Monday, September 20, 2010

Sports

Sports Current Affairs 2010

  • May Com Wins Gold Medal in World Boxing Championship
  • India's Boxer Sushil Kumar wins Gold at the World wrestling Championships.
  • India and South Korea are combined winner AjlanShah Hockey Cup 2010
  • Nadal became 1st man since 1969 to win French Open, Wimbledon & US Open in same year. At just  24, Nadal becomes third youngest to win all Grand Slams 
  • Men’s singles – Rafael Nadal defeated Robin Soderling. He is the second person after Bjorn Borg to win 5th French Open titles.
  • Women’s singles- Francesca Schiavone (Italy) defeated Samantha Stosur (Australia). She became first Italian women to won the French open.
  • Men’s Doubles- Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjic defeated Lukas Dlouhy & Leander Paes.
  • Women’s Doubles- Serena Williams & Venus Williams defeated Kveta Peschke & Katarina Srebotnik.
  • Mixed Doubles – Katarina Srebotnik & Nenad Zimonjic defeated Yavoslava Shvedova & Julian Knowle.
  • Saina Nehwal defeated Choo Wong Mew to win women’s single title in Yonex-Sunrise Indian Open badminton championship. In the Men’s singles Yunus Alamsyah won the title.
  • Saina Nehwal defeated Japan’s Sayaka Sato to win women’s singles title in Indonesian Open Super Series 2010.
  • Indian Ronjan Sodhi won the double trap gold medal at ISSF World Cup in Lonato, Italy.
  • India defeated Sri Lanka to won Asia Cup(Cricket) 2010. India won the title after 15 years i.e. it won the cup in 1995.
  • Saina Nehwal won the Women’s singles title in Singapore Super Series badminton championship 2010 defeating China’s Tzu Ying Tai. It was her 2nd consecutive title.
  • 3000th ODI( One day international) cricket match was played between England & Australia.=