Sanchi University exhibited an impressive performance at the IIT Kharagpur Open Tennis Tournament. The team qualified among the top four teams to play at the finals.
In the Doubles match of the IIT Kharagpur Open Tennis Tournament, Sanchi University's team qualified for the semi-finals. Assistant Director Sports Vivek Pandey represented the University in the semi-finals. He played against Professor of IIT Kharagpur Agriculture Department Rajendra Singh.
Rajendra Singh's team gave a tough fight to the student of IIT Kharagpur Kunal Punj and Akhil Adanu and the match concluded at 5-6. In the first round of the doubles match this pair defeated the pair of IIT Kharagpur employees Mohan and Shrinu 5-1. In the second round, Vivek and Prof. Rajendra Singh's pair defeated Ritesh Gupchit of IIT Indore and Associate Professor Amarjit of IIT Bhubaneswar by a score of 5-1. Sanchi University's Assistant Director (Sports) Vivek Pandey managed to reach the quarterfinals in the singles match. Vivek, in the quarterfinal match, lost to IIT Kharagpur's boys team captain Kunal Punj 4-5. In the finals of this year, Kunal grabbed the singles trophy by defeating VV Anurag of TCS Kolkata. Kunal was also the singer's winner of the IIT Kharagpur Open last year. IIT Kharagpur organizes this Open Tennis Tournament in its campus every year in which the players of the country's educational institutions and corporate world are invited. Each year, this tournament is organized in two categories. Open where a player of any age can join, while players in the Veterans category can join only 55 years.