JANUARY:

Novak Djokovic (serbia) claimed his second grand slam title at the Australian open by beating andy murray (britain) in straight sets 6-4, 6-2, 6-3. Gisela Dulko (Argentina) & Flania Pennetta (Italy) have won the Australian open women's double championship Katarina srebotnik (slovenia) & Daniel Nestor (canada) have won the Australian open Mixed double championship./li> Australia claimed the one-day international series against England with a 51-run win in the 5th match at the Gabba stadium, Brisbane./li> USA's Hikaru Nakamura wins Tata Steel Chess Title at Wijkaanzee, near Amsterdam. Viswanathan Anand placed second in this tournament./li> Japan won the Asia cup of food ball for a record forth time by defeating Australia 1-0 in Doha./li> South Africa won by 33 runs against India as part of 5th and final one day international mach at Centurian. Man-of the-Mach "Hashim Amla". South Africa clinched the dramatic five-mach ODI series 3-2. French Open champion Francesca Schiavone edged Svetlana Kuznetsova 4-6,6-1,16-14 in a four-hour and 44 minute marathon that shattered the women's record for the longest match at a grand slam in the open era. Samaresh Jung clinched the standard pistolgold in the 54th National shooting championship at the Dr.Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad. Sachin Tendulkar Newly appointed as a Brand Ambassador of Coco-cola, Company. Pandicherry University announced the Honour Degree for the Indian Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. Belgian Star Player 'Justine Henin' announced that she had been forced to retire from professional tennis once again because of an elbow injury .Henin made a return to the WTA in early 2010, losing the final of the Australian Open in only her 2nd tournament back. Indian business man 'Ahsan Ali Syed' purchased (248 Crore) "Racing Santander ". It was a Spain Foot ball Club. Ahsan Ali Syed is the founder and chairman of western Gulf Advisory. Rajasthan Cricket Team won the "Ranji Trophy" against Baroda in Vadodara It won the Ranji Trophy for the first time in 77 years after getting the better of Baroda on first innings lead. Pakistan has won the series against New Zealand by drawing the second test at Basin Reserve. This is the first time that Pakistan has won the test series during the last four years. Pakistan has won their last test match against West Indies by 2-0 in 2006-07. India beat West Indies by 57 runs in the fifth women's One Day International (ODI) in Rajkot. India won the series against West Indies by 3-2 win. Belgian 'Kim Clijesters' won her first Australian Open crown with a 3-6, 6-3, 63 win over China's 'Li Na' at Melbourne Park. The title is Clijesters' fourth Grand Slam overall, Castrol Awards given for following Cricketers - Indian Captain M.S.Dhoni was declared the "Castrol ODI Cricketer of the year", Virendhra Sehwag "Castrol batsman of the year"

and Harbhajan Singh "Castrol bowler of the year". Mohinder Amarnath was given the "Lifetime Achievement award at the Castrol award function in Mumbai. American twins "Bob and Milke Bryan" won the 'Australian Open' against Indian Stars "Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander paes" with a 6-3,6-4 victory in the final. Thired seed "Novak Djokoveic" won the Australian Open against Britain's "Andy Murray" in Melbourne with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 in the final. Indian made history at the Ratmalana courts in Colombo by clinching the boys title for the first time, beating defending champion Pakistan 2-1 in an exciting final of the "Asia junior squash championship" Japan won the Asian Cup -2011 against Australia at Khalifa Stadium in Doha Japan beat Australia 1-0 in the final. Left-hand opener Gautam Gambhir was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for a record $2.4 million (11.04 crore for each year) on the first day of the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction in Bangalore. The 16th National Scouts and Guides jamboree concluded at Shankarpally in Hyderabad. Andhra Pradesh hosted a jamboree after a gap of 57 years. Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka won the Chennai Open Title with 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 over Belgian Xavier Malisse. Leander paes and Mahesh Bhupathi won the Chennai Open Doubles Title. They won over Robin Haase and David Martine in the Chennai Open final. They won their first title together in over six years, Lionel Messi and Marta were awarded for the 'World's best Foot-Ball players' Rafael Nadal won the World Tennis Championship Exhibition Trophy in Abu Dhabi by defeating Roger Federer. England won the Ashes Test Series 3-1 against Australia at Sydney. England Claims the series in Australia after a gap of 24 Years. England opener Alastair cook awarded 'Man of the Mach' and 'Man of the Series'

FEBRUARY :

Indias SSP Chowrasia won the Avantha Masters Golf Cup at Gurgaon. The triumph was worth 300,000 along with a diamond-studded trophy. This was the 32-year-old Kolkatan's second European Tour title following the 2008 Indian Masters in New Delhi. Gymnast Deepak Carmaker of Tripura made a clean sweep of gold medals at the 34th national games gymnastics competition in womens section. The 17-year-old showed enough grace and fluency on four apparatus vault, uneven bars, beam and floor to give her State Tripura five gold medals, including the overall crown. Guru Sai Dutt(A.P) and Arundhati Pantwane(Maharashtra) won the badminton singles mens and womens gold medals in the 34th national games. Two-time World under-8 chess champion Ivana Furtado of India secured her Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title after winning a silver medal in the under-12 girls' category at the World Youth chess championship in Greece recently. The 11-year-old chess prodigy from Goa had earlier become the Women Candidate Master (WCM).

Caroline wozniacki of Denmark won the Dubai WTA tennis Championship by defeating Russias Svetlanakuznetsova. Sameer Mon of Services won the 100 mts sprint title in the national championship. Karan Rastogi(Maharashtra) and Ratnika Batra(Delhi) won gold medals in mens and womens Tennis events respectively in the 34th national games. The 34th National Games has closed on 26 February at the Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium, Ranchi with a colourful closing ceremony. The competitions were held in 33 disciplines. Services emerged as the best sporting unit with a whopping haul of 70 gold, 50 silver and 42 bronze medals for a total of 162, a tally that surpassed its previous best of 59-46-37 achieved at the last Games in 2007. The second place was got by the Manipur with 48-37-33, with the total of 118 medals. Richa Mishra of Delhi and Virdhawal Khade of Maharashtra,(both are swimmers) were adjudged as the Best female and male athletes of the Games, were awarded IOA Trophies. Richa Mishra has won total 16 medals including 11 gold medals. Services were given the Raja Phaedra Trophy which was received by Air Marshal J.N. Verma on behalf of the Services Sports Control Board. Manipur was adjudged as the best State and was given a trophy as well. Kerala will be the host of the 35th edition in seven cities spread across the State in December next year. Novac Djokovic of Serbia won the Dubai tennis championship by defeating Roger Federer. Spain's Alvaro Quiros won the Dubai Desert Classic Golf tournament on 13 february.Tiger Woods ended his challenge with a disappointing end in this tournament. Kenyan Mugu Antony Ngudu triumphed at the SDAT Chennai Marathon 2011, comfortably outpacing Indian rival Ramsingh, as he logged just over two hours and 15 minutes in covering the 42.2 km course, on 13 February. Union sports minister Ajay Maken on 13 february visited the Usha school of Athletics at Kinalur, near Kozhikode, and offered a Central assistance of Rs 5 crore to set up a synthetic track at the school. Virdhawal Khade of Maharashtra and Goa's Talasha Prabhu emerged the fastest swimmers of the 34th National Games held at Ranchi. A.V. Jayaveena, a 12-year-old sensation swimmer from Tamil Nadu, was the cynosure of all eyes at the 34th National Games at Ranchi. Jayaveena, who had clinched two bronze medals earlier, emerged with her first silver in her pet event 50m breaststroke. The 10th ICC Cricket World Cup was ushered in with joy and anticipation at the Bangabandhu Stadium, Dhaka on 17 February. Tamil Nadu bagged its second National Games gold, defeating Kerala 19-25, 25-22, 2519, 25-19 in the men's volleyball final at the Haribansh Tana Bhagat Indoor Stadium at Dhaka. Tamil nadu won the K.S. Subbaiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament by defeating Hyderabad in Perinthalmanna,Kerala. Virdhawal Khade of Maharashtra and <="" b="">of Delhi are termed to be the best swimmers in the 34th National Games held in jharkand.Khade won two golds with record time on the final day to take home eight gold medals all with record time and a silver. Richa won 11 golds, four silvers and a bronze for a total of a whooping 16 medals. Such a wonderful performance earned them the tag of best swimmers. Tamil Nadu's

teenage sensation A.V. Jayaveena won her third bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke while her elder brother Jayawant Vijaya Kumar earned a bronze in a tough field of 100m freestyle. Shooter Sanjeev Rajput was on the high picking up his sixth gold medal, third individual, in the men's 50m rifle three position. Defending champion Orissa retained the football gold edging past Manipur 2-1 in the women's football final at Jamshedpur. Spain's Alvaro Quiros won the Dubai Desert Classic Golf tournament on 13 february.Tiger Woods ended his challenge with a disappointing end in this tournament. Kenyan Mugu Antony Ngudu triumphed at the SDAT Chennai Marathon 2011, comfortably outpacing Indian rival Ramsingh, as he logged just over two hours and 15 minutes in covering the 42.2 km course, on 13 February. Union sports minister Ajay Maken on 13 february visited the Usha school of Athletics at Kinalur, near Kozhikode, and offered a Central assistance of Rs 5 crore to set up a synthetic track at the school. Virdhawal Khade of Maharashtra and Goa's Talasha Prabhu emerged the fastest swimmers of the 34th National Games held at Ranchi. A.V. Jayaveena, a 12-year-old sensation swimmer from Tamil Nadu, was the cynosure of all eyes at the 34th National Games at Ranchi. Jayaveena, who had clinched two bronze medals earlier, emerged with her first silver in her pet event 50m breaststroke. The 10th ICC Cricket World Cup was ushered in with joy and anticipation at the Bangabandhu Stadium, Dhaka on 17 February. Tamil Nadu bagged its second National Games gold, defeating Kerala 19-25, 25-22, 2519, 25-19 in the men's volleyball final at the Haribansh Tana Bhagat Indoor Stadium at Dhaka. Tamil nadu won the K.S. Subbaiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament by defeating Hyderabad in Perinthalmanna,Kerala. Virdhawal Khade of Maharashtra and Richa Mishra of Delhi are termed to be the best swimmers in the 34th National Games held in jharkand.Khade won two golds with record time on the final day to take home eight gold medals all with record time and a silver. Richa won 11 golds, four silvers and a bronze for a total of a whooping 16 medals. Such a wonderful performance earned them the tag of best swimmers. Tamil Nadu's teenage sensation A.V. Jayaveena won her third bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke while her elder brother Jayawant Vijaya Kumar earned a bronze in a tough field of 100m freestyle. Shooter Sanjeev Rajput on the high picking up sixth gold medal, d individual, in the men's rifle three position. Defending champion Orissa retained the ball gold g past Manipur 2-1 in women's football final amshedpur. India bagged the overall championship in the fifth Common Wealth Taekwondo Championship, which concluded in Chennai. Tennis legend Andre Agassi inducted into international Hall of fame. Bubba watson won the $ 5.8 million farmers insurance golf open, claimed his second career US PGA title.

Top Indian squash player, Dipika Pallikal, reached her career-best ranking in WISPA by rising to the 24th sport. An Anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC has banned former Pakistan captain salman butt, Md. Asif and Md. Amir for 10, 7 and 5 years respectively for their role in a spot-fixing betting scan during a test match against England at Lord's last year. South zone lifted the Duleep trophy after a gap of 15 years beating north zone by 7 wickets at visakhapatnam. Gaganjeet Bhullar won the PGTI players Golf Championship conducted in Kolkata. Japan's Takashi Uchiyama won the WBA super featherweight world title match against Takashi Miura in Tokyo. Former Indian allrounder Robin Singh will coach the United States cricket team in the qualifying rounds (America) for the under-19 World cup. Pakistan won the One-Day series against New zealand 3-2, second match dismissed due to the rain. Pakistan won their first one-day series since November 2008. Gordon Greednidge' received the 1979 CEAT player of the award from Sunil Gavaskar in Mumbai on 3/2/2011. Former England international and Manchester United full-back 'Gary Neville' retired from football on 2/2/2011 The tainted Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir together with their agent, Mazhar Majeed have been charged with corruption offences, Egland's prosecution service said on (4/2/2011).They were in the spot-fixing scandal that emerged last year.

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Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina clinched the BNP Paribas Open women's doubles trophy after upstaging Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy in Indian wells. This was Sania's 10th WTA doubles title, Vesnina picked up her fourth. Novak Djokovic won the ATP Indian Wells title on 20 March, rallying to beat World No. 1 Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. India's Saina Nehwal won her first title of the year with a commanding 21-13, 21-14 victory over South Korean Sung Ji Hyun in the Wilson Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold badminton in Basel on 20 March. It is Saina's ninth career title on the international circuit. She has won four Super Series titles, of which three came last year, three Grand Prix Gold titles and two Grand Prix tournaments. Levon Aronian of Armenia won the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament held in Monaco. World Champion Viswanathan Anand finished third in the tournament. Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand won the $300,000 SAIL Golf Open title at the Delhi Golf Club course on 27 March. Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei defended his all-England Open men's singles title defeating Lin Dan of China 21-17, 21-17.In the women's section, top-seeded Wang Shixian regained title for China, earning it for the seventh time in 10 years after a 24-22, 21-18 victory in the final against Eriko Hiros.

Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal has won the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold title with a victory over the Korean player Ji Hyun Sung in Switzerland. Nehwal, who was ranked second in the tournament, won 21-13, 21-14 in 43 minutes in the women's singles final. Egypt has won the JSW-SDAT-WSF mixed team Squash World Cup held at Chennai by defeating defending champion England. Ramy Ashour and Raneem El Weleily have made it for Egypt. North zone has won the Devdhar Trophy by defeating West zone held in Jaipur. Chennai is all set to host for the first time the World Squash Federation's World Cup event, partially at the Indian Squash Academy and the final phase at a mega shopping mall from March 8 to 12 A.S. Suresh Krishna of Andhra Pradesh and Kyra Shroff of Maharashtra were became the New National grass-court tennis champions of India. Sachin Tendulkar became the First batsman to score Six Hundreds in the world cup tournaments ,after scoring 111 runs against South Africa. The 26-year old Kevin obrien played an innings of brilliance and brutality and helped Ireland upset England in a World Cup Group B match during a feverish run chase at the Chinnaswamy Stadium,chennai. Kevin's hundred (113, 63b, 13x4, 6x6), the fastest in the premier event's history, sealed a three-wicket victory for Ireland over England. Chasing England's 327 for eight, Ireland scored 329 for seven in 49.1 overs.

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Formula one World champion Sebastien Vettel won the Malaysian Grand Prix with a dominant drive on 10 April to take an early grip on the Formula One season. Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina clinched their second WTA title together, lifting the Family Circle Cup doubles trophy with a straight-set triumph over Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy at Charleston (USA). Shane Watson smashed a record 15 sixes in a career-best 185 not out as Australia clinched a three-match One-Day International series against Bangladesh with a ninewicket win in the second ODI on 11 April. South African Charl Schwartzel has won the 75th U.S. Masters on 10 April. It is his first Major golf title at age 26. Sanjeev Rajput of India won the gold in free rifle 3-position event in the World Cup in Changwon, Korea and grabbed one of the Olympic quota places for the London Games in 2012. Alok Kumar of India defeated former world champion Praput Chaithanasukan of Thailand 6-0 to clinch the Asian billiards championship title at the Olympic Stadium in Kish Island, Iran. Haryana overpowered Bombay in a 3-1 victory to take the 56th Senior National women's hockey championship, at the KSHA Stadium, Bangalore on 14 April. Rafael Nadal beat fourth-seeded David Federer 6-4, 7-5 to win his seventh straight Monte Carlo Masters tennis title. The top-ranked Spaniard chalked up his 37th straight

win at the clay-court event, where he has not lost since 2003. It was his 44th career title and 19th at a Masters event. Britain's Lewis Hamilton by defeating the World champion Sebastian Vettel won the formula one Chinese Grand Prix title at shanghai. Vettel of Germany, after opening season wins in Australia and Malaysia, leads the title race with 68 points with Hamilton second on 47 and Button third on 38. Former World junior champion and Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta defeated BPCL teammate Parimarjan Negi in a battle of nerves to clinch the Dubai International Open chess title in Dubai. He is the first Indian to win the Dubai Open title. Donna Urquhart of Australia, the top seed, defeated Indias Joshna Chinappa in the final of the WISPA-Indian Challenger $16000 squash tournament at the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai on 23 April. Indian tennis players Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi won their second title of the season by clinching the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami(USA) to become No. 1 in the ATP World Tour doubles team rankings. Third-seeded Bhupathi and Paes rallied to beat the second seeded Belarusian-Canadian pair Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor 6-7(5), 6-2, 10-5. Victoria Azarenka defeated Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-4 to win the WTA's prestigious Sony Ericson open Miami hard court crown for the second time. Novak Djokovic of Serbia defeated World No. 1 Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) to win the ATP Miami Masters crown and remain unbeaten in 2011.Djokovic has now won all 24 matches he has played this year, the best start to a season since Ivan Lendl began 1986, 25-0.The Serbian, ranked second in the world, has captured four titles, including the Australian Open, Dubai and, now, back-to-back elite Masters titles at Indian Wells and Miami, both with victories over Nadal in the finals. Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni would soon become the latest high profile celebrity to get an honorary commission in the Territorial Army. Chief of the Army Staff General V.K. Singh made the offer when Dhoni called on him at the Army House, New Delhi. Over the past few years, actor Mohanlal and the former India cricket captain, Kapil Dev, were granted honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army while the Indian Air Force accorded honorary rank of Group Captain to Sachin Tendulkar last year. Anirban Lahiri of India won the inaugural $300,000 Panasonic Open golf tournament. World champion Sebastien Vettel won the Malaysian Grand Prix held in Sepang, Malaysia with a dominant drive on 10 April to take an early grip on the Formula One season. Carnatic vocalist Nisha P. Rajagopal has been chosen as the first recipient of The Hindu Saregama M.S. Subbulakshmi Award. Presented by RmKV, the award, which was instituted on September 16, 2010, seeks to honour and recognise the merit of a young Carnatic vocalist aged between 25 and 35 pursuing music full-time.

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India's middle-distance runner Ghamanda Ram won silver in 800m in the opening leg of the Asian Grand Prix meet in the Chinese city of Jiaxiang on 22 May 2011. Sajeesh Joseph, the second Indian in the race, finished fifth in 1:51.62. India's second medal came in women's discus throw where Seema Antil clinched bronze with a throw of 49.77m. Defending world champion Sebastian Vettel raced ahead of Lewis Hamilton to win the Spanish Grand Prix. It was Vettel's 13th career win and he now has 118 points to lead Hamilton who is on 77 points by 41 points. Vettel representing Red Bull won four of this season's five races. In this race he needed all his skill and nerve to edge out his McLaren rival by just six tenths of a second after 66 laps of the Catalunya circuit near Barcelona. The Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal 6-4 6-4 in the Rome Masters final. With the victory at the Rome masters stretched his unbeaten start to the 2011 season to 37 matches. The second-ranked Djokovic won seven titles already this year, and beaten Nadal in all four finals theyve played this year. Asian Games bronze medalist Indias Virdhawal Khade bagged eight medals, including three gold medals at the 54th Malaysia open swimming championship in May 2011. Khade won gold medals in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events and two silver medals in the 50m and 100m butterfly events at the National Aquatics Centre in Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur. Ashwin Menon won a bronze in men's 200m backstroke with a timing of 2:10.86s. Five-time World champion M.C.Mary Kom (48kg) beat Asian champion Kim Myong Sim of North Korea 4-3 in the final of the Asian Cup Women's Boxing tournament in Haikou, China. Star Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal was defeated by world number three Xin Wang of China in the finals to finish runner-up in the Malaysian Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton tournament in Kuala Lumpur. Novak Djokovic won the third edition of Serbia Open on 1 May 2011. The ATP World Tour 250 event top seed, Djokovic captured his fifth title in 2011, and 23rd in his career when he defeated Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 7-6(4), 6-2. The victory marked his second victory at his hometown tournament. Djokovic had also won the inaugural Serbia Open in 2009.Novak won every tournament hes entered in 2011: the Australian Open, Dubai, Indian Wells, Miami and now Belgrade.

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Defending champion Saina Nehwal failed to complete the hat-trick of titles at the Indonesian Open Super Series after losing to Chinese World No. 3 Wang Yihan in the final. Fourth seed Saina, who won the title in 2009 and 2010, suffered a 21-12, 21-23, 1421 loss to Wang yihan of China. Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland captured his first Major golf title with his victory in the 111th U.S. Open on 19 June 2011.The 22-year-old McIlroy became the youngest US Open winner in 88 years. This victory made him become the youngest Major winner since Woods at the 1997 Masters and the youngest US Open winner since Bobby Jones in 1923.

Kerala won the overall trophy in the National Senior Athletic Meet held at Bangalore. 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. Kerala improved its medal tally bagging 27 medals overall; out of which 13 were gold. 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 scoring 7 points each. World No. 1 Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 6-1 at Roland Garros (French Open) and won the title for the sixth time on 5 June 2011. With the victory, the reigning U.S. Open, Wimbledon champ Nadal equaled former tennis great Bjorn Borgs six titles at Roland Garros. The French Open final victory on 5 June 2011 enabled the Spaniard to move to an astounding 45-1 mark at the worlds lone clay-court major.Rafael is a Spanish professional tennis player currently ranked No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Chinese tennis palyer Li Nas won the French Open women singles title on 4 June 2011 by defeating defending champion Francesca Schiavone. She became the first Asian to win grand slam singles title. She had reached the Australian Open final in January 2011 but was defeated by Belgian Kim Clijsters. The Chinese professional tennis player has won 5 WTA and 19 ITF singles titles. She is currently ranked World No. 4 by World tennis Association (WTA). Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Monaco Grand Prix for Red Bull on 29 May 2011. The victory marked his fifth victory in six races. Vettel now has a 58-point lead over McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, who scrambled to sixth place. Ferrari's double world champion Fernando Alonso finished second and ahead of McLaren's 2009 winner Jenson Button in third. Spanish soccer club Barcelona led by Lionel Messi defeated Manchester United 3-1 to emerge winners of the Champions League on 28 May 2011. With the victory Barcelona claimed the most prestigious club title in the world, and fuelled a debate about whether they are one of the best teams in soccer history. It was Barcelonas third Champions League title in six seasons and No. 4 overall. MS Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore to win Indian Premier League (IPL) season 4 title. The comprehensive 58-run victory over the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) was attained at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on 28 May 2011.MS Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore to win Indian Premier League (IPL) season 4 title. The comprehensive 58-run victory over the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) was attained at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on 28 May 2011. The winners of the first three seasons of IPL are as follows: Season 1: Rajasthan Royals Season 2: Deccan Chargers Season 3: Chennai Super Kings

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Five-time national champion Vidya Pillai Tilakraj of Tamil Nadu defeated Arantxa Sanchis 3-1 (53-34, 43-53, 92-15, 54-15) in the final of the National billiards and snooker championship on 25 July 2011. Americas Michael Phelps won gold in the 200m butterfly event in the World Swimming Championship in Shanghai on 27 July 2011. Uruguay won the Copa Amrica foot ball cup for a record 15th time on 24 July 2011 by defeating Paraguay, 3-0, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With the victory, Uruguay became the competition's most successful team. Former India striker Shabbir Ali, who took up full-time coaching after retirement on 26 June 2011, became the first footballer to win the prestigious Dhyan Chand award as recognition for his lifetime achievement in sports. Former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was honoured posthumously with the highest Bangladesh award the Bangladesh Swadhinata Sammanona (Bangladesh Freedom Honour ) on 25 July 2011. The award was meant to honour Indira Gandhis for her outstanding contributions to Bangladesh's Liberation War fought in 1971. The award was received by her daughter-in-law Sonia Gandhi who visited Bangladesh at the invitation of Sheikh Hasina. The Union Sports Ministry had announced the Arjuna and Dronacharya awards for the year 2010. The Dinesh Khanna-led Arjuna award panel had recommended increasing the number of Arjuna awards to 19 instead of the normal 15. The selection of cricketer Zaheer Khan and Ashish Kumar, who bagged the first medals for the country in gymnastics in the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, Swimmer Virdhawal Khade, Swimmer( paralympic category)Prasanta Karmakar , The captains of the men's and women's kabaddi teams, Rakesh Kumar and Tejaswini Bai, shooter Tejaswini Sawant, Archer Rahul Banerjee, boxer Suranjoy Singh, Greco-Roman wrestler Ravinder Singh, weightlifter K. Ravi Kumar, Hockey captain Rajpal Singh, badminton ace Jwala Gutta, volleyball player Sanjay Kumar, footballer Sunil Chetri, and wushu silver medallist in the Asian Games, Sandhya Rani Devi, were the others to be chosen for the Arjuna award.Five coaches were chosen for the Dronacharya award. The awardees are as follows: Ram Phal (wrestling), Devendra Kumar Rathore (gymnastics), I. Venkateswara Rao (boxing), Rajender Singh (hockey) and Kunthal Kumar Roy (athletics).Yashvir Singh, long-time coach of world champion and Olympic bronze medalist wrestler Sushil Kumar, withdrew his nomination on 21 July evening thereby clearing the route for Ram Phal, coach of Yogeshwar Dutt. Ace Indian shooter Gagan Narang, who won four gold medals at last year's Commonwealth Games, is selected for the country's highest sporting honour the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. He also won the bronze medal in the World Championships last year. Gagan becomes the fifth shooter to be nominated for the Khel Ratna award which is the highest honour given for achievement in sports. He won two silver medals in the

Asian Games in Guangzhou and is the first shooter from India to qualify for the London Olympics.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) released the list of All time Greatest Test team. The ICCs list includes four Indian cricketers namely- batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, 1983 World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag. Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag were included for opening slot while Indian batting maestro, Sachin Tendulkar found the place in middle order. Four Australians, two West Indians and one Pakistani also made it to Peoples' Dream XI as more than a quarter of million people voted on ICC's official website.Sir Don Bradman, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Brian Lara, Curtly Ambrose and Wasim Akram are the other players in the list. Japan lifted the women's football World Cup by defeating USA in a dramatic final in Frankfurt, Germany. Homare Sawa, is the captain for the team Japan. Karnataka's Uma Devi Nagaraj on 21 July deafeted the defending champion Meenal Thakur in a final, and won the women's billiards title at the Hash10-National championships in Chennai. This was Uma Devi's third National billiards title. She had earlier won in 2002 and 2008. The Indian trio of Deepika Kumari, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro settled for a silver medal in the Archery World Championship at Turin on 10 July 2011. This was the best finish by the women in the history of the Championships. Their previous best was a fourth place at Madrid in 2005, where they had lost to Russia in the bronze medal play-off. Fernando Alonso of Spain won the formula one British Grand Prix. The 29-year-old Spaniard had in the past won the British race for Renault in 2006. The victory marked Alonsos 27th career victory and it drew him closer to three-time winner of the British Grand Prix, Jackie Stewarts record world champion Vettel finished second. Jack Nicklaus was chosen as the greatest golf player of the last 100 years by the Golf monthly magazines readers poll. Nicklaus, whose 18 major titles are a record, won 58 per cent of the votes from a list of 20 golfers with nearest challenger Tiger Woods who won 16 percent. Third in the list was Spanish star Seve Ballesteros who won 8 per cent vote. Woods, won the greatest shot of the last 100 years for his chip-in from beside the 16th green at August National as he won the 2005 Masters. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on 6 July 2011 that Pyeongchang (South Korea) would be the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Pyeongchang is the ski resort area located 180km east of Seol. The Winter Olympics will likely put South Korea on the map as a winter sports hot spot. Only two of 21 previous Winter Games have been in Asia after Japan hosted the event in Sapporo in 1972 and again in Nagano in 1998. Fabiano Caruana of Italy by defeating Filipino Wesley emerged as the winner of the AAI International Grandmasters chess tournament on 2 July 2011.indias Sasikiran,

finished runner-up in this tournament and another Indian Parimarjan Negi, was positioned on fifth.

The ATP rankings released 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. The Sports Ministry sacked India's athletics coach, Yuri Ogrodnik of Ukrain. Sports Minister Ajay Maken asked Sports Authority of India, SAI, to immediately relieve coaches attached to the Indian athletes who failed in the Dope test. An inquiry was also ordered into the whole doping episode. Measures were being taken by the National Anti Dope Agency (NADA) to prevent the occurrence of dope in sports and the agency decided to increase the frequency of the dope tests. Seven of the eight athletes tested positive for methandienone or methandrostenolone in the dope tests conducted at the National Institute of Sports (NIS) in Patiala and the National Anti-Doping Agency approved the suspension of the guilty athletes. Australian Michael Jack Nobbs was appointed India's new hockey coach for five-year period. He succeeded Spaniard Jose Brasa. Nobb is a 57-year-old from the part of Australia's Hockey team for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He also coached the Japan women's team. Nobbs' contract is set to run till the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and his pay cheque is fixed to start at 10,000 Australian dollars per month. Serbia's Novak Djokovic won his first Wimbledon title by defeating Rafael Nadal with 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3. 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. It is his third Grand Slam title after two Australian Open victories. Petra Kvitova won her first Grand Slam title by beating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4 in the Wimbledon final. Kvitova was playing in her first major final and she is the first lefthanded woman to win the Wimbledon title since Martina Navratilova in 1990. American twins Bob and Mike Bryan won a record-tying 11th Grand Slam mens doubles title together, 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. Kevita pesky(Chek republic) and Katarina Srebotnik(Slovekia) won the womens doubles title. In the mixed doubles final event, Miljar(Australia) and Iveta Bensova(Chek republic) defeated Mahesh Bhupathi(india) and Velina Veniva(Russia).