AITA-OTA Talent Series Tennis from Sept 7
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Tennis Association (OTA) will organize AITA-OTA Super Series Tennis Tournament for Under-12 and Under-14 boys and girls at Kalinga Stadium Tennis Complex here from September 7 to 18. The U-12 boys and girls singles and doubles events from September 7 to 11 and under-14 boys and girls singles and doubles events from September 14 to 18, informed OTA secretary Madhu Sudhan Padhy in a Press Meet here on Thursday. The champion and runner up would get 50 and 40 rating points respectively. losing semifinalists and quarterfinalists would get 30 and 20 points. Similarly, in the first round and second rouns players would get five and 10 points respectively. Altogether 205 players from 18 States would participate in the meet. In the U-12 event 79 players including 25 girls would fight for the top prize. Similarly, in U-14 event total 126 players including 55 girls would participate. Total 14 players from the State would participate in the meet. Amrutjaya Mohanty, Abhisek Mohapatra, Sahil Kumar, Mahesh Mohapatra, Kabir Hans and in girls, Rosani, Simran Ekka, Ashra Patel, Bhagyalaxmi Behera, Rutuparna Choudhuray and Amik Kiran Bhatt. Among others, Khurda District Tennis Association secretary Asit Pradhan and Naba Ranjan Patnaik were present.
KV-II, Mothers win in MCl Cup Football
Bhubaneswar: Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV)- II CRPF Campus and Mothers Public School edged out Xavier Kedargouri and Xavier Kandagiri respectively in the MCl Cup Inter School Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School here on Thursday, being organised by Unit-6 Athletic Association (UAA). Asutosh Basantara of the KV-II scored the all important goal and the team edged out Xavier Kedargouri by 1-0 goal in the group-B league match. Tata Sponge Iron executive director Sanjay Patnaik gave away the man of the match award to Arun Biswal.
In high scoring one sided group-C league match, Subham Mohanty of Mothers netted five goals in the 17th,19th,24th,27th and 39th minutes respectively. Sourish Mishra scored three goals in the 2nd, 25th, and 31st minutes respectively and Sarthak Sarangi scored two goals in the 6th and 29thminutes and Mothers school thrashed Xavier Kandagiri by 10-0 goals. Veteran Player Pradip Das gave away the man of the match award to Subham Mohanty of the winning team. In the Friday league matches, KISS and Sainik School would meet Times Gurukul and Prabhujee English Medium School respectively.
Keshabananda Das Memorial chess from Sept 11
Bhubaneswar: Khordha District Chess Association (KDCA) under the aegis of All Odisha Chess Association and under the guidance of All India Chess Federation is all set to organize 4th Keshabananda Das Memorial All India FIDE Rating chess championship here from September 11 to 17. late Keshabananda Das the first Odia to organize two National tournaments in Odisha. National-B in 1974 at OUAT, here and National-A in 1975 at Rourkela. Two Grandmasters, nine International Masters, one Women Grand Master, three FIDE Masters, one Women FIDE Master, two Candidate Masters and one Women Candidade Master have given their consent to participate in the meet, informed KDCA secretary Subhasis Patnaik. Keshabananda was the first author to write a book on chess in odia language in 1982 for the benefit of Odisha chess players and chess lovers. He was the first Odia to invite a Soviet and Russian chess coach Yuri Averbakh to Odisha in 1974 to popularize chess in our State. Averbakh played a simultaneous match against 30 players of here. Averbakh won 26 and drew 4 players at that match. Yuri Averbakh is a renowned end game specialist cum author of several end game books from whom lakhs of chess players of the world have learnt skills through his technique. The tournament is featuring total cash award of `5.25 lakhs will be distributed among 29 winners including 20 merit holders, seven winners in rating categories, best junior player and best women player, added Subhasis.
Manjit to participate in World Kickboxing meet
Bhubaneswar: Manjit Singh a young boy of Barbil has been selected to represent India in the WAKO World Championship event to be held at Russia from November 21 to 29. Sourcess reveals that Manjit is going to participate in this event after he won the silver medal in the Asian Wako Kickboxing Championship held at Boxing Hall, Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports complex, Balewadi from August 1to 9.
In this event total 15 countries had participated. Gold medal was won by Iran. At present Manjit is doing his +2 commerce final year in Barbil College after completing his matriculation from Gurunank High School Barbil. Manjit say his aim is to become famous kickboxer and pride for his country. He gives credit to the inspiration of his coach Abhijit Kumar Gupta for this success. His father , Sardar Sher Singh a local resident of Guru Dwar area of Barbil who is auto driver by profession ,his mother, Nirmal Kaur ,a house wife , his brother sister and his friends are very happy with the achievement of Manjeet.
When this news came to light Sntosh Kumar Mishra ,Champua sub- Collector , had felicitated Manjit and his coach Abhisekin some days back and hope that Manjit will bring glory for India in future to come.
Selection trial for girls footballer from Sept 7
Bhubaneswar: The selection trail camp of the State junior girl’s football team is going to be held at Cuttack from September 7. The selected team will participate in the upcoming Junior Girls National Football Championship which is going to be held in the near future.
The players must be born between 1st January 1998 to 31st December 2002 to participate in the camp. The intending participants would to report at the office of Football Association of Odisha on September 7.
The participants should must bring all their playing equipments. They must bring the original birth certificate issued by municipality or N A C or Registrar of Birth or passport and two recent color passport photographs.
Asima to join hockey national goalkeeping camp
Bhubaneswar: Asima Minz the goal keeper of Hockey Gangpur of Odisha got selected to join the National Coaching Camp for goalkeepers at MDCNS in New Delhi from September 5 to 28. Hockey India high performance director Roelant Oltmans would coordinate the camp. Bankodarha village of Deogarh district resident 16 years Asima brought many laurels for the State. She was the member of the Hockey Gangapur team and the team bagged gold and bronze medals in the Sub-junior National-B Championship at Uttarkhand-2014 and Junior National Div-B 2014 at Mysore respectively. In the year 2015, she was also the member of the team that bagged gold medal in the Junior National-B Division at Rajnadgaon.