rafal nadal

Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera (Spanish pronunciation: [rafaˈel naˈðal]) (born 3 June 1986) is a former World No. 1 Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked #2. Nadal has won six Grand Slam singles titles, and the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles.

Nadal was ranked World Number #1 from 18 August 2008 to 5 July 2009. In 2009, he became the first player to simultaneously hold Grand Slam titles on clay, grass, and hardcourt. His success on clay has earned him the nickname The King of Clay.[1][2][3]

Nadal was ranked World No. 2, behind Roger Federer for a record 160 weeks before earning the top spot.[4]. He has subsequently lost this position again to Federer following the Swiss player's triumph at the Madrid Masters (where Federer beat him in the final), French Open and Wimbledon. In 2008, he was given the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports, in recognition of his achievements in tennis.[5]

CHENAI SUPER KINGS

Coach: Stephen Fleming
 
Captain: M S Dhoni
 
Colours: Yellow and Blue
 
Founded: 2008  
Home Ground: MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk)
 
Capacity: 50,000  

Chennai Super Kings is the Chennai based franchise of the Indian Premier League. The team is led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, currently the captain of the Indian cricket team, and coached by Stephen Fleming. The M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (often referred to as Chepauk) is the Super Kings' home ground.Popular drummer Sivamani is the brand ambassador.
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The name Chennai Super Kings draws on the history of rulers emerging from this region. It should also be noted that the Indian Cricket League named their Chennai franchise Chennai Superstars a year prior to the formation of the Super Kings.

The logo is inspired by popular folk-lore which holds that the lion is the king of the jungle. The minimalist style is meant to convey a sense of youth and vibrancy. The team colours are yellow and blue. Yellow for the fiery spirit that burns in the team's belly. Blue represents infinity, as one of the oldest yet progressive regions of the world.

Franchise history
The Chennai Super Kings are a part of the eight club Indian Premier League. The franchise is currently owned by India Cements, who paid US$91 million to acquire the rights to the franchise for 10 years in 2008. N. Srinivasan, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of India Cements Ltd., is the defacto owner of the Chennai Super Kings, by means of his position within the company. He is also the Secretary of the BCCI.
Krishnamachari Srikkanth, former captain of the Indian Cricket Team, is the brand ambassador for the franchise at present, and former Indian opener V. B. Chandrasekhar is the Chief Selector. To nourish more support from local fans, Joseph Vijay, a popular tamil actor, was made their brand ambassador for the year 2008.
[edit] 2008 Season
 

A Chennai vs Kolkata match in progress at the M.A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium
The Super Kings had a solid start to their 2008 IPL Season, winning their first 4 matches. However, their top order and bowling attack took a hit after Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey and Jacob Oram left the team for international duty. The team's performance reflected this, as they proceeded to lose their next 3 matches. The batting, although inconsistent, eventually adjusted to the losses of Hayden and Hussey with contributions from Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Albie Morkel. The gap in the team’s bowling left by Oram’s departure was eventually filled by the arrival of Makhaya Ntini and Morkel (both of whom were playing the Pro20 domestic tournament in South Africa during the start of the tournament) and the emergence of Manpreet Gony. A win in the final league match against the Deccan Chargers ensured their progress into the semi-finals.
The team defeated the Kings XI Punjab in the semifinal by 9 wickets. They lost the final to Rajasthan Royals by three wickets off the last ball.
 2009 Season
Apart from Andrew Flintoff, the new players who have been signed up for the 2009 season are Thilan Thushara from Srilanka, George Bailey from Tasmania, Australia and Murali Vijay, the Tamil Nadu batsman who played for India in a single Test in Nagpur against Australia in 2008. Sudeep Tyagi, who missed the 2008 season due to injury, makes a comeback this year. In addition, Shadab Jakati of Goa was also added to the team, a left field selection by V.B. Chandrasekhar the team's Director of Cricketing Operations. Michael Hussey, one of the stars of the 2008 season, has opted out of the 2009 season.
The Superkings lost their first match to the Mumbai Indians by 19 runs, but won the second match against the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 92 runs, with the man of the match being Muralitharan and Matthew Hayden scoring 65 off 35 balls.They have entered the Semifinals after their win against Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets.
Andrew Flintoff picked up a knee injury and was withdrawn from the tournament and returned to England early in the tournament.
But their IPL title hopes have been grounded by resurgent Royal Challengers, Bangalore in their semi-final clash, so they did not qualify for the IPL final.
Players
Chennai Super Kings did not have an icon player. This allowed the Super Kings to bid successfully on Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Muralitharan, two of the six A listed players. At the time of the bidding, Dhoni's US$1.5 Million was the highest bid for any player and still remains the highest bid for any Indian player.
In February 2009, the Chennai Super Kings purchased Andrew Flintoff for USD1,550,000, $600,000 above his base price, making him, along with Kevin Pietersen the highest paid IPL player.
 Current Squad
Chennai Super Kings Roster 

Batsmen
• 01 Murali Vijay 
• 03 Suresh Raina 
• 06 Abhinav Mukund 
• 10 George Bailey 
• 28 Matthew Hayden 
• 33 Subramaniam Badrinath 
• 42 Arun Karthik 
• 48 Michael Hussey 
• -- Sakthi Vel 
Bowlers
• 08 Muttiah Muralitharan 
• 16 Makhaya Ntini 
• 17 Sudeep Tyagi 
• 21 Palani Amarnath 
• 55 Lakshmipathy Balaji 
• 76 Manpreet Gony 
 Wicket Keepers
• 07 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain) 
• 09 Parthiv Patel 
All Rounders
• 11 Andrew Flintoff 
• 12 Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan 
• 13 Joginder Sharma 
• 14 Ravichandran Ashwin 
• 24 Jacob Oram 
• 27 Shadab Jakati 
• 81 Albie Morkel 
• 97 Thilan Thushara 
• -- Napoleon Einstein 
• -- Viraj Kadbe 
• -- Selvam Suresh Kumar 
 Coaches 
• Coach: Stephen Fleming 
• Physical Trainer: Gregory King 
• Physiotherapist : Tommy Simsek 
• Masseur : Roney Parry 
• Manager : Russel Radhakrishnann. 

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[edit] Administration
• Owner - India Cements Ltd. 
• Ambassadors - Krishnamachari Srikkanth 
• Chief Selector - V. B. Chandrasekhar 
• Music Directors - Mani Sharma 
• AD Agency - Salt Creatives 
Fixtures and Results
 2008 season
No  
Date  
Opponent  
Venue  
Result  

1 19 April Kings XI Punjab
Mohali
Won by 33 runs, MoM – Michael Hussey – 116* (54)

2 23 April Mumbai Indians
Chennai
Won by 6 runs, MoM – Matthew Hayden – 81 (46)
3 26 April Kolkata Knight Riders
Chennai
Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Jacob Oram – 3/32 (4 overs)
4 28 April Royal Challengers Bangalore
Bangalore
Won by 13 runs, MoM – Mahendra Singh Dhoni – 65 (30)
5 2 May Delhi Daredevils
Chennai
Lost by 8 wickets
6 4 May Rajasthan Royals
Jaipur
Lost by 8 wickets
7 6 May Deccan Chargers
Chennai
Lost by 7 wickets
8 8 May Delhi Daredevils
Delhi
Won by 4 Wickets, MoM – Mahendra Singh Dhoni – 33 (33)
9 10 May Kings XI Punjab
Chennai
Won by 18 runs, MoM – Lakshmipathy Balaji – 5/24 (4 overs)
10 14 May Mumbai Indians
Mumbai
Lost by 9 wickets
11 18 May Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata
Won by 3 runs (D/L method), MoM – Makhaya Ntini – 4/21 (4 overs)
12 21 May Royal Challengers Bangalore
Chennai
Lost by 14 runs
13 24 May Rajasthan Royals
Chennai
Lost by 10 runs, MoM – Albie Morkel – 2/35 (4 overs) and 71 (40)
14 27 May Deccan Chargers
Hyderabad
Won by 7 wickets,MoM – Suresh Raina – 54* (43)
15 31 May Kings XI Punjab (Semi Final #2) Mumbai
Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Makhaya Ntini – 2/23 (4 overs)
16 1 June Rajasthan Royals (Final) Navi Mumbai
Lost by 3 wickets
Chennai Superkings were the runners up in the inaugural edition of the IPL
 2009 season
No  
Date  
Opponent  
Venue  
Result  

1 18 April Mumbai Indians
Cape Town
Lost by 19 runs
2 20 April Royal Challengers Bangalore
Port Elizabeth
Won by 92 runs, MoM - Muralitharan - 3/11 (4 overs)
3 23 April Delhi Daredevils
Durban
Lost by 9 runs
4 25 April Kolkata Knight Riders
Cape Town
Match abandoned due to intermittent rain
5 27 April Deccan Chargers
Durban
Lost by 6 wickets
6 30 April Rajasthan Royals
Pretoria
Won by 38 runs, MoM - Suresh Raina - 98 (55), 1/11 (2 overs), 2 catches
7 2 May Delhi Daredevils
Johannesburg
Won by 18 runs, MoM - Shadab Jakati - 4/24 (4 overs)
8 4 May Deccan Chargers
East London
Won by 78 runs, MoM - M.S.Dhoni 58* (37)
9 7 May Kings XI Punjab
Pretoria
Won by 12 runs, MoM - Mathew Hayden 89 (58)

10 9 May Rajasthan Royals
Kimberley
Won by 7 wickets, MoM- Subramaniam Badrinath 59* (41)

11 14 May Royal Challengers Bangalore
Durban
Lost by 2 wickets
12 16 May Mumbai Indians
Port Elizabeth
Won by 7 wickets, MoM- Matthew Hayden 60* (57)

13 18 May Kolkata Knight Riders
Pretoria
Lost by 7 wickets
14 20 May Kings XI Punjab
Durban
Won by 27 runs, MoM - Muralitharan - 2/8 (4 overs)
15 23 May Royal Challengers Bangalore
Johannesburg
Lost by 6 wickets 
Chennai Superkings were the semi-finalists in the IPL edition 2009

INDIAN PRIEMER LEAGUE

The Indian Premier League (also known as the "DLF Indian Premier League" and often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and chaired by the Chairman & Commissioner IPL, BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi. The first season of the Indian Premier League commenced on 18 April 2008, and ended on 1 June 2008 with the victory of the Rajasthan Royals against Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.
As the second season of the IPL coincided with multi-phase 2009 Indian general elections, the Indian Central Government refused to provide the Indian paramilitary forces to provide security, saying the forces would be streched too thinly if they were to safeguard both the IPL and the elections. As a result, the BCCI decided to host the second season of the league outside India.[3] All 59 matches of the second season, abbreviated as IPL 2, took place in South Africa. Ironically, South Africa were also scheduled to have elections duing the IPL, however, the South African government provided adequate security for both the South African General Elections and the IPL.

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Franchise

Mumbai Indians
Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries)
$ 111.9 m
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Vijay Mallya (UB Group)
$ 111.6 m
Deccan Chargers
Deccan Chronicle(Venkat Ram Reddy)
$ 107.0 m
Chennai Super Kings
India Cements (N.Srinivasan)
$ 91.90 m
Delhi Daredevils
GMR Holdings (Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao)
$ 84.0 m
Kings XI Punjab
Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Priety Zinta, Mohit Burman (Dabur) and Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group)
$ 76.0 m
Kolkata Knight Riders
Red Chillies Entertainment (Shahrukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Juhi Chawla and J Mehta)
$ 75.1 m
Rajasthan Royals
Emerging Media (Lachlan Murdoch, A.R Jha and Suresh Chellaram), Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra $ 67.0 m

vodafone

Vodafone is a British mobile network operator with its headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about £75 billion (August 2008). Vodafone currently has operations in 25 countries and partner networks in a further 42 countries.[1]

The name Vodafone comes from Voice data fone, chosen by the company to "reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones."[2]

As of 2009 Vodafone had an estimated 303 million customers in 25 markets across 5 continents.[3] On this measure, it is the second largest mobile telecom group in the world behind China Mobile.

In the United States, Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on number of subscribers.

puma

Puma AG Rudolf Dassler Sport (Puma) (FWB: PUMG) is a large German multinational company that produces high-end athletic shoes, lifestyle footwear and other sportswear.

The company is known for its association football shoes and has sponsored footballers, including Pelé, Eusébio, Johan Cruijff, Enzo Francescoli, Diego Maradona, Lothar Matthäus, Kenny Dalglish, Didier Deschamps and Gianluigi Buffon. Puma is also the sponsor of the Jamaica track athlete Usain Bolt who won three gold medals by breaking the men's 100m, 200m and 4x100m world records in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the United States, the company is probably best-known for the suede basketball shoe it introduced in 1968, which eventually bore the name of New York Knicks basketball star Walt "Clyde" Frazier, and for its endorsement partnership with Joe Namath.

The company also offers lines shoes and sports clothing, designed by Lamine Kouyate, Amy Garbers, and others. Since 1996 Puma has intensified its activities in the United States. Puma owns 25 percent of American brand sports clothing maker Logo Athletic, which is licensed by American professional basketball and Association football leagues. Since 2007 Puma AG is part of the PPR French luxury group.

nike

Nike, Inc. (pronounced /ˈnaɪki/) (NYSE: NKE) is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area. It is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel[2] and a major manufacturer of sports equipment with revenue in excess of $18.6 billion USD in its fiscal year 2008 (ending May 31, 2008). As of 2008, it employed more than 30,000 people worldwide. Nike and Precision Castparts are the only Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the state of Oregon, according to The Oregonian.

The company was founded on January 25, 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight, and officially became Nike, Inc. in 1978. The company takes its name from Nike (Greek Νίκη pronounced [níːkɛː]), the Greek goddess of victory. Nike markets its products under its own brand as well as Nike Golf, Nike Pro, Nike+, Air Jordan, Nike Skateboarding and subsidiaries including Cole Haan, Hurley International, Umbro and Converse. Nike also owned Bauer Hockey (later renamed Nike Bauer) between 1995 and 2008.[3] In addition to manufacturing sportswear and equipment, the company operates retail stores under the Niketown name. Nike sponsors many high profile athletes and sports teams around the world, with the highly recognized trademarks of "Just do it" and the Swoosh logo.

reebok

Reebok International Limited, a subsidiary of German sportswear giant Adidas, is a producer of athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories. The name comes from the Afrikaans spelling of rhebok, a type of African antelope or gazelle. The company, founded in Bolton, England in 1895, was originally called J.W. Foster and Sons but was renamed Reebok in 1958. The company's founders, Joe and Jeff Foster, found the name in a dictionary won in a race by Joe Foster as a boy; the dictionary was a South African edition, hence the spelling.