Senior National badminton championship from Jan 2

Guwahati: The 74th Senior National Badminton Championship will be held here from January 2.

"More than 500 players and officials will participate in the tournament to be held till January 10," Himanta Biswa Sarma, senior minister and President of Assam Badminton Association which is holding the event, told reporters in a press conference today. The tournament will be conducted in three phases with the qualifying round to be held on January two and three, the interstate and inter-zonal rounds on January four and seven and the senior national badminton tournament from January six to ten, he said. The winners of the men`s and women`s singles will win a Maruti Suzuki A-star car as the winners prize apart from pocketing a total prize money of Rs 6.25 lakh, Sarma said. PTI