Bhubaneswar: Lalit Tudu of Odisha performed splendidly to enter the semifinals of the boys’ U-12 singles and doubles events of the TAB-AITA OTA TS7 tennis tournament at the Kalinga Stadium courts here Wednesday.
In a U-12 boys’ singles quarterfinals, unseeded Lalit stunned fourth seed Mayand Tewary of West Bengal 7-6 (7-2), 7-5. Lalit demonstrated fantastic resilience and fighting spirit to beat his higher-ranked opponent.
In his doubles quarterfinal, Lalit partnering statemate Dishanta Mohanty shocked the Odisha second seed duo of Saphalya Mohanty and Shriyansh Patnaik 6-3, 6-0.
However another Odisha pair and third seed Kaamlesh Rath and Arush Sharma lost to the top seeds Mayand and Sagnik Mitra of West Bengal.
Other results: (Boys’ U-16): D Aryan Swamy bt Sarnaav Ghosh 6-1, 6-2; Ashis Kumar Parida bt Rahul Behera 6-4, 7-5.
In the U-16 girls’ segment state player second seed Simran N Ekka made it to the round of four after beating statemate fifth seed Priyanshi Panigrahi 6-1, 6-1.
Teams announced
Bhubaneswar announced Wednesday their 17-members A and B teams for the upcoming Kalahandi Cup cricket tournament. Basant Mohanty and Santosh Devkant have been appointed as the skippers of both the teams respectively.
The squads: (A) Debashis Samantray, Sandeep Patnaik, Paresh Patel, Anurag Sarangi, Santanu Mishra, Pratik Das, Kunal Mullick, Basant Mohanty, Manoj Barik, Ashis Pradhan, Aman Shastri, Manas Mohapatra, Suryakant Samal, Sidhant Sagar, Lipu Nayak, Soumya Ranjan Biswal, Girija Mishra (B) Biswajit Bhuyan, Satyajit Sabat, Tukuna Sahoo, Kartik Biswal, Santosh Devkant, Dibyajyoti Pradhan, Abhay Mullick, Sourav Gouda, Amitabh Rout, Prabir Nayak, S Shiva, Avinab Ghosh, Nadim Khan, Alok Sethi, Suman Moharana, Aniket Tripathy, Omkar Mohanty.
