Saturday Club to host Futures meet

The Saturday Club will host its maiden international tennis meet, the ONGC ITF men’s Futures championship, from Monday. Bulgarian Todor Enev (world No. 298) is the highest ranked player in the draw. The Indian challenge will be spearheaded by Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna (380). The other Indians to get in directly into the main draw are Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, Vijay Kannan, Mustafa Ghouse, Vinod Sridhar and Vishal Uppal.

Eight qualifiers will come through the qualifying rounds to be held over the weekend and four wild cards will complete the field. The winner stands to earn $1,300 and 12 ATP points. The final, originally scheduled on March 13, has been pushed back by a day to avoid a clash with the first India versus Pakistan ODI, informed tournament director Jaidip Mukerjea. The Bengal Tennis Association (BTA) is trying to get a second ITF meet in the city in May. Last March, the newly built BTA Complex had hosted one as its inaugural event.

CAB league

Priyankar Mukherjee’s 108 helped George Telegraph reach 306 for nine against Aryan in a championship play-off match of the CAB senior division league on Wednesday. Aryan ’keeper Pulak Das took five catches.

SUMMARISED SCORES

Championship play-off

George Telegraph 306/9 (Priyankar Mukherjee 108, Krishnendu Pal 58) vs Aryan.

City 328 (Ananya Kanji 81, Deep Chatterjee 77, Bhaskar Malakar 55, Soumen Karmakar 5/100) vs DKS.

Relegation play-off

Rangers 273 (Michael Behera 5/60) vs Mohunlal.

High Court 319 (Arnab Ghosh 103, Imran Ali 71). YMCA (College) 8/0.

Bengal best

Bengal girls emerged champions in the 44th junior national gymnastics championships recently held in Coimbatore. According to information received here, Jhinuk Basu was the best gymnast among the girls. Bengal boys, on the other hand, finished third.

State league

Burdwan played out a goalless draw with Chandernagar in the final round of the Konark Sheet state football league on Wednesday.

Coaching camp

A coaching camp for school students will get underway at the BHA ground on Friday. BHA coach Ashim Ganguly will inaugurate the camp to be conducted every Thursday and Saturday.

TODAY IN SPORT

FOOTBALL: National League — Mohun Bagan vs Salgaocar SC at Salt Lake Stadium from 3 pm.

FOOTBALL: State league, final round at BMSC from 2. 30 pm.