The 7th Badminton Tournament for Mediapersons, organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) will begin at 8.30 am at Subhedar Hall, Amravati road on Thursday. Gracelands has sponsored the tournament that will be held in association with PGTD, Physical Education of RTM Nagpur University. Gurunanak Engineering College is the co-sponsor of the tournament.
MD of Gracelands, Shekhar Jadhao, will inaugurate the tournament. Vice-Chancellor of RTM Nagpur University Dr Vilas Sapkal will preside over the function. The co-ordinator of PGTD Physical Education Dr Yeshwant Patil and Director of Department of Physical Education and Sports of RTM Nagpur University Dr Dhananjay Welukar will also grace the function.
SSK Naidu will be the chief referee while Vishal Naik will be assistant referee. Shamim Khan and Jayendra Dhole will be the umpires of the meet.
The tournament will be held in three categories, men’s singles, women’s singles and men’s doubles. Attractive prizes will be given to the winners and runners-up.
Lokmat’s Ashish Jain has been given top billing in men’s singles category. The Hitavada’s Tanvir Shaikh is the top seed in the women’s singles category.
Seedings:
Men’s singles: 1. Ashish Jain (Lokmat) 2. Vilas Tijare (Lokmat) 3. Hitesh Limbachia (The Hitavada) 4. Anupam Soni (The Hitavada) 5. Naresh Shelke (Sakal) 6. Manoj Muley (Sakal) 7. Abhishek Kulkarni (Tarun Bharat).
Men’s doubles: 1. Vijay Sant-Vivek Puradbhat (Indian Express) 2. Ashish Jain-Vilas Tijare (Lokmat) 3. Anupam Soni-Hitesh Limbachia (The Hitavada) 4. Suhas Nayse-Madhav Soman (Times of India).
Women’s singles: 1. Tanvir Shaikh 2. Farina Salim 3. Anushree Rotkar 4. Yemon Ganguly (all from The Hitavada).
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