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Santhanam Memorial Senior Nationals: Mysuru’s Nagaraj wins double crown

A group photo of prize winners of Air Force Cup - 2019 held at No.2 Air Force Selection Board, Mysuru, recently. Seen in the picture are (from left - sitting) B. Ravindranath Reddy (Chairman, Tournament Sub-Committee), Dr. S.L. Narayan (Hon. Treasurer), Dr. Venkatesh Joshi (Captain, JWGC), C.S. Ravishankar (President, JWGC), Air Marshall Manavender Singh, Air Cmdr. Sunil Jose and H.D. Thimmappa Gowda (Hon. Secretary,JWGC); (standing) Ramesh Kumar Jain, Hussein Vagh, M. Somashekar, Gp. Capt. V.P. Singh, Wg. Cdr. Vinay Panthri, Gp. Capt. G.S. Bhatia, Dhruv Bopanna, Wg. Cdr. M.D. Aiyanna, Vinay Natarajan, Shaji Mathew, M.R. Surya Kumar and G. Narasimha Murthy.

Mysuru’s well-known tennis player R. Nagaraj of the Income-Tax Department, representing Karnataka in the Santhanam Memorial Senior National Tennis Championship 2019, won 55+ Men’s Singles as well as Doubles titles respectively in the Tournament held at Chennai from Jan.21 to 25.

In the Men’s 55+ Singles final, R. Nagaraj beat fifth seeded Chellaiah (TN) 6-2, 6-3 to clinch the title. In the semi-finals, Nagaraj beat Dr. Karthik Kailash (TN) 6-2, 6-3. In the quarter-finals, top-seed R. Nagaraj beat M. Suresh 6-0, 6-2 and in pre-quarters, beat Rajgopal 6-1, 6-0.

In the 55+ Men’s Doubles event, R. Nagaraj, teaming up with Sanjai Kumar (Ker), won the title beating Karthik Kailash & Nirmal Kumar 4-6, 6-3 (11-9) in the final. In the semi-final, the duo beat Koushik & Thyagarajan 6-4.6-0, while in the quarter-finals, they beat S. Kalyan & S. Senthil 6-0, 6-1 to progress further.

This post was published on January 28, 2019 5:13 pm