Defending champions Mumbai Suburban District once again will start favourites in the forthcoming 49th Inter-District and 80th Maharashtra State Table Tennis Championships, which gets underway at Balwadi (Pune) from November 9.
“Having won 28 medals overall last year, ,which include gold,silver and brozne medals in the team as well as in individual categories, we hope to maintain or even better our last year’s tally”, said Amit Modi, MSDTTA secretary and team manager, while releasing the teams.
The teams are:
WOMEN: Mamta Prabhu, Anannya Basak, Mrunmayee M.Mishra, Manushree Patil, Diya Chitale. YOUTH GIRLS: Anannya Basak, Vidhi Shah, Avril Saldanha, Vidhi Dhoot, Tia D’Souza.
JUNIOR GIRLS: Manushree Patil, Diya Chitale, Sampada Bhiwandkar, Ananya Chande, Pearl Amalsadiwala.
SUB-JR GIRLS: Sampada Bhiwandkar, Mukta Dalvi, Ananya Chande, Pearl Amalsadiwala, Pandhi Potnis.
CADET GIRLS: Sana D’souza, Hardee Patel, Shravani Loke, Urvi Churi.
MEN: Ravindra Kotiyan, Chinmaya Somaiya, Bhavitvya Shah, Bhavesh Apte and Viren Patel.
YOUTH BOYS: Ashwin Subrmanian, Jignesh Rahatwal, Ritvik Nagle, Viren Patel, Swayam Ibrahampurkar.
JUNIOR BOYS: Chinmaya Somaiya, Ashwin Subrmanian, Ritvik Nagle, Aadil Anand, Minak Nistalia. SUB-JR. BOYS: Jash Modi , Aadil Anand , Havish Asrani, Arnav Karnavar,
CADET BOYS: Akshat Jain, Tanmay Rao,Vineet Deepak,Sharveya Samant.
Coaches: Eric Fernandes, Sudhir Jadhav, Harsh Maniar, Aashish Kamble and Kalpesh Loke. MANAGERS: Amit Modi (Men) and Mrs Meher Amalsadiwala (women).