January 2009
Indian Railways teams win the men's and women's titles in the National basketball championships in Surat.
Serena Williams bags the women's title in the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne.
Yuki Bhambri wins the junior boys' title in the Australian Open.
February 2009
Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza became the first Indian pair to win a Grand Slam mixed doubles title when they clinch the Australian Open
Arvind Bhat and Sayali Gokhale win the men's and women's singles titles in the National badminton championship in Patna.
Mahela Jayawardene (240) and Thilan Samaraweera (231) smash double hundreds during a stand of 437 runs against Pakistan in the first Test in Karachi, a record for the fourth wicket in Tests.
March 2009
Manchester United clinches the Carling Cup, beating Tottenham Hotspur in a shootout in the final at Wembley
Ugandan footballer Alex Katete, 25, dies of a heart attack in Silchar, Assam
Honda announces the sale of its Formula One team to former team principal Ross Brawn. The new outfit is called Brawn GP.
Viswanathan Anand finishes fourth in the Linares chess tournament at Spain, a forgettable result for the Indian who had won the title the previous two years.
Somdev Devvarman beats world no. 59 Lu Yen-Hsun in straight sets to help India clinch a 3-2 win over Chinese Taipei at Kaohsiung and advance to the third and final round of the Davis Cup Asia/ Oceania Zone Group I.
China becomes the first nation ever to win all five titles (Men's and Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles) in the open era at the All-England badminton championships.
Virender Sehwag scores India's fastest ODI hundred against host New Zealand.
India wins the five-match ODI series against New Zealand 3-1. The host records a consolation eight-wicket win in the final match at Auckland.
Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar wins his maiden professional title, the PGTI Players' Championship at Panchkula, and becomes the youngest winner on the PGTI Tour.
Brawn GP drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barichello start the Formula One season with a one-two finish in the Australian Grand Prix.
April 2009
India clinch a 1-0 win in the Test series against New Zealand, after the third Test at Wellington is drawn.
Chitra Magimairaj finishes runner-up in the WLBSA World ladies' billiards championship at Cambridge, losing to Emma Boony of England in the final.
Wisden names Virender Sehwag the 'Leading Cricketer in the World' for 2008 and Mahendra Singh Dhoni captain of its 'Dream Test XI', which contains five Indians.
Gagan Narang wins the bronze medal in the men's 10m air rifle event of the first ISSF World Cup of the year in Chongwon, Korea.
India wins the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament with a 3-1 victory over host Malaysia in the final.
Argentine golfer Angel Cabrera wins The Masters at Augusta, pipping Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry in a sudden-death play-off.
Gagan Narang clinches the gold in the men's 50-metre free rifle 3-position event in the shooting World Cup in Changwon, Korea.
Churchill Brothers wins its maiden I-League football title.
Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber of Red Bull pull off a one-two finish in the Chinese Grand Prix.
French swimmer Alain Bernard breaks the 100m freestyle world record at the French championships at Montpellier, setting a new time of 46.94s.
Manchester United veteran Ryan Giggs is crowned PFA Footballer of the Year, while Aston Villa's Ashley Young wins Young Player of the Year award.
Yulia Yefimova breaks the world record in the women's 50m breaststroke with a timing of 30.23s at the Russian swimming championships in Moscow
May 2009
The Indian men's recurve team defeats the Russian Federation to win the gold in the archery World Cup Stage II at Porec, Croatia.
Tejaswini Sawant wins a bronze medal in the women's 50m rifle 3-position at the shooting World Cup in Munich.
Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly wins the Asian chess championship in Philippines.
Sayali Gokhale wins the women's singles title at the Spanish Open badminton championship in Madrid, beating Lianne Tan of Belgium
Singapore's Gao Ning defeats India's Sharath Kamal to win the men's singles title at the Commonwealth table tennis championships in Glasgow
Russian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medallist Yelena Isinbayeva wins her second Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award.
Barcelona beats defending Manchester United in the final to lift the Champions League title in Rome.
Chelsea wins the FA Cup, beating Everton in the final.
June 2009
Swede Robin Soderling defeats defending champion Rafael Nadal in the fourth round of the French Open.
Svetlana Kuznetsova defeats Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 in an all-Russian French Open final to win her second Grand Slam title.
Roger Federer wins his first French Open title, completing a career Grand Slam.
India's Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic win the French Open men's doubles crown.
Viswanathan Anand completes a 5-3 victory over home favourite Peter Leko in their eight-game rapid chess match at Miskolc, Hungary.
Boxer Suranjoy Singh wins gold in the Asian championship in Zhuhai, China. Thokchom Nanao Singh and Jai Bhagwan win silver medals.
Pakistan wins the Twenty20 World Cup, beating Sri Lanka in the final at Lord's, London.
Saina Nehwal becomes the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament with her triumph in the Indonesian Open. Saina beat Chinese Lin Wang in the final in Jakarta.
Indian women's hockey team wins the Champions Challenge for women in Kazan, Russia.
July 2009
Roger Federer wins a record 15th grand slam by triumphing at Wimbledon.
Serena Williams wins the women's title and along with Venus claims the women's doubles crown.
Leander Paes and Cara Black suffer a straight-set defeat in the mixed doubles final.
India wins the ODI series against the West Indies 2-1 after the last match at Gros Islet is washed out.
Squash player Joshna Chinappa wins the third WISPA title of her career in Kuala Lumpur.
Mark Webber of RBR-Renault wins the German Grand Prix
GM Arun Prasad becomes the first Indian to claim the title in the 116-year history of the Scottish chess championship in Edinburgh.
American Stewart Cink wins the British Open golf title at Turnberry.
Usain Bolt powers away from a top-class field to win the 100 metres event at the London Grand Prix.
GM Parimarjan Negi wins the Politiken Cup chess title at Copenhagen.
Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar wins maiden Asian Tour title with victory at the Indonesia President Invitational golf.
Gaganjeet Bhullar enters the top-10 in the Asian Order of Merit
The Union Government announces Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards for the Beijing Olympic Games bronze medal-winners Sushil Kumar and Vijender Singh along with boxer M. C. Mary Kom.
India goes down 1-3 to England in the first of the three hockey Tests at Birmingham.
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