Inter-club tennis tournament held
Raipur: Chhattisgarh State Tennis Association (CSTA) on Monday organised an inter-club tennis tournament here at Union Club in Raipur for celebrating World Tennis Day. Notably As per the instruction of International Tennis Federation (ITF) March 3 is celebrated as World Tennis Day every year.
In the 45 and above age group the pair of Rajesh Patil and B l Morya from Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) won the tourney after defeating Deepak Kanwar and Shashank Shah of Chhattisgarh Club by 6-4.
Earlier in singles category Patil-Morya defeated the pair of Abhijit Shah-Jagdeep Bansal of Queen’s Club by 6-2 and lifted the cup. In the second semi final, Chhattisgarh Club’s Shah-Kanwar beat Charanjeet Oberoi and Pradeep Manthan of Union Club by 6-5 (7-5).
CSTA President Vikram Sisodia addressing the prize distribution function spoke about organising such tournament and association’s future plans to promote tennis in the state. The occasion was marked with presence of Regional Head ICICI Kumar Ranjit, K K Nayak, lawrence Santiago, Avtar Juneja and others.
State’s women’s basketball team shines
Raipur: Chhattisgarh women basketball for the record ninth time in a row entered in the finals of 64th Senior National Basketball Championship being held at Delhi. Earlier in the semis Chhattisgarh women’s team trounced Kerla by 76-47 points. State team coach Rajesh Patel informed that Kavita was the highest scorer for Chhattisgarh who made 24 points for team while Bharti Netam and l Deepa scored 14 points each. Similarly, Poonam Chaturvedi and Seema Singh also scored 10 points each. However, Chhattisgarh men’s basketball poor performance continued as the team had to face defeat from Haryana by 63-75 points in the pre-quarter final match of the championship. The team will have to now play for the 9th or the 10th place.