Sports Events in 2009

Events in January 2009 Jan. 7	Indian Railways teams win the men's and women's titles in the National basketball championships in Surat.
Jan. 8	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board teams win the men's and women's titles in the National table tennis championships in Patna.
Jan. 10	Zimbabwe records its first win over a Test nation since 2007 with a victory over Bangladesh in the opening match of the triangular one-day cricket series in Dhaka.
Jan. 11	Marin Cilic of Croatia wins the Chennai Open ATP tennis championship defeating India's Somdev Devvarman in the final.
	Sharath Kamal and K. Shamini clinch the men's and women's titles in the Senior National table tennis championship in Patna.
Jan. 13	Australia's opening batsman Matthew Hayden calls it a day.
Jan. 16	Mumbai clinches the Ranji Trophy championship in Hyderabad.
Jan. 26	South Africa caps a dream cricket tour of Australia by winning the ODI Series in addition to the Test series win (2-1).
Jan. 30	Australia is dethroned as the No.1 team in one-dayers by South Africa after the latter defeats Australia 4-1.
Jan. 31	Serena Williams bags the women's title in the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne.
	Yuki Bhambri wins the junior boys' title in the Australian Open.

 

Events in February 2009 Feb. 1	Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza became the first Indian pair to win a Grand Slam mixed doubles title when they clinch the Australian Open.
	Rafael Nadal wins the men's title of the Australian Open.
Feb. 3	India clinches the Wealthsurance ODI series 3-0 over host Sri Lanka.
Feb. 9	West Zone lifts Duleep Trophy in Chennai.
	The Netherlands wins the Punjab Gold Cup invitation hockey tournament in Chandigarh.
Feb. 13	The second Test between West Indies and England in Antigua is called off after just 10 balls due to dangerous outfield.
Feb. 18	Arvind Bhat and Sayali Gokhale win the men's and women's singles titles in the National badminton championship in Patna.
Feb. 21	Tamil Nadu regains Subbaiah Pillai Trophy One day cricket tournament in Visakhakapatnam.
Feb. 22	Mahela Jayawardene (240) and Thilan Samaraweera (231) smash double hundreds during a stand of 437 runs against Pakistan in the first Test in Karachi, a record for the fourth wicket in Tests.

 

Events in March 2009 Mar. 1	Manchester United clinches the Carling Cup, beating Tottenham Hotspur in a shootout in the final at Wembley.
Mar. 3	Terrorists attack the Sri Lankan cricket team's bus in Lahore, leaving six players injured and eight people, including six policemen, dead. The Lankans fly back home, and the tour is abandoned after two completed days of the second Test.
	Ugandan footballer Alex Katete, 25, dies of a heart attack in Silchar, Assam.
Mar. 6	Honda announces the sale of its Formula One team to former team principal Ross Brawn. The new outfit is called Brawn GP.
Mar. 7	Viswanathan Anand finishes fourth in the Linares chess tournament at Spain, a forgettable result for the Indian who had won the title the previous two years.
Mar. 8	Somdev Devvarman beats world no. 59 Lu Yen-Hsun in straight sets to help India clinch a 3-2 win over Chinese Taipei at Kaohsiung and advance to the third and final round of the Davis Cup Asia/ Oceania Zone Group I.
	China becomes the first nation ever to win all five titles (Men's and Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles) in the open era at the All-England badminton championships.
Mar. 11	Virender Sehwag scores India's fastest ODI hundred against host New Zealand.
Mar. 14	India wins the five-match ODI series against New Zealand 3-1. The host records a consolation eight-wicket win in the final match at Auckland.
Mar. 15	Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar wins his maiden professional title, the PGTI Players' Championship at Panchkula, and becomes the youngest winner on the PGTI Tour.
Mar. 21	India goes 1-0 up in the three-Test series against New Zealand with a 10-wicket win in the first Test at Hamilton.
Mar. 22	A BCCI working committee meeting decides to shift the second edition of the Indian Premier League out of India, due to security reasons arising due to a clash with general election dates.
Mar. 24	South Africa named the host of IPL's second season.
Mar. 29	Brawn GP drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barichello start the Formula One season with a one-two finish in the Australian Grand Prix.Mar. 29; At least 22 fans die, and more than a hundred suffer injuries when a wall collapses at Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan shortly before a FIFA World Cup qualifier between Ivory Coast and Malawi.

 

Events in April 2009 Apr. 3	England completes a 3-2 win in its ODI series against host West Indies.
Apr. 5	Brawn's Jenson Button wins the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang.
Apr. 7	India clinch a 1-0 win in the Test series against New Zealand, after the third Test at Wellington is drawn.
	Chitra Magimairaj finishes runner-up in the WLBSA World ladies' billiards championship at Cambridge, losing to Emma Boony of England in the final.
Apr. 8	Wisden names Virender Sehwag the 'Leading Cricketer in the World' for 2008 and Mahendra Singh Dhoni captain of its 'Dream Test XI', which contains five Indians.
Apr. 10	Gagan Narang wins the bronze medal in the men's 10m air rifle event of the first ISSF World Cup of the year in Chongwon, Korea.
Apr. 12	India wins the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament with a 3-1 victory over host Malaysia in the final.
	Argentine golfer Angel Cabrera wins The Masters at Augusta, pipping Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry in a sudden-death play-off.
Apr. 13	Australia's Casey Stoner wins the opening race of the MotoGP season in Qatar, ahead of 2008 champion Valentino Rossi.
Apr. 15	Gagan Narang clinches the gold in the men's 50-metre free rifle 3-position event in the shooting World Cup in Changwon, Korea.
Apr. 16	Churchill Brothers wins its maiden I-League football title.
Apr. 17	The ICC strips Pakistan of 2011 World Cup co-host status due to security concerns.
Apr. 19	Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber of Red Bull pull off a one-two finish in the Chinese Grand Prix.
Apr. 23	French swimmer Alain Bernard breaks the 100m freestyle world record at the French championships at Montpellier, setting a new time of 46.94s.
Apr. 25	Australia withdraws from the Davis Cup tie against India in Chennai because of security concerns, forfeiting the tie.
Apr. 26	Manchester United veteran Ryan Giggs is crowned PFA Footballer of the Year, while Aston Villa's Ashley Young wins Young Player of the Year award.
	Jenson Button wins the Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir.
Apr. 28	Yulia Yefimova breaks the world record in the women's 50m breaststroke with a timing of 30.23s at the Russian swimming championships in Moscow.
Apr. 29	The BCCI grants amnesty to cricketers playing in the rebel ICL, permitting their return to mainstream cricket.
	Formula One team McLaren gets a suspended three-race ban for lying to officials and other breaches of F-1 rules at the Australian and Malaysian Grand Prix races.

 

 

Events in May 2009 May. 6	Wang Hao and Zhang Yining of China win the men's and women's singles titles respectively at the World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama.
May. 10	The Indian men's recurve team defeats the Russian Federation to win the gold in the archery World Cup Stage II at Porec, Croatia.
May. 11	Championship leader Briton Jenson Button of Brawn Racing wins the Spanish Grand Prix.
May. 20	Tejaswini Sawant wins a bronze medal in the women's 50m rifle 3-position at the shooting World Cup in Munich.
May. 24	Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly wins the Asian chess championship in Philippines.
May. 25	Deccan Chargers wins IPL Season II at the Wanderers.
	Brawn Racing's Jenson Button masters Monaco's treacherous streets to win his fifth race of the season.
May. 26	Sayali Gokhale wins the women's singles title at the Spanish Open badminton championship in Madrid, beating Lianne Tan of Belgium.
	Singapore's Gao Ning defeats India's Sharath Kamal to win the men's singles title at the Commonwealth table tennis championships in Glasgow.
May. 28	Russian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medallist Yelena Isinbayeva wins her second Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award.
May. 29	Barcelona beats defending Manchester United in the final to lift the Champions League title in Rome.
May. 31	Chelsea wins the FA Cup, beating Everton in the final.

 

 

Events in June 2009 Jun. 1	Swede Robin Soderling defeats defending champion Rafael Nadal in the fourth round of the French Open.
Jun. 7	Svetlana Kuznetsova defeats Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 in an all-Russian French Open final to win her second Grand Slam title.
Jun. 8	Roger Federer wins his first French Open title, completing a career Grand Slam.
	India's Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic win the French Open men's doubles crown.
	Viswanathan Anand completes a 5-3 victory over home favourite Peter Leko in their eight-game rapid chess match at Miskolc, Hungary.
	Brawn-Mercedes' Jenson Button powers to a win in the Turkish Grand Prix.
Jun. 14	Boxer Suranjoy Singh wins gold in the Asian championship in Zhuhai, China. Thokchom Nanao Singh and Jai Bhagwan win silver medals.
Jun. 15	Goa beats Bengal to win the 63rd Santosh Trophy in Chennai.
Jun. 21	Pakistan wins the Twenty20 World Cup, beating Sri Lanka in the final at Lord's, London.
	Saina Nehwal becomes the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament with her triumph in the Indonesian Open. Saina beat Chinese Lin Wang in the final in Jakarta.
Jun. 29	Indian women's hockey team wins the Champions Challenge for women in Kazan, Russia.

 

 

Events in July 2009 Jul. 1	Michael Vaughan announces his retirement from all forms of cricket.
Jul. 3	GM Magesh Chandran tops a four-way tie to win the Montcada International Open chess tournament at Montcada, Spain.
Jul. 5	Roger Federer wins a record 15th grand slam by triumphing at Wimbledon.
	Serena Williams wins the women's title and along with Venus claims the women's doubles crown.
	Leander Paes and Cara Black suffer a straight-set defeat in the mixed doubles final.
	India wins the ODI series against the West Indies 2-1 after the last match at Gros Islet is washed out.
Jul. 7	French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, 24, is found dead in the stairwell of his Paris apartment.
Jul. 11	Squash player Joshna Chinappa wins the third WISPA title of her career in Kuala Lumpur.
Jul. 12	Mark Webber of RBR-Renault wins the German Grand Prix;
Jul. 14	Sri Lanka wraps up the Test series against Pakistan after taking a 2-0 lead at the end of the second test at Colombo.
Jul. 15	English cricketer Andrew Flintoff announces his retirement from Test cricket after the Ashes series.
Jul. 19	GM Arun Prasad becomes the first Indian to claim the title in the 116-year history of the Scottish chess championship in Edinburgh.
	American Stewart Cink wins the British Open golf title at Turnberry.
Jul. 24	Usain Bolt powers away from a top-class field to win the 100 metres event at the London Grand Prix.
	Host Sri Lanka completes a 2-0 Test series win over Pakistan.
Jul. 26	Alberto Contador wraps up his second Tour de France title.
	Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes wins the Hungarian Grand Prix.
	GM Parimarjan Negi wins the Politiken Cup chess title at Copenhagen.
	Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar wins maiden Asian Tour title with victory at the Indonesia President Invitational golf.
Jul. 27	Gaganjeet Bhullar enters the top-10 in the Asian Order of Merit.
Jul. 28	Bangladesh takes an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three match ODI series against West Indies after a three-wicket win at Roseau.
Jul. 29	The Union Government announces Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards for the Beijing Olympic Games bronze medal-winners Sushil Kumar and Vijender Singh along with boxer M. C. Mary Kom.
	India goes down 1-3 to England in the first of the three hockey Tests at Birmingham.
Jul. 31	Bangladesh completes 3-0 whitewash of the West Indies after winning by three wickets at Basseterre.

 

 

Events in August 2009 Aug. 3	Host Sri Lanka wins the five match ODI series against Pakistan.
Aug. 9	Pakistan wins the last ODI at Colombo to lose the series 2-3.
Aug. 16	Usain Bolt breaks his own world record in the 100m event as he clocks 9.54s at the World Championship in Berlin.
Aug. 20	Usain Bolt breaks the world-record, clocking 19.19s in the 200m event at the World Championship.
Aug. 23	Bekele becomes the first athlete to win the 5,000 and 10,000m crowns at a World championship.
	England claims the Ashes after defeating Australia by 197 runs, taking the series 2-1.
	Rubens Barichello of Brawn-Mercedes wins the European Grand Prix.
	Bhaichung Bhutia makes 100th appearance for India in the 2-1 win over Kyrgyzstan in the Nehru Cup in New Delhi.
Aug. 28	GM Parimarjan Negi clinches the prestigious Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open chess title in Kuala Lumpur.
Aug. 30	Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari wins the Belgian Grand Prix and Force India picks up its first points as Giancarlo Fisichella finishes second.
Aug. 31	India defeats Syria on penalties after the match ended 1-1 at the end of extra time, in the final of the Nehru Cup.

 

Events in September 2009 Sep. 1	Prabhjot Kaur sets a new national discus throw record of 43.66m in the National inter-zone athletics championships in Chandigarh.
Sep. 2	The Central Organising Committee of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 announces that Dhaka will stage the tournament's opening ceremony on February 17, 2011.
Sep. 7	Pankaj Advani wins his maiden World professional billiards title, beating Mike Russell 2031-1253 in the final at Leeds.
Sep. 8	Air India (Red) wins the inaugural Sahara BCCI Corporate Trophy tournament at Bangalore, defeating Air India (Blue) by 93 runs in the final.
Sep. 11	Vijender Singh wins the 75kg bronze at the World boxing championships in Milan, India's first ever medal at the event.
	Leander Paes and Cara Black finish runners-up in the U.S. Open mixed doubles, losing to wild cards Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott in the final.
Sep. 12	Jack Kramer, American tennis great of the 1940s, dies at 88.
	Former BCCI president and chairman of selectors Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, dies following a prolonged illness.
	Churchill Brothers beats Mohun Bagan 2-0 to win its maiden IFA Shield crown at Kolkata.
Sep. 13	Kim Clijsters completes a fairytale comeback from retirement, winning the US Open women's singles title.
	Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy win the men's doubles of the US Open.
Sep. 14	Juan Martin Del Potro wins his maiden Grand Slam title by claiming the men's singles US Open title.
	Venus and Serena Williams win the women's doubles title of the US Open.
Sep. 15	India wins the Compaq Cup triangular ODI tournament at Colombo.
Sep. 18	The National Rifles Association of India (NRAI) announces the cancellation of the 2010 ISSF World Cup, scheduled to be held in New Delhi.
Sep. 19	India ends the Asian Grand Prix archery tournament at Kolkata atop the standings with seven gold, one silver and three bronze medals.
Sep. 20	India enters the Davis Cup World Group after eleven years, beating South Africa 4-1 in the play-off at Johannesburg.
	Australia wins its seven-match ODI series against host England 6-1.
Sep. 21	Formula One team Renault is handed a two-year suspended disqualification for ordering driver Nelson Piquet Jr. to deliberately crash during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix and the World Motor Sport Council also bans Renault's ex-team principal Flavio Briatore is barred indefinitely from F1 activities.
Sep. 22	Churchill Brothers bags Durand Cup football title in New Delhi.
Sep. 24	China wins the FIBA-Asia women's basketball championship in Chennai.
Sep. 26	Ronjan Sodhi wins gold at the Asian Clay shooting championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
	Pankaj Advani wins his third straight National billiards title at Agra.
Sep. 27	McLaren's Lewis Hamilton wins the Singapore Grand Prix.

 

 

Events in October 2009 Oct. 1	Gautam Gambhir wins the ICC Test cricketer of the year award while M.S. Dhoni wins the ODI cricketer of the year award. Mitchell Johnson is named the cricketer of the year.
Oct. 2	Rio de Janeiro wins the bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
Oct. 4	Pankaj Advani and Meenal Thakur win the men's and women's titles respectively in the National snooker championships in Agra, adding to their earlier billiards crowns.
Oct. 5	Rest of India lifts the Irani Cup in Nagpur.
Oct. 6	Australia triumphs in the Champions Trophy cricket tournament at Centurion (South Africa).
Oct. 10	Karnataka wins the National aquatics championship for the 18th consecutive year at Thiruvananthapuram.
Oct. 11	C. Muniyappa wins the Indian Open golf tournament at Gurgaon.
Oct. 12	Tiger Woods seals victory for the United States in the President's Cup matchplay golf tournament in San Francisco.
Oct. 14	Krishna Chandra Pal, a member of India's famed 1956 Olympic football team, dies in Kolkata at the age of 79.
Oct. 18	Jenson Button wins the Formula One World Championship in Sao Paulo (Brazil).
	India clinches the seven-match hockey Test series against Canada in Surrey (Canada).
Oct. 23	New South Wales Blues wins the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament in Hyderabad.
Oct. 25	Valentino Rossi claims his seventh MotoGP title at Sepang (Malaysia).
Oct. 28	Tennis great Andre Agassi admits to testing positive for hard drugs and lying to sporting authorities to escape a ban during his career.
	Former Test cricket umpire David Shepherd dies at the age of 68.
Oct. 29	Jeev Milkha Singh becomes the first Indian golfer to tee off at the
	World Matchplay Championship at Casares (Spain) and defeats World No. 5 Lee Westwood.

 

 

Events in November 2009 Nov. 1	Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel wins the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Jenson Button wins the driver's championship, and his team Brawn GP the constructor's title.
Nov. 4	Toyota pulls out of Formula One citing financial reasons.The New York Yankees win Baseball's World Series, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 to clinch a 4-2 series victory.
Nov. 5	Sachin Tendulkar's masterly 175 goes in vain as India, chasing Australia's 350 in the fifth ODI at Hyderabad, lose by three runs.
Nov. 9	New Zealand wins its three-match ODI series against Pakistan at Abu Dhabi 2-1.
Nov. 10	German goalkeeper Robert Enke, 32, commits suicide.
Nov. 11	Russian tennis star Marat Safin retires, losing his final match to Juan Martin Del Potro at the Paris Masters.
	Australia wins the seven-match ODI series against host India 4-2. The final match at Mumbai is called off due to rain.
Nov. 12	The International Cricket Council (ICC) introduces anti-racism and anti-corruption codes in its revised Code of Conduct.
Nov. 15	Sachin Tendulkar completes 20 years in international cricket.
Nov. 16	Mercedes-Benz announces its entry into the 2010 Formula One World.

 

 

Events in December 2009 Dec. 2	Argentina's Lionel Messi becomes the sixth Barcelonan football player to win the Golden Ball award in a function in Paris.
Dec. 3	Virender Sehwag scores second-fastest double hundred ever in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka. It was Sehwag's sixth double century, the most by an Indian.
Dec. 4	India makes 726 for nine declared, its highest Test score ever in the third Test against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.
Dec. 5	Spain retains the Davis Cup defeating Czech Republic in the final in Barcelona.
Dec. 6	India's V. Diju and Jwala Gutta loses in the final of the BWF World Super Series badminton tournament in Johor Bahru.
	Indian cricket team reaches the No.1 status in ICC Test ranking.
Dec. 11	Suranjoy Singh becomes the first Indian boxer to clinch a flyweight (51 Kg) gold in the inter-continental President's Cup in Baku (Azerbaijan).
Dec. 12	India chased 206 against Sri Lanka in the Twenty 20 tournament in Mohali. This is the highest successful chase in Twenty20 cricket.
Dec. 14	Indian bags bronze medal in the Champions Challenge hockey tournament in Salta, defeating Argentina.
Dec. 15	Boris Gelfand of Israel wins the Chess World in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
Dec. 18	Host Hyderbad gets relegated to the Ranji Plate Group for the first time in its platinum jubilee year after its match against Tamil Nadu ended in a draw.
Dec. 20	Australia sealed the third Test at the WACA for a 2-0 series win over West Indies.
	Chetan Anand and Saina Nehwal win the men's and women's singles titles in the $50,000 Jaypee Cup Syed Modi International Grand Prix badminton tournament in Lucknow.
	Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinnappa clinch the men's and women's titles in the Kingfisher 57th National squash championship in Delhi.
	Indian wrestlers make a clean sweep of all the seven gold medals in the men's freestyle competition of the Commonwealth wrestling championship in Jalandhar.
Dec. 22	Lionel Messi claims the World Player-of-the-Year Award during the FIFA award function in Zurich.
Dec. 26	Ashutosh Singh and Ankita Raina of Gujarat lift the men's and women's titles of the National grasscourt tennis championship in Kolkata.
Dec. 27	The fifth India-Sri Lanka ODI at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground in Delhi was called off because the pitch was deemed unfit and dangerous to play on.
	India 'A' retains the Asian chess championship title in Kolkata.