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Sports News 2017


SPORTS NEWS 2017

WINNER TITLE NOTES

JANUARY 2017

Serena Williams 2017 Australian Open women’s Final Held in Australia
Pankaj Advani Kolkata Open National Snooker Championship Held in West Bengal
Gujarat Ranji Trophy title Held in Mumbai
Rafael Nadal Mubadala Tennis Championships 2016 Abu Dhabi
Lalchungnunga Germany’s prestigious football league
India 4th straight SAFF Women’s Championship title Kanchenjunga Stadium, India
Rohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Chennai Open doubles title  ─
Farrukh Amonatov Delhi International Chess Grandmaster Held in Tajikistan
Nirmal Yadav(65) National Shooting Championship Held in Delhi
Punjab Royals Pro Wrestling League  ─
Saina Nehwal Malaysia Masters Grand Prix 2017

FEBRUARY 2017

Pankaj Advani 29th National Snooker title
India Asian Junior Squash Championships Malaysia
India T20 Blind World Cup Pakistan was Defeated
Jehan Daruvala New Zealand Grand Prix Car Racing
Dronavalli Harika

Padmini Rout

World Women’s Chess Championship 42nd Chess Olympiad  held in Baku
Pooja Ghatkar Bronze at Shooting World Cup Held in Moscow
Aditya Mehta Asian Para-Road Cycling Championship Held in India
Monika Athare Women’s title Delhi Marothon
Thanackal Gopi Men’s title in Delhi Marothon
Kalinga Lancers Hockey India League 2017 Hockey Stadium in Chandigarh
Ankur Mittal Silver medal in ISSF World Cup 2017
Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu Gold at ISSF World Cup 2017 New Delhi, India
Tarun Kona

Alwin Francis

Gold at 2017 Uganda International Series men’s doubles Kampala, Uganda

MARCH 2017

Pooja Agarwal World Shooting Para Sport World Cup Indian para shooter
Jitu Rai and Amanpreet Singh ISSF World Cup
Dronavalli Harika World Women’s Chess Championship (Bronze) Indian Chess Grandmaster
Duo Tarun Kona and Alwin Francis Uganda International Series Doubles Title Indian Badminton
Rohan Bopanna Dubai Tennis Championship Dubai
Sam Querrey (American) ATP Mexico Open 2017 Acapulco in Mexico
Andy Murray Dubai Duty Free Tennis of 2017 Defeated Fernando Verdasco.
Indian women’s ice hockey team Challenge Cup of Asia Bangkok.
Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas Brasil Open title By beating Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas
Indian Open title SSP Chawrasia Golf
Title of All England Open badminton Lee Chong Wei Malaysia
Women’s World Snooker 2017, Silver Vidya Pillai India
ISSF Shotgun World Cup Ankur Mittal New Delhi
Australian Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel Formula One
Gold in Asia Cup 2017 India Indian men’s compound archery team
Harmanpreet Kaur T20 team’s Player of the Year She was named in the 13-member squad for the Sydney Thunder franchise

APRIL 2017

India Open title India Open title Against Spanish Olympic champion
against Spanish Olympic champion Winner of Prague Half Marathon Kenya
K Shyam Kumar Gold at Thailand International Indian boxer

Thailand International Tournament in Bangkok

Lewis Hamilton Chinese Grand Prix 2017 Formula One
Pankaj Advani Asian billiards title He bagged Sixteen-time World Champion
Gayatri and Samiya Jr Grand Prix badminton They are National Badminton coach Pullela Gopichand’s daughters.
K Shyam Kumar Gold at Thailand International Indian boxer

Thailand International Tournament in Bangkok

Lewis Hamilton Chinese Grand Prix 2017 Formula One
Pankaj Advani Asian billiards title He bagged Sixteen-time World Champion
Gayatri and Samiya Jr Grand Prix badminton They are National badminton coach Pullela Gopichand’s daughters.
Rafael Nadal Monte Carlo Masters Tennis tournament 2017 Monaca
Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas Men’s doubles crown Monaca
Sagar Baheti Boston Marathon First visually impaired Indian runner
Rafael Nadal Monte Carlo Masters Men’s Singles title This is his 70th career trophy
Sudarsan Pattnaik World Sand Sculptures Championship Internationally renowned sand artist
Pankaj Advani Asian Snooker Championship Wins Silver Medal
Rafael Nadal Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell title
Valtteri Bottas Russian Grand Prix He Claims maiden Grand Prix

MAY 2017

John Higgins Betfred World Snooker Championship Theatre in Sheffield, England
Leander Paes Tallahassee Challenger Title Tennis
Pankaj Advani Asian Snooker Championship Won silver, held in Doha, Qatar
Joshna Chinappa Asian Squash title First player from India to win
Soumyajit Ghosh 2017 ITTF Challenge Chile Open Santiago
Shiva Thapa Asian Boxing Championship (silver medal) Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Great Britain Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey
Michelle Skeries (Germany)

Heena Sidhu (India-Bronze)

48th Grand Prix of Liberation Plzen Shooting championships New Delhi
Bajranj Punia Asian Wrestling Championship First gold medal for India
Ramudri Rao World Para Athletics Grand Prix Jaipur
Arjun Maini Grand Prix 3 race Barcelona
Rafael Nadal 5th Madrid Masters title Spain
Lewis Hamilton Spanish Grand Prix

JUNE 2017

Krishnan Sasikiran Capablanca memorial chess Champion Varadero, Cuba.
Sai Praneeth Thailand Open men’s singles title Hyderabad
Vietnam Grand Master Nguyen Duc Hoa Mumbai Mayor Chess title Mumbai, India
Shashikant Kutwal World chess championship for differently-abled Held in Slovakia
Jelena Ostapenko Women’s singles French Open Title She is From Latvia
Rafael Nadal Men’s singles French Open Title Spain
Ryan Harrison Michael Venus Men’s doubles Men’s doubles French Open Title US . Australia Respectively
Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová Women’s doubles French Open Title US ,Czech Republic Respectively
Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada)

Rohan Bopanna (India) Anna-Lena Grönefeld (Germany)

Robert Farah (Colombia)

Mixed doubles Mixed doubles French Open Title
Lewis Hamilton 6th Canadian Grand Prix title Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Canada
Jeje Lalpekhlua AIFF Player of the Year award
Jitu Rai, Heena Sidhu World Cup Shooting Event Mixed Titles New Delhi, India
Kidambi Srikanth Indonesia Super Series Premier
Pakistan ICC Champions Trophy title England and Wales
Ankush Dahiya (60kg) Ulaanbaatar Cup boxing tournament Mongolia
Kidambi Srikanth Australia Open Super Series India shuttler
Roger Federer Halle Open title or Gerry Weber Open Germany
AnishBhanwala ISSF Junior World Championship Pistol category

JULY 2017

Ritika Thaker Women’s singles Ivory Coast International tournament Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Ritika Thaker

Simran

women’s doubles Ivory Coast International tournament Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Germany 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup Held in Russia
Jehan Daruvala FIA Formula 3 European Championship race Nuremberg circuit, Europe
Pankaj Advani Asian snooker championship Held in Chandigarh
Manpreet kaur, Govindan laxmanan (Gold) ASIAN athletics championships Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, India
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas 2017 Austrian Grand Prix
Harinder Pal Sandhu 2017 Australian Open title
Atthaya Thitikul Professional golf event Fourteen-year-old amateur
P V Sindhu Sportsperson of the Year award Maruti Suzuki Sportsperson of the Year’ Charity Gala Awards.
Sundar Singh Gurjar World Para Athletics C’ship (Gold) Javelin Throw
Garbine Muguruza Women’s Wimbledon title Shattered Venus
Marcelo Melo and Lukasz Kubot Men’s doubles title at Wimbledon
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina Women’s doubles Wimbledon title
Dameet Singh IAFF World U-18 Championships (Sliver) Held in Nairobi, Kenya
Harinder Pal Sandhu Victorian Open squash title Victorian Open squash, a PSA Tour event, in Melbourne.
Pretty (bronze)

Tulika Maan (bronze)

Pinky Balhara (Bronze)

Asian junior C’ship Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Amit Saroha (Silver) World Para Athletics C’ship

Indian Team (Gold and Bronze) Global robotics Olympiad Heald in Washington
Neel Joshi and Ananya Dabke Dutch Open Junior Squash Championships Heald in  Amsterdam, Netherlands
Manudev National Masters snooker title

Vishnu Vardhan and Toshihide Matsui President’s Cup Astana.
Sachin Siwach (Gold) Commonwealth Youth Games Held in Bahamas.
Jordan Spieth British Open Title

Konsam Ormila Devi (Gold) Asian Youth & Junior Weightlifting c’ship Held in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Diksha (Silver) Deaflympics (Deaf Olympics Held in Turkey
Ajay Singh (Bronze ) Asian Youth Weightlifting Held in Kathmandu, Nepal
Shiva Thapa
Manoj KumarAmit Phangal

Gaurav Bidhuri

Satish Kumar

Czech boxing tournament

48th Grand Prix Usti Nad Labem

Event Held in Czech Republic.
Sebastian Vettel Hungarian Grand Prix

AUGUST 2017

India Jordan Open Table tennis title  
Indian shuttler C Rahul Yadav Lagos Open Nigeria
Manju Kumari (Bronze) Junior World Wrestling Tampere, Finland
Vijender Singh WBO Oriental Super Middleweight title

Ankur Mittal Asian Shotgun Championship Astana, Kazakhstan
Real Madrid European Super Cup UEFA Europa League
Amit Kumar Saroha World Para Athletics Championship

IAAF World Athletics Championships 2017 African Wayde van Niekerk

Maheshwari chauhan (Bronze) Asian shotgun championship Kazakhstan
Lakshya Sen Bulgaria open international series title Sofia, Bulgaria.
India world dwarf games Canada
Shapath Bharadwaj Bronze at Junior Shotgun World Cup Porpetto, Italy.
Cristiano Ronaldo UEFA Player of the Year award Season for 2016-2017
England 2018 ITTF Team World Cup  Held in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Lewis Hamilton Belgian Grand prix

Indian U-15 football team SAFF Championships Title Kathmandu, Nepal
P V Sindhu (Silver) World Badminton Championship 2017 Glasgow, Scotland
Gaurav Bidhuri (India) World Boxing C’ships 2017 Hamburg, Germany
Tomokazu Harimoto ITTF men’s singles tournament. Düsseldorf, Germany

SEPTEMBER 2017

Gaurav Bidhuri (Bronze) World Boxing Championships American Duke Ragan.
Lewis Hamilton Italian Grand Prix

Konsam Ormila Devi Commonwealth Youth weightlifting C’ship Gold Coast, Australia.
Viswanathan Anand World Chess Cup Tbilisi, Malaysia
Ankur Mittal (Sliver) ISSF World Shotgun Championship

India Wrestler Sonam World Cadet Wrestling Championship Athens, Greece
Martina Hingis US Open women’s doubles Grand Slam Title USA
Sloane Stephens US open Women’s Singles Title USA
Spain’s Rafael Nadal US Open title Men’s Title USA
Ana Carrasco World Championship motorbike race First woman to win
Lewis Hamilton Singapore Grand Prix

P V Sindhu Korean Open title SK Handball Stadium, South Korea
 

Purnima Hembram(athletics)

Asian indoor meet Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Mudit Dani Under-23 table tennis tournament

2017 Butterfly Badger Open

Milwaukee, in Wisconsin (United States).
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal Laver Cup 2017 Prague

OCTOBER 2017

Max Verstappen Malaysian Gran Prix

Pooja Kadian Wushu World Championship Gold Held in Russia
Rafael Nadal China Open title
Lewis Hamilton Japanese Grand Prix
Anupama Ramachandran Under-16 Snooker Championship Title Held in St. Petersburg, Russia
RMV Gurusaidutt Bulgarian International Future Series tournament
Selena Selvakumar(17) Egypt Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Ope
India Asia Cup Hockey title Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gaganjeet Bhullar 8th Asian Tour Golf title

Kidambi Srikanth Superseries title of 2017 Defeated Korean veteran Lee Hyun I
Amanpreet Singh (Bronze) ISSF World Cup Final

Sangram Dahiya (Silver) ISSF World Cup Final Kerrville, Texas
Indian Women’s Team Women’s Asia Cup 2017 Kakamigahara, Japan
England FIFA U-17 World Cup Kolkata, India
Patna Pirates Pro Kabaddi Title Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Bihar
Indian Junior Men’s Hockey (Bronze) Sultan of Johor Cup
Lewis Hamilton Mexican Grand Prix
Geeta Phogat All India Police Championship
Heena Sidhu (Gold) Commonwealth Shooting C’ships Brisbane, Australia

NOVEMBER 2017

India T20I cricket, Against New Zealand
Gagan Narang Silver medal  in Commonwealth Shooting Championships Gold Coast
Annu Raj Singh Bronze medal in the women’s 50m pistol Commonwealth Shooting Championships Gold Coast
Shahzar Rizvi, Pooja Ghatkar, Jitu Rai Gold at Commonwealth Shooting Championship Gold Coast
Anjum Moudgil Bronze at Commonwealth Shooting women’s 50m Rifle Prone Championships

Achanta Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan Bronze medal at the prestigious 2017 Challenge Belgium Open Table Tennis tournament in De Haan (Belgium)
Aditi Ashok Fatima Bin Mubarak Ladies Open/Ladies European Tour

Indian women Team women’s Asia Cup hockey title The team qualify for Hockey World Cup
Mary Asian Boxing Championship Won Gold medal
Saina Nehwal Senior National Badminton Championships Held in Nagpur
Pankaj Advani IBSF World Billiards Championship 2017 Held In Doha, Qatar
Marc Márquez MotoGP world title

Sebastian Vettel Brazilian Grand Prix

Sushil Kumar National Wrestling championship Won Gold in 74kg freestyle competition
Sakshi Malik, National Wrestling championship  Gold Medal in women’s category
A Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan 2017 World Tour Swedish Open Won bronze medal
Lionel Messi European Golden Shoe award

Ritu Phogat U-23 World Wrestling C’ship Held in Poland
Mirabai Chanu Gold Medal at World Weightlifting Championships Held in US

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