Sport Events in January 2002
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Jan 5
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Australia blanks South Africa 3-0 and clinches the Test Series in Australia.
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Spain lifts Hopman Cup tennis event at Perth.
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Jan 6
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Guillermo Canas of Argentina wins the Tata Open tennis tournament at Chennai.
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Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi lift the doubles title of the Tata Open tennis tournament.
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PSCB lifts men's and women's titles in the National and inter-state badminton championship at Lucknow.
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Jan 9
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The women's Indian cricket team clinches the Hero Honda one-day international series against England 3-0 in India.
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Uma Devi of Karnataka wins the National women's billiards championship at Ahmedabad.
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Jan 11
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Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Aparna Popat of PSCB win men's and women's title in the National badminton championship at Lucknow.
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Jan 13
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Maharashtra's Varsha Majumdar wins the National women's snooker championship at Ahmedabad.
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India `A' clinches the NKP Salve Trophy Hero Honda Challenger one-day series at Bangalore.
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Jan 15
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Punjab Police men and Western Railways win the Federation Cup basketball championship at Jamshedpur.
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Muthiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka becomes the quickest bowler in Test history to claim 400 wickets.
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Jan 19
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Football legend Vava dies in Rio De Janeiro.
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Jan 23
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Ponomariov (18 yrs & 104 days) becomes the youngest World champion defeating Vassily Ivanchuk (4.5-2.5) in the final of the World chess championship at Moscow.
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Alok Kumar of Punjab lifts the snooker title in the National championship at Ahmedabad.
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Jan 26
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Jennifer Capriati of America wins the women's title of the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne.
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Jan 27
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Thomas Johansson of Sweden wins the men's title of the Australian Open at Melbourne.
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Events 2002 |