Who among the following won the Fed Cup Heart Award, 2020?

Correct — A, Sania Mirza. The Fed Cup is the women's team championship of world tennis, so of the four Indian sportswomen listed only Sania Mirza is eligible to have played in it at all. The award was announced on 11 May 2020 for the Asia and Oceania zone and made her the first Indian ever to win it, after she returned to the Indian team at the tie in Dubai and India reached the play-offs for the first time.

• (b)P V Sindhu — P V Sindhu is a badminton player, and badminton's team competitions are the Thomas and Uber Cups and the Sudirman Cup, not the Fed Cup.
• (c)Saina Nehwal — Saina Nehwal is also a badminton player, so she has never been in contention for a tennis award.
• (d)Hima Das — Hima Das is a sprinter in athletics, a sport with no team competition of this kind.

The Fed Cup, run by the International Tennis Federation, is the largest annual women's team competition in world sport and the counterpart of the men's Davis Cup. The Heart Award has been given since 2009 to players judged to have shown outstanding commitment in representing their country in the competition, and the winner in each zone is decided by public vote.

Anchoring this to the 2020 exam matters twice over. Mirza had come back to competition after the birth of her son and won the Hobart International doubles title in January 2020 before rejoining the Indian team; her Heart Award vote ran to roughly sixty per cent of nearly seventeen thousand votes cast, and she pledged the prize money to Telangana's COVID-19 relief effort. The competition itself has since been renamed — from September 2020 it is the Billie Jean King Cup, so a student meeting this award today will find it called the Billie Jean King Cup Heart Award.

• The Fed Cup is the women's international team competition in tennis, run by the International Tennis Federation.
• The Heart Award, given since 2009 and decided by public vote, recognises commitment shown in representing one's country.
• Sania Mirza won the 2020 award for the Asia and Oceania zone and was the first Indian to do so.
• The Fed Cup was renamed the Billie Jean King Cup in September 2020.
• The Davis Cup is the men's equivalent; badminton's team events are the Thomas, Uber and Sudirman Cups.

• Answering with the most famous name on the list instead of matching the sport to the competition.
• Confusing the Fed Cup with the Davis Cup, which is the men's competition.
• Carrying the old name forward without noting that the competition is now the Billie Jean King Cup.

A who-won-what item, and one that yields to sport-matching before any memory of the result is needed. The competition names the sport, and the sport names the only eligible option.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

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  The Fed Cup, renamed in 2020, is the premier international team competition in

  • (a)women's tennis
  • (b)men's hockey
  • (c)women's badminton
  • (d)men's cricket

  Answer(a) women's tennis — it is the counterpart of the Davis Cup and is now called the Billie Jean King Cup.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Thomas Cup and the Uber Cup are associated with

  • (a)tennis
  • (b)badminton
  • (c)table tennis
  • (d)squash

  Answer(b) badminton — the Thomas Cup is the men's team event and the Uber Cup the women's.