Avilash bags National Series Tennis title
Bhubaneswar: For the first time Odisha lad Avilash Mishra emerged champion of the boy’s under-18 doubles event in National Series Tennis Tournament at Hyderabad on Thursday.
In the final partnering with Jo Oges from Tamil Nadu defeated Mritunjay Badola of Haryana and Armaan Bhatia of Maharashtra by 7-6,0-6,(10-7).
Earlier in singles Avilash fought bravely against 3rd seed Muthu Aditya of Tamil Nadu before losing in pre-quarter by 7-5,3-6,4-6.He is also the first tennis player from State having 18.75 ITF points in Boys U18. Avilash under his coach Farhan Ali has moved up in ranking to top 50 in India in Boys U18.
Though the single’s event winner is getting 75 points but in doubles 25 percentage of the total points is added in the singles ranking.
Dutee, Srabani, Amiya to join Int’l meet for Rio
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s sprinters Dutee Chand , Srabani Nanda and Amiya Kumar Mallick left from Patiala on Thursday in the wee hours to participate in two back-to-back Olympics qualification events, one at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from June 18 to 19 and another one at Kazakhstan from June 25 to 26.The Indian women's 4x100 metres relay team led by 100 metres National record holder, Dutee Chand along with Srabani Nanda, Jyothi Hiriyur Manjunath, Merlin Kurian Joseph, Sini Sahadevan and Himashree Roy.The women's 4x100m relay team will have on its radar the magic mark of 43.71sec (the last qualifying time at the moment) as they seek to seal an Olympics berth.Dutee will also participate in the women’s 100 and 200 individual event. For Rio Olympics the 100 mtr qualifying time was fixed for women as 11.32 second. Dutee’s best timing was 11.33 seconds in the Federation Cup this year. However, her state-mate Srabani will participate in the 200 metre along with relay event.Odisha boy Amiya though created national record in the 100 metre event in semifinal with a timing of 10.26 sec in the Federation Cup. But in the final due to injury he was finished 4th position on April 28 this year.After all most one and half month Amiya will take part in the individual 100 metre and 4X100 men’s relay events.Amiya, Jyoti Sankar Debnath, Krishna Kumar Rane, Abdul Najeeb Qureshi and Vidya Sagar are in the relay team.
Match drawn in Belpahar Football league
Bhubaneswar: The league match between Darlipali and Bhulamal ended in goalless draw in the stipulated time in the in the Belpahar Football league at TRl Stadium at Belpahar on Thursday, being organised by Hallo Brother Football Association.Similarly, the match between Jahajpada and Madhubannager ended in 0-0 goal draw in the league round match on Wednesday.The officials who were conducted the match Ramani Majhi, Mahendra Bagarti, Kartikeswar Dash and Rama Sendriya as referees.