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Cricket

Master blaster the leading cricketer of Wisden 2010

The master blaster became the 7th recipient of the

Wisden award joining the league of other recipi-

ent like Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Muttiah

Muralitharan, Jacques Kallis, and Andrew WFlintoff etc. Wisden regarded as the Bible of cricket

named Indias Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar as

its seventh recipient. Sachin if the 2nd Indian crick-

eter after Virender Sehwag whos also among the

wisden awardees league. In February itself sachin

became the 1st world cricketer to score a double

100 in one dayers and before this he became the

1st cricketer to score 50 test tons. The 148th wisden

edition was launched on Wednesday and this is

the 1st time that master blaster has won this award

since it began in the year 2004. Also sachin was

even positioned at number 4 rank in the Wisdens

2009 Test XI.

IPL-4 (2011) : Chennai Super Kings beat Royal

Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs to become DLF

Indian Premiere League champions for the second

time in a row at the MA Chidambaram stadium in

Chennai. Bangalore could make only 147 runs in

reply of Chennai's huge total of 205 runs. Earlier a

record 159-runpartnership between openers MuraliVijay (95, 52b, 6 x 6, 4 x 4) and Michael Hussey

(63, 54b, 3 x 6, 3 x 4) powered the Chennai Super

Kings to 205 for five in 20 overs against the Royal

Challengers Bangalore

Badminton

Indonesian Open super series: Defending cham-

pion Saina Nehwal failed to complete the hat-trick

of titles at the Indonesian Open Super Series after

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losing to Chinese World No. 3 Wang Yihan in the

final on 26 June 2011.Fourth seed Saina, who won

the title in 2009 and 2010, faltered and suffered a

21-12, 21-23, 14-21 loss to her equally error-prone

rival. The contest lasted a little over an hour as a

result of Wang's numerous errors of judgments and

misplaced shots.2011 thus continues to be unim-pressive year for Saina who had won three titles

Indian Open Grand Prix Gold, Singapore Su-

per Series and Indonesian Super Series in June

2010, before winning the Commonwealth Games

gold medal and the Hong Kong Super Series. Till

date in the current year 2011, Saina has just one

title, Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold to her

name.World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei thrashed Dan-

ish veteran Peter Gade to win the Indonesian Open

for a third time in the mens category. The 28-year-

old Malaysian defeated the fifth-seeded Gade 21-11, 21-7.

Asia Under-19 Championship

China retained the title by defeating Malaysia 3-1

in the mixed team event final of the Badminton

Asia youth under-19 championship at the U.P.

Badminton Academy courts, Gomti Nagar on 5

July 2011. Malaysian shuttlers who gave their best

to stop the Chinese had to be satisfied with thesilver medal. The extraordinary exhibition of

power, skill and temperament provided immense

entertainment for the crowd. China, which made

one change in its team by fielding Huang Yuxiang

in place of the battle-scarred Kai Guo in boys'

singles surged ahead by winning the first two

matches.However, the Malaysian pair of Nelson

Wei Keat Heg and Ee Yi Teo rallied to beat Chen

Zhuofu and Pei Tiyani 13-21, 21-12, 30-29 in a

thrilling boys' doubles clash lasting 62

minutes.Sonia Cheah of India gave a spirited per-

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formance in the girls' singles but could not go past

her Chinese competitor Sun Yu and lost 21-18, 17-

21, 14-21. Tak Ching Chang (Hkg) defeated

Sadredin Sadeghi 21-6, 21-12 in the mens single

event.

Tennis

Wimbledon 2011

Men: Serbia's Novak Djokovic won his first

Wimbledon title and proved himself the best player

in the world with a stunning win over Rafael

Nadal.Djokovic came through 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3 to

end Nadal's reign as Wimbledon champion, beforeovertaking the Spaniard as world number one on

Monday.It was his 50th win in 51 matches and his

fifth win over Nadal this year.He becomes the first

Serbian man to win Wimbledon, his third Grand

Slam title after two Australian Open victories.

Women: Petra Kvitova won her first Grand Slam

title June 02 by beating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4

in the Wimbledon final.Kvitova was playing in her

first major final, but it was three-time Grand Slam

champion Sharapova that showed her nerves. The21-year-old Kvitova is the first left-handed woman

to win the Wimbledon title since Martina

Navratilova in 1990.

Double: American twins Bob and Mike Bryan won

a record-tying 11th Grand Slam mens doubles title

together on July 02, beating Robert Lindstedt of

Sweden and Horia Tecau of Romania 6-3, 6-4, 7-6

(2) in the Wimbledon final.The Bryan brothers won

at Wimbledon for the second time and matched

Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridges Open

era record of 11 major titles.

French Open

Men: Rafael Nadal of Spain won a record-equal-

ling sixth French Open title when he beat Roger

Federer of Switzerland 7-5, 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-1 at the

Rolland Garros on Sunday. With this win he

equalled Bjorn Borg's record of six wins at the

French Open.Reigning champion Nadal was

outplayed for seven games in the first set as he fell

5-2 behind but reeled off five games in a row, in-

cluding saving a set point.Federer, who won the

last of his 16 Grand Slam titles at the 2010 Austra-

lian Open, started with a confident service game

on a humid day on court Philippe Chatrier.

Women: Chinas long wait for a Grand Slam

champion ended June 04, when Li Na beat

Francesca Schiavone 64, 76 (0) in the French

Open final.The Australian Open runnerup fell

flat on her back in the red clay after Schiavone hit

a backhand long on match point.

ATP Rankings: The ATP rankings released on 4

July 2011 conferred the World No.1 position

Novak Djokovic of Serbia who defeated Nadal in

the Wimbledon final. His rise to the World No. 1

position was confirmed after he defeated Jo-

Wilfred Tsonga in the Wimbledon semi-final. His

rise to the No 1 position ended Nadal's 56-week

reign at the World No 1 position since he took over

from Roger Federer on 7 June 2010.No one other

than Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer had been

ranked number one since Andy Roddick in the

week of 26 January 2004.

Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki remained on top

of the women's singles rankings, in spite of her

failure once again to land a Grand Slam title.The

semifinal appearance in the women's doubles event

at Wimbledon catapulted Sania Mirza and Vesnina

to number two slot in womens doubles category

in the WTA Race to the year-end Championships

with 4506 points.

ATP Tour Top 5 List is as follows: Novak

Djokovic (13285), Rafael Nadal (11270), RogerFederer (9230), Andy Murray (6855), Robin

Soderling (4325)

WTA Tour Top 5 List is as follows: Caroline

Wozniacki (9915 pts), Kim Clijsters (7625), Vera

Zvonareva 6695), Victoria Azarenka (6465), Maria

Sharapova (6141)

Eastbourne International: Italian Andreas Seppi

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2011 when Serbian opponent Janko Tipsarevic

retired hurt in a rain-interrupted Eastbourne Inter-

national final.Seppi won 7-6 3-6 5-3 after two

hours 35 minutes when the third seed retired after

injuring his leg following a tumble on the greasysurface. Officials halted play for around 20 min-

utes with Seppi leading 4-0 in the final set before

the match resumed in an almost deserted

stadium.Tipsarevic fought back to 4-3 before play

was halted for another 10 minutes when he was

strapped up after being wrong-footed by a return

at the baseline, splaying his legs as he fell to the

ground.

Chess

AAI International Grandmasters Chess Tour-

nament: Italian top seed Fabiano Caruana defeated

Filipino Wesley to emerge winner of the AAI In-

ternational Grandmasters chess tournament on 2

July 2011. With his seven points bagged from the

tournament, Caruana was richer by $8,000. The

30-move draw against Wesley raised Caruana's

tally to seven points. Caruana performed at a rat-

ing of 2800, way above his starting rating of 2714.

For the first time in 10 rounds, all three games

ended as draws that, in turn, maintained the over-

night positions of the six competing

Grandmasters.Sasikiran, following his 49-move

draw against Hou Yifan, finished runner-up and

was richer by $6000. Laznicka whose perfor-

mance-level touched 2694 against his own rating

of 2681 was placed third. Parimarjan Negi, who

played to his fifth seeding after drawing with

Laznicka in 42 moves of Carokann was placed fifth

while Wesley stood fourth.

Asian Junior Title in Chess: Shyam Sundar of

Chennai retained his Asian junior title, in the Asian

Chess championship which concluded in Sri Lanka

on 8 June 2011. He scored 7.5 points out of 9

rounds in the championship.IM Srinath won the

silver medal. In the girls section R Bharathi and J

Saranya won the silver and bronze medals by scor-

ing 7 points each.

Hockey

Michael Nobbs appointed chief hockey coach

Mohd. Riaz, Clarence Lobo and Jugraj Singh toassist himHe loves Indian hockey, its flair and flu-

ency. It is quite close to what he had practised and

later preached in Australian hockey. The result was

Michael Nobbs landing up the job of India's chief

hockey coach here on June 29. His credentials were

found superior to the other two candidates, both

Dutch, Roelant Oltmans and Jacques

Brinkman.The 57-year-old Australian's name was

finalised after a series of interactions with officials

from Hockey India (HI) and the Sports Authority

of India (SAI). A formal approval from the UnionSports Ministry is awaited.

Senior National

Hockey Championship

Haryana annexed Senior National Hockey Cham-

pionship title by defeating Karnataka, at the

Aishbagh Stadium in Bhopal on 19 June 2011.

Haryana defeated Karnataka by 2-1 in the final

match of the Senior National Hockey Champion-ship. Olympian Sandeep Singh and Mandeep Antil

scored on either side of the break that finally led

to the victory.Karnataka defender S.K. Uthappa

defeated Sandeep to emerge as tournament's top

scorer with 12 goals. Sandeep finished with 11.

F1 European Grand Prix

Red Bull's Formula One World champion

Sebastian Vettel of Germany on 26 June 2011 won

the European Grand Prix into a stroll in the Span-ish sunshine on Sunday as he racked up his sixth

victory in eight races this season. He finished 10.8

seconds ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.After

the win Vettel is 77 points clear of McLaren's

Jenson Button and his own Australian teammate

Mark Webber, who finished a solitary third and

27.2 seconds down the road in the

championship.The German's 16th career triumph

put him level with British great Stirling Moss in

the all-time winners' list. Vettel can be sure of lead-ing the championship to the end of August even



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without scoring another point.Fernando Alonso

(Ferrari), Mark Webber (Red Bull Renault),

Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Felipe Massa (Ferrari)

followed him from the second to the fifth position

respectively.

111th U.S. Open

Golf Cham pionship

Northern Ireland prodigy Rory McIlroy captured

his first Major golf title with his victory in the 111th

U.S. Open on 19 June 2011.The 22-year-old fired

a two-under par 69 to finish 72 holes at Congres-

sional Country Club on 16-under par 268, the low-

est winning total in US Open history. He becamethe youngest US Open winner in 88 years. This

victory made him become the youngest Major win-

ner since Woods at the 1997 Masters and the

youngest US Open winner since Bobby Jones in

1923.Masters runner-up Jason Day of Australia

was a distant second on 276. South Korean Yang

Yong-Eun, England's Lee Westwood and Ameri-

cans Robert Garrigus and Kevin Chappell shared

third on 278.

Nationa l SeniorAthletic Meet

Kerala won the overall trophy in the National Se-

nior Athletic Meet that was held at Bangalores

Sree Kanteerava Stadium. Kerala became the

champion in both categories i.e.men and women

getting past Tamil Nadu and Punjab

respectively.Meet record holder Mayookha Johny

and Sajeesh Joseph were selected best athletes of

the meet. Mayookha scored 1,123 points whileSajeesh scored 1,103 points to claim the title.In

addition to this Kerala athletes swept almost all

the major trophies that were on to be won at the

valedictory ceremony. Kerala improved its medal

tally bagging 27 medals overall; out of which 13

were gold.

Annu Singh the IndianShooter to book

Berth for Lond ons Olympic

Annu Raj Singh became the 5th Indian shooter to

book her berth for the Londons Olympic to be

held next year. She qualified for the Olympic seat

after winning a silver medal at the ongoing ISSF

World Cup in Fort Benning for the 10m Air Pistol.

Singh who never won the world cup earlier quali-

fied for the finals with a maximum of 389 points

win. After this Singh is ranked at number 33 in the

world. She is the next Indian to join the league for

the Olympics after shooters Gagan Narang, Hari

Om Singh, Sanjeev Rajput and Ronjan Sodhi. Herwin was tied up with gold medallist Olena

Kostevych of Ukraine.

Mary Kom Strikes

Gold in Asian Cup

Indias five time world champion M C Mary Kom

won 1st gold medal of the year by winning in the

Asian Cup Womens Boxing tournament in

Haikou, china. She won the medal for the 48Kgcategory. Kom became the winner after defeating

Asian champion Kim Myong Sim of North Ko-

rea. The winning strike was lead by 4-3points in

the finals. This was her 1st tournament since her

bronze medal win at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian

Games after which she made a place for herself in

the weight division category after beating Kate

Appari of Philippines. Though her North Korean

counterpart was a stiff challenge for her but it was

her skill and the agility of the champion that she

made her way through the finals and won the gold.On the other hand another Indian in the line Pavitra

(57kg) faced defeat in the finals against Tossamalee

Thonalan of Thailand. She lost to her counterpart



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