ANU to host varsity Ball Badminton

Tuesday, December 26, 2006, 22:04 [IST]

Vijayawada, Dec 26 (UNI) The Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) would conduct the five-day All India Inter-University Ball Badminton tournament for men at the university campus here from tomorrow.

Tournament organising secretary Y Kishore told UNI that 56 teams from different universities, comprising 560 players would take part in the tourney.

He said Madras and Nagarjuna Universities were the winner and the runner up last year.

He said ANU would also host the South-West Zone Kabaddi tournament for women from January one to five followed by All India Inter-zonal Kabaddi for women from January six to eight.

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