to ensure Sunday does not turn out to be a missed opportunity.
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It sure looked that way Friday afternoon in New York City when defending world champion Magnus Carlsen opened his title match against Sergey Karjakin with a series of moves that may have been a nod to President-elect Trump.
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Maybe he gets revenge against Jericho for the savage beatdown he got in their title match, but he needs something really juicy to keep Wrestle Kingdom 12 from looking like his best chance at an extended heavyweight title run.
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It read 45-34 in Alabama's favor, sending the Tide rolling to the national championship game for the fourth consecutive season, this time against Clemson in a rematch of the 2017 title match that Alabama lost to the Tigers.
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Auger-Aliassime lost his second final in eight days having been beaten in the title match at the Rotterdam Open and the 19-year-old is yet to win a set in five ATP finals in his short career.
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Osaka won her first career Grand Slam at Flushing Meadows but the title match will be remembered for Williams' feud with Carlos Ramos, who warned her for a coaching violation before deducting a point and then a game for her behaviour.
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He injured his knee and lost out on a light heavyweight title match with Jon Jones, which set in motion the events that would send UFC 151 up in smoke, and he's has gone 3-6 since that 2012 tipping point.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Sloane Stephens was disappointed but proud with her performance in Singapore after the American started well before fading to a 3-6 6-2 6-2 defeat by Ukraine's Elina Svitolina in the WTA Finals title match on Sunday.
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The unseeded Spaniard arrived at Melbourne Park with low expectations but will now face American 14th seed Sofia Kenin in Saturday's title match for a chance to clinch her third major title after a period in the Grand Slam wilderness.
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Carmouche lost the first-ever UFC bantamweight title match in 2012 to Ronda Rousey, who went on to become one of the biggest names in the sport, but Nunes ended Rousey's career with a brutal 48-second knockout in December 2016.
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Although the Conor-RDA match was a "super fight" at a higher weightclass than Conor usually fights in, the company has not ruled out falling back on an interim title match—it just needs to find a featherweight contender who is willing.
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Sunday's title match started with Kevin Owens pacing around the ring for several minutes; this was framed as Owens playing mind games with Goldberg, but he was clearly killing time to make up for his opponent's inability to actually wrestle a match.
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Early in his career, he struggled on the dirt, but it is another example of his doggedness that he eventually defeated Mr Nadal twice on the surface (one of only seven players to do so) and reached the 2016 Roland Garros title match.
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Unseeded as a result of a largely dismal 2019 season, Muguruza will meet the 14th seed, American Sofia Kenin, in Saturday's title match, two and a half years on from the second of the Spaniard's Grand Slam trophies at Wimbledon in 2017.
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This started one of the most nuanced and incredible four-year character arcs ever, with Naito losing the title match against Okada, becoming engulfed by bitterness at his lost opportunity, heading to Mexico and then eventually returning as the leader of Los Ingobernables de Japon.
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Day, who is set to claim the world No. 1 ranking from Jordan Spieth, closed out Oosthuizen on the 14th hole to win, 5 and 4, the biggest rout in a title match since Tiger Woods beat Stewart Cink, 8 and 7, in 2008.
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She lost to Kerber in last year's Wimbledon final and Osaka in a stormy U.S. Open title match and while logic suggests time might be running out for the 37-year-old American, only the foolhardy would dismiss her chances of claiming an eighth Wimbledon title.
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He called people "slapnuts" a lot, smashed a ton of guitars, and found his biggest WCW highlight in the bizarre laying down for Hulk Hogan in a title match, which represented the nadir of late-era WCW, even more than the notorious Finger Poke of Doom.
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The best pinball players in New York State had been competing all afternoon on Saturday, and now it was down to the last few silver balls, in a title match between the Storm and Zen, two dominant players whose styles could not have been more different.
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Ilya Merenzon, the chief executive of Agon, which holds the worldwide licensing and marketing rights to a series of tournaments held every two years to decide who is the world's best player, said the prize fund for this year's title match in New York would be 2 million euros ($2.2 million).
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The world number one, who had a reputation for collapsing when it mattered after losing three Grand Slam finals including two in Paris, finally put her hands on a major title after showing great determination to tame American Sloane Stephens 3-6 6-4 6-1 in the title match at Roland Garros.
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It was a hectic stretch between Wednesday evening, when Jon Jones was pulled from the main event at UFC 200 after testing positive for undisclosed banned substances during an out-of-competition drug test, and late last night when former middleweight champion Anderson Silva was slotted as Cormier's surprise, short-notice opponent in a non-title match.
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I remain a skeptic, but this is the test: if the knock on him is that he only shows up for big matches (and fair play to him, he's earned that right and getting money from the McMahons while going half-speed is okay in my book), it's never getting bigger than a Wrestlemania title match against AJ Styles.
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We had a spectacular—and gross, given Cesaro's knocked out teeth—tag match, a surprisingly good five-way for the Women's title, an Intercontinental title match which saw the Miz keep his best heel on the show streak going while showcasing what an absurdly athletic man Jason Jordan is, and maybe the best Bray Wyatt match in two calendar years.
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