Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Sant gets top billing in media badminton





Loksatta's Vijay Sant has been given top billing in Gracelands Cup 9th Badminton Tournament for Media Employees organised by the Sports Journalists' Association of Nagpur (SJAN) in association with PGTD of Department of Physical Education of Nagpur University at Subhedar Hall from March 8.
The tournament has evoked overwhelming response. The categories include men's singles, men's doubles and women's singles. Lokmat's Ashish Jain has been given second seeding. Suhas Nayse (The Times of India) and Vilas Tijare (Lokmat) have been given third and fourth ranking respectively.
In the men's doubles, The Times of India duo Suhas Nayse-Madhav Soman are ranked one followed by Ashish Jain-Vilas Tijare. The event is sponsored for the third year in succession by Gracelands. Matches will be played with Carlton feather shuttles. Laxmi Nagar-based Shree Sports have sponsored the shuttles. Amit Raut is the chief referee of the tournament and he will be assisted by Sneha Faizpurkar and others.

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