Quaterfinalists spotted in AITA-OTA U-16 Tennis series
Bhubaneswar : Almost all the top rated players entered the quarterfinal rounds of the AITA-OTA Talent Series U-16 Tennis Tournament here on Saturday. Altogether 31 players from Odisha and West Bengal are playing in the meet. Avilash Mishra of the State is the top rated players of the event.
Boys Singles (1st Round); Sharthak S Panda (OR) bt Suvankit Sahoo (OR) 8-7(3), Kabir Hans (OR) bt Siddhant Patnaik (OR) 8-1, Mahesh Mohapatra (OR) bt Rahul Behera (OR) 8-0, Pratyush Mohanty (OR) bt Ashish K Parida (OR) 8-3, Abhilash Chandra Sahoo (OR) bt Govind lada Tudu (OR) 8-1, Aditya Satpathy (OR) bt Aryan Bal (OR) 8-1, Pratyush Chhotray (OR) bt Rishab Shah (WB) 8-7(2), Nishant Mohanty (OR) bt Abhirup Sahoo (OR) 8-6, Amrutjay Mohanty (OR) bt Abhishek Mohapatra (OR) 8-1, Rakesh Sethy (OR) bt Priyam Nayak (OR) 8-3, Swostik S. Pradhan (OR) bt Justin Panmei (OR) w/o, Kumar Anurag Saran (OR) bt Samarjit Sethy (OR) 8-3, Swastik Pattanayak (OR) bt D. Aryan Swamy (OR) 8-1, Saurav Kumar Sahoo (OR) bt Kumar Sahil (OR) 8-7(5), Nishant Kumar (OR) bt Anant Arora (WB) 8-3.
Boys Singles 2nd Round (Pre-Quarter Final); Avilash Mishra (OR) bt Sharthak S. Panda (OR) 4-0 4-0, Mahesh Mohapatra (OR) bt
Kabir Hans (OR) 4-0 4-1, Abhilash Chandra Sahoo (OR) bt Pratyush Mohanty (OR) 4-2 4-0, Pratyush Chhotray (OR) bt Aditya Satpathy (OR) 4-2 4-0, Nishant Mohanty (OR) bt Amrutjay Mohanty (OR) 4-0 4-1, Swostik S. Pradhan (OR) bt Rakesh Sethy (OR) 5-4(0) 4-0, Kumar Anurag Saran (OR) bt Swastik Pattanayak (OR) 4-1 4-1, Nishant Kumar (OR) bt Saurav Kumar Sahoo (OR) 4-0 4-0.
Terry Walsh appointed coach of Kalinga lancer
Bhubaneswar : Hockey India coach Terry Walsh has been appointed as the chief coach of Odisha’s newly created Kalinga lancer team, said chief adviser Dillip Tirkey. Australian striker Terry twice
played in the Olympic. Presently working as coach for the senior hockey team of India. We are proud that Terry would guide our State team and he will accompanied by experienced lajrus Barla as assistant-coach, added Dillip. The joint venture between the
State-owned Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Odisha (Idco) and Mahanadi Coalfield ltd (MCl), a Coal India subsidiary are the new franchise of the sixth team (Kalinga lancer) in the 2nd Edition Hockey India league, a professional league for field hockey competition in the country to be held from January 23 to February 23.
The team would be comprised of 24 members in which 10 overseas players would get the chance, the franchise owner would spend total ` 3.5 crores for the players auction, said chief adviser Olympian Dillip Tirkey.