AMERICAN OPEN 2013 GRANDSLAM TENNIS TOURNAMENT WINNERS

AMERICAN OPEN 2013 

GRANDSLAM TENNIS TOURNAMENT

10-9-2013

The 2013 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 133rd edition of the US Open, the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, and ran from August 26 to September 9.

Andy Murray and Serena Williams were the defending champions in the singles events. Williams successfully defended her title, but Murray was defeated in the quarterfinals by Stanislas Wawrinka. Rafael Nadal won the men's singles.

Seniors

Men's singles

•  Rafael Nadal def.  Novak Djokovic, 6–2, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1

Women's singles

•  Serena Williams def.  Victoria Azarenka, 7–5, 6–7^(6–8), 6–1

Men's doubles

•  Leander Paes /  Radek Štěpánek def.  Alexander Peya /  Bruno Soares, 6–1, 6–3

• This was Paes' 8th career Grand Slam doubles title and his 3rd at the US Open

• This was Štěpánek's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and his 1st at the US Open

Women's doubles

•  Andrea Hlaváčková /  Lucie Hradecká def.  Ashleigh Barty /  Casey Dellacqua, 6–7^(4–7), 6–1, 6–4

• This was Hlaváčková's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and her 1st at the US Open

• This was Hradecká's 2nd career Grand Slam doubles title and her 1st at the US Open

Mixed doubles

•  Andrea Hlaváčková /  Max Mirnyi def.  Abigail Spears /  Santiago González, 7–6^(7–5), 6–3

• This was Hlaváčková's 1st career Grand Slam mixed doubles title

• This was Mirnyi's 4th career Grand Slam mixed doubles title and his 3rd at the US Open

(Source : wikipedia.) Thanks to this site

Leander Paes created history by winning the doubles at the age of 40. not a single man has won any grandslam title at this ripe age. Only Martina Navratilova has won titles  after the age of 40.

FIRST IBL CHAMPION TEAM...IT IS HYDERABAD HOTSHOTS

31.8.13 Mumbai
Hyderabad hotdhots shuts Avadha warriors by 3 games to 2 to win the first ibl trophy. Saina won her eights match of the tournament by beating sindhu again in straight sets. Hyderabad won a doubles after conceeding the first match to avadh  in men's single . In the last match jairam of Hyderabad beats dutt of avadh in three sets

110 YEAR OLD UNDERGOES CANCER SERGERY

 110 YEAR OLD UNDERGOES CANCER SURGERY

31-8-13 DELHI
Haji Ghulam Rasool Dar 110 years of age of Kashmir had successful surgery for stomach cancer treatment. he was operated in Apollo hospital, Delhi. Dr Sameer Kaul said Haji has no complications regarding age based ailments. He told-Age is no bar to undergo surgery. If There is willpower and  support of the family, one can survive  anything.

He wants to go home as early as possible.

INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM QUALIFY FOR WORLD CUP HOCKEY

 INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM QUALIFY FOR WORLD CUP HOCKEY

31-8-13 IPOH MALAYSIA

INDIA beat  Malaysia 2-0 in the semifinal of Asia cup and qualify for world cup hockey. India need to stay ahead of Pakistan in the tournament and when South Korea beat Pakistan in the other semifinal India passed the qualification mark.

 

 

Now India will class with South Korea for the Asia cup Title on 1-9-13, Sunday.

FINCH PINCHED ENGLAND,BROAD

30-8-13 ENGLAND

England v Australia, 1st T20, Ageas Bowl on  29-8-2013

Aron Finch's remarkable 156, the highest score in a Twenty20 international, was the cornerstone of Australia's 39-run win in the first T20 against England at Southampton on Thursday 29-8-13. 

The 26-year-old Victoria opener, who didn't feature in the preceding 3-0 Ashes Test series loss to England, struck a record 14 sixes in his 63-ball innings as Australia made 248 for six -- the second-highest T20 international team score .
England responded with their own second-best Twenty20 score, 209 for six, but even Joe Root's unbeaten 90 failed to give them any real hope of victory.

SOME RECORDS

1.  156 IS THE HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORE IN 20-20 INTERNATIONALS.

2.   FINCH STRUCK 14 SIXES ,WHICH IS ALSO A WORLD RECORD.

3.  457 RUNS WERE MADE IN THIS MATCH WHICH IS ALSO A WORLD RECORD.

4.  310 RUNS (43X4 , 23X6) OUT OF 457 RUNS WERE MADE IN BOUNDARIES. IT IS ALSO A WORLD RECORD.

5. FINCH MADE 128 RUNS (11X4, 14X6) OUT OF 156 RUNS IN BOUNDARIES. ANOTHER WORLD RECORD.

 for score card please check cricinfo link

http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2013/engine/match/566937.html

CURRENT AFFAIRS 30 AUGUST 2013

30-8-2013

LAND BILL CLEARS IN LOK SABHA

29-8-13. NEW DELHI (INDIA).
 The Loksabha on Thursday  passed the controversial land bill, giving a government battered by stinging criticism over the economy's poor run something to cheer about.

The Key Features are :

CONSENT : 80% landowners must okay land acquisition for  private projects, 70% in case of public private projects.

COMPENSATION : four times market value in rural areas, double in urban areas.

EMERGENCY CLAUSE : Govt can't use clause arbitrarily to acquire land in short time.

MOST WANTED TERRORIST YASIN BHATKAL TRAPPED IN POKHARA (NEPAL)

29-8-13. NEW DELHI

Most wanted criminal and accused of several bomb attacks IM terrorist Yasin Bhatkal was arrested in Nepal. A reliable informer gave Indian officials  on Bhatkal's where abouts and a phone Number for him. Bhatkal's phone was trapped for few weeks and IB passed information to the Nepal Police, who tracked him to Pokhara. 

 Bhatkal's right hand  Asadullah Akhtar also known as Haddi, was also nabbed in the same house.

Earlier LET Bombmaker Abdul karim Tunda was also arrested by officials.

SCIENTISTS GROW BRAIN IN LAB

29-8-13.LONDON

In a major successful  work, scientists in London has grown the first  mini Human Brain in a Laboratory. This could lead to new levels of understanding about the way brain develop.. But the research team said the work was  a very long  way from  growing a fully functioning  human brain in laboratory.

RUPEES MAKE SOME RECOVERY

30-8-13.NEW DELHI
 The Indian currency recovered some ground and it closed on 66.55 Rs per dollar.

SAINA AND SINDHU TO CLASH FOR IBL TROPHY

 

30.8.13 NEW DELHI.

All eyes are again on a golden clash. India's top two woman Badminton players will clash for the inaugural IBL trophy. Avadhe warriors beat Mumbai Masters 3-2 to advance in the Final to have a clash with Hydrabad Hotshots.

  Earlier Hyderabad Hotshots stormed into the finals of the inaugural Indian Badminton League (IBL) 3-0 in the first semi-finals against Pune Pistons at the GMC Balayogi indoor stadiumon 28-8-13.

The Final will be played on August 31 (Saturday) at 8PM in Mumbai.

MORE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FROM JULY 2013 TO 6TH AUGUST 2013.

Current affairs 

General knowledge 

1 The Orphan Master’s son won the Pulitzer for fiction. The Orphan Master's Son is a 2012 novel by American author Adam Johnson. It deals with intertwined themes of propaganda, identity and state power in North Korea.

2. India  origin Economist Raj Chetty won John Bates Clark Medal for 2013. Raj Chetty, an economist at Harvard University, has won the 2013 John Bates Clark Medal, a laurel considered by many economists to be second only to the Nobel Prize.

3. Sujatha Singh, currently ambassador to Germany   was appointed India’s next Foreign secretary on 3^rd July 2013. She assumed office on 1 August, 2013 succeeding Ranjan Mathai.

4. Britain’s Chris Froome was crowned champion of the 100^th edition of Tour de Frannce  on 22^nd July 2013. Christopher Froome (born 20 May 1985) is a Kenyan-born British professional road racing cyclist and winner of the 2013 Tour de France, riding for UCI ProTeam Team Sky. Brought up in Kenya and South Africa, he has ridden since 2008 under a British licence on the basis of his passport and his father and grandparents' country of birth.

5. C.P. Srivastave (Chandrika Prasad Srivastava) who was conferred with the Padma Vibhushan in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 1972 has died on 22^nd July 2013 in  Italy.

6. L. Brojeshori Devi, the Olympian Judo player passed away at Coimbatore on 22^nd July 2013. She was 32 years of age.

7. ILO association and Moon Express would start world’s first mission to south pole of the Moon for installation of a permanent  telescope.

8. The book entitled An Agenda for India’s growth Essays in honour of P Chidambaram, was released in New Delhi on 31^st July 2013.

9. Nirupama Sanjeev Vaidyanathan, the former female tennis player from India on 5^th August 2013 released her book-The Moonballer. The book was released by Tennis ace Vijay Amritraj in Chennai.

10. Russian Tennis player Maria Sharapova topped the Rorbes list of highest-paid female athletes for the ninth straight year.

general knowledge for AUGUST 2013

 CURRENT AFFAIRS

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FOR  AUGUST 2013

(UPTO 6-8-13)

1.     India on 3^rd August 2013 created history by recording Their first  five match ODI series on foreign soil ZIMBABWE .

a-     The captain of Indian Team      Virat Kohli

b-     Fifth and final odi played at      Bulawayo.

1.   RAGHURAM GOVIND RAJAN.was on 6^th August  2013, Appointed as the Governer of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a time period of the three years.

3.   Grandmaster  PARIMARJIN NEGI of India won the denmark’s Politiken Cup at Copenhagen, Denmark. He secured 9 out of the total possible 10 points.

23.   Nasa’s CURIOSITY rover celebrated its first anniversary on Mars on 6^th August 2013.

24.   SAMANTHA POWER sworn as new US ambassador to United Nations on 2^nd August 2013.

25.   RAVINDRA JADEJA on 4^th August  2013  became the first Indian Bowler since Kumble to top the bowler’s chart in the latest ICC ODI Player.

26.         World’s first Talking robot KIROBO was successfully sent into space on 4^th August 2013.

4.     DADAR and NAGAR HAVELI celebratrd its 60^th Liberation day on 2^nd August 2013. It was liberated  from the Portuguese rule.

     

Current Affairs general knowledge for july 2013

Current Affairs

IN THE MONTH OF JULY 2013

1.         SUGATHA KUMARI was conferred with Saraswati Samman 2012 for her collection of poems in Malayalam, Manalezhuthu,  which means The writing on the sand in English.

2.         RUNA LAILA, the SAARC Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS visited India. The objective of the visit was support to the cause of HIV/AIDS.

3.         Mamnoon Hussain  was elected as the 12^th PRESIDENT of Pakistan on 30 july 2013. 73 year old Mamnoon Hussain belonged to the PML-N Party.

4.     India defeated NEPAL 1-0 in the final to lift the South Asian Football Federation Under-16 Championship title.

5.         Sarod maestro AMJAD ALI KHAN was choosen  for the 21^st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award.

6.         India’s Weather sattelite INSAT-3D was launched successfully on 26^th July 2013 from KOUROU. French Guiana.

7.  Paradip Port was conferred with the MAJOR PORT OF THE YEAR award for its excellent performance in the year 2012-2013.

8. World Hepatitis Day observed on 28^TH  JULY 2013 across the World. In May 2010 the World Health Assembly passes resolution to mark Hepatitis day.

9.   PARADIP PORT  was conferred with the MAJOR PORT OF THE YEAR award for its excellent performance in the year 2012-13 in Chennai.

10.         INDIA and BELARUS signed a protocol on 24^th July 2013 to enhance trade ties during the sixth session of the Inter-Government Commission held in NEW DELHI.

11.         PRINCE PHILIPPE was sworn-in as the new king of Belgium on 21^st July 2103 after the abdiction of his father Albert II  due to his age and health.

12.   India finished at fourth Positionin the Archery World Cup Stage-3 on 21^st July 2013 with DEEPIKA KUMARI winning Gold and Bronze medal.

13.        SERENA WILLIAMS on 21^st July 2013 won Swedish Open title by defeating Johanna Larson in the final of the Swedish Open at Bastad in Sweden.

14.        Earthquake of magnitude 6.9 and 5.2 on Richter scale struck WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND and KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA province of PAKISTAN, respectively.

15.        South Korean city of Incheon was named as the WORLD BOOK CAPITAL for the year 2015 as per UNESCO announcement.

16.   The world on 18^th JULY  observed the Nelson Mandela International Day. The day is observed  to inspire people to be an agent of change.

17.   The  President of India on 19^th July 2013 administered the oath of the office of Chief Justice of India (CJI) to Justice PALANISAMY SATHASIVAM.

 18.        India’s number one snooker player, ADITYA MEHTA on 31^st July 2013 clinched  the gold  medal in the World Games, beating China’s Liang Wenbo, 3-0, in thefinal of the quadrennial event at Cali, Columbia. Aditya Mehta hails from Mumbai.