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Federer and Serena Williams – ITF Winners 2009
Dec 22nd
Roger Federer and Serena Williams have been named as 2009′s world champions by the International Tennis Federation after topping the year-end rankings. Federer, who wins the honour for the fifth time, completed a career Grand Slam at Roland Garros before winning his 15th Grand Slam title at Wimbledon.And Williams won the Australian Open and Wimbledon, her 11th major success. The pair will receive their awards at the annual ITF world champions dinner in Paris in June. Federer regained the world number one ranking from Rafael Nadal after his Paris victory and his Wimbledon win over Andy Roddick saw him surpass Pete Sampras’ haul of Grand Slam titles.
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Woods hiatus is ‘scary’ for golf
Dec 12th
Australian player Geoff Ogilvy admitted the news that world number one Tiger Woods is to take an indefinite break from golf was bad for the sport and said: “‘Indefinite’ is a scary word.”
Woods has confessed to being unfaithful to his wife Elin and wants to take time out in a bid save his marriage.
Ogilvy, the 2006 US Open champion, conceded the news was a big blow to the sport and said: “I didn’t expect that actually so he’s obviously got some stuff to sort through. Indefinite is a scary word. Just the definition of the word is scary if Tiger Woods indefinitely doesn’t play golf that’s not good for us but I’m sure he’ll get it worked out.”
Tiger Woods may say GoodBye to Golf ! :(
Dec 11th
It is really hard time for Tiger Woods. He has already crashed his car and Golf Career. After the news, with nearly 10 affairs, Woods’ wife is now not in the mood to make any peaceful deal with Tiger Woods. As per the sources, Tiger Woods’ wife gave him ultimatum, “It’s golf…or me”. Tiger Woods can do anything to save his marriage. and he may say good bye to his golf also.
Elin, 29, has agreed to stay with the billionaire star for the sake of their two young children, reports The Sun. Sources have revealed that the former Swedish model Elin has drawn up a strict list of rules for Woods to follow if he wants to win her back. A friend said: “The easy thing for Elin to do would be leave him, take the children and get a divorce. She’d never worry about money again.
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FIFA World Cup 2010
Dec 6th
The 32 teams participating at next year’s FIFA World Cup™ finals discovered their fate this evening when the Final Draw for South Africa 2010 took place in Cape Town.
While South Africans learned that the host nation’s Opening Match on 11 June would be played against Mexico at Soccer City, it was the Group D line-up which caused arguably the biggest stir. Germany, Australia, Serbia and Ghana will battle it out for two qualifying places for the Round of 16, meaning two nations with passionate support will depart the tournament early. There could be a high-profile casualty from Group G too, after Brazil, Korea DPR, Côte d’Ivoire, Portugal were drawn together.
An estimated global television audience of 200 million joined the 2,000 invited guests in the Draw Hall in watching the colourful and entertaining ceremony unfold. With African sporting stars such as athlete Haile Gebreselassie, rugby player John Smit, cricketer Makhaya Ntini, and footballers Matthew Booth and Simphiwe Dludlu assisting with the draw, along with England’s David Beckham, it was always going to be an exhilarating occasion, but the undoubted centrepiece came when the eight groups were revealed.
An early highlight of the draw was the eye-catching encounter between England and USA, scheduled for 12 June, which evokes the Americans’ famous 1-0 win over their transatlantic cousins at Brazil 1950. Argentina, Nigeria and Greece will get the chance to revive their group rivalry from 1994, while the heavyweight collision between Portugal and Brazil on 25 June also has the feel of a derby.
India rankend no.1 in ICC cricket
Dec 6th
Sri Lanka may have thwarted India through the fourth day, but Zaheer Khan sliced through the remaining four wickets to take India to a 2-0 series win and the No. 1 spot in the ICC rankings. Zaheer started with a ripper in the first over to get rid of Kumar Sangakkar and finished his best performance of the series with his eighth five-wicket haul. This was the third time in the last four years that India had won two matches in a row; two of those braces came against Sri Lanka.
In comparison with day four, the end came swift. Sangakkara was yet to get his eye in again when Zaheer bowled the perfect left-armer’s outswinger that took the edge. After that it was all a matter of time: both Rangana Herath and Nuwan Kulasekara succumbed to sharp short deliveries from Zaheer. Muttiah Muralitharan scored a quick 14 but edged Harbhajan Singh to MS Dhoni to kick off India’s celebrations. (Courtesy : cricinfo.com)