2010 Australian football code crowds
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2010 Australian football code crowds
Australia is home to four professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2010. It includes several different competitions and matches from Australian rules football, rugby league, football (soccer) and rugby union (international rules football is a code of football played by Australian rules footballers). Sydney and Brisbane have teams represented in all four codes. Hobart and Darwin are Australia's only capital cities without a professional football team.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, National competitions
Several football codes have national (domestic) competitions in Australia, the following are taken into consideration:


2010 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, National competitions
Two of these leagues, specifically the NRL and A-League, have one team in New Zealand. Attendance figures for the New Zealand teams are not taken into account in the figures on this page.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Other competitions
Other competitions, such as international and representative competitions, included are:


2010 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Other competitions
Note: For these competitions, only figures for games that take place in Australia are taken into account


2010 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Non-competition games
Some Non-competition matches (such as friendly and exhibition matches) are also included:


2010 Australian football code crowds, Included competitions, Non-competition games
Note: this list will be updated as more games are scheduled.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Competitions not included
There are several notable semi-professional regional and state based competitions which draw notable attendances and charge an entry fee that are not listed here. These are worth mentioning as some of their attendances rival those of national competitions and compete for spectator interest.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Competitions not included
As the attendance figures for some of these competitions can be difficult to obtain (many don't publish season figures and some play matches as curtain raisers to other events), they have not been included in the official lists.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Code
In order to directly compare sports, the total attendances for each major code are listed here. The colour-coding of the different codes is used throughout the article.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Code
Note that only the competitions that appear on this page excluding those specifically not included are considered, there are many other (generally smaller) competitions, leagues and matches that take place for all of the football codes, but these are not included. The following are included:


2010 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by League
Some codes have multiple competitions, several competitions are compared here.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by Team
Attendances that specific teams pull for their home games are listed here.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by match
Attendances for single matches are listed here. Note that not all matches are necessarily included.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by match, Representative competitions
These are matches that are part of a regular representative competition.


2010 Australian football code crowds, Attendances by match, Single matches
These are once-off matches, that aren't part of any regular league competition.


2010 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2010 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the 2010 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 15–17 October 2010 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. Australian Casey Stoner won his fourth consecutive home race, which was also his last win for Ducati and Ducati's last win until the 2016 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix.


2010 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, Moto2 classification
Wayne Maxwell was black flagged for dangerous riding, crashing into Héctor Faubel during the first lap.


2010 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.


2010 Austrian Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 Austrian Figure Skating Championships (German: Österreichischen Staatsmeisterschaften im Eiskunstlauf 2010) took place between 10 and 12 December 2009 at the Tiroler Wasserkraftarena in Innsbruck. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Austrian teams to the 2010 World Championships and the 2010 European Championships.


2010 Austrian Figure Skating Championships
The Junior Championships were held immediately prior to the Senior championships in the same location and arena, between 8 and 10 December.


2010 Austrian Figure Skating Championships
The senior compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica and the junior was the Westminster Waltz.


2010 Austrian Open Kitzbühel
The 2010 Austrian Open Kitzbühel was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the eight edition of the tournament which is part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kitzbühel, Austria between 2 and 8 August 2010.


2010 Austrian Open Kitzbühel
Guillermo García-López won in the singles competition and André Sá and Marcelo Melo in the doubles competition in 2009, when the tournament was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series.


2010 Austrian Open Kitzbühel, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Austrian Open Kitzbühel, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received a Special Exempt into the main draw:


2010 Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Champions, Doubles
Dustin Brown /  Rogier Wassen def. Hans Podlipnik-Castillo /  Max Raditschnigg, 3–6, 7–5, [10–7]


2010 Austrian Open Kitzbühel – Doubles
André Sá and Marcelo Melo won in the doubles competition in 2009, when the tournament was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series, but did not participate this year. Dustin Brown and Rogier Wassen defeated Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and Max Raditschnigg 3–6, 7–5, [10–7] in the final.


2010 Austrian Open Kitzbühel – Singles
Guillermo García-López won in the singles competition in 2009, when the tournament was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series. Andreas Seppi won in the final against Victor Crivoi 6–2, 6–1.


2010 Austrian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Austria on 25 April 2010, the twelfth election of an Austrian head of state since 1951. The candidates were President Heinz Fischer (independent, formerly SPÖ), Barbara Rosenkranz (FPÖ) and Rudolf Gehring (CPÖ). Heinz Fischer won with just under 80% of the valid votes. Voter turnout was a historic low of 54%.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, Social Democratic Party of Austria
Incumbent President Heinz Fischer (independent, former member of the Social Democratic Party) announced on 23 November 2009 that he will seek a second term. According to a 27 June 2009, Gallup poll for the newspaper Österreich, Fischer had a job approval rating of 80%.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, Austrian People's Party
There were rumours that the candidate of the Austrian People's Party would be either Governor of Lower Austria Erwin Pröll or president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber Christoph Leitl. On 13 October 2009 Pröll announced that he would not run for the Presidency and that he would remain Governor of Lower Austria. Leitl and former governor of Styria Waltraud Klasnic also declined a presidential run. On 25 February 2010, the People's Party announced that it would not nominate a candidate, and would not officially support any candidate.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, Freedom Party of Austria
The Freedom Party announced in June 2009 that it would definitely field a candidate "to prevent Fischer['s reelection]". Possible candidates mentioned included Martin Graf, Norbert Steger, Siegfried Dillersberger, Norbert Gugerbauer, Dieter Böhmdorfer and Wilhelm Brauneder. After the Carinthian branch of the Alliance for the Future of Austria broke away to re-unite with the Freedom Party, it was rumoured that Barbara Rosenkranz would be their candidate. In early January 2010, Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the Freedom Party, guaranteed that the party would nominate a candidate to assure that Fischer would not run unopposed. On 28 February 2010, Strache announced in the Kronen Zeitung that the Freedom Party would nominate Barbara Rosenkranz as its presidential candidate.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, Alliance for the Future of Austria
Alliance for the Future of Austria leader Josef Bucher and General Secretary Stefan Petzner voiced their support for a presidential candidacy of Claudia Haider, widow of former Alliance leader Jörg Haider, by inviting the Greens and the Freedom Party to form a non-partisan committee. Carinthia Governor Gerhard Dörfler spoke out against such a candidacy, because he "wouldn't like to join forces with Heinz-Christian Strache's [Freedom Party]", but nonetheless said that Claudia Haider would be a "good candidate, who could finance her campaign on her own". On 17 August, Haider announced that she would not run for president.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, Alliance for the Future of Austria
On 26 February 2010, Bucher said that he might run as a candidate for his party, because "he could appeal to [People's Party] voters". On 1 March 2010, the Alliance announced that Bucher would not stand as a candidate, as the odds were clearly against him and they did not want to waste taxpayers' money.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, The Greens – The Green Alternative
It was expected that former Green Party leader Alexander Van der Bellen might stand in the election, but he stated in January 2009 that if Fischer ran for reelection he would have his support. In June 2009, however, Green party leader Eva Glawischnig stated that the Greens were considering fielding a candidate, and that Van der Bellen would be a very good candidate. By November 2009, there was still no clear decision from the Greens, even though Van der Bellen  had ruled out a run for the Presidency on 23 November 2009.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, The Greens – The Green Alternative
On 25 February 2010, the Greens announced they wanted to concentrate on state elections and would not nominate a candidate. After Fischer appeared at an event where the Greens questioned him on a number of issues, with questions submitted by voters via the internet, the Greens on 12 April 2010 officially endorsed his candidacy and called for their voters to vote for him, a first in the party's history.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, Christian Party of Austria
The Christian Party nominated its chairman Rudolf Gehring as a presidential candidate. On 25 March 2010, they announced they had gathered the necessary number signatures to run for president.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Candidates, Other candidates
A former judge from eastern Styria, Martin Wabl, who had twice previously tried to run for president, announced on 6 February 2009 that he would run again. Green municipal councillor Ulrich Habsburg-Lothringen, as a descendant of the former ruling house of Austria-Hungary incapacitated by constitutional law to run for Austria's presidency, stated that he wanted to test the law at Austria's constitutional court if his candidacy is not permitted. Bernhard Gregor Honemann (nominated by the platform agenda2020.at) also planned to  run. None of these candidates obtained the 6000 signatures necessary to run for president. The signatures submitted were:


2010 Austrian presidential election, Voter statistics
According to the federal election commission, 6,355,800 Austrian citizens aged 16+ were eligible to vote in the presidential election. Compared with the 2004 presidential election, the number of eligible voters increased by 324,818, or 5.4% – primarily due to lowering the legal voting age to 16 between the two elections. 3,307,366 women and 3,048,434 men were eligible to vote.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Results
Heinz Fischer beat Barbara Rosenkranz by scoring 79.3% of the vote. Rosenkranz received 15.2%. Rudolf Gehring came third by scoring 5.4%.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Results
Opinion polls had placed Fischer in a good position on the day of the election.


2010 Austrian presidential election, Results
Fischer thanked the nation on television: "I am extremely happy and thank the Austrian population for having so much confidence in me".


2010 Austrian presidential election, Results
Poor voter turnout - only 53.6% voted - led again to calls by leaders for the post to be abolished.


2010 Autism Speaks 400
The 2010 Autism Speaks 400 presented by Hershey's Milk & Milkshakes was the twelfth race of the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season held at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. The race started at 1 p.m. EST on May 16, 2010 and was broadcast on Fox and MRN radio starting at 12 p.m. Martin Truex, Jr. started in the pole position. The race had eight different leaders, twenty lead changes, and five cautions. The winner of the race was Kyle Busch, while Jeff Burton and Matt Kenseth finished second and third respectively.


2010 Autism Speaks 400, Race report, Practices and qualifying
In first practice, the quickest drivers were Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne, Martin Truex, Jr., and Kyle Busch. During qualifying, Martin Truex, Jr. won the pole position, while Kasey Kahne, Mark Martin, Kyle Busch, and Jimmie Johnson started in the two rows behind him. Also, two drivers failed to qualify for the race; they were Todd Bodine and Max Papis. In second practice, the quickest drivers were Jimmie Johnson, David Ragan, Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer, and Kasey Kahne. In the final practice the quickest drivers were Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, A. J. Allmendinger, and Clint Bowyer.


2010 Autism Speaks 400, Race report, Race summary
The pre-race ceremonies began with Reverend Jonathan Falwell of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia ., delivered the invocation. Then, country music artist, Joe Nichols performed the national anthem. To start the engines, Richard Petty, part of the inaugural class at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, gave the command, "Gentlemen, start your engines!"


2010 Autism Speaks 400, Race report, Race summary
At 1:17 p.m. EDT, the green flag waved with Martin Truex, Jr. the leader. On the same lap, though, Kasey Kahne, who started second, passed Truex, Jr. to lead the first lap. On lap 26, Jimmie Johnson, who started in the fifth position, passed Kahne for the lead. As Johnson led, Johnny Sauter, on lap 40, went to the garage because of electrical problems. Fourteen laps later, the caution flag waved as Sam Hornish, Jr. collided with the wall because of a flat tire. All the lead-lap driver came onto pit road for their first pit stops . After finishing the pit stops, Johnson led the field to the green flag on lap 59. One lap later, Kyle Busch passed Johnson for the lead.


2010 Autism Speaks 400, Race report, Race summary
Kyle Busch kept the lead until lap 85 when Jimmie Johnson passed him. On laps 125 through 137, green flag pit stops were occurring. The leaders during the pit stops were Kurt Busch and Jeff Burton. Johnson, then regained the lead from Burton on lap 137; the rest of the top five were Kyle Busch, A. J. Allmendinger, Joey Logano, and Tony Stewart. As Johnson led on lap 157, J. J. Yeley  went to the garage due to engine problems. On lap 165, the second caution flag waved because Marcos Ambrose collided with the wall. All lead lap cars made pit stops; Johnson remained the leader. On lap 170, Johnson led the field to the green flag, but one lap later, Kyle Busch passed Johnson for the lead.


2010 Autism Speaks 400, Race report, Race summary
Kyle Busch led until Johnson passed him on lap 176. The green flag stayed out until lap 255, when Marcos Ambrose collided with the wall to bring out the third caution. On the restart, on lap 231, Johnson led the field to the green flag. On lap 234, Kyle Busch passed Johnson, but two laps later, he reclaimed the lead. On lap 245, Sam Hornish, Jr. collided with the wall, which brought out the fourth caution. All lead lap cars pit, most getting fuel and two tires, but Matt Kenseth stayed out. From staying off pit road, Kenseth led the field to green on lap 250. On lap 261, Johnson reclaimed the lead from Matt Kenseth. Marcos Ambrose, who collided with the wall twice, announced that he was out of the race on lap 279.


2010 Autism Speaks 400, Race report, Race summary
On lap 287, the fifth caution came out because Kurt Busch collided with the wall in turn four. All the leaders made pit stops, most getting four tires and fuel. On lap 291, Jimmie Johnson led the field to the green flag. One lap later, Kyle Busch passed Johnson for the lead. Kyle Busch led until lap 353, when Johnson passed him, but for the next two laps Johnson and Busch switched the lead until Johnson claimed it. On lap 364, David Reutimann became the leader, as Johnson and Kyle Busch made their green flag pit stops.


2010 Autism Speaks 400, Race report, Race summary
On lap 365, Martin Truex, Jr. passed Reutimann for the lead. One lap later, it was announced that Jimmie Johnson, who led the most laps, received a penalty for speeding on pit road. On lap 367, Johnson came to pit road to serve his penalty and Kyle Busch reclaimed the lead. He kept the lead to win his second race of 2010 and his eighteenth win in his Sprint Cup Series career.


2010 Auto Club 500
The 2010 Auto Club 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on February 21, 2010 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Contested over 250 laps, it was the second race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Jimmie Johnson for Hendrick Motorsports. Kevin Harvick finished second and Jeff Burton clinched third.


2010 Auto Club 500
Polesitter driver Jamie McMurray maintained his lead into the first corner, but outsider Juan Pablo Montoya took the lead before the first lap was over. Afterward, Johnson became the leader, and would eventually lead to the race high of 101 laps. During the final pit stops, Johnson was on pit lane as the caution flag came out. Burton, who led the race during Johnson's pit stop, did not pass Johnson to put him a lap down. Therefore, Johnson retained the first position upon the completion of pit stops. On the final lap, Harvick was gaining on Johnson, but Johnson maintained his position to win his first race of the season.


2010 Auto Club 500
There were six caution flags and 28 lead changes among 14 different drivers throughout the course of the race. The result moved Johnson up 23 spots to tenth in the Drivers' Championship, 78 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and one ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, eight points ahead of Toyota and nine ahead of Ford, with 34 races remaining in the season.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Background
Auto Club Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races; the others are Daytona International Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Auto Club Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2 miles (3.2 km) long. The track's turns are banked at fourteen degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at eleven degrees. The back stretch has 3 degrees of banking.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Background
Before the race, Jamie McMurray led the Drivers' Championship with 190 points, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. stood in second with 175 points. Greg Biffle was third in the Drivers' Championship with 170 points, Clint Bowyer was fourth with 165 points, and Kevin Harvick was in fifth with 156 points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with nine points, three points ahead of their rival Ford. Toyota, with four points, was one point ahead of Dodge in the battle for third.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Practices and qualifying
Three practice sessions were held before the Sunday race—one on Friday, and two on Saturday. In the first practice session, the fastest drivers were Mark Martin, Ryan Newman, Juan Pablo Montoya, Jeff Burton, and Clint Bowyer. During the second practice session, Jimmie Johnson, Martin, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, and Greg Biffle had the quickest times. Martin, Bowyer, Johnson, McMurray, and Jeff Gordon led the final practice session.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Practices and qualifying
During qualifying, forty-six cars were entered, but only forty-three were able to race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. Jamie McMurray clinched the pole position with a best lap time of 39.185 seconds. He was joined on the front row of the grid by Montoya. Bowyer qualified third, Kasey Kahne took fourth, and Dave Blaney started fifth. Casey Mears, Johnny Sauter, and Terry Cook were the three drivers who failed to qualify.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Race summary
The race, the second out of a total of thirty-six in the season, began at 3 p.m. EST and was televised live in the United States on Fox. Pre -race ceremonies began with Motor Racing Outreach's Jeff Hamilton giving the invocation; then Katharine McPhee, season five American Idol runner-up turned RCA Records recording artist, performed the national anthem. Actor Andy García gave the traditional command, "Gentlemen Start Your Engines!" Before the race, Denny Hamlin moved to the back of the starting grid because his team changed engines after his qualifying run.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Race summary
At 3:19 p.m. EST, polesitter Jamie McMurray led the 43-car field to the green flag, but his lead was short-lived. Juan Pablo Montoya passed him during the first lap to lead lap 1. On lap 29, Jimmie Johnson passed Montoya for the lead. Between laps 35 to 40 teams made green flag pit stops (a pit stop while high speed racing continues). Dave Blaney stayed out to lead before parking his car on lap 44, allowing Johnson to regain the lead.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Race summary
On lap 57, the first caution period of the race was called because of debris on the track's surface. The restart on lap 61 was led by Johnson, but Kevin Harvick passed him for the lead before the lap was over. The second caution flag was waved on lap 92 because Kasey Kahne collided with Montoya. On lap 97, Johnson brought the field to the green flag. Mark Martin passed Johnson on lap 98, but was passed back after two laps. Drivers began heading for pit stops on lap 133. Then, on lap 140, the third caution came out because Montoya's engine failed, causing him to collide with the turn one wall. On lap 145, the green flag waved with Jeff Gordon as the leader.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Race summary
The fourth caution, caused by the expired engine of Ryan Newman, came out on lap 147. On the restart, Gordon led the field to the green flag. He did not restart fast enough and was passed by both Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch on lap 154. On the next lap, Kyle Busch passed Burton for the lead. Ten laps after that, Burton returned the favor by passing Busch for the lead. During the following laps, several drivers made pit stops. The fifth caution flag was waved on lap 192 because light rain was moving through the area; the leader at the time was Denny Hamlin.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Race summary
During the restart on lap 199, Burton brought the field to the green flag. No cautions were called until Brad Keselowski collided with the outside wall in turn four that brought out the sixth caution. The restart was on lap 229 with Jimmie Johnson as the leader. In the ensuing laps, Jimmie Johnson increased his lead over second-placed Kevin Harvick, but with fewer than ten laps to go Harvick began gaining on Johnson. Two laps before the finish, Burton caught up to Harvick and Johnson. Johnson held off both Harvick and Burton to win his first race in 2010.


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Post-race
"They're really good, but they're really, really lucky, too. Jimmie is a good friend mine, but there's no denying how lucky they are. They have a golden horseshoe stuck up their ass."


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Post-race
Jimmie Johnson appeared in victory lane after his victory lap to start celebrating his first win of the season, his fifth at Auto Club Speedway, and his 48th overall in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Following his win, he added, "No way around it, we got lucky. We were able to just beat the 31 car [leader Jeff Burton] to the scoring line by about half a car length or we would have been a lap down."


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Post-race
Although Burton was leading near the end of the race, the caution was issued as Johnson was exiting pit lane. It gave Burton a chance to put Johnson a lap down, but Johnson entered the track ahead of Burton. In the subsequent press conference, Johnson said, "Fortunate came our way. I’m not going to lie. The fact that we were on pit row gave us track position, and I drove my butt off." Johnson expressed his enjoyment of winning the race, stating:


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Post-race
"Today was a great race for NASCAR and a great race for this track. I know it got spread out some, but there [was] some really good racing from what I saw. Yes, today we got a huge gift. But I was running fourth or fifth at the time [of the last caution], so it's not like we totally backed into this thing. And I still had to hold Kevin off."


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Post-race
Burton, who finished third, stated, "We weren't slowing each other down. I ran the low line and Kevin ran the high line. But I got looser and Kevin got better at the end. The 29 by far had the best car." Harvick, who finished second, said, "When he moved up I got tight and caught the wall a little bit. If he doesn't move up, he gets passed pretty easily. He did what he's supposed to do to take the line away. He did exactly what he had to do."


2010 Auto Club 500, Report, Post-race
The race result left Harvick leading the Driver's Championship with a total of 331 points. Clint Bowyer, who finished third, was second with 312 points, eight ahead of Greg Biffle and ten ahead of Jamie McMurray. Jeff Burton stood in fifth with 300 points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet maintained their lead with 18 points. Toyota moved to second with 10 points. Ford followed with 9 points, two points ahead of Dodge in fourth.


2010 Auto GP Series
The 2010 Auto GP Series was the twelfth season of the former Euroseries 3000, and the first under its new name "Auto GP". The main sponsor of the series was PartyPoker.it. The series used the same 550 bhp (410 kW) Lola B05/52 chassis that the A1 Grand Prix series used between 2005 and 2008.


2010 Auto GP Series
Despite missing the first two rounds of the season due to his commitments in the FIA GT1 World Championship, DAMS driver Romain Grosjean claimed the championship title, taking four victories and seven podiums in total from the eight races he contested. DAMS drivers also took second and third places in the championship standings, as consistent finishes for Edoardo Piscopo and Duncan Tappy – neither driver won any of the races held – helped them into their final placings. Five other drivers took race victories over the season, with Carlos Iaconelli taking three – all in sprint races – but poor placings in the championship's feature races restricted him to only seventh place; Luca Filippi took two, with single victories each for Adrien Tambay, Julián Leal and Vladimir Arabadzhiev.


2010 Auto GP Series, Race calendar and results
All rounds were part of the International GT Open weekends, excepting stand-alone round at Brno and Navarra round that supported Spanish GT Championship event.


2010 Ayn clashes
The 2010 Ayn clashes saw Somaliland forces engage Dulbahante clan militia in the Buuhoodle district. The battle was prompted by Ethiopian troops seizing a truck belonging to locals in Buuhoodle, sparking a response from residents and Ethiopian retaliatory attack on Buuhoodle and a Somaliland attack upon Widhwidh. More clashes were reported to have occurred near Widhwidh on 19 July 2010.


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Azerbaijan on 7 November 2010.


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Candidates
The registration of candidates ended on 15 October. Although 1,115 candidates filed application to run in the election, only 690 were given the go ahead by the electoral commission.


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Conduct
The elections were observed by monitors from the European Parliament, Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe. OSCE stated that the election campaign had been marred by restrictions on media freedom and freedom of assembly. Many opposition candidates were unable to register themselves, thus creating an "uneven playing field", according to the OSCE. The pre-election atmosphere was tense with the media complaining of pressure and intransparent financial transactions of state officials.


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Conduct
The observation mission of the PACE reported that "the whole election process showed progress in reaching Assembly and OSCE standards and commitments" but that "significant progress would still be necessary to reach an overall electoral and democratic consensus".


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Conduct
Many national and foreign experts found no major improvement in the conduct of these elections. No elections after 1992 was fully in accordance with national and international democratic standards. So far Azerbaijan has been convicted twice of election fraud during the 2005 parliamentary elections by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. In April it was regarding Nemat Aliyev's case, and in September regarding Flora Karimova's.


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Conduct
Prior to the elections, the government amended visa regulations, making it more difficult for election observers and journalists to enter the country.


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Results
President Ilham Aliyev's ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party got a majority of 71 out of 125 seats. Nominally independent candidates, who were aligned with the government, received 38 seats, and 10 small opposition or quasi-opposition parties got the remaining 13 seats. Civic Solidarity retained its 3 seats, and Ana Vaten kept the 2 seats they had in the previous legislature; the Democratic Reforms party, Great Creation, the Movement for National Rebirth, Umid, Civic Unity, Civic Welfare, Adalet (Justice), and the Popular Front of United Azerbaijan, most of which were represented in the previous parliament, won one seat a piece.


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Results
For the first time in Azerbaijani history, not a single candidate from the main opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front (AXCP) or Musavat parties was elected. The opposition Musavat decried the election as "illegitimate...[the] events had nothing to do with elections, it was the most shameful kind of election." Ruling president, Aliyev, however, said the election was fair.


2010 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Reactions
Western observers and the opposition alleged irregularities. The elections were observed by monitors from the European Parliament, Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe. The OSCE reported that on election day there were cases of ballot-stuffing.


2010 Aéro-Service C-212 crash
On 19 June 2010, a CASA C-212 Aviocar transport aircraft crashed on a flight from Yaoundé, Cameroon, to Yangadou, Republic of the Congo, killing all eleven people on board. Among the victims were the entire board of Australian mining conglomerate Sundance Resources, including mining executive Ken Talbot.


2010 Aéro-Service C-212 crash, Accident
On 19 June 2010, Cam Iron – Sundance's Cameroon subsidiary – chartered a CASA C-212 Aviocar form Aéro-Service to fly their board members from Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, to the remote mining town of Yangadou, Republic of the Congo. The Aviocar was chartered because the company's private jet  was too large to operate into the destination airfield.


2010 Aéro-Service C-212 crash, Accident
The aircraft departed from Yaoundé Airport at 09:13  and contact was last made with the aircraft at 09:51. The aircraft was scheduled to arrive at Yangadou at 10:20.


2010 Aéro-Service C-212 crash, Accident
A search for the aircraft was carried out by the French Military, and the Cameroon Government, using a Transall C-160 and a Eurocopter AS 532 Cougar helicopter. The search was hampered by local fog. The wreckage of the aircraft was found on 22 June at Dima, 30 kilometres (19 mi) short of its destination and near the regional capital Djoum, Cameroon. There were no survivors among the eleven people on board.


2010 Aéro-Service C-212 crash, Aircraft
The aircraft involved was CASA C-212 Aviocar registered TN-AFA. It was operated by Aéro-Service an airline that is banned from operating in the European Union due to safety concerns.


2010 Aéro-Service C-212 crash, Victims
The victims were of various nationalities, and included mining magnate Ken Talbot.


2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
The 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, held on 19 December, was the 57th presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Awarded annually by the BBC, the main titular award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year. The winner is selected by public vote from a 10-person shortlist. Other awards presented include team, coach, and young personality of the year.


2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Award process
The ten sportspersons on the award shortlist was drawn up by a "panel of 30 sports editors from national and regional newspapers and magazines", and announced on 29 November 2010. As a preview to the awards, the nominees were interviewed for Sports Personality of the Year: The Contenders, a special edition of BBC One's Inside Sport, presented by Gabby Logan and broadcast on 13 December 2010. The award ceremony was held on Sunday 19 December at the LG Arena in Birmingham, and was broadcast live on BBC One, presented by Sue Barker, Gary Lineker and Jake Humphrey. The winner was decided by a public telephone vote during the ceremony.


2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Nominees
The nominees and their achievements in 2010 as described by the BBC, and their share of the votes cast were as follows:


2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Winner
The winner was announced as  jockey Tony McCoy. 15 time world champion darts player Phil "The Power" Taylor was runner up, with world and European heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis voted third.


2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, Other awards
As part of the 2010 ceremony, awards were also to be presented for:


2010 BBL Champions Cup
The 2010 BBL Champions Cup was the fifth edition of the super cup game in German basketball, and was played on September 26, 2010. The game was played at the JAKO-Arena in Bamberg.


2010 BC Lions season
The 2010 BC Lions season was the 53rd season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 57th overall. The Lions finished the season in third place in the West Division with a second consecutive 8–10 record and qualified for the playoffs by winning their last game of the season. If they had lost, the Edmonton Eskimos would have qualified instead. The team had a dismal start, posting a 1–7 record to start the season, but won seven of their last 10 games to qualify for the playoffs for the 14th consecutive season. The Lions played the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the West Semi-Final, but lost the game in double overtime 41–38.


2010 BC Lions season
Due to renovations to BC Place, the Lions played at a temporary stadium located on the site of their old home field, Empire Stadium. Additionally, Head Coach and General Manager Wally Buono announced that training camp would be held in Kamloops for the next three seasons, beginning with 2010.


2010 BC Lions season, Regular season, Roster
Italics indicate Import players updated 2010-10-25 • 46 Active, 9 Inactive, 11 PR


2010 BCR Open Romania
The 2010 BCR Open Romania was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 18th edition of the event known that year as the BCR Open Romania, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Arenele BNR in Bucharest, Romania, from 20 September through 26 September 2010.


2010 BCR Open Romania, Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BCR Open Romania, Champions, Doubles
Juan Ignacio Chela /  Łukasz Kubot defeated  Marcel Granollers /  Santiago Ventura, 6–2, 5–7, [13–11]


2010 BCR Open Romania – Doubles
František Čermák and Michal Mertiňák were the defending champions, but they decided to not compete this year.


2010 BCR Open Romania – Singles
Albert Montañés was the defending champion, but was defeated 1–6, 3–6 by Juan Ignacio Chela in the semifinals. Chela went on to win the tournament, defeating qualifier Pablo Andújar 7–5, 6–1 in the final.


2010 BCS National Championship Game
The 2010 Citi BCS National Championship Game was the finale of the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and was played between the Texas Longhorns and the Alabama Crimson Tide. It was hosted by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, January 7, 2010. It was the 12th BCS National Championship Game, and the second consecutive year the champion of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) was matched against the champion of the Big 12 Conference. Alabama would get the win over Texas, 37-21, to complete a perfect 14-0 season and clinch the school's 13th national championship.


2010 BCS National Championship Game
The game was the ninth meeting of Texas and Alabama, though the first since the 1982 Cotton Bowl Classic. Prior to the game, Texas led the all-time series with a 7–0–1 record, with the first meeting in 1902.


2010 BCS National Championship Game
The match-up was the third game in which the Tournament of Roses hosted the BCS National Championship game in Pasadena, and the fifth time, overall, that it has hosted a No. 1 versus No. 2 match-up. However, this was the first time the Tournament of Roses hosted the game as a separate event from the Rose Bowl Game. They had previously hosted BCS Championship games in the 2006 and 2002 Rose Bowls, and pre-BCS No. 1 versus No. 2 match-ups in the 1969 and 1963 Rose Bowls.


2010 BCS National Championship Game
With the win, Alabama became only the third team to complete a 14-0 season (after Ohio State in 2002, and Boise State just three nights earlier in the Fiesta Bowl).


2010 BCS National Championship Game
ABC televised the game, as well as the Rose Bowl; Fox televised the remainder of the BCS. The match-up was the final BCS game to air on broadcast television, with cable network ESPN taking over all Bowl Championship Series telecasts starting in 2011. Following the game in June, Citi decided to end the sponsorship of any future Rose Bowl games, including the National Championship game.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Pregame ceremonies
Audra McDonald performed America the Beautiful prior to the teams taking the field, while Flea, Josh Groban performed the Star-Spangled Banner. United States Air Force Academy parachute jumpers, Wings of Blue, dropped in before the National Anthem and 4 F-18 Super Hornets flew over at the conclusion. Keith Jackson, long-time ABC Sports college football play-by-play announcer, performed the coin toss.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Teams
Texas wore its white jerseys and was situated on the east sideline, and Alabama wore its crimson jerseys and used the west bench at the Rose Bowl stadium.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Teams
The two programs that played in this game had won a combined eleven poll-era national championships. Texas had won four, most recently in  2005, and Alabama had won seven, most recently in 1992. Texas had participated in three previous BCS Bowl games and was only one of two teams who were undefeated and had played in at least three BCS Bowls. Alabama had played in two previous BCS Bowl games, 2009 Sugar Bowl and 2000 Orange Bowl losing both.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Teams
Texas was leading the all-time series with Alabama by a 7–0–1 count (2–0 in Austin, 2–0 in Dallas, 1–0 in Miami, 1–0 in New Orleans, 1–0 in Tuscaloosa, 0–0–1 in Houston).


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
Alabama won the coin toss and elected to receive the kickoff. The Longhorns forced a three-and-out. Alabama attempted a fake punt, but P.J. Fitzgerald was intercepted by Blake Gideon at the Alabama 36. Texas drove to the Alabama 11, but on 1st down, Colt McCoy (2008 Heisman trophy runner-up and 2009 Heisman Trophy finalist) was hit on QB option run by sophomore defensive lineman Marcell Dareus, pinching a nerve in McCoy's throwing shoulder and leaving him unable to throw the ball accurately.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
McCoy was replaced by true freshman Garrett Gilbert and would be ruled out for the remainder of the game. Texas reached the 1-yard line, but was held to an 18-yard field goal for an early 3–0 lead. Julio Jones muffed the following kick-off (a surprise short one), with Texas recovering at the Alabama 30. Texas was unable to get a first down, but chalked up a 42-yard field goal, giving Texas a 6–0 lead.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
On the other hand, Alabama started working their offense. Alabama's offensive line was able to create holes in the Texas defense. Behind Alabama's offensive line, Alabama running back Mark Ingram (2009 Heisman trophy winner) moved almost at will against a Texas defense. The power offense resulted in Alabama taking a lead it would never relinquish on the first play of the second quarter. Mark Ingram scampered into the end zone for a touchdown behind the block of 360-pound defensive lineman Terrence Cody, who was routinely used by Alabama as a blocker when Alabama was close to the goal-line. This touchdown would give Alabama a lead it would not relinquish for the rest of the game.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
Alabama took control of the game midway through the second quarter and Alabama's offensive line allowed freshman running back Trent Richardson to shoot straight down the middle of the field for a 48-yard touchdown run. The PAT made the game 14–6 in favor of the Crimson Tide. McElroy was sacked four times by the Texas defense in the first half, but with Ingram and Richardson both gaining yards steadily on the ground, Alabama rarely needed to pass.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
The last few minutes of the first half were dominated by the Alabama defense. Javier Arenas intercepted Gilbert to end one drive and Alabama's Leigh Tiffin added a field goal off the interception. After the ensuing kickoff, Dareus intercepted Gilbert with 12 seconds left in the half on a bobbled "shovel pass" and the 300-pounder returned the interception for a touchdown, with the point after giving Alabama a commanding 24–6 lead going into halftime.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
In the second half, the Texas combination of Gilbert and Shipley, and a Longhorns defense that shut down Alabama in the second half cut the Crimson Tide's lead to 24-21 with six minutes to play in the game. However, the Crimson Tide's first sack (by Eryk Anders) led to a fumble recovery by Courtney Upshaw at the Texas three-yard line that tipped the momentum back to the Crimson Tide. After the recovery, Alabama's Mark Ingram added his second touchdown of the night and enabled Saban's team to extend its lead to 31–21.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
Alabama's defense intercepted Gilbert twice in the ensuing drives and the Crimson Tide's offense added another touchdown from Trent Richardson for a final score of 37–21 (Tiffin's extra point attempt was no good). After the ensuing kickoff, Texas tried to mount a comeback drive, but Gilbert threw an errant pass that was deflected off of two Texas players and ultimately intercepted by Alabama FS Tyrone King, effectively sealing the win and the national championship for the Crimson Tide.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Game summary
Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban won his second BCS Championship, the only coach to do so with two different programs. Alabama also became the third team in Division I FBS history to finish a season 14–0, after Ohio State in 2002 and Boise State who did it in the Fiesta Bowl three nights earlier.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Pivotal plays
Besides McCoy being taken out of the game, the two most pivotal plays of the game came at the ends of the halves. With 15 seconds to go until halftime and Alabama leading 17–6, Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert tossed a shovel pass into a crowd of Texas and Alabama linemen which bounced off the hands of Texas running back D. J. Monroe. Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus, the same player who had knocked McCoy out of the game, gathered it in and powered 28 yards for a touchdown to give Alabama a 24–6 lead at halftime.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Pivotal plays
The other pivotal play was late in the fourth quarter. Texas had closed the Alabama lead to 24–21 on the strength of two touchdown passes caught by senior wide receiver Jordan Shipley and a No. 2 ranked defense that had held Alabama scoreless in the second half. Texas had the ball deep in their own side of the field with 3:04 left to play. Alabama defender Eryk Anders made his team's first sack, tackling Gilbert hard enough to force a fumble, which was recovered by Courtney Upshaw at the Texas three-yard line. On the following drive, with 2:01 to go in the 4th quarter, Alabama's Mark Ingram scored a touchdown to extend the Crimson Tide's lead to 31–21.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Pivotal plays
On the second play of Texas' next possession, Alabama defensive back Javier Arenas grabbed his sixth interception of the season, electing to down the ball rather than return it. Alabama's true freshman running back, Trent Richardson, gained 27 yards in three plays to score, building Alabama's lead to 37–21 with 47 seconds to play after a missed extra point attempt.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Pivotal plays
Texas' final drive also ended with an interception which bounced off of several players before ending up in the grasp of Alabama reserve defensive back Tyrone King, a senior who saw little playing time in his career. Alabama QB Greg McElroy would take a knee to drain the last 0:36 off the clock, handing Alabama its first BCS championship, eighth national title since 1960, and first ever win over Texas.


2010 BCS National Championship Game, Pivotal plays
Coming into the game, Texas had the top rated rushing defense in college football. However, Alabama's Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram rushed 22 times for 116 yards and two touchdowns, while back-up running back true freshman Trent Richardson contributed an additional 109 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries. Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy was 6-for-11 for 58 yards and no touchdowns, taking five sacks in the process. It was later revealed that McElroy was playing with broken ribs. Texas' freshman quarterback, Garrett Gilbert, passed for 186 yards and two touchdowns, but also lost a fumble and threw four interceptions, two of which bounced off Texas receivers.


2010 BDO Classic Canadian Open
The 2010 BDO Classic Canadian Open was the third Grand Slam of Curling tournament of the 2009-10 curling season. It was held January 20-24 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship
The 2010 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 33rd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 25th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. Ted Hankey was the defending men's champion having won the title for the second time in the previous year's final against Tony O'Shea. The defending women's champion was Francis Hoenselaar, having beaten seven-time champion Trina Gulliver in the 2009 final.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship
Players from 32 countries around the globe competed to reach the BBC televised finals, which ran from 2–10 January at Frimley Green. The men's top seed was O'Shea. Julie Gore was top women's seed, ahead of Gulliver. There were 11 debutants at the world championships. Also for the first time two brothers, Tony and Steve West, were playing in the same world championship.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship
Martin Adams was the winner of the men's championship beating Dave Chisnall 7–5 in the final. Trina Gulliver won the Women's Championship for the eighth time beating Rhian Edwards 2–0.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers, Men's
The televised stages featured 32 players. The top 16 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2008/09 season were seeded for the tournament. An unusually high total of 11 of the seeded players were knocked out in the first round.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers, Men's
The 32 players who qualified for invitation into the first round proper of the men's singles were:


2010 BDO World Darts Championship, Format and qualifiers, Women's
The televised stages featured 8 players. The top 4 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2008/09 season were seeded for the tournament.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship, Prize money
The 2010 World Championship had a prize fund of £325,000 - a rise of £5,000 on the previous year.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship, Television coverage
The tournament has been broadcast by BBC Sport every year since its inception. Having fronted their coverage since 2001, Ray Stubbs did not host their broadcasts in 2010 following his decision to join ESPN the previous summer. He was replaced by BBC Radio 5 Live and Football on Five presenter Colin Murray. Rob Walker, the Master of Ceremonies at BBC's snooker events and host of the BBC's 2009 Winmau World Masters coverage presented the late night highlights and Darts Extra through the night on BBC2. Walker was also the roaming reporter during BBC2's live coverage. Bobby George once again was the pundit.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship, Television coverage
The commentary team was David Croft, Tony Green and the tournament's number 1 seed Tony O'Shea. Again, every dart was shown live, via the BBC's interactive coverage on its Red Button service – with the semi-finals and final both broadcast live on BBC1/BBC2 on the last weekend.


2010 BDO World Darts Championship, Television coverage
In Germany the tournament was broadcast by Eurosport. There was no coverage on SBS in the Netherlands, for the first time in several years as they chose to follow the majority of their players who featured in the PDC World Championship instead.


2010 BEC Tero Sasana F.C. season
The 2010 season was BEC's 14th season in the top division of Thai football. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club played in the season.


2010 BEC Tero Sasana F.C. season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 BEC Tero Sasana F.C. season, Squad, Transfers
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 BET Hip Hop Awards
The 2010 show was hosted by Mike Epps. DJ Khaled was the host DJ and DJ Premier DJed the cyphers.


2010 BET Hip Hop Awards, Winners and nominations, Track of the Year
Only the producer of the track nominated in this category.


2010 BFL season
The 2010 season of the Belgian Football League (BFL) is the regular season played in the Belgium. The first week starts on 14 February 2010 and ends with the 12th week May 2. Then the Playoffs follow in the 13th and 14th week. The 2 remaining teams then compete in the championship Belgian Bowl XXIII. This is played in the 16th week on 29 May 2010


2010 BFL season, Regular season, Regular Season overview
The FFL schedules two games at one location for saving on transportationcosts for referees and the costs of renting an ambulance and first aid responders. Half of the time, teams are playing virtually at home but actually play at the hosting team's homefield due to these costsaving measures.


2010 BFL season, Regular season, Regular season standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT = Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against


2010 BGL Luxembourg Open
The 2010 BGL Luxembourg Open was a women's tennis tournament on indoor hard courts. It was the 15th edition of the Fortis Championships Luxembourg, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour. It was held in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg, from October 16 through October 24, 2010. Roberta Vinci won the singles title.


2010 BGL Luxembourg Open, Champions, Doubles
Timea Bacsinszky /  Tathiana Garbin defeated  Iveta Benešová /  Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 6–4, 6–4


2010 BGL Luxembourg Open, Player Commitments, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BGL Luxembourg Open – Doubles
Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová were the defending champions. They reached the final, where they lost to Timea Bacsinszky and Tathiana Garbin 4–6, 4–6.


2010 BGL Luxembourg Open – Singles
Timea Bacsinszky was the defending champion but she lost in the first round against Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová. Italian player Roberta Vinci defeated 8th seed Julia Görges 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2010 BH Telecom Indoors
The 2010 BH Telecom Indoors was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 8 and 14 March 2010.


2010 BH Telecom Indoors, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BH Telecom Indoors, Champions, Doubles
Nicolas Mahut /  Édouard Roger-Vasselin def. Ivan Dodig /  Lukáš Rosol, 7–6(6), 6–7(7), [10–5]


2010 BH Telecom Indoors – Doubles
Konstantin Kravchuk and Dawid Olejniczak were the defending champions, but they chose to not participate this year. Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin won in the final 7–6(6), 6–7(7), [10–5], against Ivan Dodig and Lukáš Rosol.


2010 BH Telecom Indoors – Singles
Ivan Dodig was the defending champion; however, he lost 3–6, 6–3, 3–6 to Karol Beck in the semifinal. Édouard Roger-Vasselin won in the final, because Karol Beck retired when the result was 6–7(5), 6–3, 1–0 for the Frenchman.


2010 BH Tennis Open International Cup
The 2010 BH Tennis Open International Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. This was the nineteenth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil between 13 and 19 September 2010.


2010 BH Tennis Open International Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BH Tennis Open International Cup, Champions, Doubles
Rodrigo Grilli /  Leonardo Kirche def. Christian Lindell /  João Souza, 6–3, 6–3


2010 BH Tennis Open International Cup – Doubles
Márcio Torres and Izak van der Merwe were the defending champions but decided not to participate. Rodrigo Grilli and Leonardo Kirche defeated Christian Lindell and João Souza 6–3, 6–3 in the final.


2010 BH Tennis Open International Cup – Singles
Júlio Silva was the defending champion, but he lost to his compatriot, qualifier Rodrigo Guidolin in the quarterfinals. Rogério Dutra da Silva won the final against Facundo Argüello 6–4, 6–3.


2010 BK118
2010 BK118 (also written 2010 BK118) is a centaur roughly 20–60 km in diameter. It is on a retrograde cometary orbit. It has a barycentric semi-major axis (average distance from the Sun) of ~400 AU.


2010 BK118
2010 BK118 came to perihelion in April 2012 at a distance of 6.1 AU from the Sun (outside the orbit of Jupiter). It has a Jupiter-MOID of 1.1 AU. As of 2016, it is 11 AU from the Sun.


2010 BK118
It will not be 50 AU from the Sun until 2043. After leaving the planetary region of the Solar System, 2010 BK118 will have a barycentric aphelion of 791 AU with an orbital period of 8000 years.


2010 BMC Racing Team season
The 2010 season for the BMC Racing Team began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As they did in 2009, BMC Racing Team competes in 2010 as a UCI Professional Continental team with wildcard status, meaning they are eligible to be invited to any UCI ProTour event.


2010 BMC Racing Team season
After three seasons as a United States-based Pro Continental team with a limited presence elsewhere in the world, BMC made numerous high-profile acquisitions in the 2009 offseason, including the last two world cycling champions in Alessandro Ballan and Cadel Evans. The team also added six other riders who were members of ProTour teams in 2009 including 2009 U.S. Road Race Champion George Hincapie.


2010 BMC Racing Team season
This has assured them a greater presence in higher-profile races, evidenced by the fact they were granted the first-ever wildcard entry to the Tour Down Under and invited to the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, 2010 roster
†Though listed on the team's roster, Nydam is not cleared to race and did not ride competitively in 2010.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
Cadel Evans won the La Flèche Wallonne, riding past Alberto Contador in the final meters of the race to take the victory. Evans also finished 5th in the Liège–Bastogne–Liège.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, One-day races, Spring classics
Additionally, George Hincapie placed 4th in the Gent–Wevelgem and 6th in the 2010 Tour of Flanders, with Karsten Kroon finishing 9th in the Amstel Gold Race


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
BMC raced the Tour Down Under as the first non-Pro Tour team (aside from the Australian national team) to receive an invite. This was likely to allow Evans to ride with the rainbow jersey in his home nation. Evans figured in winning breakaways in two stages, including the race's queen stage to Willunga, but did not emerge with any victories, finishing 6th.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
Evans also finished 3rd in the Tirreno Adriatico, and 6th in the Critérium International.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
Chad Beyer won the Sprints (Points) Classification at the 2010 Tour de Romandie, having held the Jersey for the entire race.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Stage races
BMC had a successful Tour de Suisse, Steve Morabito finishing 4th overall, with Marcus Burghart winning the Points Classification and Mathias Frank winning both the King of the Mountain and the Sprints Classifications.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Alessandro Ballan stated in October 2009 that it was a certainty that he would start the Giro d'Italia after missing out on it in 2009 when he wore the rainbow jersey. This was an indication that the team was in line for an invite, which they received. He was eventually withheld from competition by BMC while they investigated claims regarding his time at Lampre - the timing coincided with the Giro so he did not compete.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Evans led the squad and wore bib number one by virtue of being the reigning world champion. Evans and Santambrogio were the only riders on the squad to have previously ridden in a Grand Tour. The team showed very well in the stage 1 individual time trial. Bookwalter was a major surprise on the day, setting a provisional best time early in the stage that ended up just 2 seconds slower than stage winner Bradley Wiggins'. Evans also rode well in this stage, with the same time as Bookwalter, for third.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The next day, Evans made a selection after a crash close to the stage's finish line and finished with the leaders. Neither previous race leader Wiggins nor Bookwalter did, so Evans took the pink jersey for stage 3. The team did not try to hold the jersey, and it passed to Alexander Vinokourov the next day. In the stage 4 team time trial, the team set an early provisional best time, but they were bettered by stronger squads as the day went on and finished 12th.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
After the next two stages went to breakaways, stage 7 was one that proved important in the race's overall picture. It was long, and contested partly on unpaved roads, and happened to be run on a day with very heavy rain. After overnight race leader Vincenzo Nibali experienced a mechanical issue that necessitated a bike change, Evans and Damiano Cunego responded to an attack from Vinokourov, and stayed away to the stage's finish in Montalcino. Evans won the three-man sprint for the stage, with a 2-second gap.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 11, the Giro's longest, more than fifty riders took a 20-minute lead on the peloton before any real chase began. Bookwalter was originally in this group, but the team's manager called him back to the peloton to help Evans and make a pace. The peloton still finished 13 minutes behind the stage winner, leading to massive re-shuffling of the overall standings.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
On the first of the Giro's many mountain stages in its final week, Evans rode well and stayed with the leaders through the Monte Grappa climb. He did not follow Nibali's aggressive descent of the mountain, and finished with Ivan Basso and Michele Scarponi 23 seconds back. This result moved Evans back into the top ten overall for the first time since the huge time loss in stage 11. The next day, Evans rode most of the climb of Monte Zoncolan with Basso, but he was dropped shortly before the summit, conceding over a minute to the Italian.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The result did, however, move him up to fifth overall, and into the points classification lead. Evans was again second the next day, behind Stefano Garzelli, in the climbing time trial to Plan de Corones. In stage 19 to Aprica, Evans finished with the second group on the road, which tried in vain to lead then-race leader David Arroyo to the finish line fast enough to keep him in the pink jersey. After this stage, Evans was fifth overall, trailing Scarponi for fourth by a minute and 11 seconds.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 20, on the final ascent of the Passo del Tonale, Evans put in an attack to try to win back sufficient time to get him on the podium. Though he got yet another second place and firmly secured his victory in the points classification, he took only 9 seconds out of Scarponi as a result of the move. In the final time trial in Verona, Evans again rode well, finishing fourth at 22 seconds behind stage winner Gustav Larsson. Evans also won the Azzurri d'Italia classification. The team finished 17th in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and seventh in the Trofeo Super Team.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Evans revealed afterward that he had ridden the second half of the Giro while suffering from a stomach bug. On the night before stage 11, he went to bed with a 38 °C (100 °F) temperature and rode the stage despite team doctors urging him to retire from the race. He finished the race despite persistent stomach problems which interfered with his diet.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
BMC entered their first ever Tour de France with a squad again led by Evans. He had found in 2009 that he had performed far better in his second Grand Tour of the season (3rd in the 2009 Vuelta a España as opposed to 30th in the 2009 Tour de France) and thus entered the Tour with high expectations. Hincapie was also part of the squad, in his 15th consecutive participation in the race.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The Tour was to be BMC's second and final Grand Tour in 2010, as team president Jim Ochowicz stated that riding all three was "not doable" due to the size of the team's staff and ridership and that they would not seek a place in the 2010 Vuelta a España. Evans was mentioned in pre-race analyses as a contender for overall victory, having finished highly in several Grand Tours over his career without having won one.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
After a strong showing in the individual time trial which kicked off the Giro d'Italia, Bookwalter also showed well on day one of the Tour, in its prologue. He finished in 11th place, after having been provisionally in the top five for most of the day, clocking in 35 seconds off the winning time of Fabian Cancellara. Evans was 23rd, a further four seconds back. After the peloton mostly finished together over the first two road race stages, the cobblestones visited in stage 3 broke the race open.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Only six riders finished the stage together as the leading group on the road. Evans was part of this group, gaining solid time on his rivals – 53 seconds against Bradley Wiggins, Denis Menchov, and Alexander Vinokourov, a minute and 13 seconds against Alberto Contador, and over two minutes against Lance Armstrong. He sat in third place overall after the day, still 39 seconds behind Cancellara as race leader, as Cancellara had also finished with the first group in stage 3.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The race's overall standings did not change again until stage 7, a medium mountain seventh stage to Station des Rousses in the Jura. A breakaway took the day's honors, and Evans moved up to second overall. In the first Alpine stage the next day, the race's elite (with the notable exception of Armstrong) contested the stage as the first group on the road. Andy Schleck and Samuel Sánchez attacked within the stage's final kilometer and gained 10 seconds against the other overall favorites, including Evans, with Schleck winning the stage. Evans did, however, assume the race leadership and the yellow jersey with the day's results.


2010 BMC Racing Team season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 9, after the first rest day, Evans fell precipitously from the top of the standings. He lost eight minutes to Contador and Schleck and six minutes to the majority of the race's elite, occupying 18th place after the day. What at first had seemed a catastrophic lack of form on the Col de la Madeleine was later revealed to be exacerbated by a broken elbow sustained by Evans during the previous stage. Evans continued to ride despite the injury, and finished the race in 26th place, 50 minutes and 27 seconds off the pace of Tour champion Contador. The squad was very quiet after Evans' injury, with second place in a stage 15 breakaway by Ballan being the closest they came to a victory. The squad finished 14th in the teams classification.


2010 BMW Ljubljana Open
The 2010 BMW Ljubljana Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia between September 20 and 26, 2010.


2010 BMW Ljubljana Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BMW Ljubljana Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a special entrant into the singles main draw:


2010 BMW Ljubljana Open, Champions, Doubles
Nikola Mektić /  Ivan Zovko def. Marin Draganja /  Dino Marcan, 3–6, 6–0, [10–3]


2010 BMW Ljubljana Open – Doubles
Jamie Delgado and Jamie Murray were the defending champions, but decided not to participate. Croatian fourth-seeded pair Nikola Mektić and Ivan Zovko won this tournament. They won against their unseeded compatriots Marin Draganja and Dino Marcan 3–6, 6–0, [10–3] in the final match.


2010 BMW Ljubljana Open – Singles
Paolo Lorenzi was the defending champion, but he was eliminated by Nikola Ćirić already in the first round. Due to rain, the final was played on Sunday, 26 September at 11:00 local time. Blaž Kavčič won this match 6–2, 4–6, 7–5, against David Goffin.


2010 BMW Open
The 2010 BMW Open was a men's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 95th edition of the BMW Open, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. The event took place in Munich, Germany, from 2 May until 9 May 2010.


2010 BMW Open
The draw was led by the defending champion Tomáš Berdych,  Russian Mikhail Youzhny and Croatian Marin Čilić.


2010 BMW Open, Finals, Doubles
Oliver Marach /  Santiago Ventura defeated  Eric Butorac /  Michael Kohlmann, 5–7, 6–3, [16–14]


2010 BMW Open – Doubles
Jan Hernych and Ivo Minář were the defending champions, but Hernych chose not to compete this year and Minář chose to compete in Palm Hills instead. Oliver Marach and Santiago Ventura won in the final 5–7, 6–3, [16–14], against Eric Butorac and Michael Kohlmann.


2010 BMW Open – Singles
Tomáš Berdych was the defender of title; however, he lost to Philipp Petzschner in the quarterfinals. Mikhail Youzhny won in the final 6–3, 4–6, 6–4 against Marin Čilić.


2010 BMW Open – Singles
Former world no. 7 Mario Ančić played his last professional match of his career, losing in straight sets to Daniel Köllerer in the first round. He would announce his retirement the following year due to recurrence of his mononucleosis.


2010 BMW PGA Championship
The 2010 BMW PGA Championship was the 56th edition of the BMW PGA Championship, an annual professional golf tournament on the European Tour. It was held 20–23 May at the West Course of Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, a suburb southwest of London.


2010 BMW PGA Championship
Englishman Simon Khan won his first BMW PGA Championship with a one stroke victory over Swede Fredrik Andersson Hed and fellow Englishman Luke Donald.


2010 BMW Tennis Championship
The 2010 BMW Tennis Championship was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sunrise, United States between 16 and 21 March 2010.


2010 BMW Tennis Championship, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BMW Tennis Championship, Champions, Doubles
Martin Damm /  Filip Polášek def. Lukáš Dlouhý /  Leander Paes, 4–6, 6–1, [13–11]


2010 BMW Tennis Championship – Doubles
Eric Butorac and Bobby Reynolds were the defending champions, but Butorac competed in the BNP Paribas Open instead and chose to not participate this year. Reynolds partnered up by André Sá. However, they lost to Lukáš Dlouhý and Leander Paes in the semifinal. Martin Damm and Filip Polášek won in the final 4–6, 6–1, [13–11], against Dlouhý and L Paes.


2010 BMW Tennis Championship – Singles
Robin Söderling was the defending champion, but he competed in the BNP Paribas Open instead. Florian Mayer won in the final 6–4, 6–4, against Gilles Simon.


2010 BNP Paribas Masters
The 2010 BNP Paribas Masters was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 38th edition of the tournament known that year as the BNP Paribas Masters after the sponsor BNP Paribas. It was part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from 6 November through 14 November 2010. The top eight seeds were Roger Federer, defending champion Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Robin Söderling, Tomáš Berdych, Fernando Verdasco, David Ferrer and Andy Roddick.


2010 BNP Paribas Masters
Robin Söderling defeated Gaël Monfils 6–1, 7–6(7–1) in the final to win his first Masters 1000 championship and rise to a career-high world ranking of No. 4. Monfils was playing in his second successive Paris Masters final having saved five match points in defeating Roger Federer in the semifinals.


2010 BNP Paribas Masters, Finals, Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi /  Max Mirnyi defeated  Mark Knowles /  Andy Ram 7–5, 7–5


2010 BNP Paribas Masters, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BNP Paribas Masters, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received a Special Exempt into the singles main draw:


2010 BNP Paribas Masters, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a Lucky Loser into the singles main draw:


2010 BNP Paribas Masters – Doubles
Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić were the defending champions, but lost to Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi in the quarterfinals. Bhupathi and Mirnyi won this tournament, by defeating Mark Knowles and Andy Ram 7–5, 7–5 in the final.


2010 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles
Robin Söderling defeated Gaël Monfils in the final, 6–1, 7–6(7–1), to win the Singles title at the 2010 Paris Masters.


2010 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles
Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Michaël Llodra.


2010 BNP Paribas Open
The 2010 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2010. It was the 37th edition of the men's event (22nd for the women), known this year as the BNP Paribas Open, and is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2010 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2010 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States from March 8 through March 21, 2010.


2010 BNP Paribas Open
The year's tournament saw a couple of withdrawals; The women's side saw the draw without the top two rank players with World no. 2 Dinara Safina withdrawing with a recurring back problem and world no. 1 Serena Williams with sister Venus Williams continue their boycott from the tournament since Serena won the event in 2001. The men's side saw the withdrawals of Tommy Haas and Lleyton Hewitt due to hip surgeries. Juan Martín del Potro also withdrew due to a right wrist injury and Fernando González withdrew to aid his country Chile after an earthquake. Stanislas Wawrinka also withdrew due to the birth of his child. Mikhail Youzhny also withdrew.


2010 BNP Paribas Open, Finals, Men's doubles
Marc López /  Rafael Nadal defeated  Daniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonjić, 7–6(10–8), 6–3


2010 BNP Paribas Open, Finals, Women's doubles
Květa Peschke /  Katarina Srebotnik defeated  Nadia Petrova /  Samantha Stosur, 6–4, 2–6, [10–5]


2010 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Doubles
Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick were the defending champions, but they chose not to play together. Fish partnered up with Mario Ančić, but they lost to Feliciano López and Fernando Verdasco in the first round. Roddick partnered up with James Blake, but they lost to Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in the second round.


2010 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Doubles
Marc López and Rafael Nadal defeated 7–6(10–8), 6–3 first-seeded pair Nestor and Zimonjić in the final.


2010 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles
Ivan Ljubičić defeated Andy Roddick in the final 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–5), to win the Men's Singles title at the 2010 Indian Wells Masters. It was his first ATP Masters 1000 title (following three previous runner-up finishes), making him the oldest first-time champion of a Masters title. Until the 2014 Australian Open, this was the last occasion where a player other than the Big Four won a title when the Big Four were all competing.


2010 BNP Paribas Open – Men's Singles
Rafael Nadal was the defending champion, but he lost to Ljubičić in the semifinals.


2010 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Doubles
Victoria Azarenka and Vera Zvonareva were the defending champions. Azarenka chose not to compete and Zvonareva partnered with Lucie Šafářová. Zvonareva lost in the first round to the wildcard team of Jelena Janković and Tathiana Garbin. The unseeded pair Květa Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik won in the final 6–4, 2–6, [10–5], against Nadia Petrova and Samantha Stosur.


2010 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles
Vera Zvonareva was the defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Samantha Stosur.


2010 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles
Jelena Janković won the title, defeating Caroline Wozniacki in the final 6–2, 6–4.


2010 BNP Paribas Open – Women's Singles
This tournament marked the first WTA main draw appearance of future World No. 3 and US Open Champion Sloane Stephens, who advanced to the second round before losing to Vera Zvonareva.


2010 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux
The 2010 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bordeaux, France between May 10 and May 16, 2010.


2010 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received special exempt into the main draw:


2010 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux, Champions, Doubles
Nicolas Mahut /  Édouard Roger-Vasselin def. Karol Beck /  Leoš Friedl, 5–7, 6–3, [10–7]


2010 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux – Doubles
Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos were the defending champions. Cuevas chose to compete in Madrid and Zeballos chose not to compete this year. Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin won in the final 5–7, 6–3, [10–7], against Karol Beck and Leoš Friedl.


2010 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux – Singles
Marc Gicquel was the defending champion, but he chose not to compete this year. Richard Gasquet win in the final 4–6, 6–1, 6–4, against Michaël Llodra.


2010 BOSS GP Series
The 2010 BOSS GP Series was the 16th season of the BOSS GP series. The championship began on 17 April at the Hockenheimring and ended on 3 October at Dijon-Prenois.


2010 BRC IMPCO V8 Supercars GP Challenge
The 2010 BRC IMPCO V8 Supercars GP Challenge was the fourth meeting of the 2010 V8 Supercar season, however it was a stand-alone event not contributing to the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series pointscore. It was held on the weekend of 25 to 28 March at Albert Park Street Circuit, in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. It was the lead support category for the 2010 Australian Grand Prix.


2010 BRC IMPCO V8 Supercars GP Challenge
This race meeting was broadcast by Network Ten; the only race the network is permitted to broadcast following its loss of broadcasting rights to the V8 Supercars in 2006.


2010 BRC IMPCO V8 Supercars GP Challenge, Top Ten shootout
The top ten shootout was held on Friday 26 March.


2010 BSI Challenger Lugano
The 2010 BSI Challenger Lugano was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Lugano, Switzerland between 7 and 13 June 2010.


2010 BSI Challenger Lugano, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 BSI Challenger Lugano, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry a special Exempt into the singles main draw:


2010 BSI Challenger Lugano, Champions, Doubles
Frederico Gil /  Christophe Rochus def. Santiago González /  Travis Rettenmaier, 7–5, 7–6(3)


2010 BSI Challenger Lugano – Doubles
Johan Brunström and Jean-Julien Rojer were the defending champions, but they chose to compete at Halle instead. Frederico Gil and Christophe Rochus won in the final 7–5, 7–6(3) against Santiago González and Travis Rettenmaier.


2010 BSI Challenger Lugano – Singles
Stanislas Wawrinka was the defending champion, and he won in the final 6–7(2), 6–2, 6–1 against Potito Starace.


2010 BSWW Mundialito
The 2010 BSWW Mundialito was a beach soccer tournament that took place at a temporary stadium at Praia da Rocha, Portimão, Portugal from August 6 to 8. This competition was played in a round-robin format.


2010 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
The 2010 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix was the fourth season of BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix.


2010 BWF Super Series
The 2010 BWF Super Series was the fourth season of the BWF Super Series. Like the previous season, the twelve tournaments were all hosted by nations in Asia and Europe with the Korea Open as the opening tournament and the Hong Kong Open as the final tournament in the season.


2010 BWF Super Series, Results, Performance by countries
Tabulated below are the Super Series performances based on countries. Only countries who have won a title are listed:


2010 BWF Super Series Finals
The 2010 BWF Super Series Finals was a top level badminton competition which was held from January 5, 2011 to January 9, 2011 in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The final was held by Chinese Taipei Badminton Association and sponsored by VICTOR. It was the final event of the BWF Super Series competition on the 2010 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event was $500,000.


2010 BWF Super Series Finals, Representatives by nation
§: Petya Nedelcheva from Bulgaria was the only player who played in two categories (women's singles and women's doubles), Zhang Nan from China and Ko Sung-hyun from Korea were the players who played in two categories (men's doubles and mixed doubles), while Zhao Yunlei from China and Kunchala Voravichitchaikul from Thailand were the players who played in two categories (women's doubles and mixed doubles).


2010 BWF World Championships
The 2010 BWF World Championships was the 18th tournament of the BWF World Championships, a global tournament in the sport of badminton. It was held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France, from August 23 to August 29, 2010. Originally the competition is to be held at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy but it was moved to Stade Pierre de Coubertin due to financial issues.


2010 BWF World Championships, Host city selection
Australia, France, South Korea, and other nations submitted bids to host the championships. France was later announced as the host for the championships.


2010 BWF World Championships, Draw
The draw took place on 9 August 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


2010 BWF World Championships, Logo plagiarism controversy
In August-2013, Brazilian news portals reported that the competition logo had been plagiarized by a company named Telexfree which became operational only in 2011, two years after Badminton World Federation (logo owner) and Taïo Design Consulting (logo creator) launched the official brand for 2010 BWF World Championships. Because of this issue, Telexfree have decided to execute a re-brand campaign without giving any official explanations about the case or if there is any legal action moved by the logo owner.


2010 BWF World Championships – Men's Doubles
The 2010 BWF World Championships was the 18th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France, from August 23 to August 29, 2010. Following the results of the men's doubles.


2010 BWF World Championships – Men's Singles
The 2010 BWF World Championships was the 18th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France, from August 23 to August 29, 2010. Following are the results of the men's singles:


2010 BWF World Championships – Mixed Doubles
The 2010 BWF World Championships was the 18th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France, from August 23 to August 29, 2010. Following the results of the mixed doubles.


2010 BWF World Championships – Women's Doubles
The 2010 BWF World Championships was the 18th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France, from August 23 to August 29, 2010. Following the results of the women's doubles.


2010 BWF World Championships – Women's Singles
The 2010 BWF World Championships was the 18th tournament of the BWF World Championships. It was held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France, from August 23 to August 29, 2010. Following the results of the women's singles.


2010 BWF World Junior Championships
The 2010 BWF World Junior Championships were held in Guadalajara, Mexico from April 16 to 25, 2010.


2010 BWF World Junior Championships, Team competition
A total of 24 countries competed at the team competition in 2010 BWF World Junior Championships.


2010 BWF season
The 2010 BWF Season was the overall badminton circuit organized by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the 2010 badminton season to publish and promote the sport. Besides the BWF World Championships, BWF promotes the sport of Badminton through an extensive worldwide program of events. These events have various purposes according to their level and territory in which they are held but those events owned by BWF seek to showcase the Sport via the widest possible quality television broadcast and build the fanbase of the Sport throughout the World.


2010 BWF season
The world badminton tournament structure has four levels: Level 1 (BWF Major Events: Thomas Cup, Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup, Suhadinata Cup, World Championships, Bimantara Cup, and World Senior Championships), Level 2 (BWF Superseries: Superseries and Superseries Masters Finals), Level 3 (BWF Grand Prix: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold), and Level 4 (BWF Continental Tournament: International Challenge, International Series, and Future Series). The Thomas Cup & Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup and Suhandinata Cup are Teams Events. The others – Superseries, Grand Prix Events, International Challenge, International Series, Future Series and Bimantara Cup are all individual tournaments. The higher the level of tournament, the larger the prize money and the more ranking points available.


2010 BWF season
The 2010 BWF Season calendar comprised the World Championships tournaments, the Thomas and Uber Cup, the BWF Super Series (Super Series, Super Series Premier, Super Series Finals), the Grand Prix (Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix), the International Series (International Series and International Challenge), and Future Series.


2010 BWF season, Schedule
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2010 calendar, with the Champions and Runners-up documented.


2010 BYU Cougars football team
The 2010 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cougars, led by head coach Bronco Mendenhall, played their home games at LaVell Edwards Stadium and were members of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 7–6, 5–3 in Mountain West play and were invited to the New Mexico Bowl where they defeated UTEP 52–24.


2010 BYU Cougars football team
2010 was BYU's final season as a member of the Mountain West as started competing as an Independent in football beginning in 2011 with all other sports joining the West Coast Conference.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Pre-Season, Recruiting
In the preseason, the Cougars had many talented prospects come in. No.1 rated QB by rivals.com, Jake Heaps, joined the team, along with three players from The Oakridge School, Ross Apo, Tayo Fabuluje, and Teu Kautai


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Pre-Season, Media Poll
At the Mountain West media days on July 27, BYU was picked by 31 voters to finish 3rd in the conference behind TCU and Utah. Offensive linemen Matt Reynolds and free safety Andrew Rich were both named to the pre-season all-conference team.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Pre-Season, Conference Re-alignment
The Cougars weren't directly affected by conference expansion in June, but will lose conference rival (effective Fall 2011) Utah to the newly formed Pac-12. Before Utah was invited to the older Pac-10 conference, Boise State agreed to leave the WAC and join the MWC in 2011. Rumors began circulating afterward about whether the BYU-Utah rivalry would survive the transition. On August 31, the BYU Athletic Department issued a press release that BYU would leave the Mountain West Conference next year, go independent in football beginning with the 2011 season and join the West Coast Conference for all other sports.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Season
Defensive Coordinator, Jaime Hill was fired the day after BYU lost to Utah State, BYU's fourth loss of the season after only playing five games. BYU had not started the season with a 1-4 record since 1973. After the firing of Hill, linebacker coach Nick Howell was moved to coach the secondary and Kelly Poppinga was promoted from graduate assistant to coach the linebackers.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Washington
BYU opened the season with Y Quarterback Weekend. During Y Quarterback Weekend all 8 All-American quarterbacks, including Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian, returned and were recognized for their outstanding achievements while at BYU.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Washington
It was a back and forth battle mostly through the air between the Cougars and the Huskies. Jake Locker threw for 266 yards. Nelson and Jake Heaps combined to throw for 262 yards, 131 each. In his first start in four years though, Riley Nelson threw for 2 touchdowns while the Cougars defense swarmed Washington State forcing a safety. No turnovers occurred in the game, but BYU managed to come from behind to defeat the Huskies. The win over the Huskies evened up the series between the Cougars and the Huskies at 4-4.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Air Force
BYU entered into their second game of the season with a 5-game winning streak against the Air Force Falcons.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Air Force
The first quarter played out like most people expected the game would, all offense and very little defense. BYU had 44 yards passing to Air Force's 46. BYU had two touchdowns to Air Force's one. However, the Air Force defense would turn it on in the second quarter. Nelson and Heaps would combine to throw for only 44 more yards through the final three quarters while Air Force racked up 409 rushing yards. With the turnovers that BYU had, the game would turn into a blowout in favor of the Falcons. The Falcons had only won 6 of the 30 meetings between the teams going into 2010, but they got the last laugh before BYU left for Independence and cut the series to 24-7.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Florida State
It the contest of 2010 was a road trip to Florida State, a team BYU was 0-3 against in their school's history. Previous contests took place in 1991, 2000, and 2009.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Florida State
In a battle where both offenses struggled, the Seminoles defense came up with the last laugh. Florida State had eight sacks, forced six punts, and made BYU turnover the ball twice, both leading to points that helped the Seminoles pull away for the win. The loss wasn't the only bad news for BYU. The following Monday QB Riley Nelson had an MRI. It was revealed that he suffered a shoulder injury during the FSU game, and it would require five to six months of surgery and rehab before he would be able to play again. The NCAA would grant Nelson a medical redshirt, allowing him to be a senior in 2012 instead of 2011.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Nevada
The Cougars returned home with a new full-time starting QB in Jake Heaps knowing they would face a high powered Nevada team. BYU and Nevada had met 3 times previously, with BYU owning a 2-1 advantage.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Nevada
Nevada held BYU to 320-yards of total offense in Jake Heaps first start. JJ Di Luigi rushed for 68 yards and scored BYU's lone touchdown. Only 1 turnover was forced the entire game, an Interception that allowed BYU to tie the game up, but Colin Kaepernick threw for 196 yards and effectively allowed the Wolf Pack runners to scramble throughout the game. Despite outpassing the Wolf Pack (229 to 196), BYU would fall to 1-3.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Utah State
The Battle for the Old Wagon Wheel headed to Logan in 2010 with BYU having won 10 straight, with Bronco Mendenhall having never lost to the Aggies, and with BYU having not scored less than 30-points against the Aggies since 1982. With the start freshman Jake Heaps became the third freshman to have started more than one game as starting QB at BYU. All good things must come to an end though.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Utah State
A 31-16 thumping at the hands of Utah State completed the Cougars non-conference season. With Utah and TCU still to go on the schedule, people began to wonder if the Cougars had any heart or if they could get bowl eligible. The defense was ranked 102nd in the nation, and the offense wasn't moving the ball past midfield. Jake Heaps was averaging more than 200-yards a game passing, but it wasn't resulting in points. Independence for 2011 seemed to be all forgotten.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, San Diego State
BYU came into the series with the Aztecs holding a 26-7-1 record and knowing that San Diego State had never won two in a row against the Cougars. They also knew that if they lost, all chances of a bowl game would be crushed.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, San Diego State
A hard fought homecoming game was overshadowed due to an ugly replay incident in the fourth quarter. A relatively obvious fumble that would have given San Diego State the ball and prevented a BYU touchdown was ruled instead to be BYU's ball. Replay officials agreed with the call, despite its obvious incorrectness. Following the game, accusations of partisanship were levelled against the replay officials because one of the men in the booth was a BYU employee.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, San Diego State
This was standard procedure at the time, and the lead replay official, who was the one who actually decided to uphold the call on the field, was a resident of Reno, Nevada with no connection to BYU. Despite this, the negative reaction to the incident was significant enough that three MWC officials were suspended and a new rule was put into place by the MWC which stated that alumni could no longer officiate games involving their alma mater, even if they were only assigned to the replay booth. BYU would go on to drive for a TD which gave them the 24-21 win.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, TCU
BYU headed to Fort Worth for the tenth meeting with the Horned Frogs holding a 5−4 advantage in the overall series.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, TCU
The Cougars went into Ft. Worth having one main goal- show improvement over their other losses. They knew many people wouldn't pick them to win, and they knew Heaps wasn't producing as well on the road. BYU's defense showed remarkable improvement over early in the year, giving up only 3 points in the first 29 minutes. However offensive turnovers late in the first half put the BYU defense in a bad spot. The offense's ineptitude at moving the ball (only 147 yards for the game) led to BYU's downfall.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Wyoming
Needing to win 4 of the last 5 games to become bowl eligible, BYU began its quest against a Cowboys team that hadn't scored against BYU for the past 9 regulation quarters. Since 2006, BYU had owned the series against Wyoming by a score of 46.5-4.3 per game, and BYU led the overall series 43-30-3.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Wyoming
The Cougars defense dominated the game and held Wyoming to less than 200 yards. Turnovers on the offensive end kept the game close. It would take a last possession stand by the Cougar D to secure their third win of the year.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, UNLV
After a bye week the Cougars returned to action to play UNLV for the final time as conference opponents. The series had largely been dominated by BYU (14-3), and 2010 would be the same.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, UNLV
In what can only be classified as a slaughter, BYU would thoroughly crush UNLV. They outgained the Rebels offensively 516 to 144. 70 of the Rebels yards came against BYU's second and third team players.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Colorado State
With their first 2-game win streak in tow, BYU headed to Ft. Collins to face the Rams for the last time as MWC foes. It was the 69th meeting between the two schools, and BYU owned a 38-27-3 advantage in the series history.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Colorado State
The Cougars suffered 2 turnovers, including one on their opening series, but they were nearly flawless. On third down they went 12-for-13. They racked up 526 yards total offense, including 396 with the starters. Corby Eason forced a fumble that Kyle Van Noy returned for a score. The Cougars dominated the Rams in virtually every fashion as they became one wni away from being bowl eligible with two games to play.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, New Mexico
With their first 3-game win streak in tow, BYU returned home for Senior Day and a chance to become bowl eligible. Luke Ashworth came in as the FBS Player of the Week after his 4-TD performance against Colorado State. It was the 60th meeting between the two schools, and BYU owned a 44-14-1 advantage in the series history.


2010 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, New Mexico
The Cougars managed to have 0 turnovers, but the crowd wasn't pleased. The crowd booed many of the officials calls as the Cougs and Lobos played in the wind with a chance of rain. The Cougars managed to outgain the Lobos 494 to 259. The defense showed they had come a long way since the Utah State game as they entered the game as one of the Top 15 defenses in the nation since late October. Heaps would say the Cougars were peaking at the right time, and the Cougs walked away with another easy win to become bowl eligible.