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Top billing for Chawathe Nachiket Chawathe and Janhavi Deshpande have been given the pride of place in the men's and women's singles, res...

Top billing for Chawathe

Nachiket Chawathe and Janhavi Deshpande have been given the pride of place in the men’s and women’s singles, respectively, of the District Ranking Open table tennis tournament to be held at the Andheri YMCA from August 18.

Seedings:

Men’s singles: 1 Nachiket Chawathe, 2 Gandeep Bhiwandkar, 3 Kunal Solanki, 4 Nilesh Pandirkar, 5 Nishant Kulkarni, 6 George Joseph, 7 Sandeep Pandirkar and 8 K K Rai.
Boys singles: 1 Aditya Mahagaonkar, 2 Eric Fernandes, 3 Mitesh Puranik, 4 Shashank Juvekar, 5 Ankur Mahajan, 6 Vasajit Mehta, 7 Sushant Kulkarni and 8 Sahil Kukreja.
Sub-junior boys: 1 Ankur Mahajan, 2 Sahil Kukreja, 3 Anand Nagarkatti, 4 Sushant Kulkarni, 5 Sohel Kothare, 6 Sujan Narvekar, 7 Omkar Torgalkar and 8 Shivam Nayak.
Cadet boys: 1 Shishir Juvekar, 2 Amod Tilak, 3 Omkar Torgalkar and 4 Rohan Chinchwadkar.
Women’s singles: 1 Janhavi Deshpande, 2 Shruti Kanade, 3 Shalmali Mhatre and 4 Shalmali Inamdar.
Girlssingles: 1 Shalmali Inamdar, 2 Janhavi Deshpande, 3 Rujuta Rege and 4 Varda Bal.
Sub-junior girls: 1Rujuta Rege, 2 Bhavna Suvarna, 3 Juili Inamdar and 4 Bela Mehta.
Cadet girls: 1 Juili Inamdar and 2 Bela Mehta.

Star CC for South Africa

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The Star Cricket Club is going on an 18-day cricket tour to South Africa to play friendly cricket matches on an invitation from Chatsworth United Cricket Club, Chatsworth, Durban, from August 18 to September 3.
The club will be playing eight matches in all, one at Johannesburg, two each at Cape Town and Port Elizabeth and three at Durban.

The team: Rohan Bhargava (captain), G Jamshandekar, Biren Pithawala, Bhoopal Raje, Abhijeet Rao, Shreyas Tawde, Vaibhav Keni, Burjin Mehta, Aditya Bagadade, Alok Bagadade, Pramod Shinde, Hitesh Shinde, Samad Akhtar, Gaurav Shirodkar, Shaikh Sahid, Sayeed Mudassar and Abhey Waghmare.
Manager: Nitin Dalal.
Coach: Deepak Murkar.
Asst. Manager: RajuDavid.

Bandra Gymkhana badminton meet

The Rs 50,000 Bandra Gymkhana Open badminton tournament will be held from August 24 to 30. Entries close on August 21.
Entry forms are available with the GBBA, the MSBA, the MSDBA and Bandra Gymkhana (Tel 6428512/6423521).

Sources in the LJP (RV) said the names of the remaining 15 candidates would also be announced very soon.

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