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1 (context of a pair of things English) not matched; odd 2 (context of a single thing English) not matched with anything else 3 peerless; unrivalled; beyond comparison v
(en-past of: unmatch)
WordNet
adj. of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g. [syn: odd, unmated, unpaired]
eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled]
Wikipedia
Unmatched is a documentary about tennis players Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert, their decades-long on-court rivalry and lifelong friendship, created for ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series. Evert and Navratilova met in 80 matches, 60 finals and 14 grand slam finals with Navratilova sporting a 43-37 advantage.
The film was shot over three days in Amagansett, New York in October 2009. Unmatched was awarded the 2011 Gracie Award for "Outstanding Producer - News/Non-fiction".
Navratilova was sometimes described as the lesbian tennis player from a communist country: "As one of the first openly gay sports figures, she has spent much of her career overcoming prejudices and stereotypes, giving up millions of dollars in endorsements and sponsorships as a result of her insistence on living a life of integrity and honesty." Evert was described as the all-American girl next door. Today Navratilova is often cited as the greatest tennis player of all-time; she has won 167 singles titles, 177 doubles championships titles and 59 Grand Slam titles, she has been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was the WTA’s "Tour Player of the Year" seven times, was declared one of the "Top Forty Athletes of All-time" by Sports Illustrated and was named "Female Athlete of the Year" by the Associated Press. Navratilova has served as AARP’s Health and Fitness Ambassador and is also involved with the LGBT movement, The Rainbow Card ® and Rainbow Endowment. Evert on the other hand reached more Grand Slam singles finals than any player, she has been president of the Women's Tennis Association and in 2005 she was named fourth on the list of the 40 Greatest Players of the Tennis Era by TENNIS Magazine. Evert won 157 singles championships, 29 doubles titles and she won 18 Grand Slam singles championships and three doubles titles.
Hannah Storm said of the rivalry: "Just think about the dynamic of competing against your best friend. They would practice together, eat lunch together, then go out and play in the final and then make travel plans to go to the next tournament."
In describing their rivalry and its effect on their tennis careers, Navratilova said: "I don’t think either of us would have lasted as long without the other." Evert said: "It gave us inspiration and a lot of incentive to work harder and try to continue to improve."
Usage examples of "unmatched".
And singularly enough this very journey led not only to the establishment of those paths between the east and west, the national road, the canals reaching toward the sources of the rivers, and ultimately the transAlleghany railroad, but to the making of that unmatched document, the Constitution of the United States.
Throughout the trilogy, he had used portentous statements hinting of ultimate success or failure, of infinite peril or unmatched significance, to heighten the intensity of the story.
It has the unmatched insight and the unrestrained truth to prevent the continuous social disintegration caused by those who care only to secure the next vote through selling our interests to foreign enemies.
For inside the cave of the dragon, is said to be a metal of unmatched strength.
Although your sword may not be the best, your strength is unmatched by anyone!
When she strikes, her speed and savagery will be unmatched, unmatchable.
Acting upon the hint which had been conveyed from various investigations in the domain of physics, and concentrating upon the problem all those unmatched powers of intellect which distinguished him, the great inventor had succeeded in producing a little implement which one could carry in his hand, but which was more powerful than any battleship that ever floated.
Your books will tell you that in the seventeenth century a traveler, Tavernier, saw in India an unmatched diamond which afterward disappeared like a meteor, and was thought to have been lost from the earth.
He tried his hand on the revision of an old play, and the manager was not slow to recognise an unmatched gift for dramatic writing.
English drama, as well as the practised workman in unmatched perfection.
He was by election a dramatist, and, necessarily, one of unmatched versatility.
It is said that white flowers scent the night with sweet fragrance unmatched during the daylight hours.
Clearly, the stunning paintings were the work of a single artist of unmatched talent.
Would you not say it is unmatched in splendor, unmatched in grandeur, unmatched in importance?
Antonio Filarete was unmatched in the middle of the century in his consciousness of the value of self-portraiture and associated imagery for publicising his intellectual and social position.