BPCL, IOC, OIL in semis at 43rd PSPB Inter-Unit Lawn Tennis Tournament held in Pune
BPCL, IOC, OIL in semis at 43rd PSPB Inter-Unit Lawn Tennis Tournament held in Pune
Pune, November 28 : Hosts Bharat Petroleum, Indian Oil and OIL moved into the semi Finals of the. Veterans and Men’s Team events at the Bharat Petroleum Organized 43rd PSPB Inter-Unit Lawn Tennis Tournament which is being organised by Bharat Petroleum and played at the Deccan Gymkhana Tennis Courts in Pune.
In the veterans Team quarterfinal event BPCL Registered a 2-0 win over GAIL while OIL edged out NRL 2-1.
In the Men’s event OIL scored a 2-0 win over EIL while Davis Cuppers Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan powered IOCL to a similar win over HPCL.
The tournament was inaugurated by First Paralympic Gold Medalist Murlikant Petkar, Deepak Jain, GM Sports of Bharat Petroleum, Lalit Watts Advisor of PSPB, Raj Kumar Dubey, Director HR, BPCL were present on the occasion.
Results: Team Veteran Event: Second Round:
BPCL A bt GAIL 2-0(Singles: Munish Sharma bt Prashant Rathod 6-2, 6-2; Singles: Rajkumar Dubey bt Durgesh Singh 6-2, 6-1);
OIL bt NRL 2-1(Singles: Hakim Ali lost to Babul Das 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(3); Singles: Siddharth Bharali bt Jayant Dutta 6-0, 6-3; Doubles: Hekim Ali/Siddharth Bharali bt Jayant Dutta/Bubul Das 6-3, 6-2);
Men’s Team Event: Second Round:
OIL bt EIL 2-0(Iftikhar Shaikh bt S Balaji 6-0, 6-0; Udit Gogoi bt Savyasachi Tripathi 6-1, 6-0);
IOCL bt HPCL 2-0(Singles: Divij Sharan bt Arun Singh 6-1, 6-2; Singles: Rohan Bopanna bt Krishan Kumar 6-2, 6-3);
Women’s Singles: Second Round:
Sohini Mohanty (GAIL) bt Prarthana Thombre (IOCL) 6-3;
Laxmishree Dandu(GAIL) bt Suman Singh(EIL) 6-0;
Riya Bhatia(IOCL) bt Shobha (EIL) 6-0.
