She is only the third double winner of the award, after JM Coetzee and Peter Carey.
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Yamauchi in particular is a big loss now that the favourite, double winner Irina Mikitenko, has also withdrawn from the marathon.
Scobie Killough was a double sidecar winner at the windswept County Down circuit on Saturday.
The double Oscar winner, who is making his Broadway debut in the late Nora Ephron's play, received high praise from critics.
Double Brit winner Emeli Sande could be in line for further accolades, having been nominated for two prizes at next month's Ivor Novello awards.
Billy Crystal, who starred opposite the double Oscar winner in Analyze This and Analyze That, was also on hand to support his long-time friend.
Ian Lowry was a double Supersport 600cc winner and William Dunlop and Ryan Farquhar both took a 250cc victory.
The double Grand Slam winner has been hit by groin and ankle injuries.
Singer, actress and double Oscar-winner Barbra Streisand is to perform at the Academy Awards for the first time in 36 years, organisers have announced.
The Welsh double Grand Slam winner is set to make his debut for Heineken Cup quarter-finalists Toulon on Saturday following his move from English club Saracens.
Jones, however, is a double Grand Slam winner and led Wales to the 2008 clean-sweep before captaining the Ospreys to the Magners League title in 2010.
Jones is the Scarlets' leading points-scorer but Wales' double Grand Slam winner has been linked with a move to Leicester Tigers, although both clubs have denied the reports.
Saracens, last season's losing Premiership finalists, want the double Grand Slam winner to fill in for injured fly-half Derick Hougaard, who is set to miss the rest of the season with an Achilles tendon injury.
Cano earned MVP honors, Erick Aybar added an RBI double to back winner Samuel Deduno, and the demonstrative Dominican righty threw his arms into the air in delight after watching a run-saving defensive gem by center fielder Alejandro De Aza in a tough fifth.
But Gatland, who was at the Liberty Stadium to witness Williams return, said before the Toulon game he would have no qualms about picking the 75-times capped double Grand Slam winner even if Williams has competition from match-fit rivals like Morgan Stoddart of the Scarlets and Dragons wing Aled Brew.
Gatland admits he has had no direct contact this year with the 28-year-old double Grand Slam-winner.
At centre, the Blues are blessed with talent in the shape of double Wales Grand Slam winner Tom Shanklin and former Wales captain Gareth Thomas, as well as young talent Dafydd Hewitt.
The Cardiff Blues veteran and double-Grand Slam winner lost his first five games as Wales skipper in 2003 and 2004 but broke his captaincy hoodoo when he led Wales to a 26-13 win over Scotland at Murrayfield in 2009.
Jutkiewicz, on-loan from Everton until January, has scored three goals this season, including a double against St Mirren and the winner over Falkirk.
Few men would have the audacity to hit a full-throttle, return-of-serve winner on the line on double match point, as Djokovic did in last year's U.S. Open semifinal against Roger Federer.
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The Russian made 30 unforced errors, three double-faults and hit only won clean winner as she lost in 91 minutes to the unseeded 31-year-old.
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Djokovic opened game five with a double-fault and, after a forehand winner from Davydenko, successive errors from the Serb handed over the break before the defending champion saw two break points go begging in the following game.
Lotus have a rich history in F1, with a list of former drivers which includes British double world champion Jim Clark, Austrian 1970 title winner Jochen Rindt and legendary Brazilian racer Ayrton Senna.
He swiftly sealed the double-break, set up by a backhand return winner up the line, followed by his opponent dumping a meek forehand into the net.
Harrington, the winner in 2007 and 2008, hit a double bogey at the first and never managed to recover on a day where his putting was badly off-colour.
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The starting pistol was fired by TV double act Ant and Dec, and celebrity entrants included local X Factor winner Joe McElderry.
The game looked like it was heading for a draw until Bluebirds captain Craig Bellamy fired in an 85th-minute winner to deny Swansea City the possibility a first ever derby double.
The cut fell at four under par and excluded, among others, Nick Dougherty and last week's winner Niclas Fasth, who missed out by one after a double bogey seven on the 17th.
The Briton won the first two points of the match on the Tsonga serve and that set the tone for what followed, with Murray making the first breakthrough in game three thanks in part to a beautiful forehand winner, and in part to the Frenchman's first double-fault of the day.
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