Patliputra Tennis Center

PATLIPUTRA
TENNIS
CENTER
By
BIHAR LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION
PATLIPUTRA TENNIS CENTER
Bihar Lawn Tennis Association, very gratefully

Acknowledges the help and contributions in taming the players
From grass root level to National and
international sports including Olympics.
The mentors of All India Tennis Association who

planned successfully to reach the present day concept.
Padmashri , Padma Bhushan R. K. Khanna , President

Ramesh Dasai, Secy General
Natwar Singh, President
Yashwant Sinha, President
Anil Khanna , President
The persons who visualised the nal format of All India

Tennis Associations achievedthe desired results in
preparing the players through Talent Series Matches.
R. K. Khanna, Ramesh Desai, T. D. Francis, Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad,

C. P. Kakkar, Mr. Sharma, Suman Kapur, Kochar
Tennis Playing members from different parts of Bihar

who helped in the creation of courts and other facilities
in their towns for the benet of tennis playing members,
boys and girls.
Sri Yashwant Sinha Sri J. C. Kundra Sri Venkat Siddharth
Sri Hari Uarma Sri P. K. J. Menon Sri Ansh Anupam
Sri G. M. Sahay Sri R. S. Tiwari Sri Riwik Bhriguvanshi
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad Sri C. S. Pathak Sri Anshumat Srivastava
Col Shiv Kumar Sri C. B. Prasad Sri Adarsh Anand
Sri A. K. Upadhay Sri Shishir Jaiswal Sri Jain Zaffar
Smt. Ranjit Ranjan Sri Prataya Amrit Sri Siddhant Raj
Sri B. K. Sinha Sri Jayant Das Gupta Sri Adveya Sharma
Sri I. J. Khanna Sri Saroj Kumar Sri Shree Krishna
Sri Kohli Sri S. K. Sinha Ms. Ayushi Singh
Sri Sen Family Sri Upendra Sinha Ms. Taniya Hassan
Sri Jitendra Singh Sri Dhirendra Kumar Ms. Sri[riya Sarraf
Sri Deepak Sinha Dr. Nigam Prakash Sri Akhouri Bishwadeep
Amar Jaiswal Sri R. R. P. Sahi Sri Akhouri Bishwapriya
Vikas Singh Sri S. P. Singh Sri Balajee Verma
Vivek Singh Sri Rajiv Singh Sri Kalol Mitra
Dr. Anant Sinha Sri Surendra Kumar Sri Ajit Singh
Sri Akhouri Bishwadeep Sri R. Sahi Sri Birendra Rai
Sri AkhouriBishwapriya Ms. Shilpi Jaiswal Sti Arun Sinha
Sri Mallik Nayyar Ms. Shruti Jaiswal Sri K. D. Chaterjee
Sri Kunal Aikat Ms. Vipula Kanoria Sri Nitesh Singh
Sri Rajan Kumar Ms. Shremayi Kumar Sri Nilesh Singh
Sri Ranjan Kumar Ms. Anushree Kumar Sri Sudaeshan Simgh
Sri Kinjalak Singh Sri Devpriya Jaiswal Sri Niraj Kumar
Sri Amlesh Kumar Sri Adamya Vikrant Sri Simant Kumaar
Sri Nadim Ahmad Sri Ishan Priyadarshi Sri Darshan Verma
Sri Satya Prakash Sri Abhishek Ranjan Sri Rakesh Kumar
Sri Sanoj Kumar Sri Aman Kumar Sri Bajrangi Kumar
In a city like Patna, where there are very few options for children to
play sports, in a city where academic coaching centers are growing like
mushrooms, a city where parents want their children to score hundred percent
in their exams, in a city where open spaces are used as a place to dump trash.
Patliputra Tennis Center is like a breath of fresh air. It is a place where, from a
toddler to grandparents, people of all age groups come to play tennis. Tennis is
being played here all day long.
Like every
other place, this
place has its own
piece of history
too. In the year
2000, a few
children started
playing here with
balls and rackets
on the uneven
surface, a place
full of garbage,
animal waste ( as
like every other
open ground in
Patliiputra Colony )
.
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad (Honorary Secretary,

Bihar Lawn Tennis Assocition)
Coincidently the land was in front of the house of Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad,
Honorary Secretary, Bihar Lawn Tennis Association. So he saw the children
playing tennis and obviously started taking interest and encouraged the players
to continue
Then three senior members of Patliputra Colony, Mr. Anand Kishore Sinha, Mr.
P.S.Thakur and Md. Naseem, under the guidance of Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad, also
started taking interest in tennis and gave their patronage to the tennis courts and
named this Patliputra Tennis Center.
They also requested Dr. Akhouri

B. Prasad to arrange regular coaching for
the children who were playing tennis there,
hence Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad called two
coaches Kunal Aikat and Ranjan Kumar,
who were certied from the International
Tennis Federation and were working for the
Bihar Lawn Tennis Association somewhere
else. for the betterment of the game. And
then regular coaching was started there,
for children from the grass root level. Mr.
Shishir Jaiswal, a senior player, organizer
and Joint Secretary of Bihar Lawn Tennis
Association also lend his hand of support
for the betterment of the game.
Shishir Jaiswal
Then Kunal Aikat was appointed as the

Chief Coach and Ranjan Kumar was
appointed the Senior Coach for this
coaching program. They were able to nd
a few children who were interested in
playing regular tennis. And slowly the
number of children started to grow.
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad then made a
system, which was very innovative in
sports. And this system is still being
followed and its highly successful and
productive till today and appreciated in
Kunal Aikat
the entire country.
A promotion system, like school. The beginners play on court three,

where they are taught the basics. And when they improve and reach
early tournament level, they move to court two. And then when they
reach higher tournament level, they are promoted to court one.
Right from the beginning, the

members, the children and the grand
children have been encouraged to play
tennis completely free of charge. The center
provides free coaching, balls and courts.
And when Mr. Anand Kishore Sinha became
the secretary, an understanding arrived in
writing to permit the children of the colony,
up to the age of twelve, to play and learn
tennis under India fame expert coaches.
Ranjan Kumar
Patliputra Tennis Center is afliated to The Bihar Lawn Tennis

Association, which in turn is afliated to Bihar Olympic Association
and National Federation, enabling the competitors to play in National
and International tournaments. All the players have individual
registration numbers and they have got established identity with all
the All India Tennis Association players of India.
The rst tournament was conducted in the year 2002. It was an All
India Ranking tournament for boys and girls of age groups of under 16 and 14
years, sanctioned by the All India Tennis Association. And since then there was
no looking backwards for this place. And these courts have produced
numerous players who have done well Nationally and Internationally since
then here was no looking back till date. Here is a year wise list of the list of
accomplishments by these courts and the player of these courts.
The courts were slowly made and

developed and brought up to
tournament standard in a couple of
years. Later, in the year 2005, Ranjan
Kumar quit coaching to pursue his
business and Amlesh Kumar, a trainee
of this place and a very good player,
replaced him as a senior coach.
Amlesh Kumar
PATLIPUTRA TENNIS CENTER 2001
First lot of players enrolled for proper coaching here. This was the
beginning of the of a coaching scheme which is unparallel in Bihar even
today.
Shilpi Amlesh Kumar Devpriya Jaiswl

Jaiswal
Niraj Kumar Anushree Kumar Simant Kumar
Shrimayie Kumar Vipula Kanoria Shruti Jaiswal

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2007

Picture of court one just before the start of rst match here.
We organized the rst All India

Tennis Association Ranking
Tournament in December 2002.
Players from all over the country
participated in it and this center, for
the rst was seen by everybody.
Picture of the courts , the very rst match of the rst tournament played here.

3
We organized
the rst All
India Tennis
Association
Talent Series
Tournament in
March 2003.
We were still
trying to make
our courts
better then.
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad with Young Players
Here are some random pictures of the rst Talent Series

Tournament, played in India. That was played here at Patliputra
Tennis Center.
Here are some more random pictures of the rst Talent Series
Tournament, played in India. That was played here Patliputra
Tennis Center.
Shilpi Jaiswal won her maiden

All India Ranking tournament.
She won the All India Ranking
Tournament held at Patna for
boys and girls of age group 18
years and under.
Shruti Jaiswal won her

maiden All India Ranking
tournament. She won the All
India Ranking Tournament
held at Patna for boys and
girls of age group 14 years
and under.
Shruti Jaiswal
Shilpi Jaiswl

More children started to play this sport competitively. They got themselves
registered from the All India Tennis Association and started playing All
India Ranking Tournaments.
Sripriya Sarraf
Sanskrit Singh
Anushree Kumar
Taniya Hasan
Jai Pratap
Adamya Vikrant Anish Anupam

Ayushi Singh
Shrimayi Kumar won

her maiden All India
Ranking tournament.
She won the All India
Ranking Tournament
held at Patna for boys
and girls of age group
18 years and under.
Shrimayi Kumar
Amlesh Kumar won his

maiden All India Ranking
tournament. He won the
All India Ranking
Tournament held at
Patna for boys and girls
of age group 18 years
and under.
Amlesh Kumar
Devpriya Jaiswal won

his maiden All India
Ranking tournament. He
won the All India
Ranking Tournament
held at Patna for boys
and girls of age group
14 years and under..
Devpriya Jaiswal

Shruti Jaiswal and Devpriya Jaiswal reached the top of the All India Tennis
Association Under 12 rankings. The siblings were ranked no. 1 in the
Country. The small kids who started playing at Patliputra Tennis Center a
few years back, had achieved something which was unthinkable at that
point of time.
Shruti Jaiswal Devpriya Jaiswal

Number of children kept growing as more and more children were inclined
towards this beautiful sport. Here are some pictures of the children
learning to play tennis at the Patliputra Tennis Center. These pictures were
taken in the year 2005.
We successfully
organized the All Bihar
Inter School Tennis
Tournament for different
age groups. Children
from all prestigious
schools from Bihar
participated in it.
Ishan Vipula Kanoria

Priyadarshi
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad giving L-R Shishir Jaiswal, Dr. Akhouri B.

away trophies. Prasad, Kunal Aikat
L-R Ritwik, Siddhart, Ishan, Varenya Vikrant Adamya Vikrant

Varenya
In 2005, we developed our own

website.
www.bltatennis.wikifoundry.com
Then we were among the very rst associations in
India to do so. This website contains information
about tournaments , coaching and about tennis in
general. It has a players photo gallery too.

Shilpi Jaiswal created history by winning the British Open Deaf Tennis
Championship. She won the girls under event and became the rst Indian
girl to do so. She was felicitated by H.E. The President of India, Dr. A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam. He gave her the title of Role Model for Indian Girls.
L-R H.E. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Mrs. Meera Kumar (loksabha Speaker, Shilpi
Jaiswal
Shilpi Jaiswal at Patna Railway Station Shilpi Jaaiswal

Shilpi Jaiswal was felicitated by the Bihar Lawn Tennis Association for
achieving this feat. And she was also the rst trainee of Patliputra Tennis
Center.
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad felicitating Shilpi Jaiswal
Dr. Manjula Akhouri , felicitating Shilpi Jaiswal

Shilpi Jaiswal being felicitated. Shilpi Jaiswal
Shilpi became a star of the state of Bihar.

She was felicitated by distinguished
organizations. She appeared on
numerous television channels .
Shilpi Jaiswal
Shilpi Jaiswal
Shruti Jaiswal reached the semi

nal of the Under 14 Asian Ranking
Tennis Tournament held at Kolkata
Shruti Jaiswal
Devpriya Jaiswal reached the
quarter nal of the Asian Ranking
Under 14 Tournament at Kolkata.
Devpriya Jaiswal
Vipula Kanoria won her maiden

All India Ranking tournament.
She won All India Ranking
Tournament held at Patna for
boys and girls of age group 14
years and under. She also
reached the nals of numerous
All India Ranking Tournaments
held at Patna. Vipula Kanoria
Some
newspaper
cuttings of
the year
2006

Shruti Jaiswal did

what players can
only imagine. At the
age of fourteen, she
won a hundred All
India Ranking
tournaments. All the
tournaments were
sanctioned by the All
India Tennis
Association.
Shruti Jaiswal

the All India Tennis
Association under 14
All India ranking
Tournament at
Jamshedpur. And
reached the semi nal
of the Asian Ranking
Under 14 Tournament
at Pune and quarter
nal at Chandigarh.
Devpriyai
Jaiswal
Shilpi Jaiswal reached

the quarter nal of the
International Tennis
Federation Tennis
Tournament, WTA
ranking at Kochi.
And she also won the
womens Singles and
doubles titless of the
Bihar State Tennis
Championships held at
Patna.
Shilpi Jaiswal
Rajan Kumar won the

mens Singles and
doubles titles of the
Bihar State Tennis
Championships held at
Patna.
Rajan Kumar

Some
newspaper
cuttings of
the year
2007
Adamya Vikrant won his

maiden All India Ranking Tennis
Tournament. He won at Patna
in under 14 age group.
Adamya Vikrant
Ayushi Singh won her maiden All India

Ranking tournament. She won the All
India Ranking Tournament held at
Patna for boys and girls of age group
14 years and under.
Ayushi Singh
Ishan Priyadarshi won his maiden

All India Ranking tournament. He
won the Under the 16 All India
Ranking Tournament held at Patna.
Ishan
Priyadarshi
More children started to

take up the sport more
seriously. They were
ready to work hard and
were
Doing exercises to
improve their tness level.
So they can Play better
and win Matches. Here
are some pictures of
children during a physical
tness training session of
the year 2008.
Devpriya Jaiswal won the Asian Ranking Under 14 Tennis tournament at

Pune. He was felicitated by the Bihar awn Tennis Association. And that
year he quaied for the International Tennis Federation Under 18
Tournament at Chennai and became the rst player from Bihar to do so.
Devpriya Jaiswal, being feliciated by Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad.
Devpriya Jaiswal Devpriya Jaiswal

Some newspaper
cuttings of the
year 2008
Devpriya Jaiwal reached

quarter nals of the
International Tennis
Federation Under 18
years Tennis Tournament
at Kolkata. And he also
qualied for International
Tennis Federation Under
18 Tournaments at
Indore, Chennai and
Hyderabad. He also won
numerous All India
Ranking Under 18
tournaments in that year.
.
Devpriya Jaiswal
Devpriya Jaiswal
Shruti Jaiswal
reached quarter nalsof the
International Tennis Federation Under
18 years Tennis Tournament at
Kolkata. And she also qualied for
International Tennis Federation Under
18 Tournaments at Indore, Chennai
and Hyderabad. She also won
numerous All India Ranking Under 18
tournaments that year..
Abhishek Ranjan became

Assistant Shruti Jaiswal
Tournament Referee for All
State and All India
Ranking Tournaments.
Shruti Jaiswal
Former Indian
Davis Cup player ,
Saurav Panja
came here and
won tournaments.
He was also the
runner up in the
doubles of ATP
Chenai Open in
the year 2000.
Saurav Panja
Adamya Vikrant,
qualied or the rst
for the International
Tennis Federation
Under 18 tournament
at Hyderabad.
Adamya Vikrantl



the mens singles nal
of the DESHRATNA Dr.
Rajendra Prasad
Memorial ALL India
Ranking Tennis
Championships. And
reached the semi nal
of the P&M Mall All
India Ranking Tennis
Championships. Here
Devpriya Jaiswal
during that
Tournament.
Shruti reached the singles nal of

the DESHRATNA Dr. Rajendra
Prasad Memorial ALL India Ranking
Tennis Championships. And the
semi nal of the P&M Mall All India
Ranking Tennis Championships.
Venkat
Siddhart
emerged as
a very good
player. He
reached the
semi nals
of numerous
All India
ranking
Tournament
Shruti Jaiswal s in the year
2010. Venkat Siddhart
Ritika Ranjan
reached the quarter
nal of the P&M
Mall All India
Ranking Tennis
Championships.
Sanoj Kumar reached
his maiden All India
Ranking Tournament
nal. It was of age
group16 years and
under.
Ritika Ranjan Sanoj Kumar

Some newspaper
cuttings of the
year 2010
Some newspaper
cuttings of the year
2010
Devpriya reached
the doubles nal of
the DESHRATNA Dr.
Rajendra Prasad
Memorial ALL India
Ranking Tennis
Championships.
Devpriya Jaiswal
Shree Krishna
reached the nal of
Asian Tennis
Tournament under
14 at Hyderabad.
He was also ranked
in the top 10 in All
India tennis
Association boys
under 14 and under
rankings.
Shree Krishna Shree Krishna

Many of Indias
highly ranked
players came here
to compete and
had praised our
organizing
attribute. Here are
some pictures.
Robin Das -WB Pamir Gogoi-ASM
Dipti Srivastav-WB
Vinod Sewa-WB
Kshitij Kamal-DLI
Manoj Sewa-WB Kamlesh Shukla-UP Sanya Madan-DLI

More children came to Play tennis and

learn this beautiful game. Many of the
children became serious about the game.
And we organized coaching camps from
time to time. Many of the children got
registered to the All India Tennis
Association. Here are some pictures,
taken during one of the coaching camps.
Young children practicing to
serve.
Kunal Aikat teaching children, to serve.
Shwetangii.
Prince Ayush.
Yashi.
Ria. Khushi. Osho Siddhant

i.
All the coaches come

together to coach
The children for specic
goal . The children
Are made to workout at a
very high intensity during
these camps. Here are a
few pictures of such a
coaching camp
conducted in the year
2011.
Amlesh Kumar

Ritwik Bhriguanshi and Shree Krishna dominated the All India Ranking
tournaments held at Patna in various age groups . Both of them qualied for t
Undre 14 Nationals held at Chennai.
Shree Krishna
Ritwik Bhriguanshi
Shree Krishna Ritwik Bhriguanshi

In 2012, we created our own Facebook page.
Patliputra Tennis Center
www.facebook.com/patliputratenniscenter
We started using it to share information about

draws, order of play and other information about
the tournaments organized here. And these dayss
with smart phones in everyones hand it allows us
to conduct tournaments without the use of paper.
And to top it all , we post the photographs of
tournaments and lots of photographs of players in
action.
Famous actor and Member of

Parliament, Mr. Shatrughan
Sinha
Visited Patliputra Tennis Center.
He tried his hands at playing
tennis. He was loved by the
children and their parents. Here
are some pictures showing
those moments.
Some newspaper
2012
Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2012.

Two of our girls, Shilpi

Jaiswal
and Madhu Jaiswal
qualied
for the Deaf Olympics,
held at Soa, Bulgaria. And
there they performed well
reaching the quarter nals
Of the singles and the mixed
doubles. Dr. Akhouri B.
Prasad wished them luck
before leaving.
These two players travelled
to Soa, Bulgaria along with
the rest of the Indian
Contingent. Here are some
L-R Shilpi Jaiswal, Dr. Akhouri B.
pictures of the opening
Prasad, Madhu Jaiswal, Amlesh
ceremony. Kumar
Both the girls had a wonderful

experience of representing the country
and getting
to know players from all over the
world.
Shilpi Jaiswal with her

opponent, before the match
L-R Nishtha Dudeja, Shilpi

Jaiswal, Madhu Jaiswal
Madhu Jaiswal at the

opening ceremony
Shilpi Jaiswal with her partner and

Shilpi Jaiswal
opponents, before the mixed doubles
during her singles
match.
match
We conducted the All

Bihar School tennis
Championships
successfully. The
participation was
overwhelming. Here
the prize distribution
ceremony.
Six boys Ritwik Bhriguvanshi,

Anshumat Shrivastav, Adarsh
Anand, Zain Zafar, Siddhant Raj
and Adveya Sharma along with
Chief Coach, Kunal Aikat,
travelled to many tournaments
across the country to play the
AITA under 16 & 18 circuit and
gained ranking points and
valuable tournament travel
experience.
L-R Adarsh Anand, Kunal Aikat, Anshumat

Srivastava, Siddhant Raj, Ritwik Bhriguvanshi
Adarsh Anand Ritwik Bhriguvanshi Adveya Sharma
Siddhant Raj Anshumat Zain Zafar

Srivastava
Ritwik Bhriguvanshi performed exceedingly well to win numerous All India Rankin
Tournaments in different age groups. And he reached the semi nal of All India
Ranking tournament held at Kolkata while Anshumat Shrivastava reached the s
nal of an All India Ranking Tournament at Guwahati in May, 2013.
Ritwik Anshumat
Bhriguvanshi Shrivastava
Zain Zafar performed exceedingly well by winning numerous All India Ranking Und
14 Tournaments
Zain Zafar receiving a

Zain Zafar
trophy from Dr. Akhouri B.
Prasad

Above- Number of tournaments

MALE
organized by the Bihar Lawn Tennis
FEMALE Association in different age groups this
year
Left- Ratio of male and female
competitors who competed here.
Below- A graph showing the number of

competitors in different age groups.
We kept organizing tournaments successfully. Below are some pictures of the

players, who competed in the All India Ranking Tournaments, held at Patliputr
a Tennis Center.
We had organized All India Under 10 years tournament for the rst time.
New set of players from Patliputra Tennis Center played in the under 14
tournaments and earned their All India Ranking.
Utkarsh Rewant Raj

Singh
Sakshi Swapnil Sinha

Sumn
Many of the girls

started to play
competitive tennis.
They got a lot of
match experience by
playing many All India
Ranking
Tournaments
organized here at
Patliputra Tennis
Center during the
year 2014.
Soumya Singh Asuntha

Fleming
Mallika
Ambastha
Lavanya Hashi Tanmaya

Khushi

Some newspaper
2014

Association in different age groups this
year

180
160
140
120 MEN
100 WOMEN
80 BOYS
60 GIRLS
40 BOYS
20 GIRLS
BOYS
0
GIRLS
MEN
WOMEN
GIRLS
BOYS
GIRLS
BOYS
GIRLS
BOYS
GIRLS
BOYS
BOYS
GIRLS
MEN & UNDER 18 UNDER 16 UNDER 14 UNDER 12
WOMEN
After a wait of four years, two players from Bihar , Ritwik Bhriguvanshi
and
Soa Khan, made there way into the semi nal Of any All India Ranking
Tournament. They reached the semi nals of the VITAL Open. All India
Ranking Tournament for Men and Women.
Ritwik Bhriguanshi Soa Khan
New young kids kept learning tennis with a lot of fun as shown in the picture
below.
Ritwik Bhriguvanshi
gets full athletic
Scholarship on the
basis of his tennis in
Erskine College ,
South Carolina, USA.
He was felicitated by
the Bihar Lawn
Tennis Association.
Ritwik Bhriguanshi being receiving the

memento from Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad
Ritwik Bhriguanshi
L-R Kunal Aikat, Ritwik Bhriguanshi, Dr.

Akhouri B. Prasad, Amlesh Kumar
Ritwik Bhriguanshi
L- After his felicitation
R- During a NCAA
College League Match in
the USA
Soa Khan and Aditi Shreya

reached the quarter nal of the
International Tennis Federation
Junior Tennis Tournament at
Guwahati, Assam. Both Played
in the
Singles and Doubles nal of The
DESHRATNA Dr. Rajendra
Prasad Memorial
All India Ranking Tennis
Tournament. Aditi became the
singles champion.
Aditi Shreya and Soa Khan, right

after reaching the quarter nals of
the ITF Junior Tournament at
Guwahati
Aditi Shreya Aditi Shreya, receiving the

winners trophy
Anshumat
Shrivastava won
the Mens singles
and doubles in the
MBM GURUKUL
All India Ranking
Tennis
Championships
held at Patna.
Anshumat Srivastava
Anshumat Srivastava, receiving the winners trophy



4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
Men & Women
2 U-18
1.5 U-16
U-14
1 U-12
0.5
0
Men & U-18 U-16 U-14 U-12
Women

Association in different age groups this
year

250
200
150
MEN
100 WOMEN
BOYS
GIRLS
50
0
MEN WOMEN BOYS GIRLS
MEN & WOMEN UNDER 18
The mens and womens teams went to participate in the inter State
National Tournament , which was held at Bhilai, Chattisgarh in February,
2016.
L -R Balmukund Bardhan, Adarsh Anand, Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad (Hony. Sec. BLTA,
Abhishek Ranjan (Team Captain) and Siddhant Raj.
L-R Satish Prasad (Team Captain), Soa Khan, Soumya Singh, Dr. A. B.
Prasad (Hony. Sec. BLTA and Aditi Shreya.
Former National Champion,

Rupesh Roy, comes to Patna
after fourteen years.
Competes in the Vital Tennis
Championships 2016. (All
India Ranking Men and
Women Tournament)
Highly
ranked
National
players
compete in
the Vital
Tennis
Champion
ships
2016
Rupesh Roy
Sanya Madan
Anshu Bhuyan
The rst all India ranking tennis tournament in Sara Yadav

the memory of great NETAJI SHUBHAS
CHANDRA BOSE was started this year. It was
made an annual event.
M.P. Sri Shatrughan Sinha gave away the
trophies to the winners and the runners up.
L to R Md. Naseem, Sri Shatrughan Sinha,

Ishaque Iqbal and Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad Yubrani Bannerjee
Asuntha
eming
The inaugural A.P. PRASAD memorial All India Ranking Tennis
Tournament was held this year in the memory of Sri A. P.
Prasad and it was declared an annual event.
A group photograph with the winners and runners up.

The 13th edition of the

DESHRATNA DR.
RAJENDRA PRASAD
MEMORIAL ALL INDIA
RANKING PRIZE
MONEY TENNIS
CHAMPIONSHIPS was
successfully organized
with very good
participation from all
across the country.
Sri Shatrughan Sinha inaugurating the

tournament.
Mallika Ambastha
Deeksha Ajith
Siddhant Raj Soa Khan

Another All India Ranking

Tournament for men and women
was played in the month of
December. This tournament was
sponsored by MBM Gurukul
Institution.
Rewant Raj
Anshu Bhuyan
A group photograph of all the

winners and runners up. Gautam Anand


The second edition of the Netaji

Shubhas Chandra Bose Memorial
All India Ranking Tennis
Championships was moved to the
birth week of Netaji, which is 23rd
January and witnessed very good
participation.
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad, Hony. Sec.

BLTA paying homage to Netaji
Rohit Rampuria
Chief Guest, Mr. Alok Raj, IPS paying

homage to Netaji
Shamika Dhar. Swapnil Sinha

Bihars Soa Khan

reached the nals of
both womens single and
doubles.
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad,

Hony. Sec. BLTA giving
trophy to Soa Khan
Soa Khan
Players with their trophies along with the dignitaries

The inaugural
Chandrashekhar Prasad
memorial All India
Ranking Tennis
Championships was
started this year on his
birth week of 27th March
and the players loved
the tournament.
Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad, Hony. Sec. BLTA, Shri Chandrashekhars

family members and the players at the time of the
inauguration
Shruti Gupta
Amit Bazd
Shamika Dhar Adrija Biswas

Bihars Soa
Khan
womens
doubles title
along with
partner
Shamika
Dhar of
Karnataka.
Anshu
Bhuyan of
Odisha won
the mens
singles and
doubles
titles.
Anshu Bhuyan
holding both his Soa Khan and Shamika Dhar receiving
trophies. trophies from the chief guest.
Players with their trophies along with the dignitaries

The
entrance
gate
The ball
machine
The Tennis
rebounder
(Portable wall)
The Coaches
L-R Kunal Aikat, Abhishek
Ranjan and Amlesh Kumar
Other staff members

L-R Govind , Neeraj and
Pawan
The Junior Coaches (Markers)

L-R Bajrangi Kumar, Sanoj
Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Vikas
Kumar, Nitya Nand
We are glad to share the story of
PATLIPUTRA
TENNIS
CENTER
From year 2000 and still going
Thank you !
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PATLIPUTRA

Bihar Lawn Tennis Association, very gratefully

The mentors of All India Tennis Association who

Padmashri , Padma Bhushan R. K. Khanna , President

The persons who visualised the nal format of All India

R. K. Khanna, Ramesh Desai, T. D. Francis, Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad,

Tennis Playing members from different parts of Bihar

Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad (Honorary Secretary,

They also requested Dr. Akhouri

Then Kunal Aikat was appointed as the

A promotion system, like school. The beginners play on court three,

Right from the beginning, the

Patliputra Tennis Center is afliated to The Bihar Lawn Tennis

The courts were slowly made and

Shilpi Amlesh Kumar Devpriya Jaiswl

Niraj Kumar Anushree Kumar Simant Kumar

Shrimayie Kumar Vipula Kanoria Shruti Jaiswal

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2007

We organized the rst All India

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2002

Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad with Young Players

Here are some random pictures of the rst Talent Series

Shilpi Jaiswal won her maiden

Shruti Jaiswal won her

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2003

Adamya Vikrant Anish Anupam

Shrimayi Kumar won

Amlesh Kumar won his

Devpriya Jaiswal won

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2004

Shruti Jaiswal Devpriya Jaiswal

Ishan Vipula Kanoria

Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad giving L-R Shishir Jaiswal, Dr. Akhouri B.

L-R Ritwik, Siddhart, Ishan, Varenya Vikrant Adamya Vikrant

In 2005, we developed our own

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2005

Shilpi Jaiswal at Patna Railway Station Shilpi Jaaiswal

Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad felicitating Shilpi Jaiswal

Dr. Manjula Akhouri , felicitating Shilpi Jaiswal

Shilpi Jaiswal being felicitated. Shilpi Jaiswal

Shilpi became a star of the state of Bihar.

Shruti Jaiswal reached the semi

Vipula Kanoria won her maiden

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2006

Shruti Jaiswal did

Devpriya Jaiswal won

Shilpi Jaiswal reached

Rajan Kumar won the

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2007

Adamya Vikrant won his

Ayushi Singh won her maiden All India

Ishan Priyadarshi won his maiden

More children started to

Devpriya Jaiswal won the Asian Ranking Under 14 Tennis tournament at

Devpriya Jaiswal, being feliciated by Dr. Akhouri B. Prasad.

Devpriya Jaiswal Devpriya Jaiswal

Devpriya Jaiwal reached

Abhishek Ranjan became

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2009

Some newspaper cuttings of the year 2009

Devpriya Jaiswal won

Shruti reached the singles nal of

Ritika Ranjan Sanoj Kumar

Shree Krishna Shree Krishna