MSLTA – REBOUND MUMBAI OPEN JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE RETURNS - BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER.

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MSLTA – REBOUND MUMBAI OPEN JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE RETURNS - BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER.

 

The second edition of MSLTA Rebound Mumbai Open Junior Tennis League is coming back in a bigger and better format than the previous edition. The tournament has grown leaps and bounds since its inception in 2016.

From 6 teams in 2016, to 8 teams in the 2017 edition and over 143 registrations MSLTA Rebound Mumbai Open Junior Tennis League, which began as an avenue for promoting the game at the grassroots, has grown into a movement where not just children, but parents and team owners join hands in celebrating and promoting the beautiful game, said Mr. Bharat Oza, President of MSLTA.

Kashish Bote of Flying Hawks, Harshali Mandavkar of Howling Wolves, along with Aditya Iyer of Grizzly Bears, Bhumika Tripathi of Rising Eagles and Aaryaan Qureshi of Roaring Lions emerged as the costliest players at the players auction.

The first of its kind of League for tennis players from Mumbai region around 104 players from the age category of under-10, under-12 and under-14 were selected through an auction process, the matches will be played at MSLTA Tennis courts on weekends starting July 29th 2017.

Hon Sec of MSLTA Sunder Iyer who also conceptualized the league along with MSLTA DDC member Kaustubh Shah added that “The idea behind the event was to bring out the best in the junior players and help them to think like professionals at an early age. Such a league will also encourage them to put in hard work and become better players and help to build a family spirit and camaraderie among the tennis fraternity of Mumbai. Apart from this the organizers will also be organizing workshops on various aspects of tennis, mental and physical tests which will be counted in the final performances of the teams.

This year Eight Teams which includes Dhaigude Sports Academy Deadly Sharks Thane – Tushar Dhaigude , Go Sportz Raging Bulls – Rehan Sumer, Sports Sponsor Flying Hawks – Gaurav Kapadia , Big Serve Sports and Hashtag Universal Grizzly Bears - D.S .Ramarao, Acharne Sports and Chant 24 Howling Wolves - Navdip Singh / Nitin Mandavkar, Aurelle, Karamtara and Parle-G Rising Eagles – Vijay Karnanai, SDI Roaring Lions and Tennis Excellence Growling Tigers Rahil Makharia , Karan Nandwani and Aditya Madkekar.

Commissioner of the Rebound Mumbai open Junior Tennis League Mr. Sharad Kannamwar informed Each player will be allowed to play ONLY 1 match in a particular tie, except for the girl from under-14 age category, wherein she will be allowed to play 2 matches i.e. U-14 girls singles and mixed doubles. – Under-10 matches will be played best of 7 games (4 games to win, with a tiebreak at 3 all). All other matches will be played Best of 11 games (6 games of win) with a Tiebreak at 5 All. – Winner of the match will be decided on the total number of games won by the team.

Mr. Alok Telang of Rebound the Title sponsors of the League said that “We were thrilled with getting out the best in the junior players, and happy that Rebound will help players to take their first steps towards Professionalism. We have decided to support this league as we see it will help to build a family spirit among the tennis fraternity of Mumbai”.

Apart from the title sponsorship Rebound will be awarding the top boys and girl player of the tournament Rebound Tennis Aid equipment which will help the players improve their hand to eye coordination, muscle memory, stance correction, shot shaping and racquet speed.

The company has recently launched a slew of products for giving better training to sportsmen and to reduce efforts of the coaches while improving the skills of their students. This is a unique concept, and, the products are patented by the company, He added.

Every selected player in the league will also receive a goodie bag – courtesy Acharne Sport Tennis Academy, Solinco, and Acharne Sports while Selection Sports Mumbai will be the apparel Sponsors, Performance Plus will be the analytic partner, Yonex will be the Ball Sponsor.

M.r Manoj Vaidya has been appointed as the Tournament Director, Ms. Payal Jain has been appointed as the Supervisor and Mr. Wasim Shaikh as the Assistant Supervisor of the event.

 

Following are the Teams and selected players

 

Dhaigude Sports Academy Deadly Sharks Thane: Owners Tushar Dhaigude

Samarth Sahita, VivaanKarande, Ved Thakur, DreekSaha, AyushHindlekar, Chaitanya Allum, AadiryaTatkare, AeshaAmre, Soha Patil, Danica Nirmal Fernando, RajzsiBukane, SachiPatwardhan, RithikaParivelan.

 

Go Sportz Raging Bulls – Rehan Sumer

VedantBhasin, Om Verma, Omar Sumar, Azmeer Shaikh, KrishhivMehra, ApurvPawar, NilayBhole, Rishab Koushik, AnanyaSirsath, Maria Abraham Vazhappilly, PariChavan, DishaLakhiani, KotisthaModak.

 

SportsSponsor.in Flying Hawks: Owner Gaurav Kapadia

Dev Turakhia, ShreyanshShete, Meer Verekar, ZahaanSabuwala, Dhruv Suresh, VedantMestri, Aditya Sawant, Serena Rodricks, KkairaChetnani, SakshiKaknale, KashishBote, Mahika Gupta.

 

Big Serve Sports and Hashtag Universal Grizzly Bears: Owner D.S Rama Rao

Arjun Kothari, Sohum Chakraborty, Aditya Iyer, Keshan Nahata, AnupBangargi, Nirav Shetty, ParthBhoitem, MuktaSawant, AnanyaTathed, Kyra Shetty, Kunjal Kank, SaazTandel.

 

Tennis Excellence Growling Tigers Rahil Makharia and Karan Nandwani and Aditya Madkekar.

Jeevan Nadar, Chaitanya Save, Veer Prasad, Aditya Talati, YohaanChokhany, Karim Khan, Aryan Sinha, Rhiannia Rodrigues, D.S.Mirdhullaa, Trisha Misra, MuskanDeshwal, Anwesa Das, Raissa Dadhich.

 

Aurelle, Karamtara and Parle-G Rising Eagles – Vijay Karnani

Hrishikesh S Ramanathan, HrishikeshIyer, DiyaanChheda, Vanshik Kapadia, Aryan Suraj Thakur, Shiv Karnani, Harshveer Singh Sehgal, VaidehiKhutale, Anwesa Das, JennikaJaison, HeerrKinger, VrishithaSambathkumar, BhumikaTripathi.

 

SDI Roaring Lions

Sahil Kothari, Ishaan Sampat, Yuvraj Khatau Anand, LaveshDhanuka, Rishi Punjabi, Aaryaan Qureshi, Saheb Singh Sodhi, Shantanu Nambiar, Urvee Kate, Arya Borkar, Hriti Ahuja, AsmiKoli, KkhushiKinger.

 

Acharne Sports and Chant 24 Howling Wolves - Navdip Singh / Nitin Mandavkar,

ShaanWorlikar, Vivaan Prakash, Yashmit Chawla, DevadityaMakhecha, Shivam Kadam, Yash Raina, Aditya Shukla, SumayahIsab, Prisha Das, Greta Anil, KhushbooDeshwal, Gia Pereira, HarshaliMandavkar.