Kala, Ekta get pride of place in Gymnco TT

NEW DELHI, July 16: Himansh P Kala of Central Bank of India and Ekta Bhambri of Lady Shri Ram College have been top seeded in men and wom...

NEW DELHI, July 16: Himansh P Kala of Central Bank of India and Ekta Bhambri of Lady Shri Ram College have been top seeded in men and women categories, respectively, in the eighth Gymnco Open table tennis tournament to be held from July 17 to 20 at Talkatora Indoor Stadium.

Left-handed Rajiv Ghai and former international Nanindini Kulkarni have been seeded behind Kala and Ekta in their respective sections.

In the boys section, Ansh Adlakha of Manav Sthali School and Pratima Sayal of Hansraj Model School (Punjabi Bagh) in the girls section have been given top pride.

Shantanu Aggarwal and Esha Bhambri have been top seeded in the seb-junior categories while Kunal Puri and Shikha Sharma are No. 1 in cadet section. Shikha Sharma gets the pride of place again in kids section.

Seedings
Men: 1. Himanshu P Kala, 2. Rajiv Ghai, 3.Parag Agarwal, 4. Ajay Jha, 5. Jagmohan Bisht, 6. Sandeep Sharma, 7. Rahul Prakash (NR), 8. Prasanjit Sarkar (NR).
Women: 1. Ekta Bhambri, 2. Nandini Kulkarni, 3. Bondana Bora, 4. Pratima Sayal, 5. Anjana Bora, 6. Pooja Malik, 7. Ravjit Kaur, 8. Ritu Rana.
Boys singles: 1. Ansh Adlakha, 2. Mrinal Mondal, 3. Nitin Mahajan, 4. Ishwak Singh, 5. Ankit Anand, 6. Rajat Chopra, 7. Amit Jain, 8. Ayush Jiwarajika.
Girls singles: 1. Pratima Sayal, 2. Anshu Sharma, 3. Esha Bhambri, 4. Apna Bhalla.
Sub-junior boys: 1. Shantanu Aggarwal, 2. Ayush Jiwarajika, 3. Nishank Bajaj, 4. Kunal Puri, 5. Sunal Jain, 6. Aditya Puri, 7. Varun Kassal (Chd), 8. Ayush Gupta.
Sub-junior girls: 1. Esha Bhambri, 2. Apna Bhalla, 3. V Malini, 4. Shikha Arora.
Cadet boys: 1. Kunal Puri, 2. Nishank Bajaj, 3. Vishal Agarwal, 4. Abhimanyu Arora.
Cadet girls: 1. Shikha Sharma, 2. Joshita Bhushan, 3. Suman Rani (Hry), 4. Nadia Saini (Chd).
Kids (boys and girls): 1. Shikha Sharma, 2. Neha Agarwal, 3. Ramit Bhatnagar, 4. Aman Ahuja.