BHUBANESWAR 13-Jan-2019
Local favourites Ansu Kumar Bhuyan and Rutuparna Choudhury retained the men and women open singles titles respectively in the Utkal Open All-Odisha Tennis Tournament, the sixth edition of which concluded here at Kalinga Stadium Tennis Complex today.
Bhuyan also bagged a double by capturing the men’s open doubles title with Aditya Satpathy as his partner. Bhuyan claimed the singles title for fourth time in a row and regained the double crown after a gap of one year. Choudhury emerged women singles champion for the fifth successive time.
Sohini Mohanty and Stevan Ankit Ekka won the under-14 girls and boys singles titles respectively. The 40+ senior men doubles crown was claimed by Saswat Jena and Himadri Kanuno. Prabhat Bakshi and Saroj Mazumdar emerged champion in 50+ veteran doubles event, while the title in 60+ veteran doubles category went to B N Mohanty and Jugananda Pattnaik.
