HAMILTON CONQUERS SINGAPORE GRAND

The Singapore Grand Prix took place on September 27^th and was one of the best races by Briton star Lewis Hamilton in his career. The race was won by Hamilton. The world champion McLaren driver was in the lead from the start and took complete control of the race. Teammate Heikki Kovalainen finished seventh in the race. Red Bull’s top driver Mark Webber who had hopes of performing well at the beginning of the race couldn’t complete it due to problems in his brake system. Adrian Sutil from Force India had bad collision experience with Jaime Alguersuar and Nick Heidfeld. Lewis Hamilton faced challenges from Sebastian Vettel in the middle. The winner finished the 61 laps in 1:56:06. Timo Glock from Toyota finished around 10 seconds later. Fernando Alonso of Renault took the third position on finishing 16 seconds later. Vettel and Jenson Button took the fourth and fifth position.

SOUTH AFRICA EMERGES VICTOR

The Rugby Union Tri nation tournament went on with great matches been witnessed by thousands of rugby fans. Week 1 started on July 18 with New Zealand and Australia taking the field. The result was 22-16 in favour of New Zealand. The second one held on 25^th of July saw South Africa beating New Zealand with the score 28-19. Week 3 again saw South Africa thrashing New Zealand with 31-19. In the following weeks South Africa and New Zealand together crushed Australia consecutively but week 7 saw a twist in situations when Australia won against South Africa by a huge margin 21-6. Nevertheless South Africa won all the rest of its matches and won the championship and its third title whereas New Zealand with three wins and three losses obtained the second place. Australia which had managed to get just one win of its six matches was pushed to the last position.

Sachin calls for split up

The little master Sachin tendulkar has come up with an innovative idea that has been approved by most of the cricket legends. Sachin’s proposal would be spliting up the ODI match into four innings of 25 overs each. This idea has made cricket ODI match results to depend purely on the team’s performance and talents rather than depending on the toss winning factor. By splitting into 25 overs each, the early pitch conditions is almost same for both the teams which makes the result not to rely on the pitch condition. And some say since T20 has created an evolution in the cricket’s view, this spliting up would make the spectators to love the new form of ODI very much. Sachin says that he came up with this idea on the outcome of the champion’s trophy 2002 in which India and Srilanka shared the cup after playing all 110 overs in two days without any result. Cricket is surely becoming a fast phase game.

India takes home first digital trophy

The triseries for the year 2009 was held in Srilanka from September 8^th to 14^th. The 3 nations participated in the series was India, Srilanka and Newzeland. The trophy was the first digital trophy with a digital LCD display containing the important moments of the match. Newzeland was eliminated in the leagues without winning a match and India emerged victorious by beating Srilanka at their home. The final was an high scoring thriller in which India elected to bat first and came up with a big score of 319 for 5. Srilanka was bowled for 273 which included harbhajan’s fantactic 5 wickets for 56. Sachin was declared the man of the match for his brilliant 138. He was also the player of the series for his over all 211. The other notable player of the series was Thilana kandamby of srilanka who scored 172 in the series. The win in the triseries has raised the confidence level of the Indian team for the up coming big game, the champion’s trophy. All the best team India.

UEFA WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

The 2009 Women’s Euro football took place between August 23^rd and September 10^th. Totally twelve teams participated including Finland, Germany, France, Iceland, Sweden, Ukraine, Netherlands, Norway and Russia. In the first round of matches Finland proved to be better than the initial group stage and defeated Denmark 1-0. Netherlands, France and Italy performed well whereas England was beaten. Soon Finland and Germany qualified for the quarterfinals along with Italy. Russia and few other nations were eliminated. But in the first quarterfinals Finland got pushed out of the tournament by England with good performance by Aluko. Netherlands defeated France in the second one to meet England at the semis. Germany and Italy had a close match but the Germans eventually emerged victorious. Norway defeated Sweden in the quarters but lost to Germany in the semis. England bet Netherlands in a well played match to meet Germany in the finals. The finals saw Germany’s players Birgit Prinz, Kim Kulig and Melanie Behringer add quick goals to their side which helped Germany win over England 5-3.

US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP HAS BEGUN!!!

The 2009 US Open championship tournament has started on August 31 with Belgian star Kim Clijsters returning to professional tennis after more than two years of retirement. David Ferrer, Nicolas Keifer and Somdev Devvarman were eliminated in the second round of men’s singles. Roger Federer, Hewitt, home players James Blake and Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Tommy Robredo and Fernando Gonzalez have safely entered the third round. The shock of the day was Ana Ivanovic who got eliminated in the first round of the women’s singles. Fourth seed Elena Dementieva was packed out of the singles in the 2^nd round along with fifth seeded Jelena Jankovic who was another shock, Samantha Stosur, Sania Mirza and Amelie Mauresmo. Meanwhile Maria Sharapova, both the William sisters, top seed Dinara Safina, Nadia Petrova, sixth seed Svetana Kuznetsova and the former champion Kim Clijsters entered the third round of the women’s singles. Kim Clijsters was named Player of the Day for day one.