India - West Indies One Day Series

India beat West Indies by 34 runs to win the fifth and final cricket oneday  match and recorded an emphatic 4-1 series triumph in Chennai on 11 December 2011. Electing to bat, India scored 267 runs with the loss of six wickets in the stipulated overs. Manoj Tiwary 104 and Virat Kohli 80  were the top scorers for India. In reply, West Indies reached as close as 233 in 44.1 overs. K. Pollard 119 and A Russel 53 were top scorers for West Indies. Darren Sammy was the captain of West Indies while Virender Sehwag was the captain of Indian side for this series. Gautam Gambhir was the stand–in captain for the last one–dayer. India’s Manoj Tiwary was declared Man of The Match and Indian batsman Rohit Sharma got Man of the Series Award. Manoj Tiwary and K. Pollard scored their international one day career’s first centuries in this match. India and West Indies played this fiveoneday match series from 29 November 2011 to 11 December 2011.

Pakistan - Bangladesh Test Series

Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by seven wickets in the second and final cricket Test in Dhaka on 21 December 2011. Pakistan by defeating Bangladesh in the second test was able to to sweep the series 2-0. Pakistan was set 103 to win after bowling Bangladesh out for 234 in its second innings and achieved the target in the final session. Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq secured the victory by hitting a six after
Mohammad Hafeez made 47 and Azhar Ali chipped in with 34. Earlier, left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman took 4-51 to restrict Bangladesh.

Davis Cup

Spain won its fifth Davis Cup title after Rafael Nadal defeated Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro 1- 6 6-4 6-1 7-6 (0) on 4 December 2011. The victory earned Nadal his first title since winning his sixth
French Open in June 2011. Nadal with the victory stretched his record on clay to 16-0. Nadal earned his 20th straight victory since debuting in the competition in 2004. Nadal caught Del Potro out with one of 35 winners to take the second set and cruise through the third set. However Potro’s late fightback broke Nadal four times in the fourth set to send it to a tiebreaker, where Nadal raced ahead without losing a point before securing victory with a forehand winner. Argentina remained the only nation to play in four Davis Cup finals and never win one.

Barclay’s ATP World Tour Finals

Swiss tennis star Roger Federer defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France in their singles final tennis match at the Barclay’s ATP World Tour Finals, in the O2 arena in London on 27 November 2011. The victory earned him a record sixth ATP World Tour Finals title. The victory also helped him move ahead of Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl on the list of Tour Finals champions in the 100th final of his career.
Federer has won 70 trophies in his career and has also equalled Lendl's record of 39 match wins in the endof- season event. Federer received the winners' cheque worth $770,000. For the first time since 2002 he ended the season without a Grand Slam title.

BWF World Super Series Badminton Championship

Indian ace badminton player and World No. 4 Saina Nehwal of India was defeated by World No. 1 Wang Yihan 18-21, 21-13, 21-13 in the women’s singles final of the $500000 BWF World Super Series badminton championship in China on 18 December 2011. In 2011 Saina  won only the Swiss Open Super Series title. Wang proved to be too good for the Indian shuttler in the crucial phases of the 72-minute final. The scores were levelled twice, four-all and 11-all, before the Chinese picked seven points in a row to take a huge 18-11 lead. With this win, Yihan kept her 100 per cent record against Saina intact, having now beaten her in all their four faceoffs so far. Saina  Nehwal had created history by becoming the first ever Indian to enter the singles final of the World Super Series. Gutta Jwala and V.  Diju were the only other Indians who made it to the final in mixed doubles in the 2009 edition.

India Open Grand Prix

Indonesia’s experienced shuttler, Taufik Hidayat, won his first Men’s Singles title of 2011 at the 2011 $120,000 Syed Modi India Open Grand Prix Gold badminton championship when he defeated Sourabh
Verma of India. Taufik is currently World Number 12 in Men’s Singles world rankings. Hidayat who ended his title drought of 2011 with a 21- 15, 21-18 triumph over Saurabh received $9,000 as the prize money. In the first set of this final battle, Taufik played with precision and won it with a comfortable score. in the second game, Sourabh elevated his  level of play and matched the speed of Taufik but lost the set with a decent margin. Ranked 72 in the world and on his debut season on the senior international circuit, Sourabh had won the Bahrain International Challenge in 2011 and had also reached the quarterfinals of TATA Open India International Challenge, Thailand Grand Prix Gold and Indian Super series. The women's singles final was won by third seed Inthanon Ratchanok of Thailand. Naoki Kawamae & Shoji Sato (Jpn) emerged winners in Men's doubles while in women's doubles, Shinta Mulia Sari & Lei Yao of Singapore defeated Miyuki Maeda & Satako Suetsuna of Japan to emerge
champions.

JK Tyre-FMSCI National Racing Championship

Ameya Walavalkar of Mars Racing registered his sixth win of 2011 in the Formula LGB Swift class, thereby clinching his maiden drivers' championship title in the JK Tyre-FMSCI National Racing Championship at the MMRT in Irungattukottai on 27 November 2011. Walavalkar finished 22 points ahead of teammate R. Deepak, who came fifth in the race. Sarosh Hataria of Meco Motorsports
stood second. Karthik Krishna finished third but was penalised for overtaking when the yellow flag was being waved and thus conceded his podium place to Chitesh Mandody. Rahil Noorani, a championship contender in the Polo R Cup series was excluded from the competition after a post-race incident in the pits after he vent his frustration at Ajay Kini.

Goodricke East India Amateur Golf Championship

Delhi's Honey Baisoya became the youngest winner of the 22nd Goodricke East India amateur golf championship at RCGC on 25 December 2011. The 15-year-old defeated the country's No.1 amateur,
S. Chikkarangappa to win 3 and 2. Both had to play two rounds of 36 holes on the final day. Baisoya secured  a winning start after making birdies on first, fourth, fifth, ninth,12th and 15th in the first round of
18 holes where both Baisoya and Chikka halved 11 holes. Though, Chikka won on seventh, 11th and 14th, Baisoya was 2-up after the first round. In the second round, Baisoya again took an early lead after making a birdie on the first to go 3-up though Chikka kept giving a tough competition. Baisoya in total had six birdies in the first round of 18 and three more in 16 holes in the second round while Chikka had three birdies in both rounds. Baisoya also dropped fewer bogeys.

Indian Player of the Year

India striker Sunil Chhetri was on 20 December 2011 voted Player of the Year by the All India Football Federation. He was chosen by I-League coaches from a five-player shortlist. He will receive a cash award of Rs 2 lakh and a silver plaque. The criteria of selection were Performance for India and general conduct on and off the field. Chhetri scored 13 goals in 17 internationals in 2011, which was the highest the by an Indian. Chettri has also scored 11 goals in 20 appearances for I-League club Mohun Bagan. He won the man of  the championship in the SAFF Championship in New Delhi in 2011. He
has also been awarded the prestigious Arjuna Award in the past. I.M.Vijayan was the first recipient of the award in 1992. In 2010 the award was bestowed on Gouramangi Singh

6th SAFF Championship

India won its 6th SAFF Championship title against the newcomer, Afghanistan on 11 December 2011. India's star striker Sunil Chhetri won all the  individual awards in the tournament. India was a five time SAFF champion before it won the 2011 SAFF. The other participating nations in the  2011 South Asian Football Federation Championship (SAFF) were Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal and Pakistan. Winner India received a prize purse of USD 50,000 while Afghanistan took home USD 25,000. In addition, All India Football Federation announced a cash award of Rs.
1 lakh for each player for winning the tournament.

Champions Challenge Hockey Tournament

Belgium defeated India 4-3 in the final of the Champions Challenge hockey tournament in Johannesburg, South Africa on 4 December 2011. The victory enabled Belgium, who are already through to the  2012 London Games, to qualify for the next Champions Trophy in Australia. The Belgium sise was coached by Colin Batch. Tom Boon scored the winning goal for Belgium and in the process became the joint top scorer of the tournament along with Justin Reid Ross of South Africa with eight goals. VR Raghunath, Sandeep Singh and Shivender Singh scored for India. Sandeep Singh finished the tournament
with seven goals, all through penalty corners, and won the Player of the Tournament award.

Four-Nation Tournament

The Indian women's hockey team defeated Ireland 4-1 win to clinch the bronze medal in the four-nation tournament held in Parana, Argentina in December 2011. Both the teams were locked 1-1 at half-time
but India came back strongly in the second session to score three goals. Jaspreet Kaur, Anuradha Thokchom, Vandana Katariya and Preety Sunila Kiro 69thscored for India India thus won bronze medals at both the fournation tournaments held at Buenos Aires and Parana on the current tour. In the final World champion Argentina defeted South Africa 2-0 to win the tournament.

32nd Sahara Senior National Archery Championship

The Archery Association of India (AAI) announced in late December 2011 that the 32nd Sahara senior National archery championship (recurve and compound) will be held at the JRD Tata Sports Complex, Jamshedpur from 24 to 29 January 2012. The meet is to serve as the selection trials for aspirants of a place in the Indian archery team for the first Asian Grand Prix at Bangkok scheduled to be held 14 to 20 February 2012. The best five finishers in the men's recurve section will vie for three places in the Indian team,  and the best five women will vie for one spot in the women's recurve team at a selection trials to be held at SAI, Eastern Centre, from 3 to 6 February 2012. The AAI retained Jayanta Talukdar and the three women archers, Chekrovolu Swuro, Deepika Kumari and L. Bombayla Devi, in the Indian team for all international competition till the London Olympics since they earned the country four Olympic quota places.

Fukuoka Men's Marathon

Josphat Ndambiri of Kenya won the Fukuoka men's marathon in Japan winning the 42.195km race in 2hrs 7mins and 36secs on 4 December 2011. Mwangi stood second. Both Ndambiri and Mwangi currently reside in Japan. Mwangi crossed the line one minute and two seconds after Ndambiri who had opened up a sizeable lead following the 35km mark. Yuki Kawauchi of Japan finished in third place with a time of two hours, nine minutes and 57 seconds. The Fukuoka marathon, now in its 64th year, is widely regarded as a prestigious title. In 2011 the ocassion was treated as valuable preparation for next year's Olympics in London.

World Women's Team Chess Championship

The Indian team finished at the fourth position in the World Women's Team Chess Championship at Mardin,Turkey on 27 December 2011. India's chances of winning a medal was blown away following a loss to Georgia and then China. The losses by Tania Sachdev and Soumya Swaminathan of India paved the way for an easy Georgian victory in the end.  China won the gold medal with 16 points while the silver was claimed by the Russians who finished with 13 points in all. Georgia ended with the bronze while India and Ukraine were tied for the fourth spot. Ukraine caused the biggest surprise of the championship with a sensational 2.5-1.5 victory over leaders China. Though China was not much affected, the helped the Ukrainian eves come into reckoning after a  rather subdued performance in the first half. London Chess Classic’s Open Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the London Chess Classic's  open section, with a hard-earnedvictory over Grandmaster Keith Arkell of England. Abhijeet, a former world junior champion and reigning national champion, scored eight  points in all. The chess tournament as held from 3 December 2011 to 12 December 2011. Another Indian, International Master Sahaj Grover pulled himself to the second spot after defeating English Grandmaster Peter Wells in the final round of the event. Sahaj, who scored 7.5 points in all.

Vajpayee Cup

Kerala defeated Andhra Pradesh in straight sets to lift the men's title in the 10th All-India Invitational volleyball tournament for the Vajpayee Cup on 25 December 2011. Kerala won the game 25-20, 25-18, 25-18. Karnataka outdid Tamil Nadu to occupy the third position in the men’s category.  The Kerala on the other hand defeated Central Railway (Mumbai) and to claim the titlee. Tiji Raju and N. Bijina led the turnaround as it won 20-25, 18-25, 25-23, 26-24, 15-13. The women had to come back from two sets down to take the title. The Kerala women lost the first set 20-25 before finding themselves in
deep trouble after losing the second set 18-25. In the deciding set Kerala outdid Central Railway 15-13 to clinch the title. Southern Railway (Chennai) finished third in the women's sections.