Patna, October 20, 2009:Bihar’s Devpriya Jaiswal began his title hunt in style defeating Mani Mishra of Uttar Pradesh 6-4, 6-1 in a first round match of the All-India ranking tennis championships at Patliputra Colony courts here on Monday.
Mishra began well and broke Devpriya’s service in the fifth game of the first set. But he failed to capitalize the advantage as Devpriya displayed some accurate top spin shots to capture the set at 6-4. In the second set Devpriya was just too good for Mani.
Earlier, senior superintendent of police, Patna, Vinit Vinayak inaugurated the tournament. Bihar Lawn Tennis Association secretary Dr AB Prasad, tournament director Sisir Jaiswal and Hubnet technology managing director, Rajeev Kumar were present at the opening function.
Results:
Men’s doubles: Shivam Verma (UP) and Nitish (Maharashtra) beat Aditya Tiwari (MP) and Gaurav Tripathi (MP) 6-1, 6-4; Arvind (Karnataka) and Sachin Antony (Karnataka) beat Samaresh Singh (UP) and Devendra Kumar Yadav (UP) 6-4, 6-2; Vishwanath (Karnataka) and Chinmay (Karnataka) beat Adib Ali (Delhi) and Amar Jyuti Deka (Assam) 6-1, 6-0; Sanjeev (Bengal) and Shivraj Singh (Bengal) beat Austya Dalmia (Delhi) and Gaurishankar (Delhi) 6-1, 6-2.
Photo caption: Bihar's Devpriya Jaiswal in action during AITA ranking tennis championships in Patna on October 19, 2009.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui
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