Yohan Darius Pandole of Maharashtra and Vruddhi Doshi of Madhya Pradesh have been given the pride of place in the boy’s and girl’s under-19 categories respectively, in the Rs 6 lakh prize-money NSCI Junior Open 2015, to be played at the NSCI’s glass-back courts, Worli, from Saturday, August 8 to Thursday, August 13, 2015.
Aishwary Singh from Maharashtra is seeded second, while Delhi’s Junaid Muzaffar Thoker and Raghuvir Reddy also from Maharashtra are jointly seeded third and fourth in the boy’s under-19 event.
Maharashtra’s Aishwarya Bhattacharya is the second seed in the girl’s under-19 category while Jui Kalgutkar (Maharashtra) and Amaya Kothari (Delhi) are the joint 3-4th seeds.
The Mumbai lad Yohan, ranked number one in the country, has been seeded directly into the second round and will take on the winner of the first round match between Maharashtra’s Zain Motiwala and Cholarajan Nagaraj of Tamil Nadu.
Meanwhile, Vruddhi will begin her campaign on Saturday in the first round against Rajashtan’s Riya Sisodia.
NSCI is organising this tournament for the fifth consecutive year and this time the event has been accorded an SRFI 4-Star ranking and will be governed by the SRFI National Junior Circuit & Ranking Guidelines.
Around 400 entries have been received for this event will see competition for boys’ and girls’ in the age groups of U-11, U-13, U-15, U-17 and U-19. Almost 30 youngsters from NSCI are also participating in the tournament.
Seedings: Girl’s – Under-11: 1. Yuvna Gupta, 2. Pooja Arthi R. 3-4. Archita Singh, Saisha Gupta.
Under-13: 1. Megha Bhatia, 2. Ananya Dabke, 3-4: Avani Nagar,Aryaa Ogale.
Under-15: 1. Navmi Sharma, 2. Abhilasha Bhasin, 3-4: Jannia Singh,Jeffrey Bianca.
Under-17: 1. Nikita Joshi, 2. Koel Shankar, 3-4: Diya Joukani, Aakanksha Rao.
Under-19: 1. Vruddhi Doshi, 2. Aishwarya Bhattacharya, 3-4: Jui Kalgutkar, Amaya Kothari.
Boy’s Under-11: 1. Paarth Ambani, 2. Ansh Tripathi, 3-4: Vivaan Shah, Yuvraj Wadhwani.
Under-13: 1. Neel Joshi, 2. Jeh Pandole, 3-4: Shreyas Mehta, Kanhav Nanavati.
Under-15: 1. Veer Chotrani, 2. Rahul Baitha, 3-4: Utkarsh Baheti, Pranav N Visvesh.
Under-17: 1. Robin Singh Mann, 2. Yash Bhargava, 3-4: Aryaman Adik, Chaitanya Shah.
Under-19: 1. Yohan Darius Pandole, 2. Aishwary Singh, 3-4: Junaid Muzaffar Thoker, Raghuvir Reddy.