India’s fourth ranked Udit Gogoi of Assam and the country’s number one ranked girls’ player Sanjana Sirimalla of Telangana are the top seeds in the boys’ and girls’ singles draw respectively in the MSLTA 13th Ramesh Desai Memorial CCI All India Nationals Under-16 Tennis Tournament 2019 to be conducted under the auspices of AITA and which is scheduled to commence at the CCI tennis courts from Monday, May 20, 2019.
Haryana’s Chirag Duhan the fifth ranked Indian is seeded second followed by Madhya Pradesh’s Denim Yadav (6th ranked) and Punjab’s Dhruv Tangri (7th ranked) who are seeded third and fourth respectively.
Fifth ranked Renee Singh is seeded second while Maharashtra’s Rutuja Chaphalkar (8th ranked) and Telangana’s Veda Raju Prapurna (9th ranked) are the third and fourth seeds respectively.
The boys’ and girls’ singles event will be a 64-player draw, while the doubles event for both boys and girls will be a direct 16-pair draw.
Seedings –
Girls’ singles (top-8): 1. Sanjana Sirimalla (TS) ; 2. Renee Singh (RJ), 3. Rutuja Chaphalkar (MH), 4. Veda Raju Prapurna (TS), 5. Radhika Mahajan (MH), 6. Sairajesh Bhoyar (MH), 7. Renne Singla (HR), 8. Pari Singh (HR)
Boys’ singles (top-8): 1. Udit Gogoi (AS), 2 Chirag Duhan (HR), 3. Denim Yadav (MP), 4. Dhruv Tangri (PB), 5. Krishna Hooda (HR), 6. Arjun Kundu (GJ), 7. Aayush Bhat (KA), 8. Heerak Vora (GJ).