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Rain keeps Ali, Ram waiting

Sports Reporter
Rustom Ali and Biplob Ram marked a memorable day for Bangladesh's tennis when they became champion and runner-up in the doubles in the Prime Bank ATF Under-14 Tennis Tournament at the National Tennis Complex in Ramna yesterday.
However, bigger glory was put on hold as the singles final match between the two could not finish on the day due to rain.
Ali won the first set 6-4 and was trailing 3-5 in the second when the rain came to push back the match to the reserve day.
Earlier, Ali took the doubles crown with India's Dhankar Shaurya, beating an all-Bangladeshi team of Biplob Ram and Jamil Bhuiyan in straight 6-3, 6-4 sets. Hong Kong's Ka Ma Carin and Ching Chan defeated Indian pair of Moulika Ram and Shambhavi Dixith 3-6, 6-3,6-3 to take the girls' doubles crown. Carin later won the singles' title as well, beating India's Moulika Ram 6-1,6-2 to claim a memo-
rable double.
The day's most eagerly awaited event at Court 1 saw Bangladesh's Ali, who deposed top seed Duzbionjit Singh of Malaysia in the quarterfinals, take on Ram, who got rid of second seed Prajwal Dev of India in quarterfinals.
Ali was dressed in red shirt and black shorts for the final while his counterpart Ram was attired in ash shirt and black shorts.
Ram got an early break in the very first game, but Rustom broke back in the next to draw level 1 -1. Ram went onto win the next two games to go up 3-1 and was looking to be in control. However, Rustom upped his ante and won the next four games on the trot and ultimately took the first set 6-4.
Ram started the second set more in command, he was playing the more aggressive tennis now, and sent Ali running for the ball. Ali's powerful groundstrokes were countered by Ram's wider range of shots that included powerful back hands and cross-court winners. Ram was leading the second set 2-1 when the match was briefly interrupted by a dust-storm, which was a precursor to the rain that ensued. However, when the game started Ram looked in total command over Ali and took a 5-1 lead. Ali, though, clawed his way back a bit and won the next two games and was trailing 3-5 when the rain eventually set in to force the players off court. The unfinished business will be decided today when they once again take to the court at 9:00am.
As the two local boys were slugging it out for the boys' singles title on Court 1, girls'
title was being decided in a more lopsided affair on Court 2, between Hong Kong’s Carin and India's Ram. Carin took the first set 6-1 in just twenty minutes. Ram showed bit more verve in her play in the second set, yet lost it 6-2 to hand an easy victory for the Hong Kong girl, way before die rain intervened.
A brief prize distribution ceremony was held indoors after the play. Prime Bank's deputy managing director Reazul Karim, chief guest for the occasion, handed over prizes among the winners.
President of Bangladesh Tennis Federation Shahiar Alam, MP, general secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed and tournament director Ahmed Ziaur Rahman were also present among others. BTF vice-president and chairman of Runner Group of Companies Mohammad Ali Dween announced that they would give an amount ofTk 160,000 as sponsorship money for Ali and Ram over the next one year.
This five-day tournament was participated by 35 players from seven countries.