World champion Pankaj Advani (PSPB) today won his fifth national billiards title with a commanding 5-1 win over Balachandra Bhaskar of Bangalore here.

Bhaskar, who has been in the national scene for over 15 years and on his maiden national final, remained a spectator from his chair for larger period of the match as 26-year-old Advani had his measure of comfort after losing the first frame.

Earlier, Advani, who has won four Asian titles besides two gold medals in Asian Games, overwhelmed nine time world champion Geet Sethi of Gujarat 150-114 150-12 151-105 150-104 in the semifinal, while 39-year-old Bhaskar was at his best in progressing to the final with a 152—117 151-130 151-79 36-151 151-60 over Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB).

However, Bhaskar could not face up to the challenges of Advani, a seven times world champion. Advani, on his part brought innovations to pot at will with regular frequency. On the other hand, Bhaskar was seen missing even easy shots.

Bhaskar’s lone good patch was in the first frame when he came up with an unfinished 119 but once Advani found his rhythm and implemented his game plan while his senior state mate was languishing in the chair.

Advani’s remarkable abilities with swift decisions on the table helped him record unfinished breaks of 147 107 150 and 147 in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth frames to close up the match in quick time. Fifth and sixth frames were noteworthy as the enterprising Advani exhibited his control of playing the Postman’s knock from top of the table game.

In the third place match, Geet Sethi beat Dhruv Sitwala 151-50 10-150 151-07.

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be held in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012, followed by the 2012 Paralympic Games from 29 August to 9 September.

How many times has London hosted the Olympics?

London hosted the Olympic games in 1908 and 1948.

How many countries are expected to take part in the London 2012 Olympics?

We expect 205 nations to take part in 300 events at the Olympic Games in 2012. 147 nations will take part in the Paralympic Games.

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For now, let us have a look at the final Asian Games 2010 medal tally.

Asian Games 2010 medal tally

China rein on the top with 145 Gold

India Bags 6 Gold Medals and rein on 8th Position

Somdev Devvarman

Somdev Devvarman became the first Indian to reach the men’s singles final in the history of the Asian Games before winning the men’s doubles gold with Sanam Singh but Sania Mirza and Vishnu Vardhan had to be content with a silver in the tennis competitions.

Preeja and Sudha clinch golds for India from track

Preeja Sreedharan and Sudha Singh were the gold winners in the women’s 10,000m and 3000m steeplechase. Preeja finished the race by 31 minutes, 50.47 seconds to reach two minutes below the Asian and world record of China’s Wang Junxia. Kavita, finished second with her personal best of 31:51.44, to add a silver to Indian tally.

Another thrilling moment to Indians came when Sudha Singh outpaced Jin Yuan of China to win a Gold in the 3000m women’s steeplechase. 24-year-old Sudha made her record gain running ten meters ahead of her Chinese rival.

Symbols M=Men W=Women X =Mixed T=total

Rank	NOC	Gold				Silver				Bronze				Total Medals				Rank by Total
		M	W	X	T	M	W	X	T	M	W	X	T	M	W	X	T
1	China	40	55	10	105	18	21	1	40	22	14	0	36	80	90	11	181	1
2	R.O. Korea	19	7	3	29	9	7	7	23	15	17	4	36	43	31	14	88	3
3	Japan	12	6	0	18	21	18	3	42	17	16	4	37	50	40	7	97	2
4	DPR Korea	4	1	0	5	5	2	0	7	3	7	0	10	12	10	0	22	5
5	Iran	4	1	0	5	2	2	0	4	5	3	0	8	11	6	0	17	9
6	Chinese Taipei	3	1	0	4	0	4	1	5	6	12	1	19	9	17	2	28	4
7	Uzbekistan	3	0	0	3	9	0	0	9	5	4	0	9	17	4	0	21	6
8	Hong Kong, China	0	3	0	3	5	2	0	7	1	4	0	5	6	9	0	15	10
9	Malaysia	2	1	0	3	2	0	1	3	0	2	2	4	4	3	3	10	14
10	Kazakhstan	0	2	0	2	3	3	0	6	8	3	1	12	11	8	1	20	7
11	India	1	0	0	1	5	2	0	7	6	1	0	7	12	3	0	15	10

National Billiard Champion Pankaj Advani provided the first gold for India in the 16th Asian Games by clinching the title in billiards singles while Alok Kumar claimed a bronze in 8-ball pool event and the shooters accounted for a silver and bronze on the second day of competitions on Sunday.

The Commonwealth Games 2014 which is the 20th edition of these games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland.

India Australia Test Series 2010

India wins against Australia by 7 wickets and retained the  Border-Gavasker Trophy

India has won against Australia by 7 wickets on the 5th day of the 2nd test played in Bangalore. Australia had made 478 in the first and 223 in the second inning, whereas India made 495 in the first and 207 for three in the second inning.

Tendulkar comfortably scored  53 (77) not out, Dravid got 21 (53) not out. Tendulkar played the last stroke. Vijay got 32, Sehwag made 7 and Pujara made 72 that helped building India’s solid position.

Kim Clijsters-U.S. Open 2010 Women’s Champion

The number two-seeded Clijsters defeated Russia’s Vera Zvonareva, the number seven seed, 6-2, 6-1 to capture the 2010 U.S. Open Women’s Championship.

In 1927 Indian Olympics Association was formed. Dorabji Tata was the first president and Dr A C Northern of Young Men’s Christian Association, Madras was the secretary. Official representation was made by India in 1928 at Amsterdam Olympics. At Amsterdam Indian Hockey Team participated and won the Gold Medal under the captaincy of Jaipal Singh. India never allowed others to won the gold medal in hockey from 1928 to 1956.

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.

Atwal joined Japanese trio Isao Aoki, Shigeki Maruyama and Ryuji Imada and South Koreans K.J. Choi and Y.E. Yang in an elite but growing club of champions from world’s most populous continent.

The 37-year-old, who now lives in Florida, sank a pressure-packed seven-foot par putt at the final hole to edge American David Toms at Sedgefield.

His final round of 67 left him on 20-under 260, ignited by an opening day 61. Toms closed with a 64.

Golden Boot             :      Thomas Mueller ( Germany )
Best Young Player    :      Thomas Muller has been named as the Hyundai Best Young Player.
Golden Ball winner   :       Diego Forlan (Uruguay)
Winner                     :      Spain
Runner up                :      Netherlands
3rd Place                 :     Germany
Score Card             :      Final : 1 (Spain )- 0 ( Holland )
Coach Spain           :      Vicente del Bosque

MAN OF THE MATCH : Andres Iniesta ( Midfielder , Spain )

Thomas Mueller (GER): Thomas Mueller’s rapid rise through the senior football ranks has been nothing short of remarkable. A fringe player with his club, Bayern Munich, just two seasons ago, and with a first international cap coming only in March of this year (presciently, a friendly against Argentina), the 20-year-old striker has captured the imagination of fans everywhere with his pulsating approach play and vital goals (5) and assists (3)

Tejaswini Sawant scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to clinch gold at the World Shooting Championship when she won the 50m rifle prone event on Sunday, equalling the world record in the process.

The 29-year-old shot a score of 597/600 (100, 100, 100, 99, 99, 99), equalling the world record set by Russia’s Marina Bobkova in 1998. Second-placed Joanna Ewa Nowakowska of Poland also shot a 597 but the Indian won the gold as she had more bull’s-eye hits – 41.

Terms used in Various Sports

Cricket

Ashes, Banana, Boundary, Bowling, Caught, Chinaman, Cover Drive, Crease, Doosra, Duck, Duckworth-Lewis Rule, Fine Leg, Follow On, Full Toss, Gardening, Googly, Gully, Hat-trick, Hit Wicket, Inswinger, l.b.w., Leg-break, Leg-bye, Leg Glance, late Cut, maiden Over, No Ball, Off Break, On Drive, Out, Outswinger, Over, Mandatory Over, over Pitch, Popping Crease, Rubber, Run Down, Run Out, Short Pitch, Silly Point, Slip, Square Leg, Stone Walling, Straight Drive, Stumped, Short leg, Spin, Swing, Thirdman, Yorker.

Football

Advantage Clause, Blind Side, Centre Forward, Corner Kick, Dead Ball, Direct Free Kick, Dribble, Goal kick, Golden Goal, Hat-trick, Marking, OffSide, Penalty Kick, Penalty Shootout, Red Card, Striker, Throw In, Tripping.

Golf

Best-ball Foursome, Bogey, Bunker, Caddie, Dormy, Fairway, Fourball, Foursome, Greed Holes, Links, Niblic, Par, Put, Rough, Stymied, Tee, Threesome.

Gymnastics

A-bars, Ariel, Blocks, Cone of Swing, Dish, Flairs, Giants, Inlocate, Kip, Planche, Tariff, Tumble, Virtuosity, Wrap.

Hockey

Advantage, Back-stick, Bully, Cary, Centre Forward, Corner, Dribble, Flick, Free-hit, Goal Line, Green Card, Halfway Line, Hat-trick, Off-side, Red Car, Roll -in, Scoop, Short Corner, Sixteen-yard hit, Square Pass, Stick, Striking Cirele, Tackle, Tie-breaker, Zonal Marking.

2010 FIFA World Cup

Andres Iniesta dramatically fired Spain to World Cup glory for the first time in their history with the only goal of the game deep into extra-time in a 1-0 win over Netherlands at Soccer City.

Spain  in a 1-0 win over Netherlands at Soccer City.

Mueller wins Golden Boot, best young player

Johannesburg: Germany midfielder Thomas Mueller has won the Golden Boot award for top scorer at the World Cup and was also named best young player of the tournament. Mueller was one of four players to finish on five goals, but won by virtue of his three assists, two more than his nearest rivals- Spain`s David Villa and Wesley Sneijder of the Netherlands, who each had one assist. Mueller, 20, has spearheaded a new generation of players that include Mesut Oezil, Sami Khedira, Jerome Boateng and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in a German team that finished third. Uruguay`s Forlan named player of World Cup Johannesburg: Uruguay`s Diego Forlan won the best player of the tournament award on Sunday after lighting up the World Cup with some wonderful goals that helped his team become South America`s only semi-finalist. The blond-locked striker won legions of admirers — not least among South African women — for his fantastic play on the pitch and courteous attitude off it where he always made time to sign autographs and chat with fans or journalists. Forlan took 23.4 percent in the “Golden Ball” poll organised by world soccer body FIFA and voted for by journalists. Dutch playmaker Wesley Sneijder was second with 21.8 percent and Spain`s David Villa third on 16.9 percent.

Wimbledon 2010:

Rafael Nadal wins Wimbledon Open 2010 Mens Singles

Rafael Nadal defeat Tomas Berdych

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Serena Williams wins Wimbledon Open 2010‎ :-

Serena Williams defeat Vera Zvonareva Wimbledon 2010 Women’s Final

Badminton-2010

Three Super Series for Saina Nehwal-Wins Indonesian Open beating Japanese Sayaka Sato in the finals at Jakarta-Saina becomes World Ranked 2.

With her newly-added victory, Saina has collected a hat-trick victories at the international badminton tournaments three weeks in a row. Prior to Indonesia Open she had claimed India Open and Singapore Open.

BOXING
Asian Women’s Championship
The Asian Women’s Championships were held in Astana, Kazakhistan, in May 2010. Kazakhastan topped the medals tally with eight gold medals. China won the most medals in total—10, followed Korea and India amassing eight medals each.

CHESS
World Title, 2010
Viswanathan Anand held his nerve and focus better than his opponent, Veselin Topalov, to win the 12th and final game to retain his World Championships title.

The 40-year-old Indian beat the local man from Bulgaria in the closing game with black pieces, to emerge a 6.5-5.5 winner and seal his place as a dominant player of his era.

Anand first won the world title in 2000 and held it till 2002 when the chess world was still split. He became the undisputed World champion in 2007 and then retained the title in 2008 when he beat Vladimir Kramnik.

Commonwealth Championship
Grandmaster R.R. Laxman clinched his career best win and bagged the gold after beating GM Pablo Lafuente of Argentina at the Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championship.

In the open category, Grandmaster Maletin Pavel of Russia signed peace with International Master Lalith Babu on the top board to win the title. Both Pavel and Laxman had nine points after 11 rounds, but the former had the better tie-break record on Bucholz count. The Russian was not in contention in the Commonwealth category.

In the women’s category, D. Harika outwitted IM Tania Sachdev on account of superior tie-break.

CRICKET
T20 World Cup, 2010
Chasing a challenging target of 148 runs, England defeated Australia by seven wickets to win the T20 World Cup. The tournament was held in West Indies.

Australia’s women held their nerves in a low-scoring final as they beat New Zealand by three runs to lift the Women’s T20 World cup title.

West Indies-South Africa One-Day series
South Africa defeated West Indies by 67 runs in the third match to win the series. They went on to win the fourth match also. South Africa beat West Indies by seven wickets.

England-Bangladesh Test series
England beat Bangladesh by five wickets in the first Test of the series, played at Lords, to be one-up in the two-Test series.

FOOTBALL
Premier League
Chelsea has won the title by a single point. They have swept back the trophy after four years.

Champions League, 2010
A goal in each half by Argentina striker Diego Militi helped Inter Milan overcome Bayern Munich 2-0 in the Champions League final.

HOCKEY
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, 19th
India and South Korea were named joint champions after the final match was abandoned following heavy rains in Malaysia. For defending champions India it was their fifth win, matching Australia, while for Asian champions South Korea this was their second title win; they had last won the cup in 1996.

TABLE TENNIS
World Team Championship
Chinese fans were left in shock after their women paddlers failed to win the gold medal at the World Team Table Tennis Championships for the first time since 1991.

The Chinese trio of Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Guo Yan fell to their Singaporean counterparts 3-1 in the final in Moscow as Singapore claimed their first title in the event.

WRESTLING
Sushil, Narshing win gold in Asian Wrestling
Olympic bronze medallist Sushil Kumar lived up to his reputation as he bagged a gold in men’s 66kg freestyle in the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships held at New Delhi. Narshing Yadav won a gold in the 74kg freestyle category.

India’s Saina Nehwal made her country proud on Sunday as she won the Indonesian Open Super Series for her third straight badminton title in three weeks, including two successive Super Series titles. The World No.3 defeated a fighting Sayaka Sato of Japan 21-19, 13-21, 21-11 in the final here on Sunday, a win that is expected to take her to No.2 in the World rankings.