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The Sports Committee Presents The Fifth Annual Tennis Fellowship
On the crisp Sunday morning of 24th March, 2016, the Tennis Stars of RCB gathered to celebrate the sporting spirit of Fellowship through the game of Tennis, at the Bombay Gymkhana, marking this as the Fifth Annual Tennis Tournament.
Being a Sunday, numerous talented tennis players showed up early morning to occupy the limited number of courts available on first cum first basis. Soon, it was quite a sight to behold the adjoining three courts were filled up by talents of Rotary Club of Bombay including PP Rumi Jehangir, golfer-turned-tennis-pro Rtn. Bimal Mehta and also stalwarts Rtns. Anand Dalal, Dinesh Daftary, Jaidev Merchant, Mehul Sampat, Sameer Kaji, Satyan Israni, Jamshyd Vazifdar, Mehernosh Dotivala, Ishraq Contractor with his sons Raed and Ayush, and a wild card entry of the young nine-year-old Nisha (daughter of Rtn. Anand Dalal). Organised under the immaculate leadership of Rtns. Moy Biswas, the de facto chief of most sporting activities of the Rotary Club of Bombay, along with Anand Dalal, which lived up to its motto of spreading goodwill and fellowship.
Our tennis stars gave the best of the best a run for their money. Volley after volley, smash after smash, ground stroke after ground stroke – a scintillating hour and a half of tennis was played out, witnessed by President Rtn. Dr. Sonya Mehta and PP Nowroze Vazifdar; and to encourage and motivate the participants and Match Referee, Photographer of the event and main organizer, Moy “Alan Mills” Biswas. The President presented a special trophy to Nisha Dalal, being the youngest ever to have participated in a Rotary Sports Event.
In true Rotary Spirit, the morning ended with a breakfast fellowship attended by all present. Rtn. Moy closed the event by thanking all the participants and especially Rtn. Satyan Israni, who in the history of the Club is the only person who has ever participated in all the Sports events of the year namely Table Tennis, Football, Golf, Cricket and of course, Tennis! Well played, Rotarians!
