2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Coup leaders and military personnel
Personal information such as names, photographs and ID information will be kept private. This kind of information will be stored only if the individual agrees to it, and individuals believing their personal information is being misused will be able to hold relevant entities accountable.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Economic and social rights
Businesspeople with tax debts will be able to travel abroad. Businesspeople facing an investigation or prosecution are prohibited from traveling abroad under current regulations. In the amendments, businesspeople will be able to travel abroad provided there is no court order restricting their travel.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Economic and social rights
Right to collective bargaining for government employees. While government employees will be granted the right to collective bargaining, the Public Employees' Arbitration Board consisting of government employee representatives will have the final say. The same right will be granted to the retired. Government employees who believe they have been punished unfairly will be able to go to court.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Economic and social rights
Restrictions on the right to strike will be removed. Restrictions on politically motivated strikes and lockouts will be removed to advance workers' rights. Labor unions will not be held liable for material damage to a workplace where a strike is being held as a result of deliberately negligent behavior by the workers and by the labor union.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Economic and social rights
The Economic and Social Council (ESK), which comprises representatives from unions, associations and confederations, will be given constitutional protection. The council will be effective in determining economic policies and the government's involvement in council activities will be removed.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Individual freedoms
Problems between the state and citizens will be resolved by way of an ombudsman without having to go to court. If citizens are not satisfied with judicial decisions, they will be able to directly petition the Constitutional Court.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Individual freedoms
Measures enacted to ensure equal rights for men and women will not be interpreted as contrary to the principle of equality, nor those enacted to protect children, elderly people, disabled people, widows and orphans of martyrs as well as for invalid and veterans.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Individual freedoms
Since the structure of the Constitutional Court will change, closing down parties will not be as easy as it used to be. Deputies will not be banned from politics if their party is closed down, but will keep their seats for the normal term.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Individual freedoms
Government workers, who until now could only be a member of one labor union, will now have a choice. Additionally, warnings and reprimands given to government employees will be open to judicial review. Government employees who believe they have been punished unfairly will be able to make claims in court.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Judicial reforms
Parliament will choose some of the members of the Constitutional Court. The number of Constitutional Court members will be expanded. Parliament will appoint three members while the president will appoint 14 members. The Constitutional Court will obtain a more democratic structure, consisting of two parts and functioning as a general assembly.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Judicial reforms
The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) will increase in number from 7 to 22. Members will no longer be elected only by the Supreme Court of Appeals and the Council of State. A total of 11 judges from around 13,000 judges will be appointed to the board to represent judges on the bench.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Judicial reforms
Dismissed judges will be able to appeal to the judiciary. The HSYK's decisions, like YAŞ decisions, will be open to judicial review. Prosecutors and judges dismissed by the board will be able to challenge dismissal decisions in court.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Judicial reforms
All citizens will be able to file a petition with the Constitutional Court. This is now only possible at the European Court of Human Rights.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Changes by theme, Judicial reforms
Besides the President, the ministers and other senior government officials, the chairman of the parliament and the supreme commander of the Turkish army can now also appear in the Supreme Court (Yüce Divan).


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Voting in parliament
On 30 March 2010, Turkey's ruling party submitted its package of constitutional amendments to the parliament. The changes were passed in parliament in late April and early May 2010 with over 330 votes, below the two-thirds majority of 367 votes needed to pass them directly, but enough to send them to a referendum within sixty days after President Abdullah Gül signs the law. On 13 May 2010, president Gül signed the reform package.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Voting in parliament
The composition of the parliament (550 seats) during the voting was as follows: AKP: 336, CHP: 97, MHP: 69, BDP: 20, Independent: 12, DSP: 6, DP: 1, TP: 1. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has 336 seats, but deputy Mehmet Ali Şahin cannot vote as he is the parliament speaker. CHP and BDP decided to boycott the voting. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) voted against the articles.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Voting in parliament
Each article required more than 330 votes in order to pass. The amendment for Article 69, which would have limited the ability of the Supreme Court to dissolve political parties, did not meet this threshold in the second round and was therefore dropped from the package.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Annulment of the package
The main opposition party CHP not only argues that the constitutional package includes unconstitutional reforms, but also that it was passed through procedural violations. It wants the Constitutional Court to review the proposal process. The CHP's legal advisers also argued that the changes the package makes to the structures of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) are in violation of the constitutional principle of separation of powers. With this claim, the CHP alleges that the AKP is attempting to change one of Turkey's constitutional articles that cannot be amended. So in addition to a review of the package on procedural grounds, the CHP also demands a review of the content of the package. The CHP also demands a stay of the referendum results, bringing the total of CHP demands to three.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Annulment of the package
On 7 July 2010, the Turkish Constitutional Court delivered its final verdict on a package of constitutional amendments, which is to be subject to a public referendum on 12 September. The court has ruled in favour of the vast majority of the government's proposed reforms to the constitution. The court did not annul the whole package. Judges annulled certain parts of two articles, but rejected the demands of the Turkish opposition to scrap the whole package on technical grounds. The partially annulled articles pertain to the structure of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK). They were controversial due to the changes envisioned in the member appointment processes.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Annulment of the package
Both the government and the opposition expressed disappointment with the Court's decision.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Polls
A poll by Sonar Research in August 2010 forecasted 49.1% in favour of the draft and 50.9% opposed.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Polls
A poll by KONDA Research in September 2010 forecasted 56.8% in favour of the draft, 25.6% were opposed, while 17.6% were undecided.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Results, Voting irregularities
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the opposition represented by the Republican People's Party (CHP), could not vote because of a mix-up over where he should cast his ballot. "It was my responsibility to check the register of electors, but I could not do it due to my intense referendum campaign," he said.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Reactions, International
The result of the referendum was welcomed by a number of international observers.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Aftermath
The Human Rights Association launched a petition to try Kenan Evren over his role in the 1980 coup, as Evren defended the coup, saying military intervention was needed to bring an end to years of violence between leftist and rightist factions.


2010 Turkish constitutional referendum, Aftermath
Hüseyin Çelik, the deputy chairman of the AKP, said the party's agenda would now be to work on a new constitution after the 2011 elections.


2010 Turkmenistan Cup
The 2010 Turkmenistan Cup is 18th since independence of the Turkmen national football cup.


2010 Turkmenistan Cup, First round
The first round involved 16 teams one of which withdrew.


2010 Turkmenistan Cup, Quarterfinals
The quarterfinal matches will be played on June 19 (first legs) and June 26, 2010 (second legs).


2010 Turkmenistan President's Cup
Eight teams from seven countries will participate in the 16th edition of the Turkmenistan President's Cup, which will take place in Ashgabat's Olympic Stadium between February 20 and 28. The group toppers clash in the final and stand to win $20,000 while the runners-up get half that amount. The third-placed team will receive $5,000.


2010 Turner Prize
The four nominees for the Tate Gallery's 2010 Turner Prize were Dexter Dalwood, Angela de la Cruz, Susan Philipsz and The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun)


2010 Turner Prize
The winner was Susan Philipsz - the first sound artist to be nominated and the first to win. Her winning work was an installation under three bridges in Glasgow in which she sang the sea shanty "Lowlands Away".


2010 Tuscan regional election
The Tuscan regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010.


2010 Tuscan regional election
After two consecutive terms, President Claudio Martini of the Democratic Party chose not run for a third term. His successor, Enrico Rossi, was defeated in a landslide his centre-right opponent Monica Faenzi. The Democrats were by far the largest party, although they lost ground from previous elections.


2010 Tuscan regional election
Minor candidates included Francesco Bosi for the Union of the Centre, Alfonso De Virgilis for the Italian Radicals and Ilario Palmisani for New Force.


2010 Tuscan regional election, Electoral law
Tuscany uses its own legislation of 2004 to elect its Council. The councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and close lists.


2010 Tuscan regional election, Electoral law
In this system parties are grouped in alliances, and the alliance which receives a plurality of votes elects all its candidates, its leader becoming the President of Tuscany.


2010 Tuscan regional election, Council apportionment
According to the official 2001 Italian census, the 33 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation are so distributed between Tuscan provinces; the highest number of candidates in each list by province is this:


2010 Tuscan regional election, Council apportionment
The allocation is fixed. Remaining seats and votes after nominal distribution, are all grouped at regional level and divided by party lists. The consequent division of these seats at provincial level usually change the original apportionment.


2010 Tuscan regional election, Results
The election was won by President Enrico Rossi of the Democratic Party, supported by the center-left coalition.


2010 Tuscan regional election, Results
Lega Nord Toscana won three seats, its best performance in party history to that point.


2010 Tuscan regional election, Results
The Democratic Party was confirmed as the largest party in the region with 42% of the vote, although with a decline of six points, while The People of Freedom took 27%. The election was the only one other than the 2005 election in which the center-left coalition improved its performance.


2010 Tuvalu A-Division
The 2010 Tuvalu A-Division was the tenth season of association football competition. The league was won by Nauti FC for the fourth consecutive time and the fifth time overall. For the 2010 season, the league was named the Funafuti League.


2010 Tuvaluan general election
A parliamentary election was held in Tuvalu on 16 September 2010.


2010 Tuvaluan general election
Voters elected fifteen members of the Parliament to a four-year term. All candidates were independents, as there are no political parties in the country. Ten out of the fifteen incumbent members were re-elected. The remaining five incumbents, including Deputy Prime Minister Tavau Teii, did not retain their seats. The incumbent Prime Minister, Apisai Ielemia, retained his seat in Vaitupu constituency. On 29 September, Maatia Toafa from Nanumea won eight of the fifteen votes to become Prime Minister.


2010 Tuvaluan general election
However, on 24 December 2010, after a motion of no confidence, carried by eight votes to seven, Maatia Toafa was replaced by Willy Telavi as Prime Minister of Tuvalu.


2010 Tuvaluan general election
Willy Telavi retained a bare majority through the term of his ministry until by-elections were won by candidates that supported the opposition. Willy Telavi attempted to avoid facing a vote of the parliament until he was forced to call parliament following the intervention of the governor-general. On 2 August 2013 Willy Tevali faced a motion of no confidence in the parliament: the voting was eight for the motion, four against. On 4 August the parliament elected Enele Sopoaga as Prime Minister.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Background
Parliament was dissolved on 13 August 2010, and registration began on 28 August. There are no political parties in Tuvalu, so all candidates are non-partisan.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Background
Twenty-six candidates, including all sitting Members of Parliament, stood for the fifteen seats in Parliament. Tuvalu has "about 6,000 eligible voters" – a little over half the country's population.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Background
Many candidates focused on climate change issues including Enele Sopoaga, a former Tuvalu Ambassador to the United Nations and Tuvalu's representative at the UN Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen in 2009. Sopoaga stood for election in the Nukufetau constituency, and is reportedly considered a "national hero" for his diplomatic work at the Copenhagen Summit on climate change in December 2009. Enele Sopoaga was elected by the voters of Nukufetau.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Controversy
Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia and Communications Minister Taukelina Finikaso, who are relatives, stood for election in the same Vaitupu constituency in the 2010 election. (The top two vote earners in Vaitupu are elected to parliament). Finikaso filed a complaint against Ielemia prior to the election, accusing the Prime Minister of distributing voter registration forms before the official registration date.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Results
There were 6,008 registered voters in the election, and voter turnout was reportedly strong. Voting began at 8 a.m. and closed at 4 p.m. before counting commenced at the country's twelve polling stations.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Results
Prime Minister Ielemia retained his seat to win re-election from his Vaitupu constituency. Ielemia's re-election prospects had been thought to be tenuous before the election.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Results
In total, ten MPs were re-elected, including Speaker Kamuta Latasi, while five incumbent MPs – including deputy Prime Minister Tavau Teii – lost their seats. The announcement that ten sitting MPs had been re-elected was made by Speaker Kamuta Latasi the following day.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Formation of new government
Speaker Latasi originally announced that all fifteen MPs will meet the following week to form a new government. However, the election of a new Prime Minister was not be held until 29 September 2010. Incumbent Apisai Ielemia, who became caretaker prime minister after the election, hoped to form a new government, though he ultimately did not have the support in the new parliament. Enele Sopoaga was reported as being a possible challenger for the premiership.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Formation of new government
A secret ballot to determine the next prime minister was held on 29 September 2010. Maatia Toafa, who had served as Prime Minister from 2004 to 2006 and the Leader of the Opposition from 2006 to 2010, won the ballot to become Tuvalu's next prime minister with five new members and three members of the previous government. Toafa narrowly defeated Kausea Natano, who received seven votes in the ballot. Toafa took office on the day of his election and named his Cabinet almost immediately. He included a number of first time MPs who had supported his bid for the premiership – including Enele Sopoaga, who became Minister for Foreign Affairs. Isaia Taeia Italeli, the younger brother of Governor General Iakopa Taeia Italeli, became the speaker of parliament.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Formation of new government
However, on 15 December 2010, Prime Minister Maatia Toafa's government was ousted in a motion of no confidence, which followed Willie Telavi withdrawing his support for the government. On 25 December 2010 Willy Telavi was elected prime minister with an (8:7) majority over Enele Sopoaga. Kamuta Latasi, was appointed Speaker.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Subsequent by-elections & change of government in 2013
Minister of Works Isaia Italeli died suddenly in July 2011, which led to the 2011 Nui by-election in the following month. The election was won by his widow, Pelenike Isaia, who became only the second woman ever to have sat in the Tuvaluan Parliament. The by-election was described as "pivotal", as Italeli's death had deprived Prime Minister Willy Telavi of his government's one seat majority in Parliament. Pelenike Isaia's election restored the one seat majority, of the government of Willy Telavi.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Subsequent by-elections & change of government in 2013
Lotoala Metia, the MP for Nukufetau and Minister of Finance, died on 21 December 2012. The 2013 Nukufetau by-election was held on 28 June. The Nukufetau by-election was won by the opposition candidate Elisala Pita. A constitutional crisis developed when Prime Minister Telavi responded that, under the Constitution, he was only required to convene Parliament once a year, and was thus under no obligation to summon it until December 2013. Tuvalu's opposition then requested the Governor-General Iakoba Italeli to intervene against the Prime Minister's decision. On 3 July, Italeli exercised his reserve powers in ordering Parliament to convene, against the Prime Minister's wishes, on 30 July.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Subsequent by-elections & change of government in 2013
The Governor-General, Iakoba Italeli, then proceeded to exercise his reserve powers to order Telavi to stand down as prime minister and appointed Enele Sopoaga as interim prime minister. The Governor-General also ordered that parliament sit on Friday 2 August to allow a vote of no-confidence in Telavi and his government.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Subsequent by-elections & change of government in 2013
On 2 August 2013 Willy Tevali faced a motion of no confidence in the parliament: the voting was eight for the motion, four against and one abstention. On 4 August the parliament elected Enele Sopoaga as Prime Minister.


2010 Tuvaluan general election, Subsequent by-elections & change of government in 2013
Sopoaga gained further support in the parliament following the 2013 Nui by-election, and the 2014 Nanumaga by-election. Willy Telavi resigned from parliament in August 2014. The result of the 2014 Nanumea by-election provided further support for the government of Enele Sopoaga. A general election was set down for 19 March 2015.


2010 Twenty20 Cup
The 2010 Friends Provident t20 tournament was the inaugural Friends Provident t20 Twenty20 cricket competition for the England and Wales first-class counties. The competition ran from 1 June 2010 until the finals day at The Rose Bowl on 14 August 2010. The eighteen counties were split into two regions, North and South, with the top four teams from each group progressing to the quarter-final knockout stage. The competition was won by Hampshire Royals, who beat Essex Eagles in the semi-finals, and Somerset in the final, by virtue of losing fewer wickets in a tied match.


2010 Twenty20 Cup, Pre-season
In May, before the Twenty20 season began, the England cricket team were crowned world Twenty20 champions at the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 competition in the West Indies. England player Kevin Pietersen was named player of the tournament. National interest in the Twenty20 format of the sport was very high as the old Twenty20 Cup competition was replaced by the new Friends Provident t20 cricket league competition.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final
The 2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, known for sponsorship purposes as the 2010 Friends Provident t20 Final, was a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between Hampshire County Cricket Club and Somerset County Cricket Club played on 14 August 2010 at the Rose Bowl in Southampton. It was the eighth final of the Twenty20 Cup.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final
Hampshire were making their first appearance in a Twenty20 final, while Somerset were playing in their third, and their second in successive years, having previously won the Twenty20 Cup in 2005. Having won the toss, Somerset chose to bat first and reached 173 for six; Craig Kieswetter was their highest scorer with 71 runs, but was criticised for his slow start. Kieron Pollard was hit in the eye by a bouncer while batting, and had to be taken to hospital, meaning he was not available to bowl for Somerset.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final
In reply, Hampshire reached 62 from their six-over powerplay, but then lost a cluster of wickets. A steadying partnership between Neil McKenzie and Sean Ervine took them to the brink of victory, but another pair of wickets lost led to a tense finish. The scores were eventually tied, and Hampshire won the title having lost fewer wickets.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Background
The Twenty20 Cup was a 20 overs-per-side competition established in England and Wales in 2003, which replaced the 50 overs-per-side Benson & Hedges Cup. The 20-over format was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board because they believed that a shorter version of the game was needed in order to attract families to matches.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Background
In 2010, it was one of three tournaments played by first-class county cricket teams, in what the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack editor Scyld Berry described as the worst fixture list since 1919, due to the inconsistent scheduling which sometimes included Twenty20 games the day before or after a four-day County Championship match. Andy Flower, the head coach of the England men's cricket team, concurred, complaining that "You can't create consistently high standards with those schedules."


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Background
The tournament split the eighteen county teams into two groups. Within each group every team played each other twice, home and away; the sixteen group-stage fixtures per team were an increase from the ten played the previous season. The top four from each group progressed to the quarter-finals. The competition culminated on "Finals' Day", during which both semi-finals and the final were played, at the same ground, to determine the tournament champions. In 2010 the life insurance company Friends Provident took over as sponsors of the competition, which became known as the Friends Provident t20.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Background
Hampshire County Cricket Club, who played under the moniker "Hampshire Royals" in one-day cricket, had never reached the final of the competition before, although they had won the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy, a 50-over tournament. Despite their historic lack of success in Twenty20 cricket, at the start of the tournament The Guardian described them as being one of the favourites, with odds of 15–2. Somerset, who discarded their one-day nickname in 2009, had previously won the Twenty20 Cup in 2005, and had been losing finalists in 2009. They were similarly rated as among the favourites at the outset of the tournament, given odds of 8–1 by The Guardian.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Route to Finals' Day
Both teams featured in the south group of the competition. Somerset won eleven of their sixteen matches to finish top of the group, including victories in both of their matches against Hampshire. In the quarter-final, Somerset hosted Northamptonshire. Somerset's spin bowlers, Murali Kartik and Arul Suppiah both bowled economically to help restrict Northamptonshire to 112 runs. Somerset reached their target with three overs to spare, and secured a place in the competition's showcase Finals' Day.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Route to Finals' Day
Hampshire, who had finished fourth in the group stage having won eight and lost eight of their matches, travelled to Warwickshire for their quarter-final. Warwickshire batted first and scored 153; Danny Briggs took three important wickets for Hampshire. In reply, James Vince remained not out, scoring 66 runs to help his side to victory with one ball remaining.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Build-up
Finals' Day was broadcast live on Sky Sports, was hosted at Hampshire's home ground, the Rose Bowl in Southampton. The ground had been chosen in 2008 as the venue for the finals, as part of a package of matches awarded to the ground by the England and Wales Cricket Board.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Build-up
Hampshire were missing four of their first-team players; Dimitri Mascarenhas, Nic Pothas, Michael Lumb and Kabir Ali, due to injury. They also chose not to include Kevin Pietersen, who had announced his intention to leave the club. Hampshire's chairman, Rod Bransgrove, explained the omission of Pietersen: "it would not be fair on the lads who took Hampshire into the Twenty20 finals if one of them had to step aside so he could be parachuted into the team."


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Build-up
Patrick Kidd of The Times rated James Vince as Hampshire's most dangerous batsman, though his team-mate Jimmy Adams entered Finals' Day as the competition's leading run-scorer, with 600 runs. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack's Hugh Chevallier rated them as the weakest of the four teams to reach the semi-finals, and The Times concurred, giving them the joint-longest odds of any finalists; 7–2.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Build-up
Once the four semi-finalists were known, Somerset were touted as favourites by ESPNcricinfo, who described them as a team "with no clear chink in their armour." The Somerset team featured the competition's two leading wicket-takers, Alfonso Thomas and Kieron Pollard. Kidd highlighted Somerset's strong batting line-up, and listed them as second favourites with odds of 9–4.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Build-up, Semi-finals
Hampshire featured in the first of the day's semi-finals; playing against Essex. Having been asked to bat first, Essex scored 156; Briggs once again took three wickets for Hampshire, and Dominic Cork and Abdul Razzaq each bowled very economically. Essex bowled well to leave Hampshire needing 42 runs from the final four overs, but aggressive play from Sean Ervine, Neil McKenzie and Michael Carberry took Hampshire to a six-wicket victory.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Build-up, Semi-finals
Rain delayed the start of the second match, in which Somerset batted first against Nottinghamshire. Attacking batting performances from Marcus Trescothick, who scored a 28-ball 60, and Jos Buttler, who made 55 not out from 23 balls, propelled Somerset to 182 runs from their twenty overs. Further rain inbetween innings meant that Nottinghamshire required a Duckworth–Lewis adjusted target of 152 runs from 16 overs.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Build-up, Semi-finals
Aware that there was more rain around which might further curtail the match, they played attacking cricket, and remained around their required rate throughout the innings, until the wicket of Samit Patel fell at the start of the 13th over. Rain then came in, and the match finished at the end of that over; Somerset won by three runs, using the Duckworth–Lewis method.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
Played on the same day as both the semi-finals, the match was a day/night game, and started at 7:25 pm. The Somerset captain, Trescothick, won the toss and elected to bat first. The second of the semi-finals had been shortened due to rain, and leading up to the final the ESPNcricinfo commentary described conditions as "murky". After three overs Kieswetter had faced 16 of the 19 deliveries, and scored 12 runs.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
He was criticised in the press; ESPNcricinfo's Andrew McGlashan said that he had a "stodgy start", while in The Daily Telegraph, Berry said that Kieswetter's "poor form since the World Twenty20 continued". Despite not facing many deliveries initially, Kieswetter's opening partner, Trescothick, scored quickly from those he did face, making 19 runs from 8 deliveries. He struck two boundary sixes, the first of which, a hard front-foot shot over deep cover, was described as the shot of the day by ESPNcricinfo's James Aitcheson.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
He was dismissed in the fifth over, mishitting a long hop from Abdul Razzaq to Daniel Christian fielding at midwicket. Peter Trego joined Kieswetter at the wicket, but the pair initially struggled on the damp ground, particularly against Hampshire's young left-arm spin bowler, Briggs, whose performance was praised by both McGlashan and David Lloyd, a former cricketer writing for The Independent. Trego added 33 runs from 24 balls, Somerset's second highest score of the innings, before being caught in the outfield in the twelfth over, leaving Somerset on 97 for two.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
After Trego's dismissal, Kieswetter began scoring more quickly, hitting 3 fours and 2 sixes before both himself and James Hildreth were dismissed in quick succession. Hildreth, who had scored 12 runs, hit a full toss from Razzaq to Christian fielding at gully, and then four balls later, Kieswetter sliced a delivery from Christian to extra cover, where it was caught by Carberry.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
Kieswetter had scored 71 from 59 balls, after taking 37 deliveries to score his first 29 runs; writing in The Guardian, Vic Marks said that the performance "did not really signal a return to form", as he "willed himself to a significant score, seldom timing the ball". The dismissals moved the Somerset score to 149 for four, and brought two new batsmen to the crease, Pollard and Buttler. Pollard struck a four and two consecutive sixes during the penultimate over, before Cork took the wicket of Buttler in the next over.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
With three balls of the innings remaining, Pollard was surprised by a bouncer from Cork which got in through the gap in his helmet grille and struck him in the face. Pollard's eye was swollen shut, and he had to retire injured from the match and be taken to hospital. Cork, who was shaken by the incident, dismissed Suppiah with the penultimate ball of the innings, and then prevented any runs from the final ball. He conceded three runs from the final over, restricting Somerset to a score of 173 for six. Lloyd described Somerset's score as a little above par, and suggested that Hampshire would need a "flying start to their pursuit".


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
Jimmy Adams and Razzaq opened the batting for Hampshire, and scored quickly to start the innings. Their total of 62 for one at the end of the six-over powerplay was their second-highest of the competition. The majority of the runs came from two overs; Zander de Bruyn bowled the fourth over, and conceded 16 runs, while Ben Phillips allowed 17 from the subsequent over. The Guardian's Paul Coupar questioned the use of a part-time medium-pace bowler, de Bruyn, during the powerplay – he had not bowled during the semi-final, and was only doing so due to the injury to Pollard.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
Razzaq was dismissed with two balls of the powerplay remaining, when he was caught behind by Kieswetter, having got a top edge to a delivery from Trego. At the start of the next over, Vince was run out without scoring, and Hampshire were 62 for two. Adams and the new batsman, McKenzie, added 22 runs in the next three overs, before Adams got an inside edge to a delivery from Suppiah, and was bowled.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
With the score on 84 for three, Ervine joined McKenzie at the crease, and the pair played what McGlashan described as "smart, risk-free batting"; they shared a partnership of 79, moving the score onto 163. At the start of the penultimate over, Hampshire needed eleven runs to win. McKenzie mishit the first ball of the over and was caught at cover for 52, and the next ball Ervine was dropped by Somerset's substitute fielder, Nick Compton. The new batsman, Carberry, was caught behind off a top edge, leaving Hampshire 164 for five, needing to score eight runs from the final over.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
De Bruyn returned to bowl the last over; from the first four balls, the Hampshire batsmen scored two byes and two runs, only managing to hit the ball once. Kieswetter twice threw at the stumps, aiming to run the batsmen out, but missed both times. Hampshire needed four to win from the final two deliveries, but by virtue of losing fewer wickets, they would also claim the title in the event of a tied match, so three runs would suffice.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Match, Summary
From the penultimate delivery, Christian hit the ball to deep mid-wicket for two runs, but while running he pulled his hamstring. Christian was on strike for the final delivery, and another Hampshire player had come out to run for him. Christian missed the ball, which struck his pads. Somerset appealed for leg before wicket (lbw), and the Hampshire batsmen ran a single. In the confusion and excitement, Christian himself ran, as well as his runner, meaning that he could have been run out. However, Somerset were distracted with their appeal, and did not notice. After consultation, the umpires confirmed that it was not lbw, and the match was tied; Hampshire won the title by virtue of losing fewer wickets.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Aftermath
Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Scyld Berry and Oliver Brown suggested that it was unlikely that the players were aware that Christian could have been run out, saying that "most professional cricketers are most unprofessional when it comes to knowledge of the laws." Chevallier's report in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack went a step further, blaming "Somerset's glaring ignorance of the laws". Asked about the incident post-match, the Somerset captain Trescothick said that they "clearly just did not think at the end there". In his autobiography, Brian Rose, who was Somerset's Director of Cricket, admitted that very few of the Somerset staff and players were aware of that particular law.


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Aftermath
The Times's Simon Wilde described the loss of Pollard to injury during the match as a major setback for Somerset, particularly as his two replacements performed poorly: as substitute fielder, Compton dropped a catch, while de Bruyn conceded 29 runs from three overs. Speaking after the match, Cork described the victory as vindication for Hampshire's selection policy, saying "We've been slaughtered throughout this campaign in some circles: why weren't we playing this person? ", but he praised the blend of youth and experience for building a team "that can play against the best and beat them".


2010 Twenty20 Cup Final, Aftermath
Hampshire were awarded £200,000 for winning the competition, while Somerset collected £84,000. As man of the match in the final, McKenzie received £2,000. In the 2011 Twenty20 Cup, Hampshire and Somerset met at the semi-final stage; the scores were level based on Duckworth–Lewis, and Somerset won the resulting super over. They subsequently lost the final to Leicestershire; making them runners-up in the competition three years in a row. Somerset also finished as runners-up in the 2010 and 2011 one-day cup competitions. In 2012, Hampshire won both the Twenty20 and the one-day cup competitions.


2010 Twin Anchors Invitational
The 2010 Twin Anchors Invitational was held Oct. 1-4. 2010 at the Vernon Curling Club in Vernon, British Columbia. It was held on Week 4 of the 2010-11 World Curling Tour. The purse for the men's event was $37,000 and for the women's, $35,000. The winning men's team was the Kevin Koe rink, which received $8,000 and the women's winner was Cheryl Bernard's rink, which won $7,500.


2010 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup
The 2010 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in İzmir, Turkey between September 20 and 26, 2010.


2010 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup, Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup, Champions, Doubles
Rameez Junaid /  Frank Moser def. Jamie Delgado /  Jonathan Marray, 6–2, 6–4


2010 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup – Doubles
Jonathan Erlich and Harel Levy were the defending champions, but they decided not to participate. Rameez Junaid and Frank Moser defeated Jamie Delgado and Jonathan Marray 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


2010 Türk Telecom İzmir Cup – Singles
Andrea Stoppini was the defending champion, but decided not to participate.Somdev Devvarman defeated Marsel İlhan 6–4, 6–3 to win the title.


2010 U-League
2010 U-League is the third season for university football teams in South Korea. The number of participating teams has expanded to 67 teams of 72 university football teams in South Korea. Saekyung College of Metropolitan C division has not joined the league, so 66 teams are competing. The league is divided into 6 league divisions, with 11 or 12 teams in each. At the end of the league, the top 32 teams are entered into a knockout playoff.


2010 U-League, League standing, Sixth place rankings
The best one sixth-placed teams, except Metropolitan A division (6 team advanced) and Metropolitan C division (5 team advanced), also advance to the knockout stage. The final standings are shown below.


2010 U-League, Playoff, Bracket
The draw for the playoff was held on 4 October 2010.


2010 U.S. F2000 National Championship
The 2010 Cooper Tires presents the U.S. F2000 National Championship powered by Mazda is the first U.S. F2000 National Championship season under the new management, sanctioned by the Indy Racing League. All cars will run Mazda MZR engines built by former driver Steve Knapp.


2010 U.S. F2000 National Championship
With victory in the first race at the final round at Road Atlanta, Sage Karam won the championship and a fully funded seat in the 2011 Star Mazda Championship.


2010 U.S. F2000 National Championship, Race calendar and results
The schedule was announced on November 24, 2009. All championship rounds will be supporting the Star Mazda Championship. An exhibition meeting with two non-championship rounds will also be held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca over May 22–23, in support of the American Le Mans Series.


2010 U.S. F2000 National Championship, Race calendar and results
1Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca round was a non-points event run in conjunction with the Pacific F2000 Championship.


2010 U.S. F2000 National Championship, Championship standings, Drivers'
1Ardie Greenamyer switched from Championship to National class at ORP and was subsequently not shown in Championship class standings published by the league.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place between January 14 and 24 at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Washington with AT&T as the title sponsor. Skaters competed in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth).


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The Olympics were to begin 18 days after the end of the U.S. Championships. The senior-level Championship events were therefore spread out over two weekends to allow the skaters approximately four weeks between the end of their event and the start of the corresponding Olympic competition.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The event was among the criteria used to select the U.S. teams for the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2010 World Championships, 2010 Four Continents Championships, and 2010 World Junior Championships.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Olympic team selection
The results of the 2010 U.S. Championships were among the criteria used to determine the 2010 Olympic team. The competitions used in the selection process were, in order of priority:


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Olympic team selection
The United States had qualified 3 Olympic spots in men's singles and ice dancing and 2 Olympic spots in ladies singles and pair skating. The entrants are nominated by U.S. Figure Skating and must be confirmed by the United States Olympic Committee.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Olympic team selection
The nominees in each discipline were announced following the completion of that discipline's competition. The pairs entrants were nominated on January 16, the men on January 17, and the ladies and ice dancers on January 23.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
Qualification for the U.S. Championships began at one of nine regional competitions: New England, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Upper Great Lakes, Eastern Great Lakes, Southwestern, Northwest Pacific, Central Pacific, and Southwest Pacific. The top four finishers in each regional competition advanced to one of three sectional competitions: Eastern, Midwestern, and Pacific Coast. Skaters who placed in the top four at the sectional competitions advanced to the U.S. Championships.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
Byes to the competition were given to skaters who had won medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics or the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships; to the top five finishers in each senior-level discipline at the 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Championships; to any skaters who qualified for the 2009–10 Junior or Senior Grand Prix Final in the discipline in which they qualified; and to any skater who was assigned to an international event that occurred at the same time as their sectional championship.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Byes
The following skaters have been given byes to the 2010 U.S. Championships and did not have to compete at regionals or sectionals.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Byes
Ice dancers Morgan Matthews / Leif Gislason would have received a bye due to their 5th-place finish. However, the team dissolved following the 2008–09 season.


2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, International team selections, Winter Olympic
The nominations to the Olympic team were announced as follows:


2010 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships
The 2010 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 42nd edition of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, and was an ATP World Tour 250 event. It took place at River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, United States, from April 5 through April 11, 2010. Unseeded Juan Ignacio Chela won the singles title.


2010 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Finals, Doubles
Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Stephen Huss /  Wesley Moodie, 6–3, 7–5


2010 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Doubles
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions and they defend their 2009 title, after won 6–3, 7–5, against Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie in the final.


2010 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles
Lleyton Hewitt was the defending champion, but he lost to Juan Ignacio Chela in the quarterfinals. Chela won in the final 5–7, 6–4, 6–3 against Sam Querrey.


2010 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2010 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships
The 2010 Visa U.S. National Gymnastics Championships was the 47th edition of the U.S. National Gymnastics Championships. The competition was held from August 11–14, 2010 at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut.


2010 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Event information
The forty-seventh edition of the Championships, the competition was held at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut, a multi-purpose arena. The competition was televised by NBC Sports Network.


2010 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Event information, Competition schedule
The competition featured Senior and Junior competitions for both women's and men's disciplines. The competition was as follows;


2010 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Event information, Competition schedule
Thursday, August 111 p.m. - Junior Men Competition - Day 16:30 p.m. - Senior Men's Competition - Day 1


2010 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Event information, Competition schedule
Friday, August 121 p.m. - Junior Women's Competition - Day 16:30 p.m. - Senior Women's Competition - Day 1


2010 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Event information, Competition schedule
Saturday, August 1311:30 a.m. - Senior Men's Competition - Final Day6 p.m. - Junior Men's Competition - Final Day


2010 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Event information, Competition schedule
Sunday, August 1410 a.m. - Junior Women's Competition - Final Day2:30 p.m. - Senior Women's Competition - Final Day


2010 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships, Event information, Sponsorship
Visa was the title sponsor of the event as they had been since 2004.


2010 U.S. Open (golf)
The 2010 United States Open Championship was the 110th U.S. Open, held June 17–20 in Pebble Beach, California. Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland won his first major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Grégory Havret of France. McDowell was the first European to win the U.S. Open in forty years, since Tony Jacklin of England won in 1970. McDowell's win started a period in which four out of five U.S. Open champions between 2010–2014 were European. This was the fifth U.S. Open to be played at Pebble Beach Golf Links (it also hosted in 2000, 1992, 1982, and 1972).


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Field
About half the field each year consists of players who are fully exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open. The players who qualified for the 2010 U.S. Open are listed below. Each player was classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Field
Ángel Cabrera (3,9,10,17), Michael Campbell, Jim Furyk (9,10,12,13,17), Lucas Glover (8,9,10,17), Retief Goosen (9,10,17), Geoff Ogilvy (9,10,11,17), Tiger Woods (4,5,8,9,10,13,17)


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Field
Stephen Ames, Ricky Barnes, Matt Bettencourt, David Duval, Ross Fisher (11,17), Søren Hansen, Hunter Mahan (9,10,17), Rory McIlroy (11,12,17), Ryan Moore, Mike Weir (9,10)


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Field
Paul Casey (11,14,17), Brian Gay (10), Dustin Johnson (10,12,17), Jerry Kelly (10), Matt Kuchar (12,17), Justin Leonard, Kevin Na (10,17), Sean O'Hair (10,17), Kenny Perry (10,17), Ian Poulter (11,14,17), John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini, John Senden (10), Steve Stricker (10,12,13,17), David Toms (10), Nick Watney (10,17)


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Field
Luke Donald (17), Jason Dufner, Ernie Els (11,12,13,14,17), Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Heath Slocum, Scott Verplank


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Field
Simon Dyson, Martin Kaymer (17), Søren Kjeldsen, Ross McGowan, Francesco Molinari (17), Lee Westwood (14,17), Oliver Wilson (17)


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Field
K. J. Choi, Ben Crane, Peter Hanson, Thongchai Jaidee, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Robert Karlsson, Graeme McDowell, Edoardo Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen, Álvaro Quirós, Adam Scott


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, First round
The 110th U.S. Open began on a sunny cool day on the Monterey Peninsula. Paul Casey, Shaun Micheel, and Brendon de Jonge all shot a 69 (−2) to lead after 18 holes. De Jonge holed out for eagle at the very difficult par-5 14th hole. Rafa Cabrera-Bello, K. J. Choi, Alex Čejka, Ryo Ishikawa, Mike Weir, and Ian Poulter all shot 70 (−1). The 2009 and 2010 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am winner Dustin Johnson shot an even par 71. Tiger Woods, who won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by 15 strokes in 2000, shot a birdie-free 74 (+3). Phil Mickelson, another of the favorites entering the tournament, struggled to a 75 (+4). This was the first time in over seven years, since the first round of the 2003 Masters, where neither Woods nor Mickelson made a birdie in a round of a major championship.


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round
McDowell shot a 68 (−3) to take the 36-hole lead at 139 (−3). Casey posted a 73 (+2) to move back to even par, as did de Jonge. Shaun Micheel shot a 77 (+6), with a double-hit on a chip shot on the first hole. Woods continued to struggle, with a 72 (+1) for 146 (+4). Among those at 141 (−1) were Ernie Els, Johnson, Ishikawa, and Mickelson. Mickelson shot 66 (−5) with a front nine charge with birdies at 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8. Notable players who missed the cut (+7) were Rory McIlroy, Hunter Mahan, and two-time heart transplant survivor Erik Compton, who was playing in his first major.


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Third round
Johnson stormed to five-under 66 for a 207 (−6) and a three shot lead over McDowell at 210. Johnson eagled the drivable fourth hole to go with birdies on 17 and 18. Woods shot a back nine 31, with birdies on the last three holes to get back in contention in solo third place at 212 (−1). Both Grégory Havret and Els finished at even par, six shots back of Johnson. Mickelson double bogeyed the 9th hole and struggled to a 73 (+2).


2010 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
Overnight leader Johnson quickly dropped out of contention with a triple-bogey on the second hole and a double on the third hole. Els was tied for the lead at a part of the round, but fell back eventually. Havret remained closely in contention, but McDowell ground out a round of 74 to win his first major championship.


2010 U.S. Open 9-ball Championship
The 2010 U.S. Open 9-ball Championship is the 34th annual men's U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships. The championship was held at Chesapeake Conference Center, Chesapeake, Virginia from October 17 to 23, 2010. Finland's Mika Immonen was the defending champion. Unlike most sports tournaments, women are allowed to enter the main draw. The event was won by Darren Appleton defeating Corey Deuel 15–13 in the final.


2010 U.S. Open Cup
The 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup was the 97th edition of the USSF's annual national soccer championship, running from June through early October.


2010 U.S. Open Cup
The tournament proper featured teams from the top five levels of the American Soccer Pyramid. These five levels, namely Major League Soccer, the USSF D-2 Pro League, the United Soccer Leagues (Second Division and Premier Development League), and the United States Adult Soccer Association, each have their own separate qualification process to trim their ranks down to their final eight team delegations in the months leading up to the start of the tournament proper. The eight MLS clubs received byes into the third round, while the remaining 32 teams play in the first two rounds with brackets influenced by geography.


2010 U.S. Open Cup
The final took place on October 5, with Seattle Sounders FC defeating the Columbus Crew 2–1 at Qwest Field in Seattle, WA in front of a U.S. Open Cup record crowd of 31,311. The Sounders became the first MLS team (and first team in 27 years) to win back-to-back Open Cups.


2010 U.S. Open Cup, Participating teams
The tournament consisted of 40 teams. Eight teams each from the MLS, PDL, and USASA qualified according to their own procedures. All 15 American D-2 Pro league and USL Second Division teams qualified. The final slot went to the winner of a one-game playoff between the Sonoma County Sol and PSA Los Gatos Storm.


2010 U.S. Open Cup, Open Cup bracket
Match pairings were determined by a blind draw. The Second round winners advanced to play one of eight MLS clubs in 16-team knockout tournament. Home teams listed on top of bracket


2010 U.S. Open Cup, Schedule
Note: Scorelines use the standard U.S. convention of placing the home team on the right-hand side of box scores.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final
The 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on October 5, 2010, at Qwest Field (since renamed CenturyLink Field) in Seattle, Washington, United States. The match determined the winner of the 2010 U.S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. This was the 97th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer. Seattle Sounders FC won the match, defeating the Columbus Crew 2–1 in front of a sellout crowd of 31,311, the highest attendance at a U.S. Open Cup final. Kevin Burns scored first, giving the Columbus Crew an early lead. Sanna Nyassi then scored both goals for Seattle Sounders FC as it became the first team since 1983 to win two consecutive U.S. Open Cup championships.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final
Both the Columbus Crew and Seattle Sounders FC qualified automatically for the third round of the U.S. Open Cup tournament by finishing among the top six in the 2009 Major League Soccer season standings. Both clubs won three matches in the tournament to advance to the final. Seattle won the bidding process to host the final.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final
As a result of its U.S. Open Cup championship, Sounders FC earned a berth in the preliminary round of the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League, as well as a $100,000 cash prize. The Crew received the runner-up prize of $50,000.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final
The U.S. Open Cup is an annual American soccer competition open to all United States Soccer Federation affiliated teams, from amateur adult club teams to the professional clubs of Major League Soccer (MLS). The 2010 tournament was the 97th edition of the oldest soccer tournament in the United States.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final
In 2010, MLS, which has teams that play in both the United States and Canada, was allowed to enter eight of its U.S.-based teams in the tournament. The top six MLS teams from the previous season's league table qualified automatically for the tournament, while the remaining two spots were determined by preliminary qualification matches. The eight MLS entries began play in the third round of the tournament. In 2009, both Seattle Sounders FC and the Columbus Crew finished among the top six teams in MLS overall league standings and therefore qualified automatically for the third round of the 2010 U.S. Open Cup.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Columbus Crew
Prior to 2010 the Columbus Crew had been to the U.S. Open Cup final twice, in 1998 and again in 2002, winning the cup in the latter appearance. On June 29, 2010, the Crew began the competition in the third round, hosting the Rochester Rhinos of the D2 Pro League at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio in front of a crowd of 1,760. The Crew's Andy Iro scored in the 30th minute by heading in a corner kick from teammate Eddie Gaven. In the second half, Rochester evened the score  when substitute Darren Spicer scored from 17 yards out.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Columbus Crew
The Rhinos' Alfonso Motagalvan was sent off in the 84th minute for a dangerous tackle on Emilio Rentería, forcing Rochester to play the final minutes of the game with 10 men. The score remained level until the fourth minute of stoppage time, when Steven Lenhart scored with a volley over the onrushing goalkeeper to give Columbus the victory.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Columbus Crew
A week later, on July 6, Columbus faced the Charleston Battery of the USL Second Division in the U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals. The match was hosted by Columbus, again at Crew Stadium in front of a crowd of 1,847. In the 37th minute, Lenhart was fouled in the penalty area while going for a cross and the referee signaled for a penalty kick. Rentería took the penalty kick and drove a right-footed shot into the back of the net, making the score 1–0. Columbus extended its lead in the 70th minute through a goal from Lenhart, and again in the 87th minute when Gaven scored from a pass from Emmanuel Ekpo. The Crew won 3–0, earning its first U.S. Open Cup semifinal appearance since 2002.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Columbus Crew
On September 1, 2010, the Columbus Crew visited Washington, D.C. to face MLS club D.C. United in the semifinal match at RFK Stadium in front of a crowd of 3,411. Pablo Hernandez scored in the 17th minute on a penalty kick to give D.C. an early lead which it almost held  for the victory. However, in the 89th minute D.C.'s Marc Burch deflected a shot by Columbus's Iro into the net for an own goal, tying the score and sending the match into extra time. In the 97th minute, the Crew's Lenhart dribbled the ball into the 18-yard box and was tripped by D.C. United's Carey Talley to draw a penalty. Guillermo Barros Schelotto took the penalty kick and scored the  winning goal. The 2–1 final score secured the Crew's spot in the final.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Seattle Sounders FC
We are the defending champions and we want to keep that title.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Seattle Sounders FC
Seattle won the 2009 U.S. Open Cup—the second MLS expansion club to do so in its inaugural season after the Chicago Fire in 1998. Prior to the final, Sounders FC played U.S. Open Cup home games at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, Washington. The facility is smaller than the club's home stadium for league matches, Qwest Field, but Sounders FC representatives preferred the atmosphere at Starfire for smaller cup matches.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Seattle Sounders FC
On June 30, 2010, Seattle began the defense of its title in a match hosted by the Portland Timbers of the D2 Pro League in Portland, Oregon, at PGE Park in front of a crowd of 15,422. Sounders FC took the lead in the 13th minute on a header from Nate Jaqua, but the Timbers levelled the score in the 38th minute when Bright Dike scored on a shot from inside the penalty area. The score was 1–1 at halftime, and remained that way through full-time and extra time. Seattle finally defeated Portland in a 4–3 penalty shootout with goalkeeper Kasey Keller making two saves and defender Zach Scott scoring the winning penalty kick.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Seattle Sounders FC
Sounders FC hosted its quarterfinal match a week later on July 7 against an MLS club, the Los Angeles Galaxy, at Starfire Sports Complex in front of a sellout crowd of 4,512. Seattle forward Jaqua again led the attack scoring two goals in the second half. The first came in the 50th minute when he headed in a rebound off the crossbar and the second came in the 62nd minute off a cross from Miguel Montaño. Seattle won 2–0. Sounders FC's reserve goalkeeper Terry Boss also made two saves in his first start for the team.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Seattle Sounders FC
On September 1, 2010, Seattle hosted its semifinal match against another MLS club, Chivas USA. Like the quarterfinal, it was hosted at Starfire with a sellout crowd of 4,547. Jaqua gained Seattle an early lead in the 10th minute off a Steve Zakuani cross. Zakuani was involved again in the 58th minute, this time crossing to a diving Fredy Montero who increased the lead to two. Chivas USA's Jesús Padilla scored in the 68th minute on a through ball from Justin Braun cutting the deficit to one.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Road to the final, Seattle Sounders FC
However, in second half stoppage time, Jaqua scored again making the score 3–1 and sealing the Sounders FC victory and an appearance in the tournament final. Jaqua's two goals raised his total to five in the tournament. Zakuani, who had just returned from a pelvic strain injury, had two assists in the match.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue selection
I think we put in an aggressive bid [to host the cup final] but it's not surprising that Seattle would win because of the resources they have.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue selection
On August 26, 2010, U.S. Soccer announced the potential sites for the final, depending on the outcome of the semifinals. It was determined that if Seattle qualified for the final, they would host it at Qwest Field regardless of the opponent. If Chivas USA defeated Sounders FC in the semifinals, they would host the Columbus Crew at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, or visit D.C. United at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., depending on the outcome of the other semifinal match. Since Columbus and Seattle advanced from the semifinals, the final was held at Qwest Field in Seattle. This was the first U.S. Open Cup final to be played in the state of Washington.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue selection
Columbus general manager Mark McCullers expressed concerns about the fairness of the scheduling since he claimed it would be difficult for the Crew to travel to the West Coast on October 5 and then return to Chicago three days later for a league match. Crew head coach Robert Warzycha also complained about the scheduling saying, "You make it to a final, but you have to go to Seattle on Sunday after playing a home game on Saturday... You've got to fly all day, play on the (artificial) turf on Tuesday and then you go play an important MLS game in Chicago on Friday. Great."


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Venue selection
A year after a public argument between Seattle and D.C. United ownership over the fairness of the bidding process to host the 2009 U.S. Open Cup Final—which D.C. United hosted—Sounders FC was successful in its bid to host the 2010 final. For the 2009 final, D.C. United drew an attendance of 17,329 through extensive marketing efforts. Seattle began selling tickets to the 2010 final on September 7 and within six days 22,000 had already been sold.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis
In 2010, prior to meeting in the U.S. Open Cup final, Sounders FC and the Crew met twice in MLS league matches. The first was played on May 1 at Qwest Field and finished in a 1–1 draw. The second meeting between the two teams was played on September 18, only 17 days before the Open Cup final, at Crew Stadium. Seattle won by a convincing scoreline of 4–0. Regarding the score of the latter meeting, Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid stated, "I don't think the difference between the two teams is four goals even though that was the score." Discussing the difficulty of going into Seattle for the final, Crew forward Barros Schelotto commented, "The field is for Seattle. The stadium is for Seattle. Everything is for Seattle. But that does not matter. We have the final. We have 90 minutes to win a trophy. Nothing is more important."


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis
In the weeks leading up to the match, Seattle Sounders FC was on a six-game home unbeaten streak. However, in the last match before the final (a league match victory over Toronto FC) goalkeeper Keller allowed a goal, ending his three-game shutout streak. The Columbus Crew came into the final not having won a league match in the previous month, although their last match was a 0–0 draw with the San Jose Earthquakes on October 2.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis
Since MLS teams began participating in the tournament in 1996, the home team had won nine times and lost three in the U.S. Open Cup final prior to 2011. The 2003 Chicago Fire, 2007 New England Revolution and 2009 Seattle Sounders FC were the only away teams to win a final.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match
The 2010 U.S. Open Cup Final was played on October 5 at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington. Live television coverage was provided nationally by Fox Soccer Channel. Prior to kickoff, Seattle's 2009 U.S. Open Cup trophy was displayed at midfield. The final drew an attendance of 31,311 surpassing the 81-year-old record for the event. The previous record attendance for an Open Cup final was 21,583, set in 1929 when New York Hakoah defeated the Madison Kennel Club of St. Louis.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match
Both clubs started mostly their first-team players for the final. Costa Rican Leonardo González, a regular starter at left back for Sounders FC, was unavailable due to U.S. Open Cup roster limitations, which allow teams to have only five foreign players on their 18-man, game day roster. Defender Tyson Wahl started in his place. Crew backup goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum also started in place of normal starter Will Hesmer, though this was a normal change for U.S. Open Cup and CONCACAF Champions League matches. Each club was organized in a 4–4–2 formation at kickoff.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, First half
Seattle had most of the early scoring opportunities. Two minutes into the match, Montero took the first shot of the game with a header at close range which was saved by Crew goalkeeper Gruenebaum. Seconds later, Montero had another shot from distance which went just over the bar. Four minutes later, Seattle midfielder Zakuani got around Crew defender Frankie Hejduk and passed the ball to Blaise Nkufo whose tap-in attempt was saved by Gruenbaum. In the 12th minute, Gaven took the Crew's first shot of the match but it flew high over the crossbar.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, First half
In the 16th minute Zakuani had a run up the middle before passing to Montero, whose shot was again saved by Gruenbaum. Columbus successfully defended crosses from Zakuani and Nkufo in the 18th minute and kept Seattle from getting a shot off. Columbus nearly took the lead in the 20th minute as Emmanuel Ekpo got behind the defense and made a quick pass back to Gaven, who missed a wide-open shot over the bar.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, First half
While Seattle controlled the game for much of the first half, Columbus took the lead on a counterattack movement in the 24th minute. The play developed on the right side when Hejduk made a low pass to Lenhart from a forward position. Lenhart touched the ball to Kevin Burns for a low shot inside the far post for a goal. Few chances were created after the goal as Columbus' strong defensive play held off Seattle's attacks. In the 34th minute Tyson Wahl crossed the ball into the box but Gruenbaum was able to jump and grab the ball before Nkufo could direct it towards goal with his head.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, First half
Seattle equalized in the 38th minute. Montero passed to Tyson Wahl, who crossed the ball into the 18-yard-box, where Crew goalkeeper Gruenebaum hesitated on how to handle the ball. He knocked it away, and it fell to Nathan Sturgis, who passed the ball between the legs of Gaven to find teammate Sanna Nyassi 18 yards out. Nyassi turned on the ball and shot it past Gruenebaum, who was still out of position. Following the goal few scoring opportunities were created before halftime. After one minute of stoppage time, the first half ended with a tie score, 1–1.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half
Columbus Crew midfielder Kevin Burns commented on the team's attitude after the first half, "We were OK at halftime. Our heads weren't down." No substitutions were made as the teams returned to the field for the second half.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half
Despite Seattle's continued control of the tempo of gameplay early in the second half, they were unable to create many scoring opportunities. In the 58th minute James Riley was alone on the edge of the penalty area after receiving a pass from Montero. However, Riley's cross was deflected for a corner kick. Two minutes later Seattle's Zakuani created a scoring threat when he received an aerial pass into the penalty area, but Crew goalkeeper Gruenebaum was quick to get to the play causing Zakuani to fall down and the ball to bounce away before being cleared by Columbus.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half
In the 64th minute, Kasey Keller made a diving save to stop Gaven's shot from 30 yards out, his fourth shot on goal in the game. Two minutes later, the score line finally changed as Seattle completed 18 consecutive passes. Montero got open on the right side of the field to receive the 19th and then crossed a ball into the penalty area. Gruenebaum decided not to chase the pass as Zakuani ran inside of Crew defender Hejduk and headed a shot that hit the crossbar. The Crew defenders failed to clear the ball before Nyassi ran in and easily scored the go-ahead goal.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half
Zakuani was again on the attack in the 75th minute with a run down the middle, but was "sandwiched" by two Columbus defenders and lost possession. Columbus made two substitutions in the 78th minute, bringing on fresh legs at forward with Rentería in for Lenhart and swapping midfielder Burns out for forward Andrés Mendoza. Shortly after the substitutions, Keller came out to grab a Columbus cross and made a long throw to Montero. Seattle pushed up the field and Montero took a shot which bounced off teammate Nkufo's back. In the 81st minute, Crew coach Warzycha made his final substitution bringing on Robbie Rogers for Gaven. Shortly after, in the 85th minute, Columbus nearly equalized when Rogers received a pass from Hejduk and took a shot which bounced hard off the crossbar.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half
Seattle made its first substitution in the 79th minute when Sanna Nyassi left the field to an ovation from the crowd as he was replaced by Álvaro Fernández. In the 87th minute, Zakuani ran free on a breakaway but was taken down by Crew forward Barros Schelotto who received a yellow card for the foul. Montero took the ensuing free kick and shot it on goal with Gruenebaum catching it for the save.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Match, Second half
The referee added three minutes of stoppage time to the second half. During that time, Seattle made its remaining two substitutions. First in the 90th minute Roger Levesque was brought on for Zakuani, and then in the 93rd minute they brought on Jaqua for Montero. The referee blew his whistle ending the game shortly thereafter. Most of the fans in attendance remained after the game for the presentation of the trophy.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post-match
Sounders FC head coach Sigi Schmid discussed the match in the post-game press conference saying:


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post-match
I thought there was some good soccer that was played by both teams. We caught a break at the end when they hit the crossbar. You work hard to make your own luck. We showed a lot of character going down 1–0 and coming back. Attitude of our team has been very strong that way. Really proud and what we accomplished tonight is super.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post-match
It sets us apart and makes us unique and this is the kind of franchise when Adrian [Hanauer], Joe [Roth], Drew [Carey] and Tod Leiweke and the rest of the internal ownership group and everyone else who works at this organization wanted us to be something unique, something special, something different. The fans were fantastic. That's the loudest I've heard this place.


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post-match
Columbus Crew goalkeeper Andy Gruenbaum commented after the match, "We knew it was going to be a tough place to play, their fan base is great. Anytime you have a championship match on your own pitch, the odds are going to be against you. We knew we had to defend and take advantage of any opportunity. We came out and scored the first goal and they were able to capitalize on two weird bounces."


2010 U.S. Open Cup Final, Post-match
Seattle Sounders FC is the first MLS club to repeat as the U.S. Open Cup champion and the first club overall to repeat since the New York Pancyprian-Freedoms did so in 1982 and 1983. The victory was also Sigi Schmid's third Open Cup championship as a head coach. Sanna Nyassi was the first player to score multiple goals in an Open Cup final since Mike Deleray in 1994. As champions of the tournament, Sounders FC received the $100,000 cash prize while the Columbus Crew received $50,000 as the runner-up. Seattle also earned a berth into the preliminary round of the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification
The 2010 U.S. Open Cup tournament proper features teams from the top five levels of the American Soccer Pyramid. These five levels, namely Major League Soccer, the United Soccer Leagues (First Division, Second Division, and Premier Development League), and the United States Adult Soccer Association, each have their own separate qualification process to trim their ranks down to their final team delegations in the months leading up to the start of the tournament proper.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification
The 2010 Cup will feature 8 teams from the MLS, 9 from the USSF Division 2 (being all 9 US-based teams), all 6 teams from the USL Second Division, 8 teams from the PDL, 8 from USASA, and an additional team resulting from a single match between Sonoma County Sol of the National Premier Soccer League and PSA Los Gatos Storm of US Club Soccer. The eight clubs from MLS will receive byes into the Third Round.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 1: Major League Soccer (MLS)
The top six MLS clubs in the 2009 standings were given six of the berths into the Third Round while the nine remaining U.S.-based clubs will compete for the final two berths via a playoff.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 1: Major League Soccer (MLS), Schedule
Note: Scorelines use the standard U.S. convention of placing the home team on the right-hand side of box scores.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 1: Major League Soccer (MLS), Schedule, Qualification Finals
New York Red Bulls qualify for the Round of 16.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 2: USSF D-2 Pro League and Tier 3: USL-2
Due to the reshuffling of teams and the compromise between the United Soccer Leagues and the breakaway North American Soccer League, there are only 6 teams in USL-2 and 9 eligible teams in the newly formed USSF Division 2 Professional League (Montreal Impact, Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Puerto Rico Islanders are not eligible because they are Canadian or Puerto Rican clubs). All 15 eligible teams will automatically qualify rather than 8 from each league as in years past, leaving an additional slot to be filled .


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 4: Premier Development League
PDL eligible clubs (59 of 67) qualify by playing in PDL league matches in April and May that double as US Open Cup qualifying matches. The team with the best record in those games from each of the eight divisions will advance to the Cup.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 4: Premier Development League
The Abbotsford Mariners, Ottawa Fury, Toronto Lynx, Thunder Bay Chill, Vancouver Whitecaps Residency, Victoria Highlanders and Forest City London are not eligible because they are Canadian clubs. Also the Bermuda Hogges is not eligible because it is a Bermudian club.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA)
USASA is divided into four geographical regions, each of which will advance two teams to the US Open Cup. Assuming the continuation of recent seasons' format, the two finalists in each region will be awarded berths.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region I
Region I represents the northeastern region of the US. The regional tournament began April 10 and the remaining four teams will compete in the semifinals on May 23. The two regional finalists will advance to the 2010 US Open Cup. The quarterfinalists are:


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region II
Region II represents the midwestern region of the US. The regional tournament began May 1 and the semifinal matches were played May 15. Both finalists qualified for the 2010 US Open Cup. The quarterfinalists were:


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region III
Region III represents the southeastern region of the US. The regional tournament was conducted from May 29 to May 30 at the University of Alabama. Though it was originally scheduled to feature nine clubs organized into three groups of three followed by an elimination bracket, a lightning storm canceled the first day of games and Brazil Soccer Academy was disqualified for failing to show. The tournament was reorganized into two groups of four with the winner of each group qualifying for the US Open Cup.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, Tier 5: United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA), Region IV
Region IV represents the western region of the US. The regional tournament was conducted from May 21 to May 23 in Sacramento, CA. An initial eleven teams divided into three groups, each of which played round-robin, and the winner of each group as well as the best performing second place team advanced to a four team bracket. The two semifinal winners advanced to the regional final as well as the 2010 US Open Cup.


2010 U.S. Open Cup qualification, 40th place
Due to the 2010 restructuring of the USSF Division 2, only 15 US-based teams were available to take the USL and NASL's non-amateur slots. On May 5, 2010 the USSF announced that the remaining slot would be allotted to the winner of a game between the Sonoma County Sol and PSA Los Gatos Storm, two California-based clubs in the US Soccer amateur structure.


2010 U.S. Senior Open
The 2010 U.S. Senior Open was a senior major golf championship and the 31st U.S. Senior Open, held from July 29 to August 1 at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington. It was the first U.S. Senior Open played at the course.


2010 U.S. Senior Open
World Golf Hall of Fame member Bernhard Langer won by three strokes over Seattle native Fred Couples. The 2010 event was Langer's second senior major championship victory in as many weeks.


2010 U.S. Senior Open, Venue
The 2010 event was the first U.S. Senior Open played at Sahalee Country Club.


2010 U.S. Senior Open, Field
The field consisted of 156 competitors: 127 professionals and 29 amateurs. 18-hole stroke play qualifying rounds were held at several locations for players who were not already exempt.


2010 U.S. Senior Open, Round summaries, First round
Bruce Vaughan posted a four-under-par 66 on day one to lead by two strokes.


2010 U.S. Senior Open, Round summaries, Second round
2010 Senior Open champion Bernhard Langer shot a 68 (−2) to take a two shot lead over Tommy Armour III, John Cook, and J. R. Roth.


2010 U.S. Senior Open, Round summaries, Third round
Seattle native Fred Couples shot a five-under-par 65 in the third round to enter the final round at 205 (−5). Bernhard Langer shot a second consecutive round of 68 (−2) to share the 54-hole lead with Couples.


2010 U.S. Senior Open, Round summaries, Final round
Fred Couples birdied the par-4 1st hole to take a one stroke lead over Bernhard Langer. On the par-5 2nd hole, Couples drove his tee shot into the first cut of rough and was left with 227-yards for his second shot. He decided to lay up short of a water hazard which surrounds the front of the second green and was left with 69-yards for his third shot. Couples' third shot found the water and resulted in a triple bogey. Langer made a long birdie putt on the 2nd green to take a three shot lead over Couples. He extended his lead to four strokes with a birdie on the par-4 6th hole. After two late birdies by Couples, Langer entered the 72nd hole with a two stroke lead and converted a 7-foot par putt to win his second consecutive senior major championship by three strokes.


2010 U.S. Women's Open
The 2010 U.S. Women's Open was the 65th U.S. Women's Open, played July 8–11 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. Paula Creamer, in her fourth tournament after surgery to her left thumb, won her first major championship, four shots ahead of runners-up Na Yeon Choi and Suzann Pettersen.


2010 U.S. Women's Open
It was the second U.S. Women's Open, and 15th overall USGA championship (8 U.S. Open and 5 U.S. Amateur championships also;  a 16th has since been hosted) held at Oakmont, which hosted 18 years earlier in 1992; Patty Sheehan won that year, in an 18-hole playoff over Juli Inkster. The Tournament was televised by ESPN and NBC Sports.


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field
For the first time since 2001, qualifying for the U.S. Women's Open took place in a single sectional qualifying tournament stage, rather than in a two-stage process of local and sectional qualifying tournaments. Twenty separate sectional qualifying tournaments took place from May 2 through June 3 in 16 states across the United States.


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
Players in eleven categories were exempt from qualifying. Players are listed only once in the first category in which they qualify, with additional categories in parentheses ( ) next to their names. Golfers qualifying in Category 10 who qualify by more than one method are also denoted with the tour by which they qualified.


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
1. Winners of the U.S. Women's Open for the last ten years (2000–2009)Juli Inkster, Eun-Hee Ji (6,7), Cristie Kerr (3,6,7,8,9), Birdie Kim, Hilary Lunke, Inbee Park (7,8), Karrie Webb (5,7)(Eligible but not playing: Annika Sörenstam1 and Meg Mallon3) Kim and Lunke did not play.


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
2. Winner and runner-up from the 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship (must be an amateur)Jennifer Johnson(The winner, Jennifer Song, turned professional on June 17, 2010 and lost her exemption in this category. She remains exempt in Category 6 below.)


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
3. Winners of the LPGA Championship for the last five yearsAnna Nordqvist (7,9), Se Ri Pak (7,9), Suzann Pettersen (6,7,8,9), Yani Tseng (5,7,8,9)


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
4. Winners of the Ricoh Women's British Open for the last five yearsJeong Jang, Catriona Matthew (7,9,10–LET), Jiyai Shin (6,7,8,9), Sherri Steinhauer(Eligible but not playing: Lorena Ochoa1 (5,7,8,9))


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
5. Winners of the Kraft Nabisco Championship for the last five yearsBrittany Lincicome (6,7), Morgan Pressel (6,7)


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
6. From the 2009 U.S. Women's Open Championship, the 15 lowest scores and anyone tying for 15th placeSun Ju Ahn (10–Korea), Kyeong Bae (7), Na Yeon Choi (7,9), Paula Creamer (7), In-Kyung Kim (7), Song-Hee Kim (7,8), Candie Kung (7), Ai Miyazato (7,8,9), Hee Young Park (7), Morgan Pressel (7), Jennifer Song


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
7. From the 2009 final official LPGA money list, the top 50 money leadersHelen Alfredsson, Meaghan Francella, Sandra Gal, Natalie Gulbis, Sophie Gustafson (9,10–LET), Hee-Won Han, Maria Hjorth, Katherine Hull, M. J. Hur (9), Pat Hurst, Vicky Hurst, Christina Kim, Brittany Lang, Jee Young Lee, Meena Lee, Seon Hwa Lee, Stacy Lewis (8), Mika Miyazato, Ji Young Oh, Michele Redman, Angela Stanford, Momoko Ueda, Wendy Ward, Michelle Wie (8,9), Lindsey Wright, Amy Yang, Eunjung Yi, Sun Young Yoo


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
8. From the 2010 official LPGA money list, the top 10 money leaders through the close of entries on May 5


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
9. Winners of LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories are considered official, from the conclusion of the 2009 U.S. Women's Open Championship to the initiation of the 2010 U.S. Women's Open ChampionshipBo Bae Song2


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
10. Top five money leaders from the 2009 Japan LPGA Tour, Korea LPGA Tour, and Ladies European TourJapan LPGA Tour: Sakura Yokomine, Shinobu Moromizato, Chie Arimura, Mi-Jeong Jeon,  Yuko Mitsuka, Korea LPGA Tour: Hee Kyung Seo, So Yeon Ryu, Bo-Mee Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee Ladies European Tour: Becky Brewerton, Tania Elósegui, Marianne Skarpnord


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Exempt from qualifying
1Both Sörenstam and Ochoa have announced their retirement, but are officially listed by the LPGA as "inactive". 2Bo Bae Song was not an LPGA Tour member when she won the Mizuno Classic in 2009. This means that her victory and prize money are not included in LPGA career statistics. However, since the Mizuno Classic is sanctioned by the LPGA as an official money event, Song's victory is considered "official" for purposes of U.S. Women's Open entry. 3Mallon announced her retirement from competitive golf on July 7, 2010 and withdrew from the tournament. She was replaced by alternate Nicole Vandermade.


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
The following players qualified for the 2010 U.S. Women's Open through one of the sectional qualifying tournaments. At sites with multiple qualifiers, players are listed in order of qualifying scores, from lowest score to highest.


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 17 at White Bear Yacht Club, White Bear Lake, MinnesotaMartha Nause


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 17 at Shady Oaks Country Club, Fort Worth, TexasMaría Hernández, Taylor Leon, Heather Young


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 19 at Plantation Bay Country Club, Ormond Beach, FloridaAlexis Thompson, Yueer Feng, Jaye Marie Green, Shasta Averyhardt, Sarah Kemp, Veronica Felibert


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 24 at Pinnacle Peak Country Club, Scottsdale, ArizonaAiko Ueno, Shi Hyun Ahn, Paige Mackenzie, Nicole Zhang, Juliana Murcia Ortiz, Esther Choe


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 24 at Corral de Tierra Country Club, Corral de Tierra, CaliforniaMina Harigae, Tiffany Lim, Sofie Andersson Sally Watson


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 24 at Mission Viejo Country Club, Mission Viejo, CaliforniaTiffany Joh, Alison Lee, Jenny Shin, Gabriella Then


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 24 at The Oaks Club, Osprey, FloridaJessica Korda, Samantha Richdale, Jennifer Gleason, Victoria Tanco, Sandra Changkija


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 24 at Twin Orchard Country Club, Long Grove, FloridaLibby Smith, Nicole Jeray, Laura Kueny, Ashli Bunch


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 24 at Woodmont Country Club, Rockville, MarylandChella Choi, Karine Icher, Pornanong Phatlum, Hye Jung Choi,Laura Diaz,Meredith Duncan,Alison Walshe,Julieta Granada, Alena Sharp, Shanshan Feng,Jung Yeon Lee,Louise Friberg


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 24 at Persimmon Woods Golf Club, St. Louis, MissouriKelli Shean, Lucy Nunn


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 24 at Shadow Hawk Golf Club, Richmond, TexasLisa McCloskey,Christi Cano, Janine Fellows


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 25 at Hawk Pointe Golf Club, Washington, New JerseyAmanda Blumenherst, Azahara Muñoz, Na On Min, Jennifer Rosales


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 26 at White Columns Country Club, Milton, GeorgiaAllison Fouch, Karen Stupples, Irene Cho, Stacy Prammanasudh,Sarah Lynn Sargent


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 30 at Hoakalei Country Club, Ewa Beach, HawaiiSakurako Mori


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
May 31 at Broadmoor Golf Club, Colorado Springs, ColoradoKimberly Kim, Jill McGill, Mhairi McKay


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
June 1 at Industry Hills Golf Club, City of Industry, CaliforniaGiulia Sergas,Kaitlin Drolson,Belen Mozo,Stephanie Kono,Sun Gyoung Park,Ariya Jutanugarn,Charlotte Mayorkas,Tamie Durdin,Danielle Kang,Lizette Salas,Anna Rawson


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
June 1 at Twin Hills Country Club, Longmeadow, MassachusettsBrittany Altomare, Liz Janangelo


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
June 2 at Fox Chapel Golf Club, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaJanice Moodie, Jennifer Kirby, Becky Morgan


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Qualifying and field, Qualifiers
June 3 at Carolina Trace (Lakes Course), Sanford, North CarolinaHsiao-Ching Lu, Gwladys Nocera, Joomi Kim


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Course layout
Note:  The 9th hole is par 5 for women only in USGA championships. For men's majors, it is a par 4.


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Round summaries, Second round
Friday, July 9, 2010Saturday, July 10, 2010Weather interrupted play on Friday afternoon, and the round was concluded Saturday.


2010 U.S. Women's Open, Round summaries, Second round
Amateurs (a): Shean (+7), McCloskey (+8), Johnson (+9), Kang (+10), Lim (+10), Wong (+10), Watson (+11), Kono (+12), Changkija (+14), Gulyanamitta (+14),  Salas (+14), Zhang (+14), Ellenbogen (+15), Korda (+15), Tanco (+16), Fellows (+17), Jutanugarn (+17), Kirby (+17), Park (+17), Juneau (+18), Murcia Ortiz (+18), Altomare (+19), Lee-Bentham (+20), Drolson (+22), Feng (+22), Then (+23), Lee (+24), Vandermade (+24), Green (+29).


2010 UAB Blazers football team
The 2010 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the college football season of 2010–2011. The Blazers, led by fourth year head coach Neil Callaway, played their home games at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama and competed in the East Division of Conference USA. They finished the season 4–8, 3–5 in C-USA play.


2010 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 2010 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They competed in the Great West Conference (GWC).


2010 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 2010 Aggies were led by head coach Bob Biggs in his eighteenth year and played home games at Aggie Stadium. UC Davis finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6–5, 3–1 GWC). The Aggies were outscored by their opponents 233–295 for the season.


2010 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft
No UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 2011 NFL Draft.


2010 UCF Knights football team
The 2010 UCF Knights football team represented the University of Central Florida in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Their head coach was George O'Leary, who was in his seventh season with the team. For the first time in program history, the Knights were nationally ranked following a nationally televised rout of Houston on November 5. For the third time in six years, UCF won the Conference USA Eastern Division and later, became Conference USA champions for the second time in four seasons. As a result, the Knights appeared in the Liberty Bowl, in which they defeated Georgia 10–6, for the first bowl victory in program history. UCF finished the season ranked in both final national polls, 20th in the Coaches Poll, and 21st in the AP Poll.


2010 UCF Knights football team
All games were broadcast live on the UCF-ISP Sports radio network. The flagship was WYGM "740 The Game" in Orlando.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, South Dakota
UCF hosted South Dakota, becoming the FCS squad's first-ever FBS opponent.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, South Dakota
In a match that analysts said might determine whether or not quarterback Rob Calabrese would get the team for his senior year, he rose to the challenge, throwing 12-of-15 for 176 yards and a touchdown. Jonathan Davis rushed for 107 yards on 20 carries with a touchdown, and A.J. Guyton caught 8 passes for 120 yards and a touchdown. The team never turned the ball over, and didn't suffer a three-and-out. It proved to be UCF's largest margin of victory yet in a season opener.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, South Dakota
True freshman quarterback Jeff Godfrey was brought in for the 4th quarter, when the game was already in hand, and led a touchdown drive of his own, passing 6-of-7 for 65 yards.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, NC State
In a game where NC State was looking for reprisal following its 2007 upset by the Knights during the team's last meeting, UCF would turn the ball over 5 separate times including a 43-yard interception return by the Wolfpack. Trailing by 21 points at the start of the fourth quarter, the Knights, led by true freshman quarterback Jeff Godfrey, scored two times to bring UCF within 7, but would fumble the ball with 51 seconds left on the clock at the NC State 11-yard line. Godfrey went 7-for-10 for 107 yards, and rushed for 53 yards including two rushing touchdowns. Calabrese went 10-for-18 for 106 yards with 2 interceptions.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, NC State
Following the loss, debate arose once again over the fate of the Knight's starting quarterback job.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Buffalo
In his first game as the Knights starting quarterback, Jeffrey Godfrey went 15-for-24 for 130 yards. Ronnie Weaver had 8 carries for 49 rushing yards, while Godfrey had 13 carries for 44 yards. Bruce Miller had a 30-yard interception return for a touchdown in the second quarter. DE Darius Nall earned Conference USA defensive player of the week honors with nine tackles, including three tackles for a loss, and two sacks.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Buffalo
With the start Godfrey became the ninth true freshman quarterback to start for the Knights, and only the second along with Daunte Culpepper to win their first start.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
In a game where the UCF defense proved dominant on the field while the offense struggled, the Wildcats orchestrated a late 4th quarter comeback scoring two touchdowns, including the winning TD with 24 seconds left on the clock. In his second game as the starting quarterback, Jeff Godfrey rushed for 99 yards, and went 8-for-18 for 92 yards. Godfrey passed Daunte Culpepper's career rushing record of 95 yards with his performance. Ronnie Weaver had 22 carries for 130 rushing yards, including one touchdown. Nick Cattoi was 2-for-4, missing 23-yard and 42-yard field goals.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
With the loss, UCF now holds a 2–23 record against opponents from BCS automatic qualifying conferences since joining the FBS in 1996.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, UAB
In their conference opener, the Knights proved dominant both offensively and defensively. The Knights were able to capitalize off of Blazer turnovers, scoring three touchdowns from a forced fumble and two interceptions. Jeff Godfrey rushed for 80 yards, and went 9-for-11 for 137 yards. Rob Calabrese went 3-for-3 for 34 yards serving as the second half of the quarterback tandem. Ronnie Weaver rushed for 50 yards on 21 carries for two touchdowns. FS Kemal Ishmael won Conference USA defensive player of the week honors with seven tackles, an interception and forced a fumble.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, UAB
With the defeat of the Blazers, the Knights ride a 7-game conference winning streak dating back to an October 3, 2009 win over Memphis. The game also represented the first weekday game played at Bright House Networks Stadium since its opening in 2007.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Marshall
Playing for the second-straight week on a Wednesday night in front of a national television audience, the Knights outlasted and dominated the Marshall Thundering Herd in Huntington. UCF has now won 6-straight games against the Thundering Herd, never losing to them as Conference USA foes. In a game that was delayed 68-minutes due to lightning, and in which there was no halftime, the Knights possessed the ball for over 40 minutes while the Thundering Herd held the ball for under 20. Jeff Godfrey rushed for 27 yards, and went 11-for-21 for 138 yards.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Marshall
Rob Calabrese suffered a season ending knee injury on a 2-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Ronnie Weaver rushed for 150 yards on 30 carries. On Marshall's third play of the second half, A. J. Bouye intercepted Brian Anderson and returned it 42-yards for a touchdown. UCF has now returned three interceptions for touchdowns this season, the Conference USA record is four.


2010 UCF Knights football team, Game summaries, Marshall
Defeating the Thundering Herd, the Knights now ride an 8-game conference winning streak, tying East Carolina for the nation's fifth longest active conference winning streak. With the win, UCF is off to its best start since the 1998 season when the Knight's went 9–2, and which was also Daunte Culpepper's senior year. UCF ranks atop Conference USA in all defensive categories, and the Knight's defense ranks ninth in the country.