Sport Events in April 1999

Apr. 4

Bengal retained the Santosh Trophy in the National football championship in Chennai.

India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta.

Apr. 9

K. Sasikiran won the National `A' chess title with a round to spare in Nagpur.

Apr. 11

Tamil Nadu men, Railways women emerged National Volleyball League champions in Triprayar.

Byron Black won the singles, Paes-Bhupathi the doubles in the in the ATP-Gold Flake Open in Chennai.

Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.

Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters at the Augusta golf course.

Apr. 23

Karnataka retained the Ranji Trophy, defeating Madhya Pradesh in the final at Bangalore.

Apr. 25

West Indian all-rounder Carl Hooper announced in Barbados his retirement from international cricket.

Lord Killanin, who presided over the International Olympic Committee during one of its most turbulent periods, passed away in Dublin.

Apr. 26

India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.

Apr. 28

Sir Alf Ramsey, the former international who managed England to a World Cup soccer triumph in 1966, passed away in London.

Apr. 30

Former England opening batsman Cyril Washbrook passed away, it was announced in London.

South African opening batsman Andrew Hudson announced in Durban his retirement from international cricket.

Events 1999