Deepika Kumari won silver in recurve event at World Archery

Indian archer Deepika Kumari clinched silver medal in recurve event at World Archery in Tokyo. The gold was won by World No.1 Ki Bo-Bae of Korea.

The Indian Cricket team’s Vice-Captain, Virat Kohli was awarded as the ODI Cricketer of the year. He was honored with this title for smashing 1733 runs in 31 matches at an average of 66.65, which included eight centuries and six half-centuries. 

Other Awards are as follows:

· The ICC Cricketer of the year, ICC Test Cricketer of the Year and the People`s Choice Award: Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)

· The ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year : Richard Levi (South Africa)

· The Spirit of Cricket Award : Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)

· The Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Sunil Narine (West Indies)

· The Women`s ODI Cricketer of the Year : Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)

· Women`s T20 Cricketer of the Year : Sarah Taylor (England)

· Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year : George Dockrell (Ireland)

• Andy Murray defeated Novak Djokovic in the US Open men’s singles to become first British man to clinch the championship after 76 years.
• Before this, Fred Perry was the British player to capture a grand slam in US Championship in 1936.
• Murray had recently won Olympic Gold medal in Men’s singles and a silver medal in mixed doubles in the 2012 London Olympics.
• Andy Murray is also the first British player, who bagged an Olympic Gold medal in 100 years.

Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine defeated Manuel Charr of Germany to retain his WBC heavyweight title. 

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.

Serena Williams of USA clinched her fourth Women's Singles US Open title in New York. The fourth seeded Serena beat the top seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. It was Serena's 15th Grand Slam singles title. 

US Open Women’s Doubles:

Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy beat Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka.