In winning, Immelman emulated compatriots Gary Player, the last man to defend the title, and Ernie Els, who was the last man to defend a title on the European Tour.
Only problem is that the desktop is Microsoft's home turf and if history is any guide it will defend it to the last Microserf.
Watson's defeat came to a player who is 11 years her senior, but she is now likely to go into the junior competition aiming to defend the title she won last year.
Bloomberg invoked the toll of gun violence to defend the practice in his last State of the City address.
The Maori, unable to defend their title last year when they were busy beating the British and Irish Lions in Hamilton, ran in seven tries.
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The 17-time grand slam champion relinquished the year-end top spot to Novak Djokovic when he decided not to defend his Paris title last week, having pushed his record tally to 302 weeks at the top.
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England's Mike Tredgett and Nora Perry, who were the last pair to successfully defend their mixed doubles title 25 years ago, will be among the sell-out crowd for Sunday's final.
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The European Central Bank is meeting on Thursday and market watchers said ECB President Mario Draghi has set high expectations after his comments last week to defend the euro.
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BP's Russian partners, who had sparred with the British company over management at the venture in recent years, last week came out publicly to defend BP's environmental performance amid the Gulf crisis.
There the U.S. won its fourth straight Davis Cup tie away on clay over France, while the team's formidable doubles pairing of the Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, returned to the club last week to defend their doubles title.
The Tigers start favourites to defend the trophy they won when pipping London Irish by a single point in last season's final.
His attempt to defend his 17-month tenure before the assembly last Thursday fell on deaf ears.
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And when Shia authorities in Iraq issued a fatwa last year urging Muslims to defend the country against aggressors, scholars in exile were quick to dismiss the ruling as having been forced under duress.
Feelings were running so high that a British professor, John Davis, who teaches at the University of Connecticut, changed the substance of his address at the last moment in order to defend Nelson, who, he pointed out, was more concerned with military strategy in the Mediterranean than with the philosophy of revolution.
Contador won the 2007 Tour de France but was unable to defend his title after switching to Astana who were prevented from racing last year because of doping misdemeanors by former members of the team.
That is why Gustavo Franco, the Central Bank governor who is the chief intellectual architect of the strong real, acted so decisively to defend it last week.
Isinbayeva, who failed to defend her world title in Berlin last month, won the pole vault with a first-time clearance of 4.70m to maintain her perfect Golden League record.
It was interesting last week to hear New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg defend the Indian Point plant just up the river from Manhattan.
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The former editor of the weekly Independent, Vincent Kahiya, also had to defend himself in court last month.
Ferdinand trained with the United squad on Monday morning and manager Alex Ferguson later told CNN that his central defender could line up as they try to defend a slender 1-0 lead from the first leg at Old Trafford last Wednesday.
So the Americans pulled back, to buildings that were easier to defend, to make one last stand.
But the Ospreys - bidding to be the first team to successfully defend the Magners League crown - are certainly hitting form as they have won six of their last seven games going into an important four weeks that could shape their season.
He's determined to try and defend his title in the manner in which he won it, which was obviously so convincing last year.
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