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Jr Grand Prix badminton at ThaneThe ftHANE bADMINTON aSSOCIATION WILL CONDUCT A JUNIOR ALL-iNDIA gRAND pRIX championship from August 22-2...

Jr Grand Prix badminton at Thane

The ftHANE bADMINTON aSSOCIATION WILL CONDUCT A JUNIOR ALL-iNDIA gRAND pRIX championship from August 22-26, 1999. Based on the performances in the tournament, the Indian team for the European Junior circuit will be selected, Maharashtra Badminton Association secretary Sunder Shetty told Express Newsline.

Ghatnekar, Meenakshi top seeds

Mayur Ghatnekar and Meenakshi Wagh are the top seeds in the men’s and women’s singles respectively in the Vanita Samaj state-ranking Open Badminton Tournament to be held here from July 18-24.

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Seedings: Men’s singles: 1. Mayur Ghatnekar, 2. Vikrant Patwrdhan, 3. Sanket Shetty, 4. Rituparn Kulkarni, 5. Murali Subramaniam, 6. Kunal Vaswani, 7. Bhushan Paithankar, 8. Jay Dhuri. Doubles: 1. Amrish Shinde/Mayur Ghatnekar, 2. Vikrant Patwardhan/Mayur Tawade, 3. Bhushan Akut/Sanket Shetty, 4. Kunal Vaswani/Amogh Kulkarni.

Sub-junior boys’ singles: 1. Swapnil Vyavaharkar, 2. Prabi Upadhya, 3. Rohit Sadani, 4. AnimeeshKejriwal.

Midget boys’ singles: 1. Rohit Sadani, 2. Abhinav Kapoor, 3. Vikram Bhatnagar, 4. Akshay Devalkar.

Women’s singles: 1. Meenakshi Wagh, 2. Krupa Telang, 3. Gauri Narayan, 4. Anuj Walke. Doubles: 1. Meenakshi Wagh/Pooja Kotwani, 2. Vandana Wagimbe/Sarita Chavan.

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Sub-junior girls’ singles: 1. Neha Wad, 2. Amrita Sawant, 3. Manasi Marathe, 4. Amodi Borkar.

Midget girls’ singles: 1. Riddhi Panjwani, 2. Shweta Khare, 3. Maitreyee Nigwekar, 4. Soumya Padhye.

AITA revise national schedule

The hard court tennis nationals for men and women would be held at New Delhi from October 4 onwards. The men’s and women’s tourney would be followed (from October 11 onwards) by the under-18, under-16 and under-14 hard court nationals at Delhi, according to a revised All India Tennis Association (Aita) national schedule here today.

The men’s and women’s grass court would be held at Calcutta from November 15 onwards while the clay court nationals for under-14 and under-16 age group would be held atChennai from August 30 onwards. The under-18 clay court nationals would be held at Chennai from August 2 onwards.

Following is the revised national calender

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October 4 onwards: Men’s & Women’s hard court nationals at Delhi.
October 11 onwards: (u-14, u-16 & u-18) hard court nationals at Delhi.
November 15 onwards: Grass court nationals for men & women at Calcutta.
August 2 onwards: U-18 clay court nationals at Chennai.
August 30 onwards: (U-14 & U-16) clay court nationals at Chennai.
July 19 onwards: (U-14 & U-16) Aita Ranking Tourneys at Secunderabad.
August 16 onwards: (U-16 & U-18) Aita Ranking Tourney at Chennai.
August 23 onwards: (U-14 & U-16) Aita Ranking Tourney at Chennai.
September 6 onwards: (U-14 & U-16) Aita Ranking Tourney at Chennai.
November 8 onwards: (U-14 & U-16) Aita Ranking Tourney at Mumbai.
November 15 onwards: (U-14 & U-16) Aita Ranking Tourney at Pune.
December 13 onwards: Men’s Aita Ranking Tourney at Bhimavaram (AP).
December 6 onwards:Veterans Aita Ranking Tourney at Hyderabad.Dec 13 onwards: Veterans (Doubles) Aita Ranking Tourney at Calcutta.
December 27 onwards: Veterans Aita Ranking Tourney at Bangalore.