 
(76) List out the four major coral reef areas in India
(77) What is Child Malnutrition?
(78) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
(79) Electoral college of electing vice president of India
(80) List the countries in ASEAN
(81) National Parks in Tamil Nadu
(82) Aavaiyar Award by Government of Tamil Nadu
(83) National Highways in Tamil Nadu
(84) Biosphere Reserves in Tamil Nadu
(85) APJ Abdul Kalam Award by Government of Tamil Nadu
(86) Bundelkhand
(87) Bhangar and Khadar
(88) Tamil Nadu Plain
(89) Mention the various factors on which climate of a place is determined.
(90) Jet streams
(91) Mention the six major plates of the world according to the Continental Drift Theory of Alfred Wegner
(92) What is Astronomical Unit?
(93) Laterite Soil in India
(94) Agricultural seasons in India
(95) Land Pollution
(96) G7 Summit 2016
(97) New Education Policy
(98) Exercise SAREX - 16
(99) Full form of the following:
(100) India's Rail Auto Hub
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Jul 23, 2016
[QandA] Group I Mains - Mock Questions - Short Answers - Part II
[CA] Wimbledon 2016 Winners
Wimbledon 2016
|
Category
|
Winner (s)
|
Runner (s)
|
|
Men’s Singles
|
Andy Murray
(UK)
|
Milos Raonic
(Canada)
|
|
Women’s Singles
|
Serena Williams
(USA)
|
Angelique Kerber
(Germany)
|
|
Men’s Doubles
|
Feliciano Lopez
(Spain)
|
Julien Benneteau
(France)
|
|
Marc Lopeze
(Spain)
|
Edouard Roger Vasselin
(France)
|
|
|
Women’s Singles
|
Serena Williams
(USA)
|
Timea Babos
(Hungary)
|
|
Venus Williams
(USA)
|
Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
|
|
|
Mixed Doubles
|
Henri Kontinen
(Finland)
|
Robert Farah
(Colombia)
|
|
Heather Watson
(UK)
|
Anna – Lena Gronefeld
(Germany)
|
|
|
Boys’ Singles
|
Denis Shapovalov (Canada)
|
|
|
Girls’ Singles
|
Anastasia Potapova (Russia)
|
|
Andy Murray
- it is his third
Grandslam title in Men's Singles [Earlier he won US Open in 2012, Wimbledon in
2013]
- He came to the
finals in 2016's Australian Open and French Open
- 2012 London
Olympics: Gold Medal winner and won Silver medal in Mixed Doubles
- Murray was voted
the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Serena Williams
- She became the
world no 1 for the first time on 2002
- Her total of 22
Grand Slam singles titles is tied with Steffi Graf for the most in the Open
Era, and tied for second on the all-time list behind Margaret Court
- She is the only
tennis player – female or male – to have won singles titles at least six times
in three of the four Grand Slam tournaments
- She is also the
only tennis player to have won 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two separate
decades
- She has won 14
Grand Slam doubles titles with her sister Venus, and the pair are unbeaten in
Grand Slam doubles finals
Most wins per event & discipline:
|
Grand Slam
|
Men’s Singles
|
Women’s Singles
|
||
|
Player
|
No of times won
|
Player
|
No of times won
|
|
|
Australian Open
|
Roy Emerson
|
06
|
Margaret Court
|
11
|
|
Novak Djokovic
|
06
|
|
|
|
|
French Open
|
Rafael Nadal
|
09
|
Chris Evert
|
07
|
|
Wimbledon
|
Roger Federer
|
07
|
Martina
Navratilova
|
09
|
|
Pete Sampras
|
||||
|
William Renshaw
|
||||
|
US Open
|
Bill Tilden
|
07
|
Molla Bjurstedt Mallory
|
08
|
|
Bill Larned
|
||||
|
Richard Sears
|
||||
Top Grand Slam winners:
|
Player
|
No of G.S.
|
Australian
Open
|
French
Open
|
Wimbledon
|
US
Open
|
|
Margaret Court
|
24
|
11
|
5
|
3
|
5
|
|
Steffi Graf
|
22
|
4
|
6
|
7
|
5
|
|
Serena Williams
|
22
|
6
|
3
|
7
|
6
|
|
Helen Wills
|
19
|
N.P
|
4
|
8
|
7
|
|
Chris Evert
|
18
|
2
|
7
|
3
|
6
|
|
Martina
Navratilova
|
18
|
3
|
2
|
9
|
4
|
|
Roger Federer
|
17
|
4
|
1
|
7
|
5
|
|
Rafael Nadal
|
14
|
1
|
9
|
2
|
2
|
|
Pete Sampras
|
14
|
2
|
0
|
7
|
5
|
|
Roy Emerson
|
12
|
6
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
|
Novak Djokovic
|
12
|
6
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
|
G.S. à Grand Slam; N.P. à Not Participated
|
|||||
Most Singles Titles by Grand Slam Tournament (All Time):-
|
Men
|
Women
|
||||
|
Grand Slam
|
Wins#
|
Players (s)
|
Grand Slam
|
Wins#
|
Players (s)
|
|
Australian Open
|
6
|
Roy Emerson
|
Australian Open
|
11
|
Margaret Court
|
|
Novak Djokovic
|
|||||
|
French Open
|
9
|
Rafael Nadal
|
French Open
|
7
|
Chris Evert
|
|
Wimbledon
|
7
|
William Renshaw
|
Wimbledon
|
9
|
Martina
Navratiolva
|
|
Pete Sampras
|
|||||
|
Roger Federer
|
|||||
|
US Open
|
7
|
Richard Sears
|
US Open
|
8
|
Molla Mallory
|
|
William Larned
|
|||||
|
Bill Tilden
|
|||||
Career Grand Slam:
- Winning all the
Grand Slam titles (not to be in same year)
|
Player
|
Australian Open
|
French Open
|
Wimbledon
|
US Open
|
|
Fred Perry
|
1934
|
1935
|
1934
|
1933
|
|
Don Budge
|
1938
|
1938
|
1937
|
1937
|
|
Rod Laver
|
1960
|
1962
|
1961
|
1962
|
|
Roy Emerson
|
1961
|
1963
|
1964
|
1961
|
|
Andre Agassi
|
1995
|
1999
|
1992
|
1994
|
|
Roger Federer
|
2004
|
2009
|
2003
|
2004
|
|
Rafael Nadal
|
2009
|
2005
|
2008
|
2010
|
|
Novak Djokovic
|
2008
|
2016
|
2011
|
2011
|
|
Grand Slam and the Surface
|
|
|
Australian Open
|
Hard
|
|
French Open
|
Clay
|
|
Wimbledon
|
Grass
|
|
US Open
|
Hard
|
Related
Links:-
2015 Grand Slam winners
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