The document provides biographies of several famous athletes from different sports including cricket (Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni), tennis (Sania Mirza, Saina Nehwal), badminton (Saina Nehwal), boxing (Zou Shiming), and others. It summarizes their sporting achievements and honors as well as provides details about when and where they were born.

2. By- LAKSHAY & PRABHJEET
RYAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

4.  Sachin Tendulkar was born 24 April
1973 ,he is a former Indian
cricketer and , captain widely
regarded to be one of the greatest
cricketers of all time and by many
as the greatest batsman of all time .
He took up cricket at the age of
eleven, made his Test debut on 15
November 1989 against Pakistan in
Karachi at the age of sixteen, and
went on to represent Mumbai
domestically and India
internationally for close to twenty-
four years. He is the only player to
have scored one hundred
international centuries, the first
batsman to score a double
century in a One Day Inter national
cricket.

5.  Mahendra Singh Dhoni ,
commonly known as M. S.
Dhoni ; born 7 July 1981) is
an Indian cricketer and the
current captain of
the Indian national cricket
team in limited- overs
formats. An attacking right-
handed middle-order
batsman and wicket-keeper,
he is widely regarded as one
of the greatest finishers in
limited- overs cricket . He
made his One Day
International(ODI) debut in
December 2004
against Bangladesh, and
played his first Test a year
later against Sri Lanka.


6.  Sania Mirza Was born on
15 November 1986.She is an
Indian professional tennis
player and the reigning
women's
doubles Wimbledon
Doubles Champion and the
current world No. 1 in
Doubles rankings. From
2003 until her retirement
from singles in 2013, she
was ranked by the Women's
Tennis Association as
India's No. 1 player, both in
singles and doubles. Mirza
is the most successful
female Indian tennis
player in history.

7.  Saina Nehwal ; born 17 March 1990)
is an Indian badminton player who
is currently ranked No. 2 in the
world by Badminton World
Federation Women's Singles 2. She
is the first Indian to win a medal in
Badminton at the Olympics. She
achieved this feat by winning the
Bronze medal at the London
Olympics 2012 on 4 August
2012. She is also the first Indian
after Prakash Padukone and the
first Indian woman to become world
number 1. Besides these, she is the
first Indian to win the World Junior
Badminton Championships and was
also the first Indian to win a Super
Series tournament, by clinching
the Indonesia Open on 21 June 2009.
Saina is supported by the Olympic
Gold Quest.

9.  Shane Robert Watson (born 17 June
1981) is a professional cricketer from
Australia. He is a right-handed
batsman and a right-handed fast
medium bowler.
 He debuted for the Australian cricket
team in 2002, playing his first One
Day International against South
Africa. While he has become a regular
member of the one-day squad,
Watson only reached his 50th Test
Match for Australia in the fifth Ashes
match in January 2014, having
debuted against Pakistan at
the Sydney Cricket Ground in
January 2005. Despite being allocated
to be Australia's designated Test all-
rounder, injuries have often
prevented him from claiming his
position in the Test team.

10.  Michael John Clarke (born 2 April 1981)
is an Australian Test cricketer and
current Australian cricket team Test
Michael John Clarke (born 2 April 1981)
is an Australian Test cricketer and
current Australian cricket team Test
captain. Under his captaincy Australia
defeated New Zealand in the final of
the recent ICC Cricket World cup at the
MCG. He was also the Australian ODI
cricket captain until his retirement from
ODI cricket after the 2015 Cricket World
Cup . His ODI shirt number of 23 was
passed on to him by Shane Warne after
his international retirement. Nicknamed
"Pup", he is a right-handed middle-
order batsman, an occasional left-arm
orthodox spin bowler and also a slip
catcher. He represents New South
Wales at a domestic level. In January
2011, Clarke stood down as captain of the
Australian Twenty20 cricket team to
concentrate on his Test and ODI
performance. On 22 November 2012,
Clarke scored a double century at the
Adelaide Oval, making him the only Test
batsman to ever achieve four double
centuries in a calendar year.

11.  Anastasia Rodionova born 12 May
1982 in Tambov is a Russian-born
Australian professional tennis
player.
 Rodionova has won eight doubles
titles on the WTA tour, as well as
eight singles and thirteen doubles
titles on the ITF tour in her career.
On 16 August 2010, she reached her
best singles ranking of world
number 62. On 8 September 2014,
she peaked at world number 15 in
the doubles rankings.
 Rodionova's greatest career
achievements have come in
doubles, having reached the finals
of the Mixed Doubles event at
the 2003 Wimbledon
Championships with Andy Ram of
Israel.

12.  Arina Ivanovna Rodionova was
born 15 December 1989
in Tambov is a Russian -born
Australian professional tennis
player.
 Rodionova has won seven
singles and twenty-four
doubles titles on the ITF tour
in her career. On 24 May 2010,
she reached her best singles
ranking of world number 157.
On 3 November 2014, she
peaked at world number 65 in
the doubles rankings.
 Rodionova's elder
sister Anastasia is also a tennis
professional, and the two
sisters have intermittently
contested doubles tournaments
with modest success.

14. Zou Shiming was born on 18 May
1981) He is a Chinese professional
boxer who is the current WBO
International Flyweight
champion.He is known for being
China's most successful amateur
boxer of all time, winning three
amateur world titles at the 2005
World Amateur Boxing
Championships, 2007 World
Amateur Boxing Championship
and 2011 World Amateur Boxing
Championships , and winning
three consecutive Olympic medals:
bronze in the 2004 Summer
Olympics, gold in the 2008
Summer Olympics, and gold in
the 2012 Summer Olympics, all in
the light flyweight division.

15.  Li Na (born 26 February 1982) is
a Chinese former
professional tennis player, who
achieved a career-high ranking of world
No. 2 on the WTA Tour on 17 February
2014, but retired from the sport seven
months later due to a chronic left knee
injury that had kept her out of the game
for many years previously. Over the
course of her career, Li won
nine WTA singles titles, including
two Grand Slam singles titles at
the 2011 French Open and 2014
Australian Open . Li's rise to
prominence came after those victories,
which made her the first and only
Grand Slam singles champion from
Asia. Prior to this, she had already
become the first player representing an
Asian country to appear in a Grand
Slam singles final, a milestone she
achieved at the 2011 Australian Open .

16. Zhang Jun was born November 26,
1977 in Suzhou , Jiangsu is a
former male badminton player
from the People's Republic of
China . He is now a coach with the
Chinese national team following
his retirement from international
play.
As a doubles specialist, the solidly built
Zhang Jun won several
international men's doubles titles
with compatriot Zhang Wei
including
the Swiss (1998), China(2001),
and Thailand (2005) Opens.
However, the majority of his titles,
and the most prestigious ones,
came in mixed doubles with the
formidable Gao Ling.

17.  Lo Yi Ting , is a Hong
Kong basketball player,
currently playing
for CBA league club Fujian
Xun xing. He is the fourth
Hong Kong player to play in
the Chinese league. Lo Yi Ting
started playing basketball
when he was 8 years old and
by 12 he was selected in the
Nike League in Hong Kong. He
went to Diocesan Boys' School
and became a member of the
school team. He played in
Hong Kong's Jia Yi Basketball
league as a high schooler in
2004.

19.  Audley Harrison was born on 26
October 1971 is a retired
British professional boxer from
Harlesden, England who fought in the
heavyweight division . At the 2000
Olympics in Sydney he became the first
British fighter to win an Olympic gold
medal in the superheavyweight
division.
 Harrison turned professional 2001 after
signing a contract with BBC Sport.
Harrison had 17 fights on the network
before BBC Sport pulled all boxing from
their programming.
 In October 2009, he won
the Prizefighter tournament. He
became European heavyweight
champion after knocking out Michael
Sprott in April 2010.In February 2013,
Harrison won the Prizefighter
tournament for the second time
becoming the first fighter to do so.

20.  Kevin Peter Pietersen wasborn 27 June
1980) is a South African-born
English cricketer . He is a right-
handed batsman and occasional off
spin bowler who formerly played
for England and currently plays
for Surrey as well as Twenty20 , in the
Caribbean Premier League for St Lucia
Zouks and in the Big Bash
League for Melbourne Stars .
 Pietersen was born in Pietermaritzburg
, Natal Province , South Africa. He made
his first-class debut for Natal in 1997
before moving to England, after voicing
his displeasure at the racial
quota system in place in South
Africa. Having an English mother made
him eligible to play for England and
after serving a qualifying period of four
years playing at county level, he was
called up almost immediately into the
national side.

21.  Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May
1992) is a British female tennis player
and the British No 1. Born
in Guernsey , she trained and lived at
the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy
in Florida, United States. On 16 July
2012 Watson became the top-ranked
British senior woman player on the
WTA rankings, overtaking Anne
Keoth .
 On 14 October 2012, Watson won her
first WTA singles title with a win
over Chang Kai-chen of Taiwan in the
final of the Japan Open, becoming the
first British female to win a WTA
singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988.
 In her junior career, Watson won
the US Open and gold at the 2008
Commonwealth Youth Games .She
had been as high as No. 3 in the world
on the ITF Junior Circuit .

22. Charlotte Marie Edwards was born on 17
December 1979 ,is
an English professional cricketer and
current captain of the England women's
team. She was born
in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire .
Edwards is the only female cricketer to
score 2,000 runs in T20 Internationals.
At the time when she made her England
debut in 1995, she became the youngest
player ever to play for England .
In 1997, she scored 12 centuries, including
one off 118 balls against the touring
South Africans. The day before her 18th
birthday, she scored a then-record ODI
score of 173 not out in a World Cup
match against Ireland. In 1998–99, she
scored her maiden Test hundred against
India, but, while still scoring runs, fell
below expectations.