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ennis player Andy Roddick of US announced his retirement during

the US open on 6 September

2012 after facing a defeat from John

Martin del Potro. The 30 year old is a

former number one ranked player

who won 2003 US Open to be a Grand

Slam singles champion. Till date

Roddick was successful in reaching

the finals of Wimbledon in the year

2004, 2005 and 2009 as well as US Open 2006 and faced a defeat from Roger

Federer.

ndian High jumper Girisha Nagarajegowda, won a silver medal (F42

single leg, amputations minimal disability category) at London

Paralympic Games. To make this happen, he cleared his career best 1.74 m high

jump. He managed to secure the first

medal for the country in this category of

game. Girisha won eighth Paralympic

medal for India and is the first to do so in

the high jump category and third Indian

to claim silver in the event. He is a man

with polio impaired left leg. Sports

minister, Ajay Maken declared that the medal winners in the Paralymipic will be

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awarded with the same cash reward as that of the Olympians i.e. 50 lakhs for gold,

30 lakhs for silver and 20 lakhs for Bronze.

ndy Murray won the US Open Grand Slam Singles Championship by

defeating Novak Djokovic 7-6 , 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 on 11 September 2012. By

this, Murray has re written the history of Britain tennis. Before this, Fred Perry was

the British player to win a grand slam in US Championship in the year 1936. The 25

year old Murray, recently won

Olympic Gold medal in

Men’s singles category and a

silver medal in mixed doubles

category in the 2012 London

Olympics. He is the first

British player, who won an

Olympic Gold medal in hundred years and also the first British to reach in the men’s

singles final of Wimbledon in an open era. In the women category,Serena

Williams of USA won her fourth Women's Singles US Open title by

defeating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 , in New York on 9 September

2012. Besides the fourth US Open title, this was Serena's 15th Grand Slam singles

crown. Meanwhile, the Italian pair Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won the

Women's Doubles trophy by defeating the Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova and

Lucie Hradecka, 6-4, 6-2 to win the title.

ndia won the second cricket test against New Zealand by 5 wickets on 3

September 2012. Chasing a target of 261 set by New Zealand on the fourth day of

the second and final Test in Bangalore, India chased the target with one full day

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remaining. Virat Kohli, who had made 103 in the first innings, was adjudged man of

the match, while Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was named man of the series.With

this, India won the 2 match series 2-0. India had won the first test at

Hyderabad by an innings and 115 runs.

arnataka clinched Buchi Babu all-India cricket tournament by

defeating kerala,by three wickets in the final held in Chennai on 3

September. Karnataka received, besides the winner’s trophy, prize money of Rs.

100,000, while Kerala was richer by Rs. 50,000.

India won Nehru Cup football tournament by beating Cameroon 5-4 in

penalty shoot out, on 2 September 2012 held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in

New Delhi.

ewis Hamilton became the winner of Italian Grand Prix 2012:

Lewis Hamilton, the driver of McLaren's became the winner of the Italian

Grand Prix 2012 on 9 September 2012. Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso extended his

overall lead after finishing at

third position in the event.

With this win, Hamilton

managed to wash away the

rumors of his future and

possible switch to Mercedes

after winning the grand prix

and the twentieth victory of

his career. Hamilton, who is 27 years old Formulae one driver from England, has

been a 2008 Formulae one World Champion. He is the world’s youngest driver to

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secure a contract for McLaren driver development program, which paved his way to

the F1 drive. Lewis Hamilton is also known as the first black driver in formulae one.

litschko retains his heavy weight title : Ukrainian, Vitali Klitschko

managed to defend his WBC heavyweight title on 8 September 2012 at 30,000

seater Olimpiyski indoor sports arena. The medical team and the referee stopped the

bout 56 seconds before the end of the fourth round after witnessing a cut mark on

the opponent’s eye, the

German Manuel Charr, 27.

Vitali Klitschko is a leader

of UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko,

a political party and a

member of the delegation to

from Ukrain for Congress of

the Council of Europe. He is

the first boxing champion of

the world to hold Ph. D. degree. For his accomplishments he won Germany’s highest

civilian award Federal Cross of Merit. Manuel Charr is a professional boxer from

Germany. At the age of 17.2 years, he became the youngest German to be a

Champion in Muay Thai. Later at the age of 19, he became German Champion and

the European Champion in Thai-Boxing. As per his track record, out of the 22 fights

of his career as a boxer he won 21 matches and the only one he faced defeat id the

one played against Klitschko.

urray wins US Open, ends 76-yr British agony : History-making

Andy Murray ended Britain's 76-year wait for a men's Grand Slam champion

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when he beat 2011 winner Novak Djokovic 7-6 (12/10) 7-5 2-6 3-6 6-2 in an epic US

Open final on 11 September in New York. Murray became Britain's first major

champion since Fred Perry claimed his third American title in 1936, the year the

Spanish Civil War started and Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected US president.

erena Williams won Women's Singles US Open 2012 : Serena Williams

of USA won her fourth Women's Singles US Open title in New York on 9

September 2012. In the final

match played a short while ago,

fourth seeded Serena showed

incredible resolve as she beat

the top seeded Victoria

Azarenka of Belarus, 2-6, 6-2,

7-5 in two hours and 18

minutes. Besides the fourth US

Open title, this was Serena's 15th Grand Slam singles crown. Meanwhile, the Italian

duo of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won the Women's Doubles trophy. In the title

clash, the second seeded Italian duo defeated the Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova

and Lucie Hradecka, 6-4, 6-2 to win the title.

ormer Indian cricketer Sandeep Patil was 27 September, appointed

the chairman of the national selection committee. Roger Binny

(South), Vikram Rathore (North), Saba Karim (East) and Rajinder Singh Hans

(Central) comprise the rest of the new panel which had no place for former cricketer

Mohinder Amarnath who was dropped after just one year's term. Chnadrakant

Pandit, a wicketkeeper-batsman who played for India between 1986 and 1992, was

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named chairman of the junior selection committee. BCCI's previous selection panel

comprised of Srikkanth, Amarnath, Narendra Hirwani (Central Zone), Surendra

Bhave (West Zone) and Raja Venkat (East Zone). Amarnath had replaced Yashpal

Sharma last year..

rand Master Koneru Humpy won the final leg of the FIDE Grand

Prix which concluded at Ankara on 28 september. She defeated Monika

Socko of Poland. Humpy tallied 8.5 points from her 11 games to top the 12-player,

all-play-all which followed the Chess Olympiad held in Istanbul. Humpy started well

while most of her rivals came tired directly from the Chess Olympiad. However, a

ninth round defeat after reaching a clearly better rook ending against top seed and

World Women’s No. 2 Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia nearly spoilt her event. The title

race opened up with Muzychuk half a point ahead with two rounds to go.In the

overall, six Grand Prix events held at Rostov, Shenzhen, Nalchik, Kazan, Jermuk and

Ankara, world women’s champion Hou

Yifan of China had won three already with a

maximum 480 points. Each player took part

in four of the six events with the best three

counting for Grand Prix points. Humpy’s

victory in Ankara helped her overtake

Muzychuk and win the second place with 415 points. Muzychuk was third with 405

points. Humpy won in Ankara, tied for first in Kazan with Muzychuk and finished

third in Jermuk.Grand Prix final placings: 1. Hou Yifan (Chn) 480; 2. Humpy 415; 3.

Muzychuk 405.

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abita Kumari (51kg) became only the second Indian woman

wrestler to win a medal at the World championships when she

clinched a bronze at the event in Edmonton, Canada. Babita’s medal is the second

won by any Indian female wrestler in the senior

World championship. The first medal, a bronze,

was won by Alka Tomar in 2006, China. After

her sister Babita Kumari’s bronze medal

winning feat in 51kg, Geeta Phogat claimed

the 55kg bronze in the women’s World

wrestling championship in Edmonton,

Canada, on 29 September. Commonwealth Games champion Geeta became the

third Indian woman to bag a World championship medal after Alka Tomar (2006)

and Babita.

lympic bronze medallist shuttler Saina Nehwal on 28 September,

experienced the thrill of flying in an Indian Air Force aircraft. She flew in

'Kiran Jet Trainer'

for about 20

minutes, after taking

off from the training

academy in Dindigul on

the outskirts of

Hyderabad.

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ndia's top archer Deepika Kumari won the silver medal, in the

recurve women's individual event in world cup held at Hibiya Park in

Tokyo on 22 September. Deepika,

in her first appearance after the

London Olympics debacle, was in

splendid form as she won the

quarterfinals and semifinals to lead

4-0 in the final before she lost 4-6

((26-23, 27-25, 24-28, 23-26, 25-

26).

est of India, lifted the Irani trophy for the second year in a row, by

defeating the Rajasthan. At the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Chennai on 24

September, Rajasthan lost by an innings and 79 runs in the last session of the fourth

day. M. Vijay, for his fine knock of 266, was adjudged the ‘Man-of-the-match’.

ussia’s Nadia Petrova beat defending champion Agnieska Radwanska 6-0, 1-6,

6-3 on Saturday to win the Pan Pacific Open. This is Nadia's 12th Title and for

the first time in her career beat three top-10 players in the same week. Those are,

• No. 7 Sara Errani,

• No. 9 Samantha Stosur and

• No. 3 Radwanska..

"It feels amazing," Petrova told reporters after winning the WTA premier five event,

which featured nine of the world's top 10 women.

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