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Third leg of ITF meet from Feb 7
Arvind Katyal
Chandigarh, January 25
The third leg of the ITF Junior Tennis Tournament for both boys and girls in below-18 will be organised in the Tennis Stadium, Sector 10, here from February 7 to 13. This is a Grade III tournament and top-ranked players drawn from 25 countries will vie for top honours to gain valuable points for the international grade tennis meet. According to Mr Rajan Kashyap, chairman, Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association, the previous two legs of the meet will be held in Kolkata and New Delhi. While in Kolkata the meet will be held from January 26 to 31, in Delhi from February 2 to 7. In Chandigarh, the qualifying rounds will be held on February 7 and 8, while the main round matches will begin from February 9. Players from the UK, Sweden, Holland, Russia, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Sri Lanka, Belgium, Czech Republic, Singapore, Croatia, Korea, Slovenia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong will take part. The main draw will be of 32 in singles, while in doubles the draw will be of 16 in both singles and doubles. The players will be lodged in the new residential hostel in the stadium, which is likely to be inaugurated next week. Mr Kashyap said the new residential wing would also house the CHART (Chandigarh Academy for Rural Tennis) players on a permanent basis. He said this scheme, which was launched in 1992, was established to tap talent from rural areas. He said the CLTA would tie-up with Western Command, Chandi Mandir, where 10 young trainees from the Army would join the CLTA coaching programme. He said this would help the civilians to exchange their training ideas with defence personnel. An MoU in this regard would be signed on January 30, he said.
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