Downloaded from: http://www.upscportal.com Sebastian Vettel wins Malaysian GP • After the Chennai event, the players have proceed to Singapore and then to Indonesia, according to a press • Sebastian Vettel led Mark Webber in a 1-2 finish for release from Tamil Nadu Badminton Association. Red Bull at the Malaysian Grand Prix. • Vettel passed pole-sitter Webber in the run to the Emma Bonney downs Chitra for World title first corner and held that lead throughout, with Nico • Emma Bonney claimed her fifth World Ladies Billiards Rosberg finishing third for Mercedes as forecast rain title, beating India’s Chitra Magimairaj 269-220 in a stayed away from the Sepang circuit. 90-minute final at the Hall Green Stadium, Birmingham. • Renault’s Robert Kubica was fourth and Force India’s • The results: Final: Emma Nonney bt Chitra 269-220. Adrian Sutil took fifth. Semifinals: Emma bt Hughes 448-89; Chitra bt Palmius Paes & Dlouhy beat Bhupathi & Mirnyi for title 313-186. • Third seeds Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes claimed Three medals for Santoshi their first title of the season by defeating fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi 6-2, 7-5 in the final • India opened its campaign in the Asian Youth of the Sony Ericsson Open. weightlifting championships on a high note with 48kg woman lifter Matsa Santoshi winning a gold and two • The results : Finals: Women: Kim Clijsters bt Venus silver medals on the first day of the event in Tashkent, Williams 6-2, 6-1. Men’s doubles: Lukas Dlouhy & Uzbekistan. Leander Paes bt Mahesh Bhupathi & Max Mirnyi 6- 2, 7-5 . • Santoshi won gold in snatch with a lift of 68kg and added a silver in clean and jerk with an effort of 88kg. Roddick reigns supreme at Key Biscayne Negi shares second spot • Andy Roddick used a dominating serve and a smart baseline game to beat Tomas Berdych 7-5, 6-4 and • Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi drew with Iran’s Ehsan win the Sony Ericsson Open. Ghaem Maghami to share the second spot half-a-point • The results : Men’s singles final: Andy Roddick bt behind new leader Viorel Irodachescu after six rounds Tomas Berdych 7-5, 6-4 of the Dubai Open chess tournament in Dubai. Indian Open badminton at Chennai Advani reigns supreme • The Yonex-Sunrise Indian Open badminton Grand Prix • Pankaj Advani defended his Asian billiards title with Gold was be held at the Nehru Indoor Stadium from a 6-5 victory over Singapore’s Peter Gilchrist. June 8 to 13. • At the Yeshwant Club, in front of a supportive • Nineteen countries are participating in the audience, the 25-year-old reinforced his superiority tournament, carrying a prize money of $1,50,000. over his opponent whom he had defeated last year. WWW.UPSCPORTAL.COM Downloaded from: http://www.upscportal.com CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR I.A.S. (PRE.) 2011 AITA to launch IPL-style Indian Tennis League • The match will be World champion Viswanathan Anand’s biggest challenge given the off-board • Inspired by the popularity and commercial success obstacles he has already faced and the strength of of the Indian Premier League, All India Tennis his opponent. Association (AITA) is launching the Indian Tennis League (ITL) this December in five cities across the Sahara Pune Warriors is new IPL team nation. • The Sahara India group launched the Pune team of • Corporate sponsorship is sought to develop and the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the S.P. College promote city-based franchises and tennis matches ground .The team was named Sahara Pune Warriors. will be played home and away on a team format. Former Grand Slam winners, Indian internationals men Chennai Super Kings rules and women (names to be announced later) will be • Chennai Super Kings tasted victory in its second attached to tennis franchises. entry into the final — this time, holding its nerve at Videocon to renew bid to own IPL team the ‘death’ to clinch the DLF IPL3 decider against Mumbai Indian by 22 runs. • The Videocon group, which made an unsuccessful bid to buy the Pune team for the Indian Premier League Woods crashes out (IPL), will make an attempt to buy out a team in the • Tiger Woods crashed out at Quail Hollow, missing IPL-four season next year, group chairman Venugopal the cut for just the sixth time in his US PGA Tour. Dhoot has said. • The World No. 1 spiralled to a seven-over 79, giving Nadal’s reign continues him a nine-over total of 153 that saw him miss the cut • Rafael Nadal snapped a title drought stretching back by a shocking eight strokes. nearly a year as the powerful Spaniard made history • Billy Mayfair took the halfway lead shooting 68 to with a sixth consecutive trophy at the Monte Carlo total eight-under 136. Masters. • Angel Cabrera is one stroke behind after a 67. • Nadal roared back as a force on clay with a 6-0, 6-1 defeat of fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in one • Masters champion Phil Mickelson (68) is among a hour, 24 minutes. group two strokes behind. • Nadal becomes the first player in the post-1968 Open Henin wins title era to win a tournament title for six straight years and • Former World No. 1 Justine Henin gave herself a gives Spain its eighth winner in the last nine Roland Garros boost with the first victory on her tournaments. comeback as she won the Stuttgart WTA tournament. • Doubles (final): Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjic bt • Since ending her 18-month hiatus in January, Henin’s Mahesh Bhupathi & Max Mirnyi 6-3, 2-0 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 win over Australia’s Samantha Stosur in Wimbledon winners to net £1million the final was her first title in her third final since coming out of retirement having last won in 2007. • The winners of this year’s Wimbledon singles’ titles will net a staggering £1million ($1.54 million) in prize Bhupathi opens tennis academy money after the All England Club announced a • Inaugurating a tennis academy in his name in the significant rise in the rewards on offer at the city,of Kolkata, Mahesh Bhupathi said he was not grasscourt Grand Slam . averse to the idea of taking the help of former doubles • The total prize money for the event has been partner Leander Paes when it came to development increased by £1.175 million ($1.81 million) to £13.725 of the game. million ($21.147 million). Anand retains world title Viswanathan Anand faces multiple challenges • Viswanathan Anand retained the FIDE World Chess • Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov will finally Championship, defeating Bulgarian Veselin Topalov sit down in the Bulgarian capital to play the first game with black pieces in the final classic game of the series of the €2 million World Championship chess match. in Sofia . WWW.UPSCPORTAL.COM Downloaded from: http://www.upscportal.com Sports • Anand won the 12-game match with a score of 6.5-5.5 • Chasing 148, England outplayed Australia with three to defend the title he claimed in 2007. overs to spare to triumph in the ICC World Twenty20. • Anand became the Undisputed World Chess India, Korea declared joint winners Champion after winning an eight-player tournament in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik • India and Korea were declared joint champions after in 2008. Topalov won the right to challenge Anand the cup final was abandoned a little over six minutes after getting the better of Gata Kamsky in 2009. after start in the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament inIpoh. India, the defending champion, Sushil Kumar wins gold leads the pool with a tally of 13 points. • An in-form Sushil Kumar notched up his first-ever • Heavy rain forced the Tournament Committee to arrive gold medal in the Asian wrestling championship as at this unprecedented decision. This is the first time host India garnered its second yellow metal of the that the teams have been declared joint winners in meet at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex wrestling this tournament since its inception in 1983. stadium in New delhi. Webber wins Monaco Grand Prix • Sushil (66 kg freestyle) outsmarted Korean Dae Sung Kim, a bronze medallist in the championship last year, • Mark Webber leapt into serious contention for this in two rounds (4-0, 2-0) to stamp his class. year’s drivers’ World championship when he drove to an imperious victory ahead of his precocious young • The win would ease the Olympic bronze medallist, teammate Sebastian Vettel in the Monaco Grand Prix. who had overweighed in the last edition in Pattaya (Thailand) and had been pulled up by the Union • The 33-year-old Australian led from start to finish and Sports Ministry. made light of four interruptions for the introduction of the Safety Car on his way to a second comprehensive • The medal winners: Freestyle: 55 kg: win in succession, having won equally impressively in Spain last weekend. 1. Shinichi Yumoto (Jpn), • It was the fourth win of his career, his second this 2. Nasibu Kurbanov (Uzb), year and he became the first Australian victor on the 3. Woo-Joo Lee (Kor), Kyong-Il Yang (PRK). famous Mediterranean street circuit, bathed in more glamour than sunshine this time, since Jack Brabham 66 kg: won in 1959, on his way to the World title. 1. Sushil Kumar (Ind), Nadal prevails in Madrid Masters 2. Dae Sung Kim (Kor), • Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer 6-4, 7-6(5) to win the 3. Ikhtiyor Navrujov (Uzb), Unurat Purebjav (Mgl); Madrid Masters, gaining revenge for the defeat he 84 kg: suffered at the hands of the World No.