Master plan for Maharashtra tennis juniors

The top 16 players (as per the MSLTA’s year end rankings) from each group will be eligible for the tournament. To make the event more attractive, four bonus MSLTA points, apart from the points earned while playing the tourney, will be awarded to the players who qualify and participate. The total prize money offered at the tournament would be Rs 30,000, according to Sunder Iyer, tournament director.

For the inaugural year, Kedar Shah of Pune with 22 MSLTA points heads the boys under-18 section qualifiers list, followed by Mandar Wakankar (Pune, 18 pts) andAbhijit Muzumdar (Mumbai, 7 pts). The boys under-16 list, meanwhile, is led by Abhishek Tamhane (Pune, 33) and Kalpita Raje (Mumbai, 16) tops the girls event.

The qualifiers list

Boys under-10: Arnav Jain 74 (Mumbai), Kaushal Mahale 60 (Mum), Marlon Coelho 43 (Mum), Bhavik Shelarka 26 (Mum), Ankesh Bhargava 17 (Mum), Hryday Chedda 16 (Mum), Bhushan Sardesai 16 (Sangli), Tejas Chaukulkar 14 (Pune), Keegan Quadros 13 (Mum), Akash Gujrathi 12 (Pune), Anirudha Kowth 10 (Mum)

Under-12: K Narsimhan 121 (Mum), C Akshay 80 (Mum), Gautam Samarth 43 (Pune), Ayushya Wadhwan 43 (Mum), Mehul Kenia 38 (Kolhapur, Krishank Shah 38 (Mum), Vivek Menon 34 (Mum), Rohan Sevakramani 33 (Mum), Allan Moses 32 (Mum), Hrishikesh Pataskar 31 (Pune), Devang Shah 28 (Mum), Siddarth Chedda 27 (Mum), Vedang Bhagwat 24 (Pune), Rohan Gide 22 (Pune), Siddant Sane 21 (Mum), Aniket Ghaskadvi 19 (Mum).

Under-14: Shashank Kulkarni 44 (Pune), Vikrant Sane 43 (Pune), Ankit Doshi 42 (Mum), Rohan Gajjar 42 (Mum), RohanApte 39 (Pune), Siddarth Patil 30 (Pune), Imran Allana 28 (Mum), Saurabh Kohli 27 (Mum), Rishi Behl 26 (Mum), Sujay Mahadevan 24 (Mum), Rushang Patel 24 (Mum), Aditya Rao 24 (Nasik), Sanjay Salian 20 (Mum), Dhananjay Kawde (18), Shrivardhan Vaidya (16), Kshitij Gujrathi (15).

Under-16: Abhishek Tamhane 33 (Pune), Pratim Parekh 26 (Mum), Aniket Joglekar 25 (Pune), Prateek Sharma 24 (Pune), Nilesh Kapoor 17 (Mum), Ashay Deshmukh 11 (Mum), Jyotindra Kanekar (8), Tridip Chaudhary 7 (Mum), Varun Maggikar 7 (Pune), Shyam Pednekar 7 (Pune), Ankush Chabbra 6 (Pune), Swetyej Raste (6), Rohan Dalvi, Abedin Sham 5 (Mum), HMMY Timbadia 5 (Khamgaon WC), Aniruddha Kulkarni (5)

Under-18: 1. Kedar Shah 22 (Pune), Mandar Wakankar 18 (Pune), Abhijit Muzumdar 7 (Mum), Hrishikesh Mone 7 (Pune), Nikhil Sarin 6 (Pune), Neil Mundra 5 (Pune), Karthik Gopalkrishnan (5), Devendra Kulkarni 3 (Nasik) Rewant Dutta (Mum), Pritviraj Ingle (Kol), Gaurav Patodia (Kol), Rohit Deshpande (Pune), Arpan Lakhani (Mum), KaranGandhi (Nagar) WC, Jai Arora (Mum), Sujay Salvi (Aurangabad)

Girls under-10: Moneeza Siddiqui 46 (Mum), Roshini Luthra 33 (Mum) Nikita Atal 12 (Pune), Parija Maloo 8 (Khamgaon), Anu Bhagwat 7 (Pune), Sampada Kanade 6 (Pune), Neraja Hingane 5 (Pune), Mandari Menon 4 (Mum), Anuja Bagul 3 (Pune), Devika Chikte 3 (Pune), Mihika Karve 3 (Pune), Vaidehi Patil 3 (Pune), Sayli Phatak (Pune), Neha Patil (Pune), Shweta Marathe (Pune), Sonia Patwardhan (Pune).

Under-12: Kartiki Bhati 117 (Pune), Lizenka Perreira 93 (Mum), Ronak Shah 53 (Pune), Tulsi Mehta 49 (Mum), Nidhi Shah 39 (Mum), Sagarika Phadke 30 (Mum), Kanishka Mehta 26 (Mum), Adit Vasant 20 (Mum), Shraddha Loddha 19 (Pune), Barkha Nath 15 (Kol), Pankiti Chedda 14 (Mum), Aishwarya Jadhav 11 (Kol), Shreya Gadwe 8 (Kol), Kimaya Karve 8 (Pune), Priya Vengurlekar 6 (Mum), Jinal Jhaveri 6 (Mum).

Under-14: Megha Vakharia 46 (Mum), Isha Lakani 36 (Mum), Soumya Kowtha 33 (Mum), Krushmi Chedda 23 (Mum), Nandita Paranjpe 19 (Sangli), MedhiniSharma 19 (Mum), Priyanka Mehta 16 (Pune), Uttara Rao 16 (Mum), Ridima Raina 13 (Mum), Nancy Jharna 13 (Mum), Priya Pachkawde 12 (Nasik), Anuja Parikh 12 (Mum), Anuradha Gurung 11 (Mum), Ekta Shah 9 (Pune), Jui Chitnis (Pune), Neha Sane (Pune).

Under-16: Kalpita Raje 16 (Mum), Ashlesha Lokhande 13 (Pune), Avanti Sulakhe 12 (Pune), Vrushali Gawhankar 12 (Pune), Priti Bhatia 8 (Pune), Shagun Thukral 5 (Pune), Nupur Desai (Pune), Naina Sethi (Aurangabad), Neha Sethi (Aur), Avani Gokhale (Pune), Kalyani Thosar (Pune), Sonali Sanap 6 (Mum).