Aryan Bhatia, Prerna Vichare are costliest players at Rebound- Mumbai Open Junior Tennis League

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Aryan Bhatia, Prerna Vichare are costliest players at Rebound- Mumbai Open Junior Tennis League

Mumbai July 6 : Aryan Bhatia of Flying Hawks Prerna Vichare of Grizzly Bears , along with Aditya Balsekar and Harsshali Mandavkar of Howling Wolves Rishikesh Iyer of Raging Bulls , Arjun Chatterjee of Flying Hawks and Bhumika Tripathi of Rising Eagles emerged as the costliest players at the players auction of the first ever MSLTA organized Rebound Mumbai Openl Junior Tennis League,

The first of its kind League for tennis players from Mumbai region will feature 6 teams, and around 82 players from the age category of under-10, under-12 and under-14 the league will get at the MSLTA Tennis courts on weekends starting July 23

The first edition of the league organized for benefit of city’s junior tennis and will provided them an opportunity to display their skills and get confidence. The junior players from all academies and clubs in Mumbai were clubbed together and then got into teams through auction process said Sunder Iyer Hon Secretary MSLTA, who visualized the league

Mr. Iyer 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.

Mr Iyer also added that a Special Open Tournament for the players who entered the league but were not selected in the auction will be held in August

In the inaugural year six that will be seen in action , which include Dhaigude Sports Academy Deadly Sharks Thane - Tushar Dhaigude , Go Sportz Raging Bulls - Rehan Sumer , Group Drop Flying Hawks – Gaurav Kapadia , Yes Bank Grizzly Bears - D.S .Ramarao , Howling Wolves - Navdip Singh / Rahil Makharia , Rising Eagles - Milan Naik

Jt. Commissioner of the Rebound Mumbai open Junior Tennis League Mr. Manoj Vaidya and Kaustubh Shah informed Each tie would consist of 6 matches – Singles for Under-10 age category (Boys / Girls), Singles for Under-12 age category (Boys / Girls), Girls Singles for Under-14 age category, Boys Single for Under-14 age category, Girls Doubles (maximum 1 player of Under-14 age category), Boys Doubles (maximum 1 player of Under-14 age category). All matches will be played Best of 11 games (6 games to win) with Tie-Break at 5-all. The winner of the tie will be decided on the total number of games won by the team.

Mr. Alok Telang of Rebound the 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 s. 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 goody 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 . Ms. Payal Jain has been appointed as the Chief referee of the event,

Following are the Teams and selected players

Dhaigude Sports Academy Deadly Sharks Thane: Owners Tushar Dhaigude

Veer Shah , Siya Baur ,Nirav Shetty, Karim Khan ,Leston Vaz, Harshita Bangera, Aditya Talati, Aadhirya Tatkare, Nilay Bhole, Neill Pillai, Soha Patil, Sachi Patwardhan, Aakash Subramanian, Akshaj Subramanian

Group Drop Flying Hawks: Owner Gaurav Kapadia

Arjun Chatterjee, Aryaan Bhatia,Eapen Joshua John, Anup Bangargi, Kashish B. Bote, Swarda Parab, Jennika Jaison, Vanshik Kapadia, Aditya Sawant, Omeshwari Chavan, Arnav Vaidya, Vaary Shah,Heerr Kinger

Yes Bank Grizzly Bears: Owner D.S Rama Rao

Prerna Vichare,Alisha Deogaonkar, Aditya Iyer, Nishant Dewulkar, Parth Bhoite, Kabir Chotrani, Nasyam Faiz Mohd, Rahil Joshi, Krish Karpe, Gia Pereira, Mahika Gupta, Devinaa Majumdar, Keval Kirpekar, Dreek Saha

Howling Wolves: Owner Navdip Singh/ Rahil Makharia

Aditya Balsekar, Harsshali Mandavkar, Shivam Kadam, Srijesh Pillai, Kotishta Modak, Zai Haider Jivan, Kkaira Chetnani, Veer Prasad, Yohaan Chokhany, Aonjaneya Banerjee, Suhani Sabharwal, Kkhushi Kinger, Hunar Bedi

Go Sportz Raging Bulls: Owner Rehan Sumer

Aarya Zalte, Hrishikesh Iyer, Prajwal Tewari, Prabjeet Singh Chandhok, Aaryaan Qureshi, Durva Deo, Sanika Kambli, Apurv Pawar , Omar Sumar , Atharv Salunkhepatil , Vedant Mestri, Kyra Shetty, Devbrat Banerjee

Rising Eagles : Owner Milan Naik

Krish Waghani, Saheb G Sodhi, Arjun Shirgaokar, Bhumika Tripathi, Akanksha Nitture, Shanaya Naik, Greta Anil, Ayush Hindlekar, Aryan Dhamejani, Shiv Karnani, Karnani Divya, Vyomaa Bhaskar, Singh Balavir .