Pablo Sarabia - A Power Player of Spain.

Switzerland vs. Spain - Power Vs Power (Head to Head)

• Spain, three-time European Championship winners will no doubt be the favorites to progress to the contest’s semis.
• Fourth time Switzerland and Spain have gone head-to-head at a major football tournament.
• Switzerland and Spain have faced each other in three World Cups in 1966, 1994 and 2010.

SWITZERLAND	MATCHES	WIN	DRAW	LOSE
Overall	4	2	1	1
Home	1	1	0	0
Away	3	1	1	1
SPAIN	MATCHES	WIN	DRAW	LOSE
Overall	4	2	2	0
Home	2	0	2	0
Away	2	2	0	0

History of Chess - A game developed from subcontinent.

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1500 years, although the earliest origins are uncertain. The earliest predecessor of the game probably originated in India, by the 7th century AD. From India, the game spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the Muslim world and subsequently spread to Southern Europe. In Europe, chess evolved into roughly its current form in the 15th century.

"Romantic chess" was the predominant chess playing style from the late 18th century to the 1880s. Chess games of this period emphasised more on quick, tactical maneuvers rather than long-term strategic planning. The Romantic era of play was followed by the Scientific, Hypermodern, and New Dynamism eras. In the second half of the 19th century, modern chess tournament play began, and the first official World Chess Championship was held in 1886. The 20th century saw great leaps forward in chess theory and the establishment of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). In 1997, a computer first beat a chess world champion in the famous Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov match, ushering in an era of computer domination. Since then, computer analysis – which originated in the 1970s with the first programmed chess games on the market – has contributed to much of the development in chess theory and has become an important part of preparation in professional human chess.

Statistics of Toni Duggan

Toni Duggan (born 25 July 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Spanish Primera División club Atlético Madrid and the England national team. She has previously played in England for Everton and Manchester City, and in Spain for Barcelona. 

Like nearly all of today's professional women footballers, Duggan started playing with boys – for an under-eight team known as the Jellytots. Duggan attended Notre Dame Catholic College and graduated from Loughborough College in 2010.

Duggan is an ambassador for Kick It Out, football's anti-discrimination organization and the charity Saving Lives. 

In March 2014, she apologized after 'blacking up' for a fancy dress party to impersonate Whoopi Goldberg from the film Sister Act. In April 2015, she apologized after posting a picture of herself smiling with Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal, only hours after United had defeated City.

In May 2016, it was reported that Duggan was about to become the first of the England women's football team to reach 100,000 Twitter followers. Duggan commented that, "I like social media and without social media the game wouldn't be where it's at."

Woman Football Player's sexiest Club Career - Toni Duggan

Toni Duggan (born 25 July 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Spanish Primera División club Atlético Madrid and the England national team. Toni has previously played in England for Everton and Manchester City, and in Spain for Barcelona.

Club career:

Everton: 2007–2013
Duggan broke into the Everton side in the 2007–08 season when the regular forwards suffered injuries. Toni scored the winning extra–time goal against Watford Ladies to put Everton into that season's FA Women's Premier League Cup final.
Duggan was the named the FA Women's Young Player of the Year in 2009, the England Women's Under-23 Player of the Year in 2012 and the North West Female Player of the Year in 2013.
Duggan also played in Everton's 2010 FA Women's Cup final win over Arsenal. Her form in the second part of the 2011 FA WSL season led team–mate Rachel Unitt to predict a call–up to the senior England squad. 

Manchester City: 2014–2017
After seven years at Everton, it was announced on 28 November 2013 that Duggan had signed with Manchester City. In August 2015, toni became the first female player to receive the club's Goal of the Season award following an impressive goal against Chelsea in the Women's Super League. Toni was part of the team when Manchester City played in the Women's Champions League for the first time. In November 2016, Duggan scored a noted goal in City's Champions League match with Brøndby. 

Barcelona: 2017–2019
Toni Duggan signed for FC Barcelona Femení on 6 July 2017.Duggan was part of the squad that finished runners up to Lyon in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. On 5 July 2019, Duggan announced she was leaving Barcelona after two seasons in Spain in search of a "new challenge." 

Atlético Madrid: 2019–present
On 31 July 2019, Duggan joined Atlético Madrid. 

Table Tennis - A Brief History.

Table tennis, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side. Points are scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Play is fast and demands quick reactions. Spinning the ball alters its trajectory and limits an opponent's options, giving the hitter a great advantage. When doing so the hitter has a good chance of scoring if the spin is successful.

Table tennis is governed by the worldwide organization International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), founded in 1926. ITTF currently includes 217 member associations. The table tennis official rules are specified in the ITTF handbook. Since 1988, table tennis has been an Olympic sport, with several event categories. In particular, from 1988 until 2004, these were: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles. Since 2008 a team event has been played instead of the doubles. In 2007, the governance for table tennis for persons with a disability was transferred from the International Paralympic Committee to the ITTF.

The game originated as in England during the 1880s, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game. It has been suggested that the game was first developed by British military officers in India or South Africa who brought it back with them. A row of books were stood up along the center of the table as a net, two more books served as rackets and were used to continuously hit a golf-ball from one end of the table to the other. Alternatively table tennis was played with paddles made of cigar box lids and balls made of champagne corks. The popularity of the game led game manufacturers to sell equipment commercially. Early rackets were often pieces of parchment stretched upon a frame, and the sound generated in play gave the game its first nicknames of "wiff-waff" and "ping-pong". A number of sources indicate that the game was first brought to the attention of Hamley's of Regent Street under the name "Gossima". The name "ping-pong" was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. The name "ping-pong" then came to be used for the game played by the rather expensive Jaques's equipment, with other manufacturers calling it table tennis. A similar situation arose in the United States, where Jaques sold the rights to the "ping-pong" name to Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers then enforced their copyright on the term in the 1920's making the various associations change their names to "table tennis" instead of the more common, but copyrighted, term.

The next major innovation was by James W Gibb, a British enthusiast of table tennis, who discovered novelty celluloid balls on a trip to the US in 1901 and found them to be ideal for the game. This was followed by E.C. Goode who, in 1901, invented the modern version of the racket by fixing a sheet of pimpled, or stippled, rubber to the wooden blade. Table tennis was growing in popularity by 1901 to the extent that tournaments were being organized, books being written on the subject, and an unofficial world championship was held in 1902. During the early 1900s, the game was banned in Russia because the rulers at the time believed that playing the game had an adverse effect on players' eyesight.

In 1921, the Table Tennis Association was founded in Britain, and the International Table Tennis Federation followed in 1926. London hosted the first official World Championships in 1926. In 1933, the United States Table Tennis Association, now called USA Table Tennis, was formed.

In the 1930s, Edgar Snow commented in Red Star Over China that the Communist forces in the Chinese Civil War had a "passion for the English game of table tennis" which he found "bizarre".

In the 1950s, rackets that used a rubber sheet combined with an underlying sponge layer changed the game dramatically,introducing greater spin and speed. These were introduced to Britain by sports goods manufacturer S.W. Hancock Ltd. The use of speed glue increased the spin and speed even further, resulting in changes to the equipment to "slow the game down". Table tennis was introduced as an Olympic sport at the Olympics in 1988.

After the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the International Table Tennis Federation instituted several rules changes aimed at making table tennis more viable as a televised spectator sport. First, the older 38 mm balls were officially replaced by 40 mm balls in 2000. This increased the ball's air resistance and effectively slowed down the game. By that time, players had begun increasing the thickness of the fast sponge layer on their rackets, which made the game excessively fast and difficult to watch on television. Second, the ITTF changed from a 21-point to an 11-point scoring system in 2001. This was intended to make games more fast-paced and exciting. The ITTF also changed the rules on service to prevent a player from hiding the ball during service, in order to increase the average length of rallies and to reduce the server's advantage.

Variants of the sport have recently emerged. "Large-ball" table tennis uses a 44 mm ball, which slows down the game significantly. This has seen some acceptance by players who have a hard time with the extreme spins and speeds of the 40 mm game.

There is a move towards reviving the table tennis game that existed prior to the introduction of sponge rubber. "Hardbat" table tennis players reject the speed and spin of reversed sponge rubber, preferring the 1940–60s play style with no sponge and short-pimpled rubber. Defense is less difficult by decreasing the speed and eliminating any meaningful magnus effect of spin. Because hardbat killer shots are almost impossible to hit against a skilled player, hardbat matches focus on the strategic side of table tennis, requiring skillful maneuvering of the opponent before an attack can become successful.

Pakistan beat Bangladesh in thrilling Final of Asia Cup.

Bangladesh loose their near to win a thrilling Asia Cup final against Pakistan by two runs.

Tamin Iqbal led Bangladesh's reply with 60, while Shakib Al Hasan made 68. But Abdur Razzak fell to the penultimate ball of the game and Shahadat Hossain failed to score the boundary needed off the final delivery.

Sarfraz Ahmed's battling unbeaten 46 from 52 balls helped Pakistan recover from 199-8 to post 236-9 in Dhaka.

Hossain could only manage a leg bye and his contribution with the bat followed a painful final over with the ball as wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed plundered 19 runs to force the Pakistan total upwards. While Iqbal and Al Hasan collected their runs at a decent rate in Bangladesh's reply, their momentum was checked by some laboured batting at the other end. Opener Nazimuddin took 52 balls to make 16 before Nasir Hossain hit a sluggish 28 from 63 deliveries.
Bangladesh required nine runs off the final over and then four off the last two balls.

MARIA SHARAPOVA - GLAMOUR OF TENNIS.

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Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a former World No. 1 Russian professional tennis player. Sharapova has won 23 WTA singles titles, including 3 Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open. She has also won the year-end invitational WTA Tour Championships in 2004.

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The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her World No. 1 in singles on 4 separate occasions. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on Aug 22, 2005 and last regained this ranking for the fourth time on May 19, 2008. She is currently ranked World No. 7.

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Na Li's strategy to win in the Australian Open 2011.

Na Li born February 26, 1982 in Wuhan, Hubei, is a Chinese professional tennis player. As of October 11, 2010, she is currently ranked at No. 7 in the WTA singles rankings. Li achieved her highest ranking of No. 7 on January 27, 2011 making her the highest ranked Chinese player. She has won 4 WTA and 19 ITF titles and was the 2010 Australian Open Semi-finalist along with Chinese compatriot Zheng Jie.She has also been through to the Quarter-Finals at Wimbledon (2006, 2010) and at the US Open (2009). At the 2011 Australian Open, Li Na became the first player from China and Asia to make a Grand Slam final.

Li was the 9th seed at the 2011 Australian Open. She defeated Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson in the first round 6-1 7-5, Russia's Evgeniya Rodina in the second round 6-3 6-2 and Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova in the third round 6-2 6-1. She advanced to the Quarter Finals after defeating the 8th seed, and world number 9, Belarus' Victoria Azarenka 6-3 6-3. She faced Germany's Andrea Petkovic in the quarterfinal, where she won 6-2, 6-4. For the second consecutive year Li reached the semifinals of the Australian Open. In the semi final she won against world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki to reach her first Grand Slam final after saving a match point in the second set, 3-6 7-5 6-3, also becoming the first Chinese female and Oriental Asian female to reach a Grand Slam Singles Final. She will face the No. 3 seed, Kim Clijsters, in the finals. She guaranteed herself a career-high 7th ranking, and will become the 5th if she wins the title.

Bangladesh win the 3rd ODI of Bangladesh- New Zealand series.

Shahriar Nafis (73) and Imrul Kayes (50) put on an impressive 127-run partnership for the first wicket overcame a modest target of 174. Tigers' win the match by seven wickets. Spinner Suhrawadi Shuvo also helped to set up the victory for the Tigers, claiming three wickets in his spell of 10 overs.

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Forced to bat first after losing the toss, the tourists made a dismal start losing the dangerous Brendon McCullum for a duck in the opening over before Jesse Ryder and BJ Watling steadied the ship. Bangladesh (Bradt Travel Guide)

Introduction of spin as early as the ninth over put New Zealand on the backfoot as they struggled to negotiate turn and low bounce on a track which had seen some rain over the last few days.New Zealand (Country Guide)

New Zealand made most of the batting powerplay by adding 55 runs in the five-over period.

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Taylor reached his half-century off 66 balls with three boundaries and as many sixes.

Muttiah Muralitharan - A legend of spin.

Murali in action

Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer, who was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002. Muralitharan is the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket and in One Day Internationals . He took the wicket of Gautam Gambhir on 5 February 2009 in Colombo to surpass Wasim Akram's ODI record of 502 wickets. Muralitharan became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-holder Shane Warne on 3 December 2007. Muralitharan had previously held the record when he surpassed Courtney Walsh's 519 wickets in 2004, but he suffered a shoulder injury later that year and was then overtaken by Warne.

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Averaging over six wickets per Test, Muralitharan was one of the most successful bowlers in the game. Muralitharan held the number one spot in the International Cricket Council’s player rankings for Test bowlers for a record period of 1,711 days spanning 214 Test matches.

Bowling action of Murali

He plays domestic cricket for the Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club, and plays in the Indian Premier League for Chennai Super Kings.

Statistics of Muttiah Muralitharan courtesy cricinfo.com

Muralitharan's career has been beset with controversy; his bowling action called into question on a number of occasions by umpires and sections of the cricket community. After biomechanical analysis under simulated playing conditions, Muralitharan's action was cleared by the International Cricket Council.

On 7 July 2010, Muttiah Muralitharan formally announced his retirement from Test cricket at a media briefing in Colombo. He confirmed that the first Test Match against India due to commence on 18 July, 2010 would be his last, but indicated that he was willing to play One-Day Internationals if it was considered necessary leading up to the 2011 World Cup, which Sri Lanka will co-host.  He identified Sri Lanka's World Cup win of 1996 as his greatest moment as a cricketer. He also stated that there were some regrets during his 19 year playing career. "Not winning Test Matches in South Africa, Australia and India are regrets. But I am sure we will win very soon."

Wedding of Muttiah Muralitharan

At the start of his last match, Muralitharan was eight short of 800 wickets. At the fall of the ninth wicket of the Indian's second innings Murali still needed one wicket to reach the milestone. After 90 minutes of resistance Muralitharan was able to dismiss the last Indian batsman Pragyan Ojha. By doing so he became the first bowler to reach 800 wickets in Test cricket. Sri Lanka won the match by 10 wickets, the seventh time they have done so and the second time they have done it against India