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General
Awareness Updates – October 2009
Sports
BILLIARDS
Indian ace Pankaj Advani (right)
beat defending champion Mark Russel to win the World Professional Billiards Championship
2009. Mr. Advani is the second Indian to win the title in its 139 years of
history. Geet Sethi was the first Indian to win the title in 1992.
BASKETBALL
Asian Championship,
Winner:
Runner-up:
CRICKET
Ashes Series 2009,
Test Series Result:
Player of the Series: Andrew Strauss (
MOTOR-RACING
Belgian Grand Prix,
Winner: Kimi Raikkonen (Finland/Ferrari)
Second: Giancarlo
Fisichella (Italy/Force India-Mercedes)
Third: Sebastian Vettel
(Germany/Red Bull-Renault)
European
Winner: Rubens
Barrichello (Brazil/Brawn-Mercedes)
Second: Lewis Hamilton
(G. Britain/McLaren-Mercedes)
Third: Kimi Raikkonen (Finland/Ferrari)
Italian Grand Prix,
Winner: Rubens
Barrichello (Brazil/Brawn-Mercedes)
Second: Jenson Button
(G. Britain/Brawn-Mercedes)
Third: Kimi Raikkonen (Finland/Ferrari)
TENNIS
2009 Men’s Singles
Winner: Juan Martín del Potro (Argentina)
Runner-up: Roger Federer (
Women’s Singles
Winner: Kim
Clijsters (
Runner-up: Caroline
Wozniacki (
Men’s Doubles
Winners: Leander
Paes (
Runners-up: Mahesh Bhupathi
(
Winners: Serena
Williams/Venus Williams (
Runners-up: Cara Black(
Mixed Doubles
Winners: Carly
Gullickson/Travis Parrott (
Runners-up: Cara Black (
Men’s
Winner: Roger Federer (
Runner-up: Rafael Nadal (
Women’s
Winner: Dinara Safina (
Runner-up: Caroline
Wozniacki (
Monte Carlo Masters,
Winner: Rafael Nadal (
Runner-up: Novak Djokovic (
Indian skipper Mahendra
Singh Dhoni (right) has topped the list of world’s 10 top earning
cricketers compiled by Forbes. Raking in U.S.$10 million, Mr. Dhoni is
at the top of the chart followed by Sachin Tendulkar at the second spot with
earnings worth U.S.$8 million in the list of ‘The World’s Top-Earning
Cricketers’.
While Harbhajan Singh (U.S.$5.5 mn)
and Rahul Dravid (U.S.$5 mn) are at the third and fourth spot, respectively,
Andrew Flintoff with earnings of U.S.$4 mn occupies the fifth place.
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