In 2007, 2008, and 2009, the women's table tennis team ( a club team ) competed in nationals.

Rock Bridge is a perennial powerhouse in both boys and girls tennis, having won the Girls State Title in 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2011 as well as the Boys State Title in 2008.

In 2005, the ITTF announced that doubles table tennis only was featured as a part of team events in the 2008 Olympics.

The Bears have won 19 NCAA Division III Championships — one in women's cross country ( 2011 ), one in men's tennis ( 2008 ), two in men's basketball ( 2008, 2009 ), five in women's basketball ( 1998 – 2001, 2010 ), and ten in women's volleyball ( 1989, 1991 – 1996, 2003, 2007, 2009 ) – and 144 UAA titles in 15 different sports.

The boys ' tennis team achieved their best finish at the KHSAA State Tennis Tournament in 2008 by winning the team title.

In 2008, the Manual boys ' tennis team went on to win the first ever regional tournament in Manual history.

Red Bay highest finish in tennis was 2008 finishing 5th place.

The new club finished construction of the new Spa & Sports Club building in April 2008 that houses a new fitness center with state-of-the-art StarTrac exercise equipment, a spa with many services, a snack bar with Starbuck's coffee, and the Michael Chang tennis hall of fame and member lounge.

* Tean International – Challenger level ATP Tour tennis tournament, played at the Alphense Tennis Club, from 30 August to 8 September 2008.

EWF performed at the opening ceremony of the 2008 US Open, which was hosted by Forrest Whitaker and served to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the founding of tennis ’ s Open Era with a parade of more than 25 former US Open singles champions.

Recent NESCAC champions include men's ice hockey ( 2011, albeit officially forfeited ), men's tennis ( 2008 ), women's volleyball ( 2011 ) men's cross country ( 2001, 2002 ), women's basketball ( 2001 – 2007, 2009 ), women's ice hockey ( 2002, 2004 ) and women's field hockey ( 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ); recent NCAA tournament appearances include women's basketball ( Elite Eight, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 ; Final Four, 2004 ), women's field hockey ( Final Four, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 ) men's rugby ( sweet 16, 2001 ), women's ice hockey ( Final Four, 2002, 2003 ; Elite Eight, 2004, 2005 ), men's soccer ( Final Four, 2010 ) and women's lacrosse ( Final Four, 2011.

* Fernando González ( Chilean tennis player – 2004 & 2008 Olympic medalist )

" Similarly, the tennis author Peter Bodo wrote in May 2008, " Give him credit?

Upon Henin's first retirement from the WTA in the early part of the 2008 season, Billie Jean King said that " pound for pound, Henin is the best tennis player of her generation ", as well as that " Justine is the best women's athlete I've ever seen.

Henin announced her immediate retirement from professional tennis on 14 May 2008, and requested the Women's Tennis Association to remove her name from the rankings immediately.

On 14 May 2008, Henin announced her immediate retirement from professional tennis.

* Sega Superstars Tennis, a 2008 video game featuring Sega's mascots playing tennis

WOWOW has broadcast all four tennis Grand Slam Championships since 2008.

The Vernon Tennis Association ( VTA ) was started in October 2008 to bring together all tennis players of all skill levels within the Vernon area and to offer both competitive and social programs that are not being offered currently to players.

The poem's line, " If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same " is written on the wall of the Centre Court players ' entrance at the British tennis tournament, Wimbledon, and a part of the poem was read in a promotional video for the Wimbledon 2008 gentleman's final by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

She made a serious return to tennis in 2008, and after winning three ITF tournaments that year, rose to World No. 187 going into the 2009 Australian Open.

Dokic's long awaited return to tennis came during the Australian Open wildcard playoff, where she was hoping to earn a wildcard into the first Grand Slam tournament of 2008.

As of the end of the 2008 season, players who have hit 115 or more career sacrifice flies:

The game was the most played Half-Life modification in terms of players, according to GameSpy in 2008.

In the past the Olympics have allowed a restricted number of over-age players per team ; but that practice ceased in the 2008 Olympics.

For example, according to a 2008 study by Ipsos, the number of British fantasy sports players aged 16 – 64 is estimated to range between 5. 5 and 7. 5 million.

In its 2008 census, Hockey Australia reported 40, 534 male club players and 41, 542 female.

The franchise got back to. 500 baseball in 2008 despite trading their cornerstone players in the offseason.

In November 2008, Polgár had a terrible result in The World Chess Blitz Championship in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, finished last of the 16 players with only 2½ points.

As of 2008, there were approximately 7. 6 million Mahjong players in Japan and an estimated 8, 900 Mahjong parlors did ¥ 300 billion in sales.

The Brewers lost several key players from the 2008 playoff campaign following the season.

Donaghy claimed in 2008 that certain refs were friendly with players and " company men " for the NBA.

Gillick retired as general manager after the 2008 season and was succeeded by one of his assistants, Ruben Amaro, Jr. After adding outfielder Raúl Ibañez to replace the departed Pat Burrell, the Phillies retained the majority of their core players for the 2009 season.

Lee, a longtime fan of baseball, donated 200 baseballs signed by famous Negro League players, including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Josh Gibson, to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in June 2008.

In 2008, there were 4. 9 million Ultimate players in the US.

Launched in September 2008, P4P assists smallholder farmers by offering them opportunities to access agricultural markets and to become competitive players in the market place.

A mixture of celebrities and professional football players have played Soccer Aid matches in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 at Old Trafford in Manchester and Wembley Stadium in London.

Then in the mid-2000s, Christie Van Hees and Rhonda Rajsich were the dominant players, but Paola Longoria finished # 1 at the end of the 2008 – 2009 and 2009 – 2010 seasons.

On June 5, 2008, Major League Baseball held a special draft of the surviving Negro league players to acknowledge and rectify their exclusion from the major leagues on the basis of race.

Blatter appeared to incur much criticism during 2007 and 2008 for his apparent persistence in attempting to change European Union employment law regarding the number of foreign players football clubs can field at any one time.

Other players, including Stephen Milne ( also after a match in Perth late during the 2008 season ) and Ted Richards suffered similar injuries later on, meaning they had to return to their home states by ground.

In 2001 he was named as centre half-forward and captain of North Melbourne's Team of the Century and in 2008 was named as Australian football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, which was released by the League to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football.

In 2008, Carey was named as Australian Football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, and placed third in a similar list put together by a panel of football legends in The Age newspaper the same year.

Unlike previous campaign settings, in which the calendar was frozen at a point chosen by the author, the Living Greyhawk calendar did advance one year in game time for every calendar year in real time: the campaign started in 591 CY ( 2001 ) and ended in 598 CY ( 2008 ), at which point over a thousand adventures had been produced for an audience of over ten thousand players.

In 2008 the Veterans Committee barred players and managers on the ineligible list from consideration.

* The Bill James Gold Mine ( 2008 – present ) is a collection of new essays and never-before-seen statistics, as well as profiles of players and teams.

After winning the Cup, players traditionally skate around holding the trophy above their heads, as Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings does here when the Wings captured their 11th cup in 2008