FULL NAME: Subhransu Charan Sarangi (Also known as Muna)
BORN: May 23, 1960 at Sambalpur
GENDER: Male
MARITAL STATUS: Married
FAMILY: Late Sagar Sarangi (Father), Radhika Sarangi (Mother), Rinku Sarangi (Wife), one son (Samudra).
HOME ADDRESS: Plot No N-2/189, IRC Village, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
TELEPHONE NO: 09437044844 (Mobile)
E-MAIL: scstennis@yahoo.com
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: M SC, LL B
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION: ITF Level-II coach
PROFESSION: Freelance tennis coach
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Sunil Mohanty and Premjit Lal
CAREER SPAN: Played competitive tennis from 1978 to 1992 before taking up coaching.
HOBBY: Painting, cooking
OTHER GAMES PLAYED: Athletics (He was a competitive thrower.
IDOL: Father as bodybuilder and footballer
AWARDS/HONOURS: Nothing notable so far
AMBITION: To inspire people play tennis.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AS PLAYER:

STATE:
*     He was the No 1 player of the state for five years (1980s).
*     Won his first state tennis title in 1980, beating Kumar Pradhan at Cuttack.
*     Altogethe bagged around six titles.
*     Held the State hammer throw record for four years.

NATIONAL:
*     Represented Odisha in National tennis championship for three years.
*     Represented Border Security Force (BSF) in All-India Police Games for three years, competing in tennis, athletics and shooting.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AS TENNIS COACH:
*     He was the non-playing captain and coach of the Indian team that won the Gold medal at the Qatar Asian 14 & Under Junior Cup Team Championship, held at Doha from Dec 25-28, 2018.
*     Served as the coach of the Indian U-14 boys team in the Asia/Aceania Final Qualifying Competition of the ITF World Junior Tennis Championships, held at Nonthanburi, Thailand from March 26-31, 2018.
*     Participated in the ITF Worldwide Coaches Conference, held at Sofia, Bulgaria from October 11 to 14, 2017.
*     Has been running Orissa Tennis Academy, a leading tennis training centre in Bhubaneswar since early 2000. The academy has branches at several places of the state, including Balasore, Sambalpur, Berhampur, Puri, Keonjhar.
*     In 2007, he changed the name of his academy to S S Tennis Academy.
*     Has shaped the careers of many tennis players, including Satirtha Patnaik, Guliver Low, Sourav Mohanty, Sourav Das, Chinmaya Pradhan, Vijay Avinandan, Samudra Sarangi, Bhanu Prakash, Ansu Kumar Bhuyan, Avilash Mishra, Susita Das, Seeulee Upadhyaya, Sikshya Dhawan and others.
*     Helped set up tennis courts at different places of the state.
*     Helped organized state and National level tournaments on a regular basis.
*     Promoted tennis in veteran circuit.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA:
*     Associated with All India Senior Tennis Association as a vice-president since 2004.
*     Served in BSF for 11 years before leaving as a Commandant in 1992.
*     Operating as a leading tennis coach of the country, having link with different international coaching organizations since 2005.
*     He was recommended by All India Tennis Association (AITA) to attend the 18th ITF World Wide Coches Conference at Cancun, Mexico from November 5 to 9, 2013.
*     Attended the ITF World Wide Coches Conference in 2011 at Port Ghalib (Egypt).
*     Attended the ITF World Wide Coches Conference in 2009 at Valencia (Spain).
*     Attended the ITF World Wide Coches Conference in 1999 at Casablanca (Morocco).
*     A regular participant in various national and international coaches workshop, Sarangi attended the Asian Coaches Workshop at Thailand in 2006 and AITA National Workshop Goa in 2011.
*     He had the opportunity to work with eminent development coach Miguel Crespo (ITF).

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 20 October, 2009
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 29 December, 2018