Sport Events in January 2000Jan. 1: Tamil Nadu men, Railways women, win the team events in the Senior National Basketball championship. Jan. 2: Surya Sekar Ganguly (Goodricke National Academy) wins the Junior National chess championship in Sivakasi. Jan. 4: Australia clinches the Test series against India 3-0 with a thumping win at Sydney. Jan. 5: Tamil Nadu regains Subbiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament. Jan. 8: PSCB men and women lift titles in the Senior National and Inter-State table tennis championship in Lucknow. Jan. 8: Abhin Shyam Gupta and B.R. Meenakshi win the NSCI Grand Prix all India badminton tournament in Mumbai. Jan. 9: Golmard of France wins the ATP Gold Flake open in Chennai. Jan. 12: Manish Chotrani (men) and Mekala Sudbedar (women) claim the titles in the National squash championship in Chennai. Jan. 13: S. Raman and Moum Das lift singles title in the National table tennis championship in Lucknow. Jan. 14: Corinthas lifts the FIFA's Inaugural World Club football championship in Rio De Janerio. Jan. 16: Punjab men, Railway women win the Senior National Volleyball championship in Salem. Jan. 17: Board President XI lift the Wills cricket Trophy. Jan. 19: Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship Jan. 21: Hoang Thanh (Vietnam) and Xu Jun (China) claim the men's and women's title in the Asian Chess championship in Udaipur. Jan. 22: India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka. Jan. 27: Don Budge (84), the first man to win a Grand Slam in tennis passed away in USA. Pugilist Gurucharan Singh wins gold medal in the light heavyweight category of the Seoul International Boxing tournament. Jan. 28: Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup. Jan. 30: Andre Agassi wins the Australian Open tennis championship. He emulates Rod Laver's feat of reaching four successive Grand Slam finals. Gary Kasparov wins the Corus Chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee. Jan. 31: North Zone lifts Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament. |