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ITF Junior Tennis begis at DKS from Monday

| | Jan 17, 2015, at 05:59 am
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IBNS): Young aspirants from fifteen foreign countries and india will stake their claim for the top honours and valuable points in the 13th leg of ITF junior tennis meet ( grade 3 ) to be held in the hard courts of Dakshin Kalikata Sangsad (DKS) here during January 19 to 24 next.
Briefing media persons   today  DKS secretary Hiranmoy Chatterjee  informed that noted former British tennis professional Tim Henman  will formally inaugurate the meet on January 18 while the  competition for the main rounds will begin from next day.
 
Chatterjee said  that beside India  entries for this meet have been received from United States,  Australia ,Russia , Brazil,  China, Poland , South Africa, Belgium, Thailand, Uzbekistan,Chinese Taipei, Norway,Phillipnes, Turkey, Israel and Hong Kong.
 
 The competitons would be held for   singles and doubles  both for boys and girls section. The champion in the singles will earn 60 points while  each of the doubles winners will get 50 points each.
 
Commenting on the future of  Indian tennis Chatterjee,  a veteran tennis meet organizer for  the last three decades and a member of  AITA managing committee said  he was quite hopeful about  the future of Indian tennis .  Chatterjee said “ the present lot of  junior players in the country are showing good results. I am quite hopeful  that they would be able to take the responsibility  from the  present lot in future”. 
 
(Reporting by Manik Banerjee)
 
#ITF Junior Tennis begis at DKS from Monday

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