2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 3
A 21-rider break began this stage, but it was pulled back after an hour. A group of 14 was next on the attack, after 60 km (37 mi) had been covered. This group at one point had a three-minute advantage on the main field, but the steady tempo that Liquigas–Doimo and Team RadioShack were drilling out reduced that gap. Xavier Tondó, Joaquim Rodríguez and Óscar Pereiro attacked out of the main field when the catch seemed imminent.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 3
Pereiro quickly dropped back, as they had at this point reached the hardest parts of the Alt de la Josa del Cadí climb, but Tondó and Rodríguez stayed away to the finish. Tondó won the sprint to the finish line, but Rodríguez became the new race leader, since he had had a better time in the stage 1 time trial. Tondó expressed after the stage that the win had great personal significance for him, since he is from Catalonia and grew up 7 km (4.3 mi) from where the stage ended.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 4
This course started at elevation, undulated gently for a while and then descended in preparation for two second-category climbs. The Alt de Paumeres crested 20.9 km (13.0 mi) from the finish line, and the finish came on a long descent from that height.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 4
This was a very fast stage, with the first two hours of racing covering more than 100 km (62 mi). During that time, an eight-rider breakaway group formed. They were later reduced to four – Vladimir Efimkin, Thibaut Pinot, Francesco Bellotti, and Jurgen Van De Walle. During the Alt de Paumeres climb, Jens Voigt, who had earlier been dropped from the peloton, made a solo bridge to the four leaders. Once with the group, he set a pace that eventually cracked all of them, sending them back to the chase groups behind. Voigt was the first over the summit, alone.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 4
Rein Taaramäe and Roman Kreuziger caught up with Voigt on the descent. After dropping Kreuziger, Taaramäe and Voigt increased their lead over the Team Katusha-led main field, and finished 34 seconds better than them at the finish line. Taaramäe did most of the pace making in the final flat section, since he started the day seventh in the overall standings and stood to gain more than Voigt from having as big a time gap as possible on the peloton. Voigt was therefore able to win the sprint to the line easily.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 5
This was another hilly stage, marked by three categorized climbs, including one 15 km (9.3 mi) from the finish line. The finish again came on a descent.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 5
Four riders escaped just 2 km (1.2 mi) into this stage. These were Davide Malacarne, Javier Ramirez, Sergio De Lis, and Gustavo César. Since Malacarne, 29 minutes behind race leader Joaquim Rodríguez, was the best-placed man in the group, the peloton was content to let them go. Their advantage quickly ballooned to ten minutes. The lead fell a little on the day's second climb, the Alt de Porrera, as Team Katusha and Liquigas–Doimo started an aggressive chase. Malacarne shod his breakaway companions 20 km (12 mi) from the finish line and held on for the win. It was the first win of Malacarne's pro career, and it came on a stage that he and the team had specifically identified as one where a winning breakaway was likely.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 6
There is a lot of climbing in the first half of this stage, including an uncategorized rise of 600 m (2,000 ft). The second half is mostly flat, concluding with a three-lap circuit in Barcelona that includes a visit to a small third-category climb on each lap. Forty-six riders finished the stage in the same group for a depleted bunched sprint. Cofidis' Samuel Dumoulin was easily the strongest sprinter in the group and won the stage, giving his team its 12th win of the season.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 6
His teammate Rein Taaramäe was second on the stage, the two of them securing their high places on a day when the financial services provider Cofidis decided to continue sponsoring the team for two more seasons. Each of the top ten riders in the overall standings finished with the leading group, so there was no significant change to those standings heading into the final day of racing.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 7
This stage is flat, concluding with eight laps on the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 7
The field stayed together through most of this stage. All but 20 riders were together for a bunched sprint, won by Juan José Haedo. His brother Sebastian Haedo was his final leadout man, and took fifth place in the sprint. There was again no change to the overall standings after this stage; Joaquim Rodríguez, Xavier Tondó, and Rein Taaramäe finished on the event's final podium.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership
In the 2010 Volta a Catalunya, three different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist, the leader received a white jersey with green stripes on the sleeves. This classification is considered the most important of the Volta a Catalunya, and the winner of the general classification is considered the winner of the Volta a Catalunya.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership
Additionally, there was also a sprint classification, indicated with a blue jersey. In the sprint classification, cyclists got points for being one of the first three in intermediate sprints, with six points awarded for first place, four for second, and two for third.


2010 Volta a Catalunya, Classification leadership
There was also a mountains classification, indicated with a red jersey. In the mountains classifications, points are won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. All climbs were categorized, with most either first, second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorized climbs.


2010 Volta ao Algarve
The 2010 Volta ao Algarve was the 36th edition of the Volta ao Algarve cycling stage race. It was held from 17–21 February 2010, and was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It started at the Algarve Stadium in Faro and ended with an individual time trial in Portimão.


2010 Volta ao Algarve
This edition of the race was noted as a race which was targeted by many notable riders as their first of the season. Among these riders beginning 2010 in Portugal was reigning Tour de France champion (and defending Volta ao Algarve champion) Alberto Contador.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Teams and cyclists
There were 23 teams in the 2010 Volta ao Algarve. Among them were 12 UCI ProTour teams, five UCI Professional Continental teams, and six Continental teams. Each team was allowed eight riders on their squad, but Garmin–Transitions sent only seven, giving the event a peloton of 183 cyclists at its outset.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Teams and cyclists
Many notable riders contested the event as their first or one of their first of the season. This was the first race since the 2009 Tour de France for Astana's Alberto Contador. Thor Hushovd from Cervélo TestTeam intended to make his debut earlier in the season, at the Étoile de Bessèges, but illness forced him to delay his season debut. Euskaltel-Euskadi's Samuel Sánchez and the Garmin-Transitions pair of Christian Vande Velde and David Zabriskie also made their first appearances of 2010 in this event, while for Caisse d'Epargne's Luis León Sánchez it was his second, after the Tour Down Under. The RadioShack squad did not include Lance Armstrong, but the new American team did send Levi Leipheimer and Andreas Klöden, with both making their European debuts for 2010 in this race.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 1
The Volta kicked off with an undulating stage, including two categorized climbs between the 60 km (37 mi) and 100 km (62 mi) marks but mostly flat thereafter.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 1
Though the stage seemed set to end with a mass sprint finish, Française des Jeux' Benoît Vaugrenard put in a winning attack 700 m (2,300 ft) from the finish line, foiling the hopes of, among others, Team HTC–Columbia sprint ace André Greipel. Vaugrenard's attack came moments after Joan Horrach of Team Katusha tried a similar move, but was unable to maintain first position all the way to the line as Vaugrenard was.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 2
The second stage was similar in profile to the first, jagged with several short climbs. Four of the hills awarded points toward the mountains classification.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 2
This stage was marked by heavy rainfall that made for tough riding for the peloton. Despite a profile that did not seem that it would break the field up so much, 78 riders finished more than ten minutes behind the stage winner, and 28 of them more than twenty minutes back. Thirteen did not finish the stage at all.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 2
With four others, Footon–Servetto–Fuji's David Vitoria broke away 12 km (7.5 mi) into the stage. The rain and the hilly terrain took its toll on them as it did the peloton, and by 30 km (19 mi) to go only Vitoria remained out front. His advantage at that point was 3' 30", which meant there was a chance he could win the stage. In a finish reminiscent of the first stage, when Vaugrenard denied the sprinters, Vitoria stayed away into the stage's final kilometer. He was, however, caught by Greipel 200 m (660 ft) from the finish line. The German from Team HTC-Columbia took the stage win and, by virtue of the time bonuses it afforded, the overall leadership.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 3
The third stage was difficult, with four categorized climbs coming in the final 40 km (25 mi), including a summit stage finish.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 3
Repeated early crashes in this stage sent Gert Steegmans, Manuel Cardoso, and Sandy Casar out of the race and to hospitals, though all escaped serious injury. The Astana team, in particular David de la Fuente, did strong pacemaking, trying to thin the field and set up their leader Alberto Contador for victory. Xacobeo–Galicia's Nelson Oliviera was the last rider brought back in from the morning escape, just as the ascent to the stage-ending Alto do Malhão began.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 3
On this climb, Contador put in the attack that separated him from the field and gave him the stage victory, with the Team RadioShack duo of Tiago Machado and Contador's former teammate Levi Leipheimer the next two behind him on the road. Contador also became the third straight stage winner to pull on the yellow jersey as race leader.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 4
Stage 4 had a sloping profile, with a high climb coming at the 106.7 km (66.3 mi) mark. Many kilometers of descending followed to the finish line.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 4
After 20 km (12 mi) of racing, a six-man breakaway formed. Its complexion changed after the first climb of the day, when three riders were dropped and three bridged from the peloton up to the leading group. The best-placed man in the breakaway was Caisse d'Epargne's Imanol Erviti, who began the stage 5' 11" behind race leader Contador. The Astana team never let the break get more than five minutes' advantage, content to otherwise let the stage be decided among those riders.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 4
The six finished scattered as they crossed the finish line, with Team RadioShack's Sébastien Rosseler securing their first-ever victory, exactly three minutes ahead of the peloton, and Quick-Step's Iljo Keisse in sixth just ten seconds ahead of the main field. There was no significant change to the race's general classification after the stage.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 5
The race's individual time trial is straightforward, with only three curves in the road and several long straightaways, along with a negligible change in elevation. One wrinkle was thrown into the race, however, two days before the time trial was run. The UCI disallowed the Specialized Shiv time trial bike. This affected both the Astana and Saxo Bank teams, who both ride Specialized bikes, but most notably race leader Contador. Specialized delivered the teams a different model of team trial bike to the teams for use in the stage.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Tour stages, Stage 5
Caisse d'Epargne rider Luis León Sánchez won this time trial, with a time of 21'32". Contador, atop a Specialized Transitions bike instead of the Shiv he had expected to use, was second, 13 seconds slower than Sánchez. He still had more than enough time in hand to win the race overall. Caisse d'Epargne and Team RadioShack both showed well in the time trial, with three riders each in the top ten.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership
In the 2010 Volta ao Algarve, five different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on each stage and in intermediate sprints, the leader received a yellow jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the Volta ao Algarve, and the winner is considered the winner of the Volta.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership
Additionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a blue jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists got points for finishing in the top three in an intermediate sprint. The first across the sprint points got 3 points, the second got 2, and the third got a single point.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership
There was also a mountains classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb was categorized, with the more difficult climbs awarding more points.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership
The points classification awarded a white jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points based on the order at the finish line of each stage. The stage win afforded 25 points, second on the stage was worth 20, third 16, fourth 13, fifth 10, sixth 8, seventh 6, eighth 4, ninth 2, and tenth was worth a single point. The points awarded in the sprints classification counted equivalently for this classification.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership
The fifth jersey was distinct to this race – it was for the best Portuguese rider. There were eleven Portuguese riders in the race, who competed amongst themselves for a pink jersey.


2010 Volta ao Algarve, Classification leadership
The race also awarded a teams classification, which was not represented by a jersey. The teams classification was calculated by adding the times of each team's best three riders per stage per day.


2010 Vuelta Mexico Telmex
The 2010 edition of the Vuelta Mexico Telmex was won by Oscar Sevilla of Rock Racing Team.


2010 Vuelta a Andalucía
The 2010 Vuelta a Andalucía is the 56th edition of the Vuelta a Andalucía stage race. The previous edition was won by Rabobank's Joost Posthuma. The race started at 21 February and finished at 25 February.


2010 Vuelta a Asturias
The 2010 Vuelta a Asturias was the 54th edition of the Vuelta a Asturias road cycling stage race, which was held from 28 April to 2 May 2010. The race started and finished in Oviedo. The race was initially won by Constantino Zaballa of the CC Loulé–Louletano–Aquashow team. Zaballa's result was annulled by the Union Cycliste Internationale in 2012, after Zaballa had tested positive for using ephedrine.


2010 Vuelta a Burgos
The 2010 Vuelta a Burgos was the 32nd edition of the Vuelta a Burgos road cycling stage race, which was held from 4 August to 8 August 2010. The race started at Villasana de Mena and finished at Lagunas de Neila. The race was won by Samuel Sánchez of the Euskaltel–Euskadi team.


2010 Vuelta a Castilla y León
The 2010 Vuelta a Castilla y León was the 25th running of the Vuelta a Castilla y León road cycling stage race, which started on 14 April and concluded on 18 April 2010. Normally the race would be run in March, however, this year the start was pushed back to mid-April. The race was won by Alberto Contador.


2010 Vuelta a Colombia
The 60th edition of the Vuelta a Colombia was held from August 1 to August 15, 2010.


2010 Vuelta a España
The 2010 Vuelta a España was held from 28 August to 19 September and was won by Vincenzo Nibali. The race began in Seville and ended, as is tradition, in Madrid.


2010 Vuelta a España
The race covered 3,333.8 km (2,071.5 mi). There was critical analysis that this Vuelta, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the first edition of the race, was an especially difficult one and that stage 16 was the queen stage.


2010 Vuelta a España
The stage 1 team time trial was held at night.


2010 Vuelta a España
Vuelta runner-up Ezequiel Mosquera and Xacobeo–Galicia teammate David García Dapena were announced on September 30 to have given positive tests for hydroxyethyl starch during the race, a substance which is known as a masking agent for erythropoietin (EPO). All results from Mosquera after 12 September (stage 15) were annulled, which caused him to lose his second place. García later was announced to have tested positive for EPO during the race as well.


2010 Vuelta a España, Teams
Sixteen teams were automatically selected due to previous agreements and there were six wildcard places. Three of these were given to UCI Professional Continental teams, and three to UCI ProTour teams.


2010 Vuelta a España, Teams
Team RadioShack was not invited despite having a ProTour license.


2010 Vuelta a España, Stages
For details see 2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11 and 2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21


2010 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
In the 2010 Vuelta a España, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding the finishing times of the stages per cyclist after deduction of time bonuses for high placings in stage finishes and at intermediate sprints, the leader received a red jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the Vuelta a España, and the winner of the general classification was considered the winner of the Vuelta.


2010 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
Additionally, there was also a points classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. The winner got 25 points, second place 20, third 16, fourth 14, fifth 12, sixth 10, and one point per place less down the line, to a single point for fifteenth. In addition, some points were won in intermediate sprints.


2010 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
There was also a mountains classification, which awarded a blue-spotted white jersey. In the mountains classifications, points were won by reaching the top of a mountain before other cyclists. Each climb was categorized, either first, second, third or "special" category, the last of which is equivalent to the Hors catégorie rating used in races such as the Tour de France.


2010 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
Finally, there was the combination classification. This is calculated by adding the rankings in the general, points and mountains classifications; the cyclist with the lowest combined ranking is the leader in the combination classification, and receives a white jersey.


2010 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
There was also a classification for teams. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per stage were added, and the team with the lowest time is the leader.


2010 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
1 Initially, the team time trial gave points toward the points classification. These points were later removed.


2010 Vuelta a España, Classification leadership
2 All results from Mosquera after 12 September (stage 15) were originally annulled. However this was overturned by a Spanish Court.


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11
These are the individual stages of the 2010 Vuelta a España, with Stage 1 on 28 August and Stage 11 on 8 September.


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 1
28 August 2010 — Seville, 13 km (8.1 mi) (Team time trial)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 1
The course for the team time trial is flat, and takes place under lighting: beginning at 10pm.


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 2
29 August 2010 — Alcalá de Guadaíra to Marbella, 173.7 km (107.9 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 3
30 August 2010 — Marbella to Málaga, 157.3 km (97.7 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 4
31 August 2010 — Málaga to Jaén, 183.8 km (114.2 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 5
1 September 2010 — Guadix to Lorca, 198.8 km (123.5 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 6
2 September 2010 — Caravaca de la Cruz to Murcia, 151 km (93.8 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 7
3 September 2010 — Murcia to Orihuela, 187.1 km (116.3 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 8
4 September 2010 — Villena to Xorret del Catí, 190 km (118.1 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 9
5 September 2010 — Calpe to Alcoy, 187.7 km (116.6 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 10
7 September 2010 — Tarragona to Vilanova i la Geltrú, 175.7 km (109.2 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stages, Stage 11
8 September 2010 — Vilanova i la Geltrú to Vallnord (Andorra), 208.4 km (129.5 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21
These were the individual stages of the 2010 Vuelta a España, with Stage 12 on 9 September to Stage 21 on 19 September.


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 12
9 September 2010 — Andorra la Vella (Andorra) to Lleida, 172.5 km (107.2 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 13
10 September 2010 — Rincón de Soto to Burgos, 196 km (121.8 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 14
11 September 2010 — Burgos to Peña Cabarga, 178 km (110.6 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 15
12 September 2010 — Solares to Lagos de Covadonga, 187.3 km (116.4 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 16
13 September 2010 — Gijón to Alto de Cotobello, 181.4 km (112.7 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 17
15 September 2010 — Peñafiel (ITT), 46 km (28.6 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 18
16 September 2010 — Valladolid to Salamanca, 148.9 km (92.5 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 19
17 September 2010 — Piedrahíta to Toledo, 231.2 km (143.7 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 20
18 September 2010 — San Martín de Valdeiglesias to Bola del Mundo, 172.1 km (106.9 mi)


2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stages, Stage 21
19 September 2010 — San Sebastián de los Reyes to Madrid, 85 km (52.8 mi)


2010 Vuelta a Murcia
The 2010 Vuelta a Murcia was the 26th edition of the Vuelta a Murcia cycle race and was held on 3 March to 7 March 2010. The race started in San Pedro del Pinatar and finished in Murcia. The race was won by František Raboň.


2010 Vuelta al Táchira
The 2010 Vuelta al Táchira began on January 13 and ended on January 24. This was the 45th edition of the Vuelta al Táchira.


2010 WA State Challenge Cup
Western Australian soccer clubs from the top three State-Based Divisions competed in 2010 for the WA State Challenge Cup, known that year as the State League Cup.


2010 WA State Challenge Cup
This knockout competition was won by Stirling Lions, their sixth title.


2010 WA State Challenge Cup, First round
A total of 32 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All 12 Clubs from the State League Premier Division and Football West State League Division 1, and 8 clubs from the Sunday League (Premier Division) (the top 8 out of 12 from the previous year's league table) entered into the competition at this stage. All matches were completed by 26 April 2010.


2010 WA State Challenge Cup, Second round
A total of 16 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches were completed by 7 June 2010.


2010 WA State Challenge Cup, Quarter finals
A total of 8 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches in this round were completed on 3 July 2010.


2010 WA State Challenge Cup, Semi finals
A total of 4 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches in this round were completed by 25 July 2010.


2010 WA State Challenge Cup, Final
The 2010 State League Cup Final was held at the neutral venue of Frank Drago Reserve on 22 August.


2010 WA State League Premier Division
The 2010 season of the State League Premier Division ran from 20 March to 2 October, featuring 12 clubs.


2010 WA State League Premier Division
Western Knights were the Premiers – their fourth title – and Perth were Champions.


2010 WABA Champions Cup
The WABA Champions Cup 2010 was the 13th staging of the WABA Champions Cup, the basketball club tournament of West Asia Basketball Association. The tournament was held in Tehran, Iran. The top four teams from different countries qualify to the FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2010.


2010 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament was held at the Lawlor Events Center in Reno, Nevada from March 11 through March 13, 2010. The winner of the tournament was New Mexico State, who received an automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and was crowned the Western Athletic Conference champion.


2010 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
Seeding for the tournament was based on the standings from the regular season. The top eight teams qualified. In past years all nine teams qualified and the # 8 and # 9 teams would play an opening round game where the winner would play the # 1 seed. However, for 2010 the opening round game was eliminated.


2010 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
Two quarterfinal games were broadcast on ESPNU. One semifinal and the championship game were broadcast on ESPN2.


2010 WAFF Championship
The 2010 WAFF Championship was the 6th edition of the West Asian Football Federation Championship, an international tournament for selected West Asian countries and territories. It was hosted by Jordan, after Lebanon was deemed not capable of hosting. The competition was eventually won for the first time by Kuwait, after beating defending champions, Iran.


2010 WAFF Championship, Draw
Nine teams entered the tournament and were drawn into three groups of three teams. The draw for the competition was made on Thursday 1 July 2010.


2010 WAFF Women's Championship
The 2010 West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship tournament was held from 20–28 February 2010 in  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The hosts won after defeating the defending champions, Jordan.


2010 WAFL Grand Final
The 2010 WAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Claremont Football Club and the Swan Districts Football Club on 19 September 2010 at Subiaco Oval, to determine the premier team of the West Australian Football League (WAFL) for the 2010 season. Swan Districts won the game by one point, 14.16 (100) to 14.15 (99), with Andrew Krakouer winning the Simpson Medal for best on ground. The attendance of 24,600 was the largest for a WAFL game since the 2002 Grand Final.


2010 WAFL Grand Final, Build-up and history
Claremont had dominated the 2010 home and away season by winning seventeen and drawing one of their twenty matches. They then defeated Swan Districts in the major semi final on Sunday 5 September to advance to the Premiership decider. The Tigers were aiming for their first premiership since 1996.


2010 WAFL Grand Final, Build-up and history
Swan Districts competed in a Grand Final for the second time in three years, following a long period where the club had lingered at the lower reaches of the WAFL table and had serious financial problems threaten its very existence. After losing to Claremont in the first week of the finals, they defeated East Perth in the preliminary final to reach the league’s showpiece game, whilst Brian Dawson aimed to be only the third coach after Haydn Bunton junior and John Todd to lead Swan Districts to a premiership. They were aiming for their first premiership in twenty years. Former Richmond player, Andrew Krakouer, played for the Swans in what had been a spellbinding season for him, which was capped off by winning the Sandover Medal. Krakouer had been previously imprisoned for a violent assault.


2010 WAFL Grand Final, The game
The first term was played at a fast tempo in which both sides’ defences held firm. Swan Districts though were wasteful with their kicking for goal, scoring 1.6 (12) during the quarter to go into the first break down by nine points.


2010 WAFL Grand Final, The game
Swans began to outwit and outrun Claremont in the second quarter, largely thanks to Krakouer. They managed to add four goals to their total compared with the Tigers who managed only a further two goals.


2010 WAFL Grand Final, The game
The intensity of the match increased after the long break and both sides added four goals and five behinds to their respective scoreline, giving the Swans a slim lead at the final change.


2010 WAFL Grand Final, The game
As was the case in the third term both sides scored an equal number of goals in last quarter, the most important and dramatic of these though was Krakouer's late goal merely seconds before the final siren. It put Swans into the one point lead that they would carry until the end of the game to clinch their first flag since 1990.


2010 WAFL Grand Final, The game
Andrew Krakouer was the stand out performer of the match, kicking four goals and gaining forty possessions.


2010 WAFL season
The 2010 WAFL season was the 126th season of the West Australian Football League in its various incarnations. It was notable for the end of the 2000s Subiaco dynasty, with the Lions missing out on the finals for the first time since 1997 and also witnessed reigning premiers South Fremantle dropping to be ahead of only perennial stragglers Peel and Perth, who continued their disastrous record of the 2000s - Peel avoided the wooden spoon with three wins but recorded the second worst average points against in WAFL history behind only Perth in 1981.


2010 WAFL season
In contrast, Claremont, who had not won a premiership since 1996 and had been second last in both 2008 and 2009, rose to the top with only one loss and a draw until the closing home-and-away round, whilst Swan Districts, after suffering through severe financial difficulties and a long run of poor results on the field, ultimately won its eighth senior premiership in a thrilling Grand Final.


2010 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 1
After Peel led by three goals at quarter-time, Claremont with the wind kick 12.2 to 0.1 in the second quarter.


2010 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 9
Claremont kick an amazing 13.1 (79) to 9.11 (65) in the first three quarters.


2010 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 11 (Foundation Day)
Perth win their first game for 2010, kicking 16.6 (102) to Peel’s 0.4 (4) in the second half after trailing throughout the first half.


2010 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 16
On the only wet night or day of a season which set unprecedented records for dryness due to man-made global warming, Perth cause a huge upset over the eventual premiers, whilst West Perth kick the lowest WAFL score since 2006 after being goalless to half-time


2010 WAFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Swans win their first premiership since 1990 after a thrilling game. Krakouer, himself the son of Claremont legend Jimmy, completes the Sandover/Simpson double


2010 WAFU Club Championship
The 2010 WAFU Club Championship (sometimes referred to as the Eyadema Unity Cup) is an association football competition that is contested between club sides in the WAFU/UFOA region.


2010 WAFU Club Championship, First round
First leg matches were played 15th and 16 May 2010. Second leg matches took place 29th and 30 May.


2010 WAFU Club Championship, Second round
Tornadoes-Stella first leg clash postponed a week to August 22 due to Stella's travel problem. Match then postponed again to Aug 29 Second leg held Sept. 12


2010 WAFU Club Championship, Third round
First Leg- October 3. Second Leg October 17–19 (Sharks at Stella postponed to October 27)


2010 WAFU Nations Cup
The 2010 WAFU Nations Cup was the first edition of the WAFU Nations Cup, an association football tournament organised by the West African Football Union. The tournament was also held in 2002, but that edition was cancelled due to the civil war in the host nation Ivory Coast. The 2010 edition was held in Nigeria and was competed by eight national football team selections using only players from local leagues. The event took place between 9 and 18 April 2010 and was sponsored by ECOWAS.


2010 WAFU Nations Cup
The matches took place at two stadiums; Gateway International Stadium (Ijebu-Ode) and the MKO Abiola Stadium (Abeokuta).


2010 WC9
2010 WC9, unofficially designated ZJ99C60, is a sub-kilometer near-Earth asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately 100 meters (330 feet) in diameter. First observed for eleven days by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2010, the asteroid was recovered in May 2018 during its sub-lunar close encounter with Earth.


2010 WC9, First observation and recovery
2010 WC9 was first observed by astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey on 30 November 2010 with a 1-day observation arc and was observed through 10 December 2010. By 10 December 2010, the asteroid was more than 24 million kilometers from Earth at apparent magnitude 21.8 and was becoming too faint to be practical to track.


2010 WC9, First observation and recovery
The preliminary 10-day observation arc generated a line of variation roughly 15 million km long for May 2018 that did not intersect Earth's orbit and thus was not a 2018 impact threat. The 10-day observation arc showed the asteroid would pass about 0.026 AU (3,900,000 km; 2,400,000 mi) from Earth around late 14 May 2018. The asteroid was recovered on 8 May 2018 when it was 8 million kilometers from Earth and given the temporary NEOCP designation ZJ99C60. It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 10 May 2018 and is not an impact threat for the next 100 years or more. The asteroid now has a secure 7-year observation arc.


2010 WC9, Orbit and classification
2010 WC9 is an Apollo asteroid, the largest dynamical group of near-Earth objects with nearly 10,000 known members. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.78–1.4 AU once every 13 months (409 days; semi-major axis of 1.08 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.28 and an inclination of 18° with respect to the ecliptic.


2010 WC9, Orbit and classification
Using an epoch of 23 March 2018, the object had a minimum orbital intersection distance with Earth of 206,000 km (0.00138 AU), or 0.55 lunar distances (LD).


2010 WC9, 2018 approach
On 15 May 2018, 22:05 UT, the asteroid approached Earth at just over 0.5 LD, the closest approach of this asteroid in nearly 300 years. It was expected to reach apparent magnitude +11 at closest approach, bright enough to be seen in a small telescope if you have a custom ephemeris for your location. At closest approach, it was best seen from the Southern hemisphere such as South Africa and southern South America. The asteroid passed Earth going 12.81 km/s (28,700 mph).


2010 WC9, 2018 approach
This was the third closest approach ever observed by an asteroid with absolute magnitude (H) brighter than 24.


2010 WC9, Physical characteristics, Diameter
As the asteroid has not been directly resolved by telescope, its diameter can only be estimated based on the distance and brightness. Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, it is estimated to measure between 60 and 130 meters in diameter, for an absolute magnitude of 23.5, and an assumed albedo of 0.04–0.20.


2010 WC9, Numbering and naming
As of 2018, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center.


2010 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2010 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 2010 at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. North Dakota received the Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions, and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2010 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.


2010 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.


2010 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2010 WDF Europe Cup
The 2010 WDF Europe Cup was the 17th edition of the WDF Europe Cup darts tournament, organised by the World Darts Federation. It was held in Kemer, Turkey from 13–17 October 2010.


2010 WG9
2010 WG9 is a high inclination trans-Neptunian object and slow rotator from the outer Solar System, approximately 100 kilometers in diameter. It was first observed at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile on 30 November 2010.


2010 WG9, Orbit and classification
2010 WG9 orbits the Sun at a distance of 18.8–87.0 AU once every 384 years and 9 months (140,538 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.65 and an inclination of 70° with respect to the ecliptic.


2010 WG9, Orbit and classification
As of October 2019, it is one of six known objects with inclination (i) > 60° and perihelion (q) > 15 AU, along with the first discovered 2008 KV42.


2010 WG9, Physical characteristics, Rotation period
A rotational lightcurve of 2010 WG9 was obtained from photometric observations by the LaSilla–Quest Variability Survey at La Silla in Chile. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 263.8 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.14 magnitude (U=2). It belongs to the Top 200 slowest rotators known to exist.


2010 WG9, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo
It measures 112.7 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.074. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo of 0.10 and calculates a diameter of 100.81 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 8.1.


2010 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
The 2010 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was a golf tournament held February 17–21 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona, northwest of Tucson. It was the 12th WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and the first of four World Golf Championships held in 2010.


2010 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
Ian Poulter won his first of two WGC victories with a 4 & 2 win over runner-up Paul Casey in the final match. This was the last year the final was played at 36 holes; it was reduced to 18 holes in 2011.


2010 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Brackets
The championship was a single elimination match play event. The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Rankings as of the February 7 ranking, seeded according to the rankings. Tiger Woods, world number 1, and Phil Mickelson, number 3, did not play. They were replaced by Chris Wood (ranked 65) and Ross McGowan (ranked 66).


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
The 2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a golf tournament held August 5–8 over the South Course at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the 12th WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of four World Golf Championships events held in 2010.


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
Hunter Mahan won with a score of 64 (−6) on Sunday to finish at 268 (−12), two strokes ahead of runner-up Ryan Palmer.


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
1. Playing members of the 2009 United States and International Presidents Cup teams.


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
Ángel Cabrera (3,4), Stewart Cink (2,3,4), Tim Clark (3,4,5), Ernie Els (3,4,5), Jim Furyk (2,3,4,5), Lucas Glover (3,4), Retief Goosen (3,4), Ryo Ishikawa, Zach Johnson (3,4,5), Anthony Kim (2,3,4,5), Justin Leonard (2), Hunter Mahan (2,3,4,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,5), Geoff Ogilvy (3,4,5), Sean O'Hair (3,4), Kenny Perry (2,3,4), Adam Scott (3,4,5), Vijay Singh, Steve Stricker (2,3,4,5), Camilo Villegas (3,4,5), Mike Weir, Tiger Woods (3,4,5), Yang Yong-eun (3,4,5)


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
(Robert Allenby (3,4,5,6) withdrew prior to the start of the tournament with a knee injury.)


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
2. Playing members of the 2008 United States and European Ryder Cup teams.


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
Chad Campbell, Paul Casey (3,4), Ben Curtis, Sergio García (3,4), Søren Hansen, Pádraig Harrington (3,4), J. B. Holmes, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (3,4,5), Robert Karlsson (3,4,5), Graeme McDowell (3,4,5), Ian Poulter (3,4,5), Justin Rose (3,4,5), Henrik Stenson (3,4), Boo Weekley, Lee Westwood (3,4,5), Oliver Wilson


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 26, 2010.


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
K. J. Choi (4,6), Ben Crane (4,5), Rhys Davies (4), Luke Donald (4,5), Ross Fisher (4,5), Rickie Fowler (4), Peter Hanson, Dustin Johnson (4,5), Martin Kaymer (4,5), Matt Kuchar (4,5), Rory McIlroy (4,5), Edoardo Molinari (4,5), Francesco Molinari (4), Ryan Moore (4,5), Louis Oosthuizen (4,5), Álvaro Quirós (4), Charl Schwartzel (4), Bo Van Pelt (4), Scott Verplank (4), Nick Watney (4)


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
4. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of August 2, 2010.


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
5. Tournament winners of worldwide events since the prior year's tournament with an Official World Golf Ranking Strength of Field Rating of 115 points or more.


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
Stuart Appleby, Jason Bohn, Grégory Bourdy, Jason Day, Simon Dyson, Marcus Fraser, Bill Haas, David Horsey, Michael Jonzon, Simon Khan, James Kingston, Martin Laird, Troy Matteson, Ross McGowan, Alex Norén, Ryan Palmer, Heath Slocum, Bubba Watson


2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Field
6. The winner of selected tournaments from each of the following tours:


2010 WGC-CA Championship
The 2010 WGC-CA Championship was a golf tournament held March 11–14 at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Doral, Florida, a suburb west of Miami. It was the eleventh WGC-CA Championship tournament, and the second of four World Golf Championships events staged in 2010.


2010 WGC-CA Championship
The only players eligible to compete who did not enter were six-time champion Tiger Woods (on an indefinite break from golf) and Ryo Ishikawa (graduating from high school).


2010 WGC-CA Championship
Ernie Els, the 2004 champion, won his second WGC title with a bogey-free 66 (−6) in the final round, four strokes ahead of runner-up Charl Schwartzel, the 54-hole co-leader with Els.


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
The field consisted of players from the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and the money lists/Order of Merit from the six main professional golf tours. 68 of the 70 qualifying players competed. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
1.


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of March 1, 2010Robert Allenby (2), Ángel Cabrera (2,3), Paul Casey (2,5,6), Stewart Cink (2,3), Tim Clark (2), Luke Donald (2,3), Ernie Els (2,3,5), Ross Fisher (2,5), Jim Furyk (2,3), Sergio García (2,5,6), Lucas Glover (2,3), Retief Goosen (2,3), Anders Hansen (2,9), Søren Hansen (2), Pádraig Harrington (2,3,5), Yuta Ikeda (2,7), Thongchai Jaidee (2,5,6,10), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (2,6), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Zach Johnson (2,3), Robert Karlsson (2,6), Martin Kaymer (2,5,6), Anthony Kim (2), Søren Kjeldsen (2,5), Matt Kuchar (2), Hunter Mahan (2,3,4), Graeme McDowell (2), Rory McIlroy (2,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3), Edoardo Molinari (2), Francesco Molinari (2,5), Sean O'Hair (2,3), Geoff Ogilvy (2,3,4,5), Kenny Perry (2,3), Ian Poulter (2,4,5,6), Álvaro Quirós (2,5), Charl Schwartzel (2,6,9), Adam Scott (2), Michael Sim (2,8), Vijay Singh (2), Henrik Stenson (2,5), Steve Stricker (2,3,4), Camilo Villegas (2,4,6), Nick Watney (2,3), Mike Weir (2,3), Lee Westwood (2,5,6), Oliver Wilson (2,5), Yang Yong-eun (2,3)


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
Ryo Ishikawa (2,7) and Tiger Woods (2,3) did not play.


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of March 8, 2010


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
3. The top 30 players from the final 2009 FedExCup Points ListJason Dufner, Brian Gay, Jerry Kelly, Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Kevin Na, John Senden, Heath Slocum, David Toms, Scott Verplank


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
4. The top 10 players from the 2010 FedExCup Points List, as of March 8, 2010Ben Crane, Bill Haas, J. B. Holmes, Ryan Palmer


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
5. The top 20 players from the final 2009 European Tour Order of MeritSimon Dyson, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Peter Hanson, Ross McGowan


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
6. The top 10 players from the European Tour Order of Merit, as of March 1, 2010


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
7. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
8. The top 2 players from the final 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of MeritAlistair Presnell


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
9. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit


2010 WGC-CA Championship, Field
10. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Asian Tour Order of MeritLiang Wenchong


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions
The 2010 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament contested from 4–7 November 2010 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the second WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in 2010. It was won by Francesco Molinari of Italy who completed a wire-to-wire one stroke victory over Lee Westwood to win his first WGC event.


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
The following is a list of players for the 2010 WGC-HSBC Champions. Players who have qualified from multiple categories are listed in the first category in which they are eligible. The numbers of other qualifying categories are in parentheses next to the player's name.


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Tim Clark,  Martin Kaymer (5,12), Graeme McDowell (5,12), Phil Mickelson (2,12), Louis Oosthuizen (5,12)


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Ben Crane, Anthony Kim (12), Rory McIlroy (12), Ryan Palmer, Camilo Villegas, Lee Westwood (5,12)


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Paul Casey (12), Luke Donald (5,12), Retief Goosen (12), Nick Watney, K. J. Choi


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Fredrik Andersson Hed, Ross Fisher, Richard Green, Peter Hanson, David Horsey, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Richard S. Johnson, Robert Karlsson, Simon Khan, Matteo Manassero, Edoardo Molinari (8,12),  Álvaro Quirós,  Yang Yong-eun


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Rhys Davies, Pádraig Harrington (12), Francesco Molinari, Charl Schwartzel (9), Danny Willett


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Kiradech Aphibarnrat (OoM), Grégory Bourdy, Andrew Dodt, Marcus Fraser, Tetsuji Hiratsuka (OoM), Pariya Junhasavasdikul (OoM), Mardan Mamat (OoM), Noh Seung-yul, Thaworn Wiratchant (OoM)


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Hiroyuki Fujita (OoM), Kim Kyung-tae, Shigeki Maruyama, Michio Matsumura (OoM), Katsumasa Miyamoto


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Darren Fichardt (OoM), Anders Hansen (OoM), Pablo Martín, Richie Ramsay, Jaco van Zyl (OoM)


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Robert Allenby (12), Alistair Presnell (OoM), Adam Scott, Michael Sim (OoM), Tiger Woods (12)


2010 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Players in bold were added to the field through this category. Players listed in "()" already qualified in a previous category. Players listed with their name stricken did not play.


2010 WISPA World Series
The WISPA World Series 2010 is a series of women's squash tournaments which are part of the Women's International Squash Players Association (WISPA) World Tour for the 2010 squash season. The WISPA World Series tournaments are some of the most prestigious events on the women's tour. Nicol David won the 2010 World Series followed by Jenny Duncalf and Rachael Grinham.


2010 WISPA World Series, WSA World Series Ranking Points
WSA World Series events also have a separate World Series ranking. Points for this are calculated on a cumulative basis after each World Series event.


2010 WISPA World Tour
The WISPA World Tour 2010 is the international squash tour and organized circuit, organized by the Women's International Squash Players Association (WISPA) for the 2010 squash season. The most important tournament in the series is the World Open held in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. The tour features three categories of regular events, the World Series, which features the highest prize money and the best fields, Gold and Silver tournaments.


2010 WISPA World Tour, Retirements
Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the WISPA World Rankings top 30 for at least one month) who announced their retirement from professional squash, became inactive, or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2010 season:


2010 WK-League
The 2010 WK League was the second season of the WK League, the South Korea's women's football league. The regular season began on 22 March 2010 and ended on 30 September 2010. Six clubs competed as a quadruple round-robin, for a total of 20 matches. Goyang Daekyo were the defending champions.


2010 WKU Hilltoppers football team
The 2010 WKU Hilltoppers football team represented Western Kentucky University (WKU) in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hilltoppers were led by first-year head coach Willie Taggart and played their home games at Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium. They are members of the Sun Belt Conference.


2010 WKU Hilltoppers football team
The Hilltoppers would finish the season with a 2–10, 2–6 in Sun Belt play which placed them in last place. The 2 wins by the team marked the first and second victories as members of the Sun Belt.


2010 WNBA Finals
The 2010 WNBA Finals was the championship series of the 2010 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The champions of the Eastern Conference, the Atlanta Dream, faced the champions of the Western Conference, the Seattle Storm.


2010 WNBA Finals
The WNBA Finals were under a 2–2–1 rotation, with the Storm holding home-court advantage as they had a better regular season record (28–6) than the Dream (19–15). This was the 1st time the teams have met in the championship round. The Dream made their first ever appearance in the Finals while the Storm made their second appearance, after winning the 2004 championship series.


2010 WNBA Finals
This was the second straight year in which neither team advancing to the Finals had been there the previous season. Seattle had not won a playoff series since their Finals victory in 2004, when they defeated the Connecticut Sun 2–1. Betty Lennox, who played with Atlanta after leaving the Storm (now with L.A.) was named series MVP in 2004. Only two players remain from the championship roster–all-stars Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson. To advance to the Finals, the Storm defeated Diana Taurasi and the defending champion Phoenix Mercury 2–0 in the Western Conference Finals.


2010 WNBA Finals
This was the first WNBA Finals appearance for both head coaches. Each coach had been with their respective team since the 2008 season. Seattle's Brian Agler had been involved with the WNBA since 1999, when he was head coach of the Minnesota Lynx. Atlanta's Marynell Meadors was one of the league's original eight head coaches, leading the Charlotte Sting to a 15–13 record in their inaugural season. This was the first ever Finals series to feature the two most recent Coach of the Year award winners; Meadors won the award in 2009 and Agler won in 2010.


2010 WNBA Finals
This series featured 9 international players (most notably Lauren Jackson) from 6 different backgrounds. Seattle's roster boasted five foreign-born players hailing from Australia, the Czech Republic and Russia. Atlanta had four, representing Belarus, Brazil and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. This was a WNBA record for the championship series; eight international players were featured in the 1998 Finals.


2010 WNBA Finals
The series ended with the Storm beating the Dream in Atlanta in a three-game sweep. This was only the second time in WNBA history that a team won the Finals three games to none (previously done by Detroit in 2008).


2010 WNBA Finals, Background, Atlanta Dream
The Atlanta Dream finished the regular season with a 19–15 record. As the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference, the Dream eliminated the No. 1 seeded Washington Mystics in two games during the conference playoff semifinals. In the Eastern Conference finals, the Dream went on to eliminate the New York Liberty in two games. In reaching the Finals, the Dream became the second team in WNBA history to do so as a four seed; the Charlotte Sting (coached by Liberty coach Anne Donovan) advanced to the 2001 WNBA Finals as a No. 4 seed. Also, the Dream became the second team in Eastern Conference history to reach the Finals after sweeping their opponents in the first two rounds, after the Connecticut Sun did it in 2005.


2010 WNBA Finals, Background, Seattle Storm
The Seattle Storm finished the regular season as the Western Conference champion with a 28–6 record. As the No. 1 seed in the conference, the Storm eliminated the No. 4 seeded Los Angeles Sparks in two games in the first round; the Sparks had eliminated the Storm from the playoffs in three of the previous five seasons. In the Western Conference Finals against the Phoenix Mercury, the Storm won Game 1 but trailed by as many as 19 points in Game 2. They rallied back and Sue Bird made a 3-pointer with under three seconds left to win the series on Phoenix's home floor. This is the first time since their 2004 championship season in which the Storm were not eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Sue Bird made a tiebreaking jumper from the foul line with 2.6 seconds left and the Storm beat the Dream 79–77. Angel McCoughtry had a last-second try for the Dream, but her long 3-pointer from the left side did not connect.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
League MVP Lauren Jackson had 26 points and eight rebounds for Seattle. Bird finished with 14 points and Camille Little had 18 points and 11 rebounds.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
McCoughtry and Iziane Castro Marques had 19 points apiece for Atlanta. Sancho Lyttle added 10 points and 14 rebounds.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Jackson made a 3-pointer late in the third quarter to give Seattle the lead for good at 52–49 and the Storm led by six going into the fourth quarter.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Atlanta trailed by nine in the fourth before rallying, tying it at 77 on Castro Marques' old-fashioned three-point play with a minute left.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Each team had to deal with foul trouble for one of its star players. Seattle forward Swin Cash picked up two in the first minute of the game and was whistled for her third foul before the half-way mark of the first quarter. McCoughtry had three early fouls and sat out the second quarter; she later missed much of the third quarter after knocking heads with Seattle's Jana Vesela.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
League MVP Lauren Jackson scored 26 points, Swin Cash added 19 and the Seattle Storm moved one step closer to the title with an 87–84 win over the Atlanta Dream in Game 2 of the finals.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Seattle improved to 21–0 at home this season and is hoping it won't need another game at KeyArena. The Storm had plenty of reasons to be pleased after winning two rough and ragged games in Seattle.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Iziane Castro Marques, who kept Atlanta close with 21 points Tuesday night, might have broken her nose for the second time in two months after a first-quarter collision kept her on the bench for a chunk of the second quarter with an ice bag on her nose. Angel McCoughtry, the Dream's leading scorer, wore a Band-Aid over her left eye, the result of a collision in Game 1 that required stitches.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
McCoughtry was off in Game 2, making just seven of 23 shots on her way to 21 points. She tried to salvage the shaky performance, scoring five quick points in the final 30 seconds to help Atlanta close to 87–84.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Cash missed two free throws with 2.2 seconds left but Atlanta could not get off a potential tying shot.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
"I just missed some shots. You're going to have bad days," McCoughtry said. "I had good looks. Usually I knock them down. I just didn't knock them down today. I just gotta stay more focused."


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
After losing in the first round of the playoffs five straight years following their first title, Sue Bird, Lauren Jackson and the Seattle Storm are champions again.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
"I guess now I can be honest," Bird said. "Losing in the first round has been terrible. It's something I took personally and something a lot of us took personally. I judge myself by winning, so to not win in five years really, really hurt."


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
The Storm made up for the long gap between titles by dominating the 2010 season. Seattle was 28-6 during the regular season - tying the league record for wins - before sweeping each of its three postseason series.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Bird and Jackson are the only players remaining from the Storm's 2004 title team.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
"I think the roads have been completely different," said Jackson of the two championships. "After the last six years, it definitely has taken a long time to get here."


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Jackson, who had 26 points in each of the Storm's first two wins in the series, had 15 points and nine rebounds and was selected MVP of the finals.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Swin Cash scored 18 points to lead a balanced offense as Seattle overcame 35 points by Atlanta's Angel McCoughtry.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
The Dream star, who set a WNBA playoff record with 42 points in the Eastern Conference finals clinching win over the New York Liberty, tried to rally Atlanta with nine points in the final 2:30. But McCoughtry and Coco Miller missed 3-pointers in the final 6 seconds, setting off a celebration by Seattle's players.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
The Dream rallied in the final minute after trailing 82–70.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
McCoughtry's three-point play with 46 seconds remaining cut Seattle's lead to 85–80. Seattle's Tanisha Wright missed two free throws and McCoughtry was fouled by Cash while missing a 3. McCoughtry made two of three free throws to cut the lead to three points with 31 seconds remaining.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Bird dribbled away the shot clock before missing a shot to set up a basket by Atlanta's Iziane Castro Marques with 6.9 seconds left. McCoughtry immediately fouled Camille Little, who made two free throws to give Seattle an 87–84 lead. McCoughtry missed a 3-pointer but the rebound went to Atlanta before Coco Miller also missed a last-second 3.


2010 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
"I think we have grown up quite a bit this season," said Atlanta coach Marynell Meadors. "Maybe another minute on the clock might have made a difference in the outcome of this game and the same thing with the two games in Seattle."


2010 WNBA Playoffs
The 2010 WNBA Playoffs is the postseason for the Women's National Basketball Association's 2010 season.


2010 WNBA Playoffs, Eastern Conference, Conference Finals, (2) New York Liberty vs. (4) Atlanta Dream
The teams were tied 2–2 in the regular season series


2010 WNBA draft
The 2010 WNBA Draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 8, 2010. The first round was shown on ESPN2 (HD), while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.


2010 WNBA draft
A lottery was held on November 5, 2009. The Minnesota Lynx received the first overall selection of the draft. The Sacramento Monarchs received the number two selection. The Connecticut Sun came up with the third overall selection, followed by the Minnesota Lynx again at four, and the Chicago Sky at number five.


2010 WNBA draft
Since the Monarchs folded after the draft lottery took place, their pick was simply eliminated.


2010 WNBA draft, Draft lottery
The lottery selection to determine the order of the top five picks in the 2010 Draft occurred on November 5, 2009 The Minnesota Lynx won the first pick, while the Sacramento Monarchs and Connecticut Sun were awarded the second and third picks respectively. The remaining first-round picks and all the second- and third-round picks were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win-loss records in the previous season.


2010 WNBA draft, Draft lottery
Below were the chances for each team to get specific picks in the 2010 draft lottery, rounded to three decimal places:


2010 WNBA draft, Dispersal draft
On November 20, 2009, the league announced that the Sacramento Monarchs would no longer operate. A dispersal draft was held December 14, 2009 with teams being allowed to pick in the following order.


2010 WNBA season
The 2010 WNBA season was the 14th season of the Women's National Basketball Association. The regular season began with a televised (ESPN2) meeting between the defending champion Phoenix Mercury and the Los Angeles Sparks in Phoenix, Arizona on May 15. The Connecticut Sun hosted the 10th Annual All-Star Game which was broadcast live on ESPN on July 10. This year, it was a contest between Geno Auriemma's USA Basketball team and a single team of WNBA All-Stars. The Finals was a series between the Seattle Storm and the Atlanta Dream which Seattle won 3-0.


2010 WNBA season, Sacramento Monarchs dispersal draft
On December 14, 2009, the Sacramento Monarchs dispersal draft was held. Three former Monarchs players, Kara Lawson, Hamchetou Maiga-Ba and Ticha Penicheiro were free agents and therefore not eligible for this draft. Teams selected based inversely on their 2009 season finish.


2010 WNBA season, Sacramento Monarchs dispersal draft
Four of the twelve teams making selections waived their picks.


2010 WNBA season, 2010 WNBA Draft
The WNBA Draft lottery was held on November 5, 2009. The lottery teams were the Sacramento Monarchs, Minnesota Lynx (from N.Y.), Minnesota Lynx, Connecticut Sun and Chicago Sky. The top pick was awarded to Minnesota. Since Sacramento folded after the lottery, all the teams following Sacramento in the draft simply moved up a pick. Minnesota subsequently traded the first overall pick to Connecticut.


2010 WNBA season, 2010 WNBA Draft
The 2010 WNBA Draft was held on April 8, 2010, in Secaucus, New Jersey. Coverage of the first round was shown on ESPN2 (HD). Second and third round coverage was shown on ESPNU and NBA TV.


2010 WNBA season, Regular season, All-Star Game
The 2010 WNBA All-Star Game was hosted by the Connecticut Sun on July 10 at Mohegan Sun Arena. Coverage of the game began at 3:30pm on ESPN. This marks the third time the Sun have hosted the annual event. Unlike in previous years, this game was a contest between Geno Auriemma's USA basketball team and a team of WNBA all-stars.


2010 WNBA season, Regular season, Statistic leaders
The following shows the leaders for each statistic during the 2010 regular season.


2010 WNBL Finals
The 2010 WNBL Finals was the postseason tournament of the WNBL's 2009–10 season. The Canberra Capitals were the defending champions and they successfully defended their title with a 75–70 win over the Bulleen Boomers in the Grand Final.


2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship
The 2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship was an eight-ball world championship, organized by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), and held 4–10 April 2010 at the Fujairah Exhibition Centre of the Al Diar Siji Hotel in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. A total of 64 players competed in the tournament.


2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship
The event was won by Englishman Karl Boyes, who defeated Niels Feijen in the final 13–12.


2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship, Tournament summary
The event was split into two sections, a double elimination round, splitting the field from 64 to 32, and then a traditional knockout round. In this round, former two time 9-Ball world champion Thorsten Hohmann lost to Masaki Tanaki 8–7, thanks to a miscue in the final rack.


2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship, Tournament summary
David Alcaide also lost in this round of the tournament, despite being 5–3 ahead of Oliver Medenillia; he would lose 8–6. Mika Immonen lost in the round of 32 to Ruslan Chinachov. Chinachov would make it to the semi-finals where he would lose to Karl Boyes, whilst Feijen would overcome Darren Appleton.


2010 WPA World Eight-ball Championship, Tournament summary
In the final, Boyes had the much better start and led Fiejen 4-0 and 11–5, before his opponent started a catch-up and levelled at 12-12. Boyes won the final rack, winning 13–12.


2010 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
The 2010 WPA World Nine-ball Championship (also known as the World Pool Championship 2010) was the professional nine-ball pocket billiards (pool) championship, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) and organised by Matchroom Sport. It was held from 29 June through 5 July in Doha, Qatar, hosted by the Qatar Billiards and Snooker Federation. Qualifying tournaments were held from 25 through 29 June in the same city.


2010 WPS All-Star Game
The 2010 Women's Professional Soccer All-Star Game was the second WPS All-Star Game, taking place on June 30, 2010. Thirty-six players were divided into two teams with the top US vote-getter (Abby Wambach) and the top international vote-getter (Marta) as captains. Marta's XI defeated Abby's XI by five to two.


2010 WPS All-Star Game, Atlanta Beat named host
WPS awarded the 2010 All-Star Game to Atlanta, Georgia in a press release on March 22, 2010. The venue was KSU Soccer Stadium, home of the Atlanta Beat.


2010 WPS All-Star Game, Atlanta Beat named host
Atlanta, with its wonderful new stadium built specifically for WPS, will be a fantastic venue for our second WPS All-Star Game.


2010 WPS All-Star Game, WPS All-Stars, Voting
Twenty-two of the thirty-six WPS All-Stars were chosen by vote. 25% of the total vote came from fans voting online, 25% from media, 25% from coaches (who were prohibited from voting for their team's players), and 25% from players. The results of the voting were released on June 9, 2010.


2010 WPS All-Star Game, WPS All-Stars, Voting
The top three fan picks this year were Wambach, Marta, and Hope Solo. Three players - Wambach, Marta, and Kelly Smith - topped out the coach's voting with 100% of coaches voting for them. Likewise, two players - Sonia Bompastor and Eniola Aluko - got 100% of the media vote. Along with those six players, Shannon Boxx, Christine Sinclair, Lori Lindsey, and Amy LePeilbet rounded out the top ten.


2010 WPS All-Star Game, WPS All-Stars, At-Large Selections
The remaining fourteen players on the All-Star rosters were selected by WPS Commissioner Tonya Antonucci and the two All-Star coaches Albertin Montoya and Paul Riley, who were the coaches of the two teams topping the standings at the time, on June 14.


2010 WPS All-Star Game, 2010 All-Star Rosters
Bold indicates Starting XI's from Italic indicates players who missed the All-Star game due to injury* replacement player


2010 WPS All-Star Game, 2010 All-Star Rosters, Abby's XI
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 WPS All-Star Game, 2010 All-Star Rosters, Marta's XI
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 WPS Dispersal Draft
The 2010 WPS Dispersal Draft was a special draft for Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) after the Los Angeles Sol withdrew from the league. Players from the team were dispersed to the remaining seven teams in the league via the draft.


2010 WPS Dispersal Draft, Background
When the Los Angeles Sol folded on January 28, 2010 after a potential sale of the team fell through at the last minute, WPS, which had been running the team after AEG backed out, announced that the nineteen players under contract to the Sol would be dispersed to the remaining WPS teams in a dispersal draft, held on Thursday, February 4, 2010.


2010 WPS Dispersal Draft, Format
The draft order for the first and third rounds is Atlanta, then Philadelphia, followed by the remaining six teams in the reverse order of finish from the 2009 season; draft order for the second round is the reverse of that.


2010 WPS Dispersal Draft, Draft Notes
^ Via trade with Atlanta Beat (trade prior to draft). Saint Louis will send defender Kia McNeill, midfielders Angie Kerr and Amanda Poach, and Athletica’s second round choice in the dispersal draft (9th overall) to Atlanta. In exchange, Saint Louis will receive Atlanta’s first round pick, number one overall, in the dispersal draft, and Atlanta’s second round pick in the 2011 WPS Draft.


2010 WPS Dispersal Draft, Draft Notes
^^ Via trade with Chicago Red Stars (Chicago receives FC Gold Pride's 2nd Round pick in 2011 WPS Draft).


2010 WPS Dispersal Draft, Draft Notes
^^^ Via trade with Chicago Red Stars (Chicago receives Saint Louis Athletica's 2nd Round pick in 2011 WPS Draft).


2010 WPS Draft
The 2010 WPS College Draft took place on January 15, 2010. It was the second college draft held by Women's Professional Soccer to assign the WPS rights of college players to the American-based teams.


2010 WPS Expansion Draft
The 2010 WPS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) expansion team Western New York Flash that took place on November 20, 2010. The Flash had the opportunity to make nine player selections from the existing seven WPS teams.


2010 WPSL season
The 2010 Women's Premier Soccer League season is the 14th season of the WPSL.


2010 WSBL season
The 2010 WSBL season was the 22nd season of the Women's State Basketball League (SBL). The regular season began on Friday 12 March and ended on Saturday 17 July. The finals began on Friday 23 July and ended on Friday 20 August, when the Willetton Tigers defeated the Perry Lakes Hawks in the WSBL Grand Final.


2010 WSBL season, Regular season
The regular season began on Friday 12 March and ended on Saturday 17 July after 19 rounds of competition.


2010 WSBL season, Finals
The finals began on Friday 23 July and ended on Friday 20 August with the WSBL Grand Final.


2010 WTA Premier tournaments
The 2010 WTA Premier tournaments are 19 of the tennis tournaments on the 2010 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments are divided into three levels which all rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments.


2010 WTA Tour
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the WTA. The 2010 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5 and regular Premier), the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions and the WTA Tour Championships). Also included in the 2010 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which does not distribute ranking points and is organized by the ITF.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Serena Williams' season
Serena Williams began the season ranked World No. 1, having enjoyed an impressive 2009 season in which she won the Australian Open and Wimbledon (she would successfully defend both titles this year) and reclaimed the World No. 1 ranking on two occasions. Williams began her season by successfully defending her Australian Open title, defeating Justine Henin in a three-set final. She also successfully defended her Wimbledon title, defeating surprise finalist Vera Zvonareva in the final, 6–3, 6–2.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Serena Williams' season
However, shortly after winning Wimbledon, Serena Williams would injure her foot at a German restaurant where she was celebrating her victory, but it didn't deter her from playing in an exhibition match against Kim Clijsters in front of a world-record tennis crowd that same week. The foot injury ended up being very serious enough to necessitate surgery, and as a result she missed the rest of the season and would not return to top-level tennis until June 2011.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Serena Williams' season
She was forced to miss her first US Open since 2003, and also had to withdraw from the year-end championships having qualified by virtue of winning Wimbledon. The injury worsened late in the year; despite accepting a wildcard into Linz, she had to withdraw from that tournament, with her wildcard entry later allocated to former World No. 1 Ana Ivanovic. Despite progress in her recovery from foot surgery, she lost the World No. 1 ranking to Danish youngster Caroline Wozniacki. Williams then announced her withdrawal from the 2011 Australian Open in November.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Justine Henin's comeback
Former World No. 1 Justine Henin announced her comeback to the WTA Tour in September last year, in the aftermath of Kim Clijsters' victory at the 2009 US Open. She had previously not played at the highest level since suffering a third round defeat to Dinara Safina (who went on to make the final of the French Open that year) at the 2008 Qatar Telecom German Open. Henin's comeback began impressively, reaching the final of the 2010 Brisbane International in which she lost to her compatriot and rival Kim Clijsters in a final set tiebreak.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Justine Henin's comeback
She had defeated Nadia Petrova and Ana Ivanovic en route. She then reached the final of the Australian Open, in which she was defeated by Serena Williams in three sets, having defeated fifth seed Elena Dementieva in the second round, 27th seed Alisa Kleybanova in the third, qualifier Yanina Wickmayer in the fourth, 19th seed Nadia Petrova in the quarter-finals and Zheng Jie in the semi-finals en route.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Justine Henin's comeback
She then participated at her first French Open since 2007, where she was defeated in the fourth round by eventual finalist Samantha Stosur, ending a 24-match winning streak at the tournament dating back to 2005. Prior to the defeat against Stosur, Henin had played her first three-set match at the tournament, also since 2005, when she defeated Maria Sharapova in the third round. Later, at Wimbledon, Henin again reached the fourth round, but suffered a three-set loss to rival Clijsters. During the match, she suffered an elbow injury which would later rule her out of the US Open, that same injury would lead to her second (and final) retirement in January 2011.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Ana Ivanovic's season
The first half of Ana Ivanovic's 2010 season appeared to follow on from her poor 2009 season, as her confidence and game continued to disintegrate since she won the 2008 French Open. She started the season ranked World No. 22 and spent almost the entire season ranked outside the Top 20.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Ana Ivanovic's season
She was able to reach the semi-finals at the Brisbane International and the Rome Masters, but those would be her best results in the first half of the season, as she dropped out of the WTA's Top 50 for the first time since 2005 with a second round loss to Anastasija Sevastova at Indian Wells. On court results did not improve throughout the year, and Ivanovic dropped to a low of World No. 65 by July. Adding to a growing season of disappointment, Ivanovic also suffered the ignominy of winning the wooden spoon at Wimbledon, having finished at the end of the tournament's longest losing chain after losing in the first round.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Ana Ivanovic's season
However, Ivanovic would begin to turn her season around at the 2010 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open, entering the tournament having lost 17 of her last 29 matches dating back to August 2009 and having dropped to World No. 62. A first round upset win over recent Stanford champion Victoria Azarenka sparked a run to the semi-finals, where she was forced to retire against Kim Clijsters due to a foot injury; nevertheless, she re-entered the World's Top 40 following her run at Cincinnati.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Ana Ivanovic's season
With no rankings points to defend for the remainder of the year, Ivanovic reached the fourth round of the US Open, the first time she had gotten that far at a Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon in 2009. She defeated Ekaterina Makarova, Zheng Jie and Virginie Razzano before being crushed by defending and eventual champion Kim Clijsters in the fourth round.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Ana Ivanovic's season
Ivanovic continued to maintain her recent good form after the US Open; she was able to reach the quarter-finals in Beijing where she was defeated by Caroline Wozniacki, who eventually replaced Serena Williams as the new World No. 1 by winning the tournament.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Ana Ivanovic's season
She then accepted a late wildcard entry into Linz after Williams withdrew due to her ongoing foot surgery, where she won her first title in two years after defeating Patty Schnyder, 6–2, 6–1, in the year's shortest final; the title returned Ivanovic to the world's Top 30, and qualified her for the 2010 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali.


2010 WTA Tour, Notable stories, Ana Ivanovic's season
In her final tournament of the year, she defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Kimiko Date-Krumm en route to reaching her second final in three weeks, where she defeated Alisa Kleybanova to win her second title of the year and return to the world's Top 20 for the first time in more than one year. Ivanovic ended her season by winning 21 of her last 27 matches, having lost 17 of her last 29 beforehand.


2010 WTA Tour, Schedule
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2010 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.


2010 WTA Tour, Statistical information
These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2010 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the Year-end championships, the WTA Premier tournaments and the WTA International tournaments. The players/nations are sorted by:


2010 WTA Tour, Statistical information
1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title); 3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).


2010 WTA Tour, Statistical information
To avoid confusion and double counting, these tables should be updated only after an event is completed.


2010 WTA Tour, Statistical information, Titles information
The following players won their first title in singles (S), doubles (D) or mixed doubles (X):


2010 WTA Tour, Statistical information, Titles information
The following players completed a successful title defence in singles (S), doubles (D) or mixed doubles (X):


2010 WTA Tour, Rankings, Singles
The following is the 2010 top 20 in the Race To The Championships and the top 20 rank players in the world. Premier Mandatory Events are counted for players in the top 10, even if they did not compete, unless there is an injury excuse.


2010 WTA Tour, Rankings, Doubles
The following is the 2010 top 20 in the Race To The Championships – Doubles and the top 20 individual ranked doubles players.


2010 WTA Tour, Prize money leaders
1Only for 2008 year-end top 10, Certain players receive fines for skipping events


2010 WTA Tour, Retirements
Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the WTA Rankings top 100 (singles) or (doubles) for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional tennis, became inactive (after not playing for more than 52 weeks), or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2010 season:


2010 WTA Tour Championships
The 2010 WTA Tour Championships was held in Doha, Qatar from October 26 to October 31. It was the third and final time that the Khalifa International Tennis Complex hosted the WTA Tour Year-End Singles and Doubles Championships. In 2011 the competition will move to Istanbul, Turkey.


2010 WTA Tour Championships
Serena Williams was the defending singles champion. She qualified again but withdrew due to a continuing foot injury. Nuria Llagostera Vives and María José Martínez Sánchez were the defending doubles champions, but they didn't qualify this year. Elena Dementieva announced her retirement from tennis in the tournament after 13 years of playing and two Grand Slam finals, as well as an Olympic gold medal.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
On September 29, Wozniacki was announced as the first qualifier after she won her second round match in Tokyo.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Caroline Wozniacki enjoyed her best season so far, winning six singles titles, the most on the 2010 Tour, and achieving the world no. 1 ranking after reaching the quarterfinals, and later winning, the China Open. She became the fifth player in the WTA Tour's history to not win a Grand Slam event before achieving the world no. 1 status. Wozniacki won her first title at the MPS Group Championships over Olga Govortsova, 6–2, 7–5.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Her best period was after Wimbledon where she won 5 of 7 consecutive tournaments she played, beginning with the e-Boks Sony Ericsson Open where she defeated Klára Zakopalová 6–2, 7–6. After this she won back-to-back titles in Rogers Cup over Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 6–2 and defended the Pilot Pen Tennis title defeating Nadia Petrova 6–3, 3–6, 6–3. Later she again won two consecutive titles in Tokyo and the China Open defeating Elena Dementieva 1–6, 6–2, 6–3 and Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, respectively.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
As well Wozniacki also reached the final of the BNP Paribas Open losing to Jelena Janković 6–2, 6–4. At the Grand Slams, Caroline reached the fourth round of the Australian Open losing to Li Na 6–4, 6–3. She reached her first French Open quarterfinal, but lost there to eventual champion Francesca Schiavone 6–2, 6–3. At Wimbledon she suffered a fourth round loss to Petra Kvitová 6–2, 6–0. In the US Open she had her first Grand Slam top seed while world no. 1 Serena Williams was injured, but lost in the semifinals 6–4, 6–3 to Vera Zvonareva. This was her second appearance at the tournament after making the semifinals in 2009.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
On October 1, Zvonareva qualified after reaching the quarterfinals in Tokyo.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Vera Zvonareva enjoyed a successful second half of the season. She began the year by falling out of the top 20 after failing to defend her Australian Open semifinal points, when she fell to Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round and failed to defend her title at the BNP Paribas Open. She won her only title of the year in the PTT Pattaya Open in Thailand as the defending champion, defeating the local Tamarine Tanasugarn in the final 6–4, 6–4. She reached five other finals but lost in each of them.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
She lost to Samantha Stosur 6–0, 6–3 at the Family Circle Cup, to Wozniacki at both the Rogers Cup and the China Open 6–3, 6–2 and 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 respectively. Zvonareva's main success began when she reached her first Grand Slam final at the Wimbledon Championships after defeating Kim Clijsters for the first time in the quarterfinals, but she lost the final to defending champion Serena Williams 6–3, 6–2.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
She reached a consecutive Grand Slam final at the US Open after defeating top seed Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals, but ended up losing again to the defending champion, this time Kim Clijsters. Zvonareva reached a career-high world no. 2 at the start of the Tour Championships. This was her fourth appearance there, reaching the semifinals in 2008.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
On October 1, Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters were announced as qualifiers.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Serena Williams began the year by reaching the final of the Medibank International Sydney losing to Elena Dementieva 6–3, 6–2. She won 2 of the 6 events she played in the year. The first came at the Australian Open defeating rival Justine Henin 6–4, 3–6, 6–2, after beating Victoria Azarenka in the quarterfinals being a set and 4–0 down. By winning the title, she set a record of 5 Australian Open titles in the Open Era. She won her second title at the Wimbledon Championships over Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 6–2.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
In doing so she passed Billie Jean King as sixth in total number of Grand Slam women's singles titles. At the French Open she lost to Samantha Stosur 6–3, 6–7, 8–6 after failing to convert a match point at 5–4 in the final set. Injuries plagued her throughout the season, missing three months of action after the Australian Open due to a leg injury and another four months due to a cut/torn tendon in her right foot after Wimbledon, causing her to miss the US Open and eventually to lose the world number one status. She was the defending champion but announced that she reinjured her foot and was out for the rest of 2010.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Kim Clijsters began the year by winning the Brisbane International against the returning Justine Henin 6–3, 4–6, 7–6. She claimed her second title of the year at the Sony Ericsson Open, defeating Venus Williams 6–2, 6–1. She missed a large amount of the clay season including the French Open due to torn muscle in her left foot, which she sustained in Belgium's Fed Cup match against Estonia. At the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open she defeated Maria Sharapova in the final 2–6, 7–6, 6–2 after saving match points in a rain-delayed final.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
In the grand slams, at the Australian Open Clijsters lost in the third round to Nadia Petrova in the worst loss of her career, losing 6–0, 6–1. At the Wimbledon Championships, Clijsters lost to Vera Zvonareva in the quarterfinals for the first time 3–6, 6–4, 6–2. The Belgian then took her winning streak at the US Open to 21 match wins after defeating Vera Zvonareva 6–2, 6–1 in the final. She competed in her 7th Year-end Championships after winning it twice in 2002 and 2003.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
On October 4, Venus Williams was announced as a qualifier for the year-end championship.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Venus Williams continued to struggle in the Grand Slams outside of Wimbledon as she lost to Li Na in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open 2–6, 7–6, 7–5 despite being two points away from the win. At the French Open Williams advanced through the first three rounds but lost to Nadia Petrova 6–4, 6–3. At the Wimbledon Championships after reaching the final for the past three years, Williams suffered a loss to a then-unknown Tsvetana Pironkova 6–2, 6–3 in the quarterfinals.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Outside of the grand slams Williams had more success as she won back-to-back titles in Dubai Tennis Championships and the Abierto Mexico Telcel, defeating Victoria Azarenka 6–3, 7–5 and Polona Hercog from Slovenia 2–6, 6–2, 6–3, respectively. Venus then reached the final of the Sony Ericsson Open recording a 15 match winning streak but lost to Kim Clijsters 6–2, 6–1. At the Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open Williams reached the final but lost to Frenchwoman Aravane Rezaï 6–2, 7–5. Venus missed the US Open Series due to a left knee injury but competed in the US Open where she lost to Kim Clijsters 6–4, 6–7, 4–6 in the semifinals. She then withdrew from the Year-End Championships due to the same knee injury.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
On October 6, French Open finalists Francesca Schiavone and Samantha Stosur both qualified.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Samantha Stosur had the best year of her career so far after deciding to concentrate solely on singles. Stosur reached her first Grand Slam singles final at the French Open. After defeating three former world number ones in Justine Henin, Serena Williams, and Jelena Janković, before being beaten by Francesca Schiavone 4–6, 6–7. In the other Slams, she lost to the eventual champion at both the Australian Open and US Open, losing to Serena Williams 6–4, 6–2 in Australia in the fourth round and to Kim Clijsters at the US Open in the quarterfinals.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Her most disappointing loss came at Wimbledon, where she fell in the first round to Kaia Kanepi 4–6, 4–6, becoming the first French Open finalist to lose in the first round of Wimbledon. Despite the loss, she managed a career-high world number 5. She also reached two other finals, in the Family Circle Cup defeating Vera Zvonareva 6–0, 6–3 and in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, losing to Justine Henin 6–4, 2–6, 6–1. This was Stosur's debut in the singles of the Year-End Championships after twice winning in doubles.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Francesca Schiavone won her first Grand Slam title at the 2010 French Open beating Samantha Stosur 6–4, 7–6. This was the first time that Schiavone had gone past the quarterfinals. It also made her the first Italian to win a Grand Slam and the highest ranked Italian when she reached the height of world number 6. However, along with co-finalist Samantha Stosur she also fell in the first round of Wimbledon to Vera Dushevina 7–6, 5–7, 1–6. She won one other title at the 2010 Barcelona Ladies Open defeating compatriot Roberta Vinci 6–1, 6–1. She also reached the fourth round of the Australian Open and the quarterfinals of the US Open losing in both to Venus Williams 3–6, 6–2, 6–1 and 7–6, 6–4, respectively. Schiavone made her first appearance in the Year-End Championships.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
On October 9, due to Venus Williams' withdrawal, both Elena Dementieva and Jelena Janković secured a spot in the Year-End Championships.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Jelena Janković continued to find the form that brought her to the number 1 ranking in 2008. She reached two finals in 2010, on the hard courts of the BNP Paribas Open where she defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–4 and on the clay courts of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia where she defeated both Venus Williams and Serena Williams in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, before falling to María José Martínez Sánchez 6–7, 5–7.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
In the slams, Janković reached her first Grand Slam semifinal since reaching the final of the 2008 US Open at the French Open, losing to Samantha Stosur 6–1, 6–2. She also reached the third rounds of the Australian Open and the US Open losing to Alona Bondarenko 6–2, 6–3 and Kaia Kanepi 6–2, 7–6 respectively. At the Wimbledon Championships she was able to reach the fourth round before retiring to eventual finalist Vera Zvonareva while trailing 6–1, 3–0. She made her fourth consecutive appearance at the Tour Championships after reaching the semifinals in her previous two trips.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Elena Dementieva had a lopsided season for 2010 as she fell outside of the top ten for the first time since 2008. However, she was able to reach four finals in the year, winning two of them. Her first title came at the Medibank International Sydney where she defeated world number one, Serena Williams, in the final 6–3, 6–2. The second title came at the Open GDF Suez defeating Czech player Lucie Šafářová 6–7, 6–1, 6–4. She finished runner-up to compatriot Alisa Kleybanova at the Malaysian Open and to Caroline Wozniacki at the Toray Pan Pacific Open.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
In the Grand Slams, Elena drew an unseeded Justine Henin and lost to the eventual finalist, 5–7, 6–7 in the second round of the Australian Open. At the French Open Dementieva had to retire against Francesca Schiavone after the first set tie-break during their semifinal match. The injury also caused her to miss Wimbledon, ending her 46 consecutive main draw appearances at the Grand Slams. At the US Open she was able to reach the fourth round before losing to Samantha Stosur. This was her 10th appearance and she reached the semifinals twice in 2000 and 2008. She announced her retirement from tennis during the tournament.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
On October 20, Victoria Azarenka replaced Serena Williams to book the final spot in the year-end championships


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Victoria Azarenka showed good form in the beginning of the year by reaching the semifinals, quarterfinals, and final of Sydney, the Australian Open, and Dubai, respectively. After an injury Azarenka showed signs of a return to form at the Aegon International, where she was the runner up losing in the final to Ekaterina Makarova 7–6, 6–4. Despite the strong showing at the event, she suffered another upset in the third round of Wimbledon.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
Her good form from Eastbourne followed into the American hard-court season, winning the Bank of the West Classic by beating top seeded Samantha Stosur 6–2, 6–3 in the semifinals and Maria Sharapova 6–4, 6–1 in the final. Another semifinal showing at the Rogers Cup allowed Azarenka to finish in a three-way tie for third at the US Open Series. Despite her good form, a concussion forced Azarenka to retire in the second round of the US Open, after she fell over and hit her head during the warm up. A semifinal showing in Tokyo and reaching the quarterfinals in Moscow allowed Azarenka to take the eighth and final spot. Azarenka went on to claim the Moscow crown. This was her second consecutive appearance at the Tour Championships after she failed to advance from her group in 2009.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
The first alternate for the Tour Championships was Li Na who produced her best season so far. She became the highest ranked Chinese player ever, reaching a career high of world no. 9 in August 2010. She reached the semifinals of the Australian Open, losing to Serena Williams 7–6, 7–6. She also reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon for the first time, but ended up losing to Serena Williams 7–5, 6–3. Li also won the Aegon Classic beating Maria Sharapova 7–5, 6–1 in the final. This was her first title in a year and a half and her third career title.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Singles
The second alternate was Shahar Pe'er who reached one final in the year, at the Moorilla Hobart International losing to Alona Bondarenko 6–2, 6–4. She was also able to reach the semifinals of the ASB Classic, Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, China Open and HP Open. Both alternates made their first trip to the year-end championships but neither of them got to play. Both 2009 alternates had played that year but there were no serious injuries among the starting players in 2010.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Doubles
On September 14, Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta qualified for the first time for the year-end championships.


2010 WTA Tour Championships, Qualified players, Doubles
Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta was the standout team of the year, winning 5 titles. This was the most any team managed to accumulate in 2010. Their first title came in the Sony Ericsson Open triumphing over Petrova and Stosur. Then the pair claimed back-to-back titles in the European clay season at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and Internazionali BNL d'Italia over the teams of Peschke & Srebotnik and reigning Tour Champions Llagostera Vives & Martínez Sánchez 6–4, 6–2. They also won the Swedish Open defeating Voráčová & Záhlavová-Strýcová and the Rogers Cup defeating Peschke & Srebotnik.