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PUNE, Feb 21: Arnav Jain, Keshavan Narsimhan, Vikrant Sane, Pratim Parekh, Kedar Shah, Moneeza Siddiqui, Kartiki Bhatt, Megha Vakharia and Noopur Desai have been top seeded in their respective age groups at the Hero Honda-MSLTA Junior State Tennis Masters tournament which will get underway at the PYC Gymkhana courts tomorrow.
jain, Narsimhan, Parekh, Siddiqui and Vakharia are from Mumbai, while Sane, Shah, Bhatt and Desai will spearhead the Pune challenge.
Over 150 top juniors of the state will be seen in action in the first edition of this week long event. The tournament will be conducted in the (boys and girls) Under-10, U-12, U-14, U-16 and U-18 categories.
The tournament will serve as a platform for the annual junior rankings which will be announced at the end of the week long tourney.
The tournament will be inaugurated by the hands of JG Pendse, Commissioner of Income Tax, Pune, while Shashi Vaidya, chairman of PYC Gymkhana will preside over.
Seedings
Boys u-10: 1. Arnav Jain, 2. Kaushal Mahale, 3. Marlon Coelho, 4. Hryday Chedda (All Mumbai).
Boys u-12: 1. K Narsimhan, 2. C Akshay (Mumbai), 3. Gautam Samarth (Pune) and Ayush Wadhwan (Mumbai).
Boys u-14: 1. Vikrant Sane (Pune), 2. Rohan Gajjar, 3. Ankit Doshi (Both Mumbai), 4. Shashank Kuklkarni (Pune).
Boys u-16: 1. Pratim Parekh (Mumbai), 2. Abhishek Tamhane, Aniket Joglekar, 4. Pratik Sharma (All Pune).
Boys u-18: 1. Kedar Shah, 2. Mandar Wakankar (Pune), 3. Abhijit Muzumdar (Mumbai), 4. Hrishikesh Mone (Pune).
Girls u-10: 1. Moneeza Siddiqui, 2. Roshni Luthra (Mumbai), 3. Nikita Atal (Pune), 4. Parija Maloo (Khamgaon).
Girls u-12: 1. Kartiki Bhatt (Pune), 2. Lizenka Perreira (Mumbai), 3. Ronak Shah (Pune), 4. Tulsi Mehta (Mumbai).
Girls u-14: Megha Vakharia, 2. Isha Lakhani, 3. Krushmi Chheda, 4. Soumya Kowtha (All Mumbai).
Girls u-16: 1. Noopur Desai, 2. Kalpita Raje (Mumbai), 3. Ashelsh Lokhande, 4. Avanti Sulakhe (All Pune).
