Kala, Ekta get top billing for Suzuki Open TT

NEW DELHI, July 17: Himansh P Kala of Central Bank of India and Ekta Bhambri of Indian Airlines have been given the top billing in the me...

NEW DELHI, July 17: Himansh P Kala of Central Bank of India and Ekta Bhambri of Indian Airlines have been given the top billing in the men’s and women’s singles sections respectively as the local table tennis scene resumes after the summer holidays with the inaugural Suzuki Open Table Tennis Tournament, scheduled to begin at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium tomorrow.

Anshu Adlakha and Pratima Sayal are the top seeds in boys and girls singles respectively while Shantanu Aggarwal and Pratima lead the field in the sub-junior section. The finals will be held at 5.30 pm on Tuesday, July 21. Prizes will be given away by Mool Chand Chowhan, secretary, Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI).

The seedings
Men’s Singles: 1.Himansh P Kala 2.Ajay Jha 3.Jagmohan Singh Bisht 4.Ravi Vashist 5.Rajiv Ghai 6.Jagat Singh Bisht 7.Harsh Chopra 8.Gagandeep Singh Mehta.
Women: Ekta Bhambri 2.reshmy R Nair 3.Pratima Sayal 4.Mansi Sachdeva 5.Ravjit Kaur (Uttar Pradesh) 6.Nandini Kulkarni 7.Ravinder Kaur (Uttar Pradesh) 8.Monica Singhal (Haryana).
Boys Singles: 1.Anshu Adlakha 2.Ishwak Singh 3.Nitin Mahajan 4.Mrinal Mondal 5.Abhishek Puri 6.Tarun Jiwarajika 7.Ankit Anand 8.Amit Jain.
Girls Singles: 1.Pratima Sayal 2.Mansi Sachdeva 3.Ravinder Kaur 4.Monica Singhal.
Sub-Junior Boys: 1.Shantanu Aggarwal 2.Rajat Chopra 3.Ayush Jiwarajika 4.Simranjit Singh Nanda 5.Karan Malhotra (Uttar Pradesh) 6.Rohit Verma (Haryana) 7.Harshit Chand (Uttar Pradesh) 8.Pranav Kohli (Uttar Pradesh).
Sub-Junior Girls: 1.Pratima Sayal 2.Esja Bhambri 3.Ritu Rana 4.Apna Bhalla.
Cadet Boys: 1.Aditya Puri 2.Sunal Jain 3.Harshit Chand 4.Rohit Verma (Haryana).
Cadet Girls: 1.Apna Bhalla 2.V Malini 3.Shikha Sharma 4.Ekta Malhotra (Uttar Pradesh).