Classical Tamil World Conference 2010

Tamil Internet Conference 2010

Location: Coimbatore
Starts: June 24
This is the ninth edition of the conference. Four aims:
1. Creating a consensus on norms and standards in Tamil internet
applications.
2. Provide students and public with tools and techniques to use computers in
Tamil
3. Creating a framework to monitor and follow-up the progress made in these
areas.
4. A platform for Tamil experts and computer engineers to engage in
constant interaction.

Winners
Year
2010

Tournament
Durand Cup

Winner
Chirag United

Tennis 2010-11
Title

Mens

Women

Men Double

Women

Mixed Double

Single

Single

2010
Australi

Federar

Serena

Bryan bros

Williams def

Black/Paes def

an

def

def

def Nestor

Black

Makarova

Murray

Henin

(Can)/Zimonj

(Zim)/Huber

(Rus)/Levinsky (Cz)

(UK)
Nadal

(Bel)
Schiav

ic (Serb)
Nestor/Zimo

(US)
Williams def

Srebotnik(Slov)/Zi

def

one

njic def

Peschke

monjic def

Soderli

(Italy)

Dlouhy(Cz)/P

(Cz)/Srebotnik

Shvedova(Kzakh)/K

ng

def

aes

(Slov)

nowle (Austria)

(Sweed

Stosur

Wimble

en)
Nadal

(Aus)
Serena

Paes/Black def

don

def

def

Moodie(SA)/Raymo

Berdyc

Zvonar

nd(US)

French

Double

US

h (Cz)

eva

Nadal

(Rus)
Clijster

Bryan bros

def

s def

def

Djokovi

Zvonav

Bopanna/Qu

era

reshi

2011
Australi

Djokovi

Clijster

Bryan bros

an

c def

s def Li

def

Murray

Na

Bhupati/Paes

(Chn)

FIFA World Cup 2010

Winner
2nd
3rd
4th

Spain
The Netherlands
Germany
Uruguay

Awards:
Golden Boot: Thomas Muller (GER) (5 goals)
Silver Shoe: David Villa (ESP, 5)

Bronze: Wesley Sneijder

(NED, 5)
Golden Glove: Iker Casillas (ESP)
Golden Glove was named as the Yashin Award in 1994. It was
renamed as Golden Glove in 2010
Golden Ball: Diego Forlan (URU) [given to the best player. First in 1982)
Silver: Wesley Sneijder (NED),
Best Young Player: Thomas Muller (GER)
Man of the match in the finals: Iniesta (ESP)

Bronze: David Villa (ESP)

Important points:
1. First African Country to hold a FIFA WC.
2. Bafana Bafana (SA football team) are the first hosts to be knocked out in
the first round.
3.

Issues
1. There were security concerns. Everything, however, went well.

Trivia:
1. Spain became the only nation to win the world cup after having lost the
opening match.
2. Spain conceded only 2 goals in the entire tournament (a record for winning
team shared with France 1998 and Italy 2006)

US Open 2010
Mens singles: Raphael Nadal(Esp) bt Novak Djokovic(Ser)
Womens singles: Kim Clijsters(Bel) bt Vera Zvonavera(Rus)
Mens Doubles: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (US) bt Rohan Bopanna (Ind)/Aisam-ulhaq Qureshi (Pak)
Womens Doubles: Vaina King (US)/Yaroslava Shvedova(Kzk) bt Liezel Huber
(US)/Nadia Petrova(Rus)
Mixed Doubles: Liezel Huber(US)/Bob Bryan(US) bt Kveta Perschke(Czk)/Aisam-ulhaq Qureshi (Pak)

Commonwealth Games
-

Organized every four years. It is the third largest sporting event after

Olympics and the Asian Games.

Members of the Commonwealth of Nations participate.
First held in 1930 under the title British Empire Games. Gained the

current title in 1978.

Only six teams have attended every CWG.
71 teams participate in the Games currently.
Last edition of the Games was held in 2006 in Melbourne.

2010 Edition

New Delhi, October 3-14

It is the nineteenth CWG
Mascot: Shera
Official Song: Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto (ARR)
Slogan: Come out and play
71 participating nations
Rwanda will participate for the first time (It became as CW member in
2009). Fiji is not participating due to suspended membership

Indias performance at CWG

India won 101 medals (38 gold medals) to finish second behind Australia
From India, Gagan Narang won the maximum number of medals (4).

Controversy

Probe has been started into the CWG scam under the P Shangloo, former
CAG.

CWG woes expose the pitfalls of private-public partnership as the low

quality work was done by the private firms.

Mens Hockey World Cup 2010

Was held at New Delhi.
Australia, England, Germany and Netherlands reached the semifinals.
Winner: Australia
Runner up: Germany
India was placed seventh out of twelve countries.
Player of the tournament: Guss Vogels (Netherlands)

Womens World Cup Hockey

2010 edition held at Rosario, Argentina.
Winner 2010: Argentina

Runner-up: Netherlands

Started in 1974
Organized by International Hockey Federation
12 tournaments so far. Netherlands has won 6 of them. Germany, Australia and
Argentina have won two each.

India Sports 2010

An action replay of the year gone by
Karthik Krishnaswamy
A motley collection of stars brought cheer to alleviate the occasional gloom

It had to end, finally, 70-68 in the fifth, but for 11 hours and five minutes stretched over three days,
John Isner and Nicolas Mahut took sport to its logical extreme into a zone where the outside world,
even the happenings on the adjacent courts at Wimbledon, ceased to exist.
Sport seldom leads that sort of separate existence. This was especially true in 2010, a year that will
forever be associated with spot-fixing in cricket, corruption in high places in football and organisational
shambles at the Commonwealth Games.
Sports fans must be eternally grateful, therefore, to Isner and Mahut. And, of course, to Spain, which
achieved its maiden FIFA World Cup triumph by stubbornly sticking to its beliefs.
Nearly all of its opponents defended deep and in numbers. In the final, the Netherlands, once similarly
staunch in its aesthetic beliefs, resorted to crude hacking.
But Spain didn't lose faith in its modus operandi. Receive, pass, offer. On and on till the openings came,
often late in games.
There was no avalanche. One-nil was the scoreline in each of its knockout games, but that didn't tell half
the story of the beauty and bravery of Spain's football.
Receive, pass, offer. The mantra is drilled into anyone who learns the game at La Masia, Barcelona's
youth academy. Seven La Masia graduates were on the pitch during the World Cup final.
Three Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi form the three-man shortlist for the FIFA
Ballon d'Or, the sport's biggest individual honour.
How the mighty fell
Elsewhere, the mighty fell soundly on their backsides. Wayne Rooney, who had only to turn up at
matches to find the net prodigiously for club and country last year, endured a torrid 2010, scoring off the
pitch but seldom on it.
He also starred in one of the most convoluted transfer tearjerkers of all time, at the end of which he
remained a Manchester United player, with a fattened contract to boot.

Further demonstration that sportspersons live in fragile bubbles came from Tiger Woods. We wondered,
at the start of the year, if the revelations of his infidelity and the subsequent cancellation, one by one, of
endorsement deals that relied on his image' would cause his cold-eyed stare down the fairway to falter.
The answer, emphatically, was yes.
Australia, cricket's Tiger Woods for over a decade, fared no better. Failure to regain the Ashes from
England was confirmation that the side has an arduous rebuilding phase ahead of it.
In tennis, the year began with a tearful Andy Murray confessing, at the Australian Open podium, that he
could cry like Roger (Federer). It's just a shame I can't play like him.
It ended with Federer winning the World Tour Finals to cap a run of form that saw the Swiss genius,
working with new coach Paul Annacone, rack up a 34-4 win-loss record after his quarterfinal defeat at
Wimbledon.
In between, Rafael Nadal ruled supreme, regaining the number one ranking and winning three Slams on
the trot, including a first ever U.S. Open crown to become the seventh player in history, and the
youngest, to complete a Career Slam.
Two narratives
The women's game, as in recent seasons, contained two narratives that of the Williams siblings and
that of the rest. Serena, who won in Australia and Wimbledon, kept her non-Slam appearances to a
minimum, allowing Caroline Wozniacki to become only the second year-end No. 1 without a Slam.
Sebastian Vettel became the youngest Formula One world champion, holding his nerve in a tense final
race in Abu Dhabi to pip three other title contenders.
For India, 2010 demonstrated a still modest, but growing presence in world sport. Viswanathan Anand,
despite braving a 30-hour bus ride thanks to Eyjafjallajokull, came back from a game down to win his
fourth World Chess Championship.
The Commonwealth Games in Delhi produced a best-ever medal tally. The shooters, led by, Gagan
Narang, were predictably prolific, but there were surprise successes as well, notably in women's
wrestling and a 1-2-3 finish in the women's discus throw.
Somdev Devvarman won the tennis singles gold in Delhi, and carried that form to Guangzhou, where he
picked up gold in both singles and doubles. India's 4x400m women's team also did the Commonwealth
and Asian Games gold double.
Vijender Singh put behind a semifinal disappointment in front of his home crowd to win the middleweight
boxing gold at Guangzhou, where he dismantled Uzbek World champion Abbos Atoev 7-0. Sushil Kumar
created history in Moscow, becoming the first Indian to win gold at the World wrestling Championships.
Saina Nehwal won the CWG gold in the badminton singles, and more significantly bagged three Super
Series titles, in Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong, on her way to reaching a career-high number two
world ranking.
Further cheer came at the Wyndham Championships, where Arjun Atwal became the first Indian golfer
to win a PGA Tour event.