National Junior Tennis Champs Gargi Pawar, Siddanth Banthia, Salsa Aher top MSLTA year end ranking

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National Junior Tennis Champs Gargi Pawar, Siddanth Banthia, Salsa Aher top MSLTA year end ranking list for 2016. 

 

Mumbai, March 21:  National Champions Gargi Pawar, Salsa Aher, Siddanth Banthia along with Hrishikesh Iyer, Arjun Gohad, Aditya Balsekar, Nitten Kirtane, Sanika Bhogade, Rutuja Chapalkar, Mihika  Yadav and Kyra Shroff emerged as No 1 ranked tennis players for the year 2016 in the Maharashtra.

 The Annual rankings of the Maharashtra State Lawn tennis Association for the year 2016  were announced by the Hon Secretary of MSLTA Sunder Iyer here today after the   MSLTA Ranking committee meeting. The large number of events coupled with quality national and international level events have helped our state players to also improve ranking on the national level, added Iyer.

Pune region took the honors by finishing with Seven  No 1 players in 2016 which included Arjun Gohad (Boys Under 12), Nitten Kirtane (Mens) , Rutuja Chapalkar ( Girls Under 12 ), Gargi Pawar (Girls under 14), Salsa Aher (Girls under 16), Siddanth Banthia finished No 1 in two events the Boys under 16 and under 18 categories.

Hrishikesh Iyer (Boys under 10), Aditya Balsekar (Boys under 14), Mihika Yadav (Girls Under 18) Kyra Shroff (Ladies) were the other No 1 players from Mumbai region. While Sanika Bhogade (Ahmednagar) (Girls Under 10) emerged as No 1 tennis players from other regions in Maharashtra.

In 2016 MSLTA Conducted over 150  tournaments highest by far than any other state on the AITA Calendar  which consisted of  13 International events, 67 AITA ranked events  (which included the Under 12,14,16 Nationals, 8 National Series  tournaments, 5 Super Series, 41  Championship Series, 20  Talent Series)  13 Mens and Womens National ranking events , 40 Under 10 State Ranking events along with 4 Veteran events and The All Maharashtra Inter club Championships , Junior tennis league , Road to MSLTA events at the district level

While Mumbai region hosted 60 events including 2 international events , Pune Region  Hosted 36 events which included 8 International events the highest in the state, Kolhapur region hosted 16 events, Navi Mumbai hosted 4 events including 1 international event, Nagpur region hosted 11 events, Aurangabad region 9 events, Solapur  region 6 events including 1 international event  and Nashik region 7 events.

The Top 3 players in each group will be felicitated by the MSLTA on    the finals of the Ramesh Desai National which will be held in Mumbai in May, the release further stated

 

BOYS UNDER 10                                  

1.Hrishikesh Iyer  (Mumbai)

2. Arnav Paparkar   (Pune)

3.Svarmanyu Singh  (Navi Mumbai)

4.Tanmay Deshpande (Kolhapur)

5.Aditya Talati  (Mumbai)

6.Neel Joglekar  (Pune)

7.Aryan  Sutar   (Pune)

8. Ashwin Narsinghani (Kolhapur)

 

GIRLS UNDER 10

1.Bhogade Sanika (Ahmednagar)

2. Kkaira Chetnani (Mumbai)

3.Chinmayi Bagwe  (Pune)

4.Greta Anil (Mumbai)

5.Jaison Jennika (Mumbai)

6.Shah Ira (Pune)

7.Mehta Omi (Navi Mumbai)

8.PatilPrapti(Kolhapur)

9.Joshi Mrunmayee (Aurangabad)

 

BOYS UNDER 12                                 

1.Gohad Arjun (Pune)

2.Kadam Shivam (Mumbai)

3.Waghani Krish (Mumbai)

4.Shinde Atharva (Aurangabad)

5.Samanth Achal (Navi Mumbai)

6.Ganguly Anargha (Pune)

7.Chandhok Prabjeet (Mumbai)

8.Warik Cahir (Navi Mumbai) 

 

 

 

GIRLS UNDER 12

1.Chaphalkar Rutuja (Pune)

2.Adkar Vaishnavi (Pune)

3.Mandavkar Harsshali (Mumbai)

4.Sharma Khushi (Pune)

5.Sidanale Rijul (Pune)

6.Mahajan Radhika (Pune)

7.Bhosale Riya (Pune)

8.Singh Pari (Pune)

 

BOYS UNDER 14                                

1.Balsekar Aditya (Mumbai)

2.Bhatia Aryaan (Mumbai)

3.Birmane Sarvesh (Pune)

4.Tezabwala Amaan (Mumbai)

5.Chougule Girish (Pune)

6.Dalvi Yashraj (Pune)

7.SenShreejit (Pune)

8.Shah Veer (Mumbai)

 

GIRLS UNDER 14

1.Pawar Gargi (Pune)

2.Marathe Malikaa (Pune)

3.Gaware Sharannya (Pune)

4.Vichare Prerna (Mumbai)

5.Chougule Richa (Pune)

6.Kumar Sudipta (Mumbai)

7.Tamhankar Bela (Pune)

8.Uboveja Riya (Pune)

 

 

BOYS UNDER 16                                 

1.Banthia Siddhant (Pune)

2.Sharma Atharva (Pune)

3.Srivastava Karan (Pune)

4.Mehra Tejasvi (Navi Mumbai)

5.JadhavGunjan (Navi Mumbai)

6.Salekar Piyush(Pune)

7.Mangale Abhishek (Pune)

8.Balsekar Aditya(Mumbai)

 

GIRLS UNDER 16

1.Aher Salsa (Pune)

2.Ingle Shivani (Pune)

3.Chhabra Kritika (Mumbai)

4.Vichare Prerna (Mumbai)

5.Chougule Richa (Pune)

6.Ingale Pooja (Pune)

7.Andalkar Aishwarya (Kolhapur)

8.Gaware Sharannya (Pune)

 

BOYS UNDER 18                                 

1.BanthiaSiddhant (Pune)

2.Sunish Dhruv (Mumbai)

3.Srivastava Karan (Pune)

4.Bhatia Armaan (Mumbai)

5.Pandole Rian (Mumbai)

6.Kalamse Kaivalya(Nanded)

7.Sharma Atharva (Pune)

 

GIRLS UNDER 18

1.Yadav Mihika (Mumbai)

2.Ingle Shivani (Pune)

3.Aher Salsa (Pune)

4.Mane Snehal (Pune)

5.ChhabraKritika (Mumbai)

6.Ebrahim Aaliya (Mumbai)

7.Vichare Prernav (Mumbai)

 

Men’s                                               

1.Kirrtane Nitteen (Pune) 

2.Sunish Dhruv (Mumbai)

 

Women’s 

1.Shroff Kyra (Mumbai)

2.Yadav Mihika (Mumbai)