Two Mysuru tennis players — Prajwal Dev (Rank – 10) and G. Manish (Rank – 25) — have shone at the 36th National Games held at Ahmedabad in Gujarat recently as Karnataka Tennis team bagged the highest medals.
With 7 events, Karnataka players bagged 8 medals (1 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze) and this has been a spectacular performance. Karnataka team players won a medal in every Tennis event and this is the best performance by Karnataka in Tennis discipline at National Games till date.
1. Gold Medal: Men’s Doubles by Prajwal Dev/ Adil Kalyanpur.
2. Silver Medals: Sharmada Balu (Women’s Singles), Mixed Doubles (Sharmada Balu & Prajwal Dev) and Women’s Doubles (Sharmada Balu & Soha Sadiq).
3. Bronze: Women’s Team (Sharmada, Soha Sadiq, Vanshita Pathania, Vidula Amar and Reshma Maruri), Men’s team (Prajwal Dev, Adil Kalyanpur, G. Manish, Rishi Reddy and Rashien Samuel) events; Prajwal Dev and G. Manish in Men’s Individual Singles.
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It was unfortunate for Sharmada as she twisted her ankle during Women’s Singles finals and had to concede the match and also the Mixed Doubles Finals.
The non-playing Captains and Coaches who supported and helped the players through the National Games are as follows:
Non Playing Captains: 1. Women’s – Poojashree Venkatesha and 2. Men’s – Peter Vijay Kumar.
Coaches: 1. Women’s – Ramesh Niranjan and 2. Men’s – Kiran Nandakumar.
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