Sunrise V V Natu Memorial All-India Ranking Badminton Tournament
Pune, 16 October 2022: Raghu Marisamy and Malvika Bansod have been top seeded in the Men’s and women’s categories respectively in the Sunrise V V Natu Memorial all-India ranking Badminton tournament starting here at the PDMBA modern Sports Complex on Monday.
As many as 1786 shuttlers will be seen in action in different categories in the tournament, which carries prize money of Rs five lakh.
“we have first round the tournament on October 17 with the finals scheduled for October 23,” informed Ranjit Natu, secretary of the Pune District and Metropolitan Badminton Association (PDMBA).
Given that the organisers have received record entries the PDMBA has decided to use 20 courts for the initial rounds—eight courts at Modern Complex, six at PYC Hindu Gymkhana, two courts of Laxmi Krida Mandir, four of the College of Engineering ,Pune.
Organising secretary of the tournament, Rajiv Bag said that since this tournament could not be conducted for the last two years due to Covid pandemic, the event has received such an overwhelming response.
The Seedings:
Men’s singles:
1. Raghu M
2. Ravi
3. Kartik Jindal
4. Aditya Bapineedu G
5. Shreyansh Jaiswal
6. Arjun Rehani
7. Siddhant Gupta
8. Pranav Rao Gandham
9. Yash Yogi
10. Dhruv Kumar
11. Sai Charan Koya
12. Bhargav S
13. Munawer Mohammed
14. Tukum Laa
Men’s doubles:
1. Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar R.
2. Shyam Prsad and Sunjith S.
3. Manjit Singh Khwairakpam and Dingku Singh Konthoujam
4. Kabir Kanzarkar and Akshay Raut
5. Vaibhav and Vasantha Kumar H. R.
6. Tushar Sharma and Vinay Kumar Singh
7. Kushal Raj S. and Prakash Raj S.
8. Deep Rambhiya and Akshan Shetty
Women’s singles:
1. Malvika Bansod
2. Tara Shah
3. Purva Barve
4. Tanya Hemanth
5. Aashi Rawat
6. Kavipriya S.
7. Neha Pandit
8. Anura Prabhudesai
9. Meghana Reddy M
10. Gayathri Rani Jaiswal
11. Shruti Mundada
12. Vijetha Harish
13. Abhilasha A.
14. Preethi K.
15. Tanisgq M.
16. Vaidehi Choudhari
Women’s doubles:
1. Mehreen Riza and Shivani Santosh Singh
2. Ramya Tulasi B.V. and Tanushree R.
3. Vennala K. and Shriyanshi Valishetty
4. Khushi Gupta and Priya Devi Konjengbam
5. Kavya Gupta and Akshaya Warang
6. Mahi Naresh and Shailja Shukla
7. Diksha Chaudhary and Navdha Manglam
8. Tanishka Deshpande and Shruti Mundada
