GDTA to host AITA-OTA Tennis from Feb 29
Bhubaneswar: Ganjam District Tennis Association (GDTA) under the aegis of Odisha Tennis Association (OTA) is all set to host AITA-OTA Tennis Tournament from February 29 to March 4 at Berhampur.
GDTA is organizing the tournament with a prime objective of promoting the game amongst youngsters of southern Odisha. The players will participate in both men and women singles and doubles event which featuring total cash award of Rs 1lakhs. The qualifying matches scheduled to held at SP Office and Army AD College Synthetic court from February 27 to 28. Veteran 40 and 50 plus doubles tennis tournament will be held from March 5 to 6 at Union Club and SP Office clay court. The veteran tournament carries total `50,000 cash award.
Bengal beat Odisha in Inter State Tennis
Bhubaneswar: Odisha got the setback as Anaam Almas suffered injury during group-D single match with Yubrani Banerjee of West Bengal in the Inter State National team Tennis tournament at Bhilai on Thursday.
Alamas declared retired hurt. In another single match, Amrita Mukherjee defeated Shilpi Swarupa Das 6-0,6-0. West Bengal registered 2-0 victory and entered the quarterfinal rounds while Odisha suffered back to back defeats and ended their journey. Results: Yubrani Banerjee Vs Anaam Almas 4-3 Ret, Amrita Mukherjee bt Shilpi Swarupa Das 6-0,6-0, Doubles; Yubrani Biswas and Adrija Biswas not played Shilpi and Swagatika Mohapatra.
11 Odisha cricketers to join ZCA camp
Bhubaneswar: Eleven boys from Odisha have been selected to join the forthcoming Zonal Cricket Academy (ZCA) camps. The East Zone Selection Committee, which met here at OCA Club today, picked 25 players each in under-16 and under-19 age groups for the ZCA camps. Five stand-by players in each age group were also named.
East Zone convener and Odisha Cricket Association Hony Secretary Asirbad Behera, OCA U-19 coach Daniel Rout, OCA U-16 coach Subrat Behera and representatives of Bengal (Udaybhanu Banerjee), Assam (Utpal Das), Tripura (P S Bhawmik) and Jharkhand (Millan Dutta) attended the meeting. U-19 players: Biswajit Bhuyan, Subham Nayak, Sourabh Rawat, Subrat Samal, Asutosh Das (all Odisha), Irfan Ansari, Saurabh Singh, Ishan Porel, Pradeepta Parmanik, Kanishka Seth (all Bengal), Jitumoni Kalita, Saahil Jain, Ritan Parag, Biplab Saikia (all Assam), Vickey Saha, Subham Ghosh, Shyam shakil Gan, Bikram Debnath (all Tripura), Ishan Kishan, Virat Singh, Vinayak Vikram, Anukul Roy, Anurag Sanjay, Himanshu Singh (all Jharkhand), Stand-By; Sudeep Gharani , Kaustuv Singh (both Bengal), Raghunath Malla, Satyajit Sabat (both Odisha), Subham Singh (Jharkhand). U-16 players: Rajat Das, Aakash Nayak, Rajesh Mohanty, Swastik Samal, Saswat Mohanty (all Odisha), Ankit Chakraborthy, Devojyoti Ghosh, Sayan Kumar Biswas, Indrajit Orang, Tribit Roy (all Bengal), Akash Ashish Sengupta, Rituraj Biswas, Gunjan Jyoti Deka, Nasir Ullah, Abdul Queresi (all Assam), Bikram Das, Rupayan Chakma, Sakar Pal, Sabarukh Hussain (all Tripura), Aditya Narayan, S Sagar, Harshit Namdev, Apurb Anand, Pankaj yadav, Slokh Basisth (all Jharkhand), Stand-by; Pritam Jena, Kshama Sagar Bal (both Odisha), Sharnik Banerjee, Kaushik Maiti (both Bengal), Krishna Kanth Singh (Tripura).
Veteran T20 Cricket from Feb 28
Bhubaneswar: Town Club will organise the 1st Puspalata Garabadu Memorial Veteran T20 Cricket Tournament here from February 28 to March 6. As many as eight teams divided in two groups will participate in the knockout round tournament. The champion team will receive a cash award of `20,,000 and the runner-up to get `10,000. The players age above 32 years and not participated in State, district and club level tournament in last three years are eligible to participate in the meet, Town Club secretary Manoj Kumar Mohapatra said. Group-A: Saheed sporting Club, Pramount Sporting (both Bhubaneswar), Juvenile Sporting, Biswabharati Club (both Cuttack). Group-B: Young Veteran, Muckteswar Cricket Club (both Bhubaneswar), Pioneer Gold (Puri), Union Sporting (Cuttack).