Double crowns for Shivika, Prem
Shivika Burman completed a double crown and Prem Singh bagged two titles as well at the Aarbur Calcutta Hardcourt meet at South Club on Saturday.
Shivika, who claimed the ladies? crown on Friday, beat Rohini Das 6-3, 6-2 in the girls? under-18 final. Prem clinched the boys? under-12 title beat Aditya Sinha 6-4, 6-2 and the under-14 crown beating Mohammad Imran 7-6 (7-2), 4-2 retired. Second seed Manoj Kumar Sewa emerged men?s champion, toppling elder brother and top seed Vinod Kumar 6-1,7-6 (7-4).
OTHER FINALS
Boys? U-18: Nirvick Mohinta bt Samriddh Burman 6-0, 6-4; Girls? U-14: Treta Bhattacharyya bt Mohana Sarker 4-6, 6-4, 6-0. Girls? U-10: Amrita Mukherjee bt Srijita Ghosh 8-4; Men?s doubles: Vinod & Manoj Sewa bt Snehashis Mukherjee & Satya Arya Mukherjee 6-4, 6-0; Veterans? doubles: Somnath Bose & Ashis Sen bt Satinath Bose & Ashis Sen 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Parent & Child Handicap Doubles: Ayush & Pradip Bajoria bt Shivika & Satyajeet Burman 8-10, 6-4 (conceded).
The Bengal Amateur Swimming Association on Saturday announced the state squad for the 58th national aquatics meet to be held in Delhi from Tuesday.
THE SQUAD
Swimming ? Men: Avirup Dutta Mazumdar, Samir Das, Gauranga Mondal, Biplab De, Sumanta Nath, Pranabesh Chakraborty, Suman Datta. Women: Debalina Rajak, Esha Chakraborty, Chaitali Ghosh, Triparna Paul, Santana Patra, Tagari Baidya. Diving ? Men: Basudeb Giri, Dibendu Pramanik, Madab Das. Women: Mau Bhattacharya, Papiya Mukherjee, Sharmistha Das.
Waterpolo ? Men: Shubham Chatterjee, Biswajit Das, Manas Roy, Sanjay Jaiswal, Babu Naiya, Pranab Das, Ram Prasad Naskar, Rafiqul Sheikh, Somnath Khan, Pradip Chowdhury, Kankan Nag, Sarik Pramanik, Saibal Sen. Women: Ela Chowdhury, Sumit Bhanja, Mita Malo, Sharmishtha Nandy, Prity Gupta, Sharmishtha Ghosh, Swapna Roy, Sadhana Sardar, Puspa Banik, Mahua Barik, Sukla Roy, Suparna Biswas, Swapnashree Sardar.
