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Karnataka Holds Off TN ToTriumph  

Karanataka secured a nail-biting draw against Tamilnadu to win the south zone senior men’s hockey championship at the KSHA stadium on 1st june.

Sri ram Balaji – Arun prakash Triumph

N.Sriram Balaji and Arun Prakash Rajagopalan , the top seeds playing together for thr first time, clinched the men’s doubles title in the prem sugar sponsored IIF Mandya open $10000 futures four at the PET stadium on 1 June.

Saket Myneni Bags ITF Men’s Future Tennis Title  

Myneni, the 24-year-old from Hyderabad , won the title in the $10000 prem sugars ITF men’s future tennis tournament in Karnataka, Mandya on 1 June 2012 by defeating top seed vijayant mallik in the final.

New Zealand Beat Argentina 1-0 To Win Sultan Azaln Shah Cup Hockey

Tournament at Ioh, Malaysia on 3 June 2012 Andy Hayward scored the only goal for New Zealand in the summit clash, Which prevented Argentina,  the 2008 winner, to reclaim the trophy.
Awards

• Fairplay trophy was given to “Great Britain”.
• “sardar singh of India” was awarded with the trophy of the Best player of Tournament.
• “Kyle Pontifex of new Zealand” was chosen the Best goal keeper for the tournament.
• “Kyle Pontifex of new Zealand”was awarded with the Man of the final Trophy.
• “Ashkey Jackson of great Britain” emerged the top scorer of the Tournament.

Krishna Poonia Wins Silver Medal At Portland Event      
                    

Indian discus thrower Krishna poonia bagged the silver medal at the post pree elite women’s event in the united states Portland on June 4 2012. Poonia finished second with a throw of 62.34 metre, while the gold went to Russian Darya Pischalnikova recording 66.38 metres in her fifth attempt.

Tiger woods Claimed Memorial Tournament, Won His 73rd PGA Tour Title

Former world no.1 golfer Tiger woods defeated Spencer Levin and Rory sabbatini to win his 73rd PGA tour tittle by two shorts at the memorial tournament on 4 June 2012.The memorial tournament victory is wood’s second PGA tour victory in the current season .

Sanjita Chanu Claims Gold

K.Sanjita Chanu claimed the women’s 48 kg gold medal in the common wealth weight lifting championships at Apia, Somoa sanjita liftes a total of 154 kg to lift the title .

Bhupati -Sania Won French Open Tittle

Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupati of India won their second Grand slam tittle and First french open trophy together after crushing K laudia Jons lahnacik and santiago Gonzakez 7-6(3),6-1 in the mixed doubles final .

Double Delight For India

Srinath ,Ivana wins Asian Junior Titles .Narayana Srikanth and Ivana Maria Furtado completed a grand double for India in Tashkent on 7 June 2012 in the Asian Junior Chess Championship by winning the open boys and girls titles respectively.

Sharapova Won The French Open Women’s Single  Title

Russia’s Maria Sharapova became the 10th woman in tennis history to win all four Grand Slam titles on 9 June  when she defeated Italy’s Sara Errani 6-3, 6-2 in the French Open final.  Sharapova won the French Open Women’s single title on 9 June at Roland Garros stadium in Paris.

Vishu Vardham Emerges The Champion

Second seed P.Vishu Vardhan defeated seventh seeded sriram balaji in the final to take the title Zuari Garden city ITF $10,000 tennis tournament ,Mysore on 9 June 2012.

Saina Nehwal clinched Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold Title

Ace Indian Badminton player Saina Nehwal clinched her 16th career title as she defeated Thailand’s Ratchanok Inathon in the Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold title in Bangkok on 10 June 2012. The Thailand Open Grand Prix is Saina’s second title in the year 2012. Earlier, in April 2012 she had won the Swiss Open Title.

Ross Rides Handsome Falcon To Victory

Mr.N.Anantaram’s Handsome ridden by Ross won the Ambur plate, the feature event of the races held out udhagamandalam on 10 June 2012.

Tejaswni Settles For Bronze

Tejaswini Muley clinchin towards gold slipped midway throufh the final and ended up with junior women’s 50m rifle 3- position bronze as the 22nd meeting of shooting hopes championship concluded at plzen in the czench Republic on 10 June 2012.

West Wood Claims Tittle

World no.3 Lee west wood completed his buid up to nexr US open with a convincing five shut win at the scandinavian open in stockholm on 9 June .

Rudisha Runs Blistering 800 Race

Yohan Blake and fellow Jamacian olympic champion shelly Ann franser pryce won the 100 meter sprints, while Kenya’s David Rudisha scored a sensational victory in the 800 meters at 9 June 2012. Diamond league meet .He ran alone from half way point to win with a time of one minute 41.74 seconds for the fastest time ever registered in the united states and best time in the world in this season.

Rafael Nadal Won His Seventh French Open Singles Title

Spaniard Rafael Nadal on 11 June 2012 defeated Serbian Novak Djokovic to clinch his seventh French Open Singles Title 2012.He is the first man to win a record of 7th french open title.Legend Bjorn Borg’s 6 title feat surpassed by Rafael Nadal. Nadal received ‘La Coupedes Mousquetairer(Musketeers cup).

Indu Chaudhary and Sakshi Malik Won Gold Medals In Asian Junior Wrestling Championship 2012

Indu Chaudhary and Sakshi Malik won gold Medals in Asian Junior Wrestling Championship 2012 at Almaty, Kazakhstan on 13 June 2012. Indu Chaudhay and Sakshi Malik are from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana respectively. The former won the gold medal in 44 Kg and latter in 63 kg.

Double For Anusha

K.Anusha bagges a double winning both the girls under-14 and 16 singles respectively in the NCK Tennis Academy Talent series Tournment on 15 June 2012.

Saina Wins Third Indonesian Open Title

Saina Nehwal’s romance with the Indonesian Open continued as the champion shuttler from India quelled a spirited challenge from Chinese Li Xuerui to record a 13-21, 22-20,21-19 in the 64-minute final to clinch her third title in four final appearances in Jakarta on 17 June

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Appointed As A Brand Ambassador Of Nepal Cricket Association

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was appointed as a brand ambassador of Nepal Cricket Association, Nepal on 17 June 2012.The announcement was made by Posta Bahadur Bogati, Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal.

Tejaswini Mule Won Silver medal at International Junior Shooting Championship

Tejaswini Mule won Silver medal at International Junior Shooting Championship in Suhl, Germany on 17 June 2012. She won the silver medal in the 50 meter rifle prone women’s event.

Harmeet Desai won Under- 21 Men’s Final Brazil Open Table Tennis

Harmeet Desai won Under- 21 Men’s Final Brazil Open Table Tennis on 17 June 2012. He had defeated Belgian Cedric Nuytin by 4-2 and won gold medal. He became first Indian to achieve such an accomplishment.

Seema Antil Triumps

Dusus Thrower seema Antil won the Title in the last chance.trail meet at the mac wilkins academy at portland, oregon,USA, on 16 June with athrow of 61.10 metres.

Series Win For Srilanka

Srilanka helped itself to a series win over pakistan in the final match ODI cricket series at the R.premadasa stadium, colombo on 18 June.

Oudin Wins Maiden WTA Title

American Nelanie Oudin defeated serbian Jelana Jankonic in straight sets to win her first Tennis WTA tour tittle,Bismingham on 18 June.

Simpson Wins U.S. Open

Webb Simpson of the united states came from four shots back to win the U.S.Open Golf on 17 June overtaking a bunch a big names to win his first major title.

Thingalaya Rewrites His National Record

Sidhanth Tingalaya clocked a national record of 13.65 in finishing second in the Belgium national championships in Brussels on 17 June but found himself 0.5 short of meeting the olympic qualification standard.

Indian Hockey Goalkeeper D’Souza Suspended For 1 Year

Indian Hockey Goalkeeper Adrin D’Souza was suspended on 18 June 2012 for his anti- doping rule violation during World Series Hockey (WSH) tournament 2012.The sample was collected on 21 March 2012 after WSH match in between Mumbai Marines and Sher-E-Punjab at Jalandhar. He was the captain of Mumbai Marines. In the test, D’Souza was tested positive for tetra hydrocannabinol (THC).

Humpy Emerges Joint Winner

India’s koneru Hamoy and Anna Muzychuk of sloveria shared the title in the FIDE women’s grand Pix chess at Kazan, Russia on 22june .

Jwala -Diju Duo Crashes out

Olympic -bound shuttlers G.Jwala & V. Diju on 22 June , crashed out of the singapore open super series their last torunment before London olympics.

India Wins Kabaddi Gold

Indian women won the gold in kabaddi by defeating Thailand in the final of the Third Asian Beach Games being held in Haiyang(china).

Miami Heat Crowed Champion

The King is celebrating his first coronation and the Miami Het is NBA champion again.Le Brong’King’ James collected a triple- double by scorinf 26 points and Miami heat sominated the visiting oklahoma city .Thunder on 21 June to win the championchip series 4-1.

Double Title For Krishna Priya

M.Krishna Priya of Lal Bahaddur stadium bagged a double,winning both in singles and doubles titles in the girl’s under-15 category of the Hyderabad district badminton championship at the Madhuranagar Indoor stadium,Hyderabad on 23 June 2012.

Anaka, Kush Claim Titles

Anaka Alankamony of India clinched the girl’s under-19 title in Asian Junior squash Championship in Kish Island on 23 June.

Ankita Down Prerna For Maiden Title

Ankita Raina played with Intensity and confidence to beat prerna Bhambri in the final of  the ONGC $10,000 ITF women’s tennis tournment at the DLTA complex,New Delhi on 23 June.

Ferrer is Champion

Top-seeded david ferrer beeat unseeded philipp petzschner on 23 June to win the unicef open grass tournment for the second time .

Alonso Wins Thrilled

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso won thrilling European grand pix valencia on 24 June to become the first repeat winner of the season that had seen seven different winners from the seven previous races.

Saudi Women To Participate In 2012 Olympics

Saudi Arabia will enter women athletes in the Olympics for the first time in London this summer , the kingdom’s London embassy said.The ultra conservative Muslim nation in one of three countries which never included women in their Olympic teams along with Qatar & Brunei.

Oscar Pistorius Attempts To Became The First Amputee runner to compete at Olympics

Oscar Pistorius, born without fibulos and had his lower kegs amputated. He is a south African Athlete who attempts to became the first amputee runner to compete at the Olympic gaver.Pistorius, who has a personal best of 45.07,won the 100 metres,200 metres ,300 metres and 400 metres gold first amputee to compete at the athletics world championships where he ran in Daegu, south Korea last year.