AITA ranking tennis: Vinod Sewa, Eetee Mehta win singles crowns

Patna, May 8, 2010: It was all about Vinod Sewa of West Bengal playing a tournament here after a gap of 11 years. Then he took very little time to beat Ratish Sridhar in the all-India ranking U-16 tournament.

Today was no different except his age and opponent Prosonjit Paul of Jharkhand, who himself had a very good tournament but was outclassed by Vinod’s experience and surrendered 4-6, 2-6 at the BLTA courts in the P&M Mall AITA ranking tournament.

In women's singles final Eetee Mehta of Gujarat beat her state mate Vaibhavi Trivadi 6-2, 6-2 to win the crown.

Deepak Kumar, sales manager, P&M Mall, gave away the prizes to the winners and runners-up. Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad, secretary BLTA, Shishir Jaiswal, joint secretary, BLTA and Kunal Aikat, chief coach BLTA were present on the occasion.

Results: Men’s singles semifinals: Vinod Sewa (WB) beat Chandrashekhar Mohanty (Assam) 7-5, 6-2; Prosonjit Poul (Jharkhand) beat Kshitij Kamal (Delhi) 6-1, 6-2.

Women singles semifinals: Eetee Mehta (Gujarat) beat Shruti Jaiswal (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1; Vaibhavi Trivadi (Gujarat) beat Shilpi Jaiswal (Bihar) 7-5, 7-5.
Men’s doubles semifinals: Manoj Sewa [WB] & Vinod Sewa [WB] beat Farid Alam [WB] & Biplav Das [WB] 3-6, 6-2, 7-5; Chandrashekhar Mohanty [Asm] & Anshuman Dutta [Asm] beat Dhruv Kumar [WB] & Prem Singh [WB] 7-5, 7-5

Women doubles semifinals: Shilpi Jaiswal [Bih] & Shruti Jaiswal [Bih] beat Rricha Sirohi [UP] & Fatema Packer [Bih] 6-1, 6-1; Eetee Mehta [Guj] & Vaibhavi Trivadi [Guj] beat Omlata Rai [Ors] & Surya Tejaswini [Ors] 6-3, 6-0.
Men’s singles final: Vinod Sewa [WB] beat Prosonjit Paul [Jha] 6-4, 6-2 .

Women singles final: Eetee Mehta [Guj] beat Vaibhavi Trivadi [Guj] 6-2, 6-2.
Men’s doubles final: Manoj Sewa [WB] & Vinod Sewa [WB] beat Chandrashekhar Mohanty [Asm] and Anshuman Dutta [Asm] 6-3, 6-4.

Women’s doubles final: Etee Mehta [Guj] & Vaibhavi Trivadi [Guj] beat Shilpi Jaiswal [Bih] & Shruti Jaiswal [Bih] 6-3, 6-0.

Photo captions: All the winners of P&M Mall AITA ranking tennis tournament pose for group photograph in Patna on May 8, 2010.

Middle: Etee Mehta of Gujarat

Bottom: Vinod Sewa of West Bangal

Source: BLTA