The 17th MA Jabbar Memorial Tennis Tournament, named after founder president of Engineers Recreation Centre (Engineer Club, Dhaka), began at the club’s tennis court in Ramna on Sunday.
State Minister for Youth and Sports Biren Sikder MP inaugurated the week-long meet as the chief guest in the afternoon.
President of Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh Prof Dr Shamim-Uz-Zaman Bosunia was present as a special guest. Chairman of the meet’s sponsor Max Group and Executive Vice-President of ERC Engineer Golam Mohammad Alamgir was also present.
A total of 392 players are taking part in the nine-event meet, offering a prize money of Tk 1.39 lakh for the men’s singles, women’s singles and men’s doubles.
The other events are: girls singles under-16 age group, boys singles under-14 age group, boys singles 12 years age group, mini tennis, inter-club team event and engineers doubles.
