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NEWS

1st- 15th July

Football
1. Netherlands beat Brazil 2 1 in quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup. 2. Germany beat Argentina 4-0 while Uruguay beat Ghana 4-2 in penalty shot out after locked 1-1 at full time. 3. Spain beat Paraguay 1-0 to reach the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2010. 4. Netherlands beat Uruguay 3-2 and reached the finals after 32 years. 5. Spain reaches the finals of the World cup healing germany1-10in the semi finals. 6. French striker Theory Henry realized from international soccer at the age. 7. FIFA world cup 2010 : Total teams participated=32 Positions First-Spain Second-Netherlands Third-Germany Fourth-Uruguay Fifth Argentina Sixth-Brazil Seventh-Ghana Eighth-Paraguay 8. Germany beat Uruguay 3-2 to take the mind spot in FIFA world cup 2010. 9. Spain s Andres Inisha scored the winner in the 116th minute of the match. 10. Final match was played at Johannesburg. 11. Spain won the world cup 2010, defeating Netherlands 1-0 in the finals of the FIFA world cup held at South Africa from 12 June to 12 July 2010.

Tennis
1. Tomas Berdych reached the finals of the Wimbledon. He will meet Rafael Nadal of Spain. 2. Serena Williams (USA) won the ladies single while Rafael Nadal (SPAIN) won the men singles in Wimbledon. 3. India s Leander Paes and Zimbabwe s Casa Black won the mixed double finals. 4. Somdev Devarmann entered the singles semi-finals of the ATP challenges event in Aptas, USA.

Athletics
1. Suresh Kumar won the gold medal for India in a men s 10,000 meter at the 14th Asian junior athletics championship. India has won 2 gold, 1 silver and a bronze at the meet `s halfway stage.

Cricket
1. England lost the final ODI to Australia but won the series 3-2 2. Australian Geoff Marsh has been appointed coach for the Sahara Pune Warriors IPL team and England all rounder Demob Reeve has been appointed as his deputy. 3. Pakistan beat Australia for the first time in 13 matches across all formats as they won the first T-20 international by 23 runs at England 4. Mullah Murlitharan will retire from test cricket after the first test against India to be played from July 18 2010 5. Zaheer khan will miss the test series to be played against Srilanka 6. Pakistan beat Australia to clinch the T-20 series 2-0 7. India tied with England in the one- day tri series to reach the final of the tournament. 8. Indian cricket captain M.S.Dhoni marries with Sakshi. 9. Bangladesh beat England by 5 runs in mid second ODI in the 3 match ODI series at England. 10. England beat Bangladesh by 144 runs in the third one- day international to clinch the series 2-1. 11. Shoaib skips practice to spend time with Sania, axed from Pakistanx1 cricket team. 12. International cricket Council (ICC) has formulated its own anti doping policy rather one made by WADA (World Anti Doping Agency). 13. India drawn their Board Presidents XI (SriLanka) in the warm up game held before the test series against the S.Lankans. 14. Australia beat Pakistan by 150 runs to lead the 3 test match series1-0. 15. Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi from test cricket after second test against Australia.

Golf
1. Indian golfer Arjun Atwal finished tied 41st while Justin Rose of Britain won the ATST National Tournament held at USA.

Formula One Racing

1. Mark Webber of Britain won the formula one race of the British Grand Prize.

Badminton
1. Saina Nehwal became World No 2 for the first line in the international rankings.

16th - 31st July

Golf South African Louis Oosthuizen won the British Open held at St. Andrews. Tennis Somdev Devverman reached semi-finals of the ATP Challenger event held at Aptos,U.S. Football Desmond Buplin of England will coach Indian U-19 football team. Cricket Muttiah Murlitharan became the first bowler to take 800 wickets in 133 test matches. He also retired from test cricket after playing 18 years from 1992 to 2010. Formula One Spaniard Fernando Alonso wins the German Grand Prix. (Car Racing) Tour De France Spaniard Alberto Contador claimed his third Tour De France (Cycling) Cycling title. Wrestling Indian grappler Sakshi Malik won the bronze medal in the 59 kg. in the Junior World Championship for girls held at Hungry. Cricket Pakistan beat Australia in the second test match to level the two test match series 1-1. This was Pakistan s first Test victory against Australia after 15 years. Table-Tennis The Indian Junior boys team won the bronze medal in the 16th Asian Junior T.T Championship held at Bankok. Hockey The Delhi High Court asks govt to stay away from HI elections. Football Diego Maradona of Argentina sacked from the job of coach of the Argentina National team. Cricket Sachin Tendulkar scored 5th double century & Suresh Raina scored a century on debut thus becoming the 12th Indian to do so. India draw the second test match. Hockey M.K.Kaushik sacked from the Indian Hockey women s team coaching assignment.

1st - 15th August

1 AUGUST 2010
Gagan Narang won the bronze medal in the world shooting championship in Munich .Thus becoming the first Indian to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games. Indian women won the bronze medal in the inaugural Asian women Champions hockey Tournament at Busan, South Korea.

2 AUGUST 2010
Australian Mark Webber won the Hungarian grand prix. Gaurav Gill (INDIA) co-driver Glen MC Neal won the forth leg of the Asia pacific rally championship. Soumydeep Roy and Poulomi Ghatak won the men s and women s national table tennis tournament.

7th August 2010

For the first time, Indian swimmers four of them with varying levels of disability have qualified for the biggest event in paralympic swimming, the International Paralympic Committee Swimming World Championship in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

8 AUGUST 2010
India beat Sri Lanka to level the 3 test series 1-1.Laxman scored a match saving ton. India stays at no.1 in the ICC test rankings.

9 AUGUST 2010
Shooter Tejasvi Savant won the gold in the 50m rifle events at the world championship held at Munich. She also equaled the world record by scoring 597/600 points. First Indian to win the championship. Bengal beat Punjab to win the Santosh trophy for his 30 time. They won the Trophy after 11 years. Indian women s team takes takes the silver medal in the world cup archery step3 in the U.S. Australia won the champions trophy field hockey tournament for the third straight year.

11 AUGUST 2010
Legendary hockey goal keeper Leo Hillary Pinte passed away. He was aged 96 He was the oldest living Olympian. He represented India in 1948 Olympics.

14th August, 2010

India's No.1 Somdev Devvarman will lead the country's challenge in the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games men's tennis event in Delhi and next month's Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Brazil.

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31ST AUGUST 2010) Music maestro A.R. Rahman has lent voice to the Commonwealth Games theme song, Swagatham', which exudes energy and talks about winning and not giving up.
Roger Federer breezed through his semifinal in just 70 minutes to set up a final at the Cincinnati Masters against Mardy Fish, who capitalised on a timely rain delay to beat Andy Roddick Arjun Atwal became the first Indian and just the sixth Asian-born player to win on the PGA Tour when he secured a one-stroke victory at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday

Sachin Tendulkar is one of the five cricketers who has been shortlisted for the first LG People's Choice Award to be given away during the ICC prize distribution function in Bengaluru on October 6.The other four are Mike Hussey of Australia, Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka, England captain Andrew Strauss and South African A.B. de Villiers, an ICC release said on Monday.

World chess champion Viswanathan Anand has refused to accept the honorary doctorate, which was to have been conferred on him by the University of Hyderabad (UoH) at a special convocation at the ongoing International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2010 here on Tuesday. India's Saina Nehwal suffered a straight-game defeat at the hands of sixth seed Chinese Shixian Wang in the women's singles quarterfinals to crash out of the World badminton championship here on Friday.

17th Aug.2010

Chess
18th Aug.2010

Padmini Raut won a bronze medal in the girls section of the World Junior Champioships held at Chatowa(Poland).

Youth Olympics (Wrestling) Cricket

24th Aug.2010

Kadian won a bronze medal in the men s freestyle 100 kg weight category while Pooja Dhanda won a silver in the women s 60 kg weight category. S.Lanka beat India in the league stage of the tri-series being played in S.Lanka. It was India s one of the worst losses against S.Lanka.

Golf

Arjun Atwal became the first Indian to win the US PGA Tour event. He became second player in history to win a US PGA event after having to qualify for it. He gets $ 9,18,000 , the second highest prize money by an Indian sportsperson after V.Anand s 2010 World Championship triumph of getting $ 1.2 million.

Youth Olympics Golf

26th Aug.2010

Vikas Yadav won the bronze medal in the 60 kg weight category in Boxing. Golfer Tiger Woods & his wife Elin Nordegren divorced officially.

Athletics
29th Aug.2010

Usain Bolt has signed a Rs. 153 crore deal with Puma, the biggest deal in Athletics history.

Cricket

S.Lanka beat India by 74 runs in the final of the Micromax Tri- Series held at S.Lanka.