AITA Tennis Championship returns to Jamshedpur after Covid hiatus

Beldih Club to host national ranking junior tennis from today

Jamshedpur, April 9: Steel City is all set to host National Ranking Tennis Tournament after a three year COVID induced hiatus. The last championship was held at the club was in November 2019.  

Beldih Club AITA Championship Series, a national ranking junior tennis event under the aegis of All India Tennis Association and sanctioned by Jharkhand Tennis Association, will held at the sand-clay courts of the Beldih Club from April 10 to 14, said Amitava Bakshi, Chief Procurement Officer, Tata Steel.

Addressing a press meet at Beldih Club on Sunday, Bakshi informed that the event will be spread over a week and will witness some of the top ranking juniors in the age group of Under 18.

All India Tennis Association’s (AITA) eastern region representative Rishi Wilson said, 40 participants from Karnataka, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal apart from the host state of Jharkhand will participate in the Championship Series. Snehal Singh Munda, Rishank Yadav and Priyaansh Agarwal from Jamshedpur  have already made it to the main draw of the championship and will represent Jharkhand.

Rishi stated that  top 2 seeds of the boys singles Under 18 draw are Chiradeep Mazumder and Shounak Chatterjee, both belonging to West Bengal. In the girls Under 18 age group,  top 2 seeds would be Prashansa Srivastava from Bihar and Saumya Chatterjee from West Bengal.    

“We would witness high quality players and some good matches during the week long tournament, added Rishi

He informed that Mihir Kumar Bhadra, secretary of Jharkhand Tennis Association is expected during the inauguration ceremony.

Amitava Bakshi further said that Avneesh Gupta, Vice President, Tata Steel will inaugurate the championship as chief guest on Monday, April 10 and guest of honour will be RN Murthy, Managing Director of Tinplate Company of India Limited (TCIL).