Nat'l tennis from Saturday
The Anlene National Tennis Tournament gets underway on Saturday at the National Tennis Complex in Ramna with over 200 participants including 20 women taking part.
The officials of the Bangladesh Tennis Federation disclosed it yesterday at a press conference. Amol Roy and Sathi Sarker have been rated top seeds in the men's and women's singles for the tournament, which also will hold four more events -- men's doubles, women's doubles, boy's singles and veteran's doubles.
Sponsor New Zealand Dairy Products Bangladesh Limited will provide Tk 3 lakh out of an estimated budget of Tk 3.13 lakh of which half will go to the players as prize money.
The winner in the men's singles will get highest Tk 22,000, six thousand more than the winner of women's singles event.
BTF president Sahriar Alam MP, general secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed and sponsor company managing director SA Mallick, marketing manager GM Kamrul Hassan and tournament director Abu Saleh M Fazle Rabbi Khan were among others present at the briefing.
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