BHUBANESWAR 15-Feb-2013 341
Local boy Avilash Mishra lived upto his reputation as the most improving tennis player of Odisha by bagging a double in the AITA-OTA Talent Series Tournament here at Kalinga Stadium Tennis Complex today. A trainee of city-based S S Tennis Academy, Mishra clinched the double by emerging champion in both singles and doubles categories of the under-16 age group.
Maintaining consistent form, Mishra beat his academy-mate Adarsh Sahoo 6-4, 6-3 in the singles final. He then combined with Nishant Mohanty to get the better of Adarsh Sahoo and Nishant Mohanty in the all-Odisha doubles final 6-3, 6-4.
Odisha youngsters made a clean sweep of all four titles with Mahesh Mahapatra and Koyal Mishra justified their top billings by emerging under-12 boys and under-16 girls singles champions respectively.
