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Jan 15, 2020

Five-year-old Hyderabad Boy Achieves Guinness World Record In Taekwondo

A five-year-old boy Aashman Taneja has made a Guinness world record in Taekwondo for the most full contact knee strikes in one-hour non-stop.
Aashman is an incredible Taekwondo player and an athlete at a very young age. He is a USA World Open Taekwondo Silver medalist and a proud Guinness World Record holder now.
He attempted the Guinness World Record for the most full contact knee strikes in one-hour non-stop and successfully achieved more than 1200 knee strikes.

Australia Beat India By 10 Wickets In First ODI

David Warner and Aaron Finch's record opening stand helped Australia beat India by 10 wickets in the first ODI at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Both batsmen scored centuries as Australia chased down the target in 37.4 overs.
Put in to bat first, the Indian team was bowled out for 255.

Barcelona Becomes Highest-Earning Football Club

FC Barcelona has topped the list of the richest football clubs in the world for the first time with a revenue of 840.8 million euros ($935.97 million) during the 2018-19 season.
The increase in its earnings has allowed Barca to surpass its arch-rival Real Madrid, which earned 757.3 million euros, one per cent more than the previous season, when its revenue stood at 750.9 million euros.
The top 10 of the list includes five English clubs -- Manchester United, which is in third place, Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea -- German club Bayern Munich in fourth, France''s Paris Saint-Germain in fifth and Italy''s Juventus in 10th.

Jan 14, 2020

India Topped The Annual Ranking By Nation 2019 By ISSF

India topped the Annual Ranking by Nation (Rifle, Pistol & Shotgun ISSF World Cups for the year 2019 by International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). It is followed by China and the United States. India leads the standings with 30 medals overall. The tally stood at 21 gold, 6 silver, and 3 bronze.
♦ China stood second with a medal tally of 11 gold, 15 silver, and 18 bronze.
♦ The USA stands third with a medal tally of six gold six silver and three bronze.

Real Madrid Beat Atletico Madrid on Penalties to Win 2020 Spanish Super Cup

Real Madrid won the Spanish Super Cup after beating local rivals Atletico Madrid 4-1 in a penalty shootout on Sunday at the King Abdullah Sport City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Sergio Ramos netted the winning penalty after Dani Carvajal, Rodrygo and Luka Modric had all sent Jan Oblak the wrong way, while Saul Niguez hit the post, and Thomas' spot-kick was saved by Thibaut Courtois.
The match had ended 0-0 after 120 minutes despite chances for both sides.
Zinedine Zidane's first piece of silverware since returning as manager back in March is Real's 11th Super Cup win in total, two fewer than Barcelona's record of 13.

Jan 13, 2020

Pliskova Wins In Brisbane To Fire Australian Open Warning

Pliskova's third Brisbane title in four years and her 16th on the WTA tour stamps her as one of the favourites for the upcoming Australian Open.
The former world number one is yet to win a Grand Slam singles title, but she reached the semi-finals in Melbourne last year, falling in three sets to eventual champion Naomi Osaka.

Men's singles Perodua Malaysian Masters final

Japan's No. 1 men's singles shuttler Kento Momota (pic) ended his wait for a first title in Malaysia when he defeated Denmark's Viktor Axelsen in the Perodua Malaysian Masters final.
The defending world champion, who suffered a first round defeat last year (2019), was a class above as he took 54 minutes to subdue the world No. 5 Axelsen with a 24-22,21-11 win.
In the women's singles, China's world No. 2 Chen Yufei maintained her fiery form by blowing away Taiwan's world No. 2 Tai Tzu-ying 21-17,21-10 in just 37 minutes.
In the men's doubles, South Korea's Kim Gi-jung-Lee Yong-dae completed their great run in the competition when they upset China's world No. 4 pair Li Junhui-Liu Yuchen 21-14 21-16 in 40 minutes.

Novak Djokovic Leads Serbia To Glory Against Spain In Inaugural ATP Cup

Novak Djokovic has now beaten Rafael Nadal 29 times in 55 matches in the greatest tennis rivalry of the modern era, but he agreed that none matched the intensity of the 6-2, 7-6 (4) win that propelled Serbia towards victory in the inaugural ATP Cup here in Sydney.

Kenya's Kipruto Sets 10km Road World Record In Valencia

Kenya's Rhonex Kipruto set a new world record for the 10 kilometers road race in Valencia, Spain, by recording a new time of 26 minutes 24 seconds, 14 seconds shy of the last record.
The previous record had been set just six weeks ago by Joshua Cheptegei, who's feat also came in Valencia but on a different course.
Kipruto also bettered the 5km road world record by reaching the halfway mark of the World Athletics Gold Label event in 13:18.
Benard Kimeli grabbed second place in Valencia to make it a one-two for Kenya, coming second in 27:12 ahead of Switzerland's Julien Wanders who finished third in a new European record of 27:13.

Serena Williams Breaks Three-Year Title Drought With ASB Classic Win

Serena Williams broke a three-year title drought when she beat fellow American Jessica Pegula 6-3, 6-4 to win the singles final at the ASB Classic.
The 23-time major winner donated her $43,000 winner's check to the fundraising appeal for victims of Australian wildfires, joining many other tennis stars, such as Ash Barty, Nick Kygrios, Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova, who have pledged money to the already months-long fire emergency there.

Jan 12, 2020

Qatar Open 2020

The season of good tidings is finally beginning to dawn in the world for Indian tennis as the duo of Rohan Bopanna and Welsey Koolhof pulled off a stunning comeback to lift the Qatar Open title. Fighting their way back from a set down, Bopanna and Koolhof displayed quality tennis en route to scripting victory in 3-6, 6-2, 10-6 and bagging the first doubles title of the season.
The third-seeded pair has taken down quite a few big names while making it to the summit clash against the unseeded British-Mexican duo of Luke Bambridge and Santiago Gonzalez in Doha.

Jan 10, 2020

Fouaad Mirza Becomes 1st Indian Equestrian To Qualify For Tokyo Olympics

Double Asian Games medallist equestrian Fouaad Mirza on 7 January, 2020 officially became the first Indian to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, ending a wait spanning two decades.
As per the latest rankings issued by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI), which include all results between January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019, Mirza's Tokyo Games qualification has been confirmed.
The 27-year-old Mirza, who had won a silver in individual eventing in the 2018 Asian Games, had scored 34 points on his first horse Fernhill Facetime and 30 with his second horse Touchingwood.

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