Sports Current Affairs-June and July 2010

Sports Current Affairs-June and July 2010

Current Affairs -July 2010

• Saina Nehwal: A smash hit
  The Indian Open Grand Prix Gold, the Singapore Open Super Series and then the Indonesian Open Super Series at Jakarta have given enough reasons to Saina to celebrate. The World No.3 defeated a fighting Sayaka Sato of Japan 21-19, 13-21, 21-11 in the badminton finals. Just two notches away from the badminton World No. 1, Saina is now indisputably India's top female athlete.\

• Khel awards
  Saina Nehwal to be conferred the country's top sporting honour-the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. While Jhulan Goswami skipper of womens cricket team, boxer Dinesh Kumar and Sandeep Singh are tipped to receive the Arjuna Awards in recognition of their outstanding achievements during the last one year, Footballer Sunil Chhetri and Deepak Mondal have also been nominated for the award that will be given away in Rashtrapati Bhawan on 29th Aug by President Pratibha Patil.
• World cup for Spain
  In a historic football victory Spain lifted their first-ever World Cup after defeating Netherlands 1-0 in Johannesburg. Andres Iniesta secured the only goal of an enthralling final against the Netherlands four minutes from the end of extra-time on Sunday leading his team to victory.

Current Affairs -June 2010

• French Open 2010 :
  • 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.