Risha Mirchandani and Sagar Kasture have been given pride of placetop in their respective women’s and men’s singles event in the in the MCF- TSTTA-2 District ranking table tennis tournament, which gets underway from today. Whilye Khar Gymkhana’s Anana Chande (girls) and Vineet Deepak (boys) are top seeded in their respective under-19 sections. The organisers have received over 350 entries in the various sections.
The salient feature in this championships is that the matches in the men’s, women’s, boys and girls (in different age groups) will be played on league basis till the last 16 stages. So too in the veteran men and women (u-39, u-49 and u-69-plus 74) singles as well.
All the suburban top players in various age groups are in the fray. The tournament carries prize money of over Rs 1 lakhs alongwith trophies and medals.The major attraction of this event is that performance in this tourney will be considered for selection in the inter-district championships.
The seedings are:
Men’s singles: 1. Sagar Kasture; 2. Shivam Shrivastav; 3. Sharveya Samant; 4. Yash Dalvi ; 5. Aashay Pisal; 6. Vineet Deepak; 7. Yuvraj Yadav ; 8. Maruti Kasture.
Women’s singles: 1. Rishi Mirchandani; 2. Sampada Bhiwandkar. Girls singles (U-19): 1. Ananya Chande; 2. Urvi Churi. (U-17) : 1. Vaishnavi Jaiswal; 2. Niva Chaughule.. (U-15): 1. Myraa Sangelkar; 2.. Niva Chaughule.
Boys singles (U-19): 1. Vineet Deepak; 2. Ayush Sonawane; 3. Dhruv Shah; 4. Arnav Kshirsagar. (U-17) : 1. Yuvraj Yadav; 2. Arnav Kshirsagar; 3. Kathit Shah; 4. Vibhuum Sadhale. (U-15): 1. Zihan Beddingwala; 2. Param Bhiwandkar; 3. Vivaan Thakkar; 4. Zain Shaikh.