Former U-17 nationwide champion and member of this 12 months’s Asian Championships profitable Indian girls’s workforce, Tanvi Sharma might be among the many prime contenders within the women’ U-19 class within the Yonex Dawn thirty first Smt Krishna Khaitan Memorial All India Junior Rating Prize Cash Event beginning September 12 -19.
The event, which is being organised by Specific Shuttle Membership Belief underneath the aegis of Haryana Badminton Affiliation, is likely one of the junior occasions on the Badminton Affiliation of India home calendar and might be performed at Tau Devi Lal Sports activities Complicated, Sector 3.
“We’ve bought 1014 entries for the event. It occurs to be an necessary event on the BAI calendar and like all the time, will supply rating factors to the U-19 gamers. Final 12 months’s finalist Tanvi Sharma might be main the problem within the women’ U-19 class and gamers like prime seed Rujula Ramu of Karnataka and Medhavi Nagar of Haryana too would be the prime attracts of the event,” mentioned Sanjiv Sachdeva, event director who has been the chief coach of the Indian junior workforce prior to now and is a member of BAI’s choice committee.
Whereas final 12 months, greater than 1150 entries have been acquired for the event, there have been greater than 1350 entries for the event in 2022. Final month’s All India Junior Rating Event, Orissa winner Rounak Chouhan of Chattisgarh might be prime seed within the boys’ U19 singles class whereas defending champion Pranauv Ram of Telangana has been seeded second within the class.
Whereas a number of the prime U-19 gamers like Asian U15 champion Tanvi Patri and Asian U-17 bronze medallist Gnana Dattu are a part of the nationwide camp for the world junior badminton championship this week, a number of the top-ten gamers might be in motion right here.
Within the boys’ doubles U-19 class, the pair of Vinayakram GP and Swastik Matharasan of Telangana has been drawn as prime seeds. The pair of Pragati Parida and Vishaka Toppo of Orissa has been drawn as prime seeds within the women’ U19 doubles class whereas the pair of Mithliesh P Krishnan of Pondicherry and Manya Ralhan of Punjab Nationwide Financial institution has been drawn as prime seeds within the blended doubles U19 class.
The event has been sanctioned with a complete prize cash of Rs 4 lakh by BAI president Hemanta Biswa Sarma and within the quarter-finals onwards, gamers might be awarded with prize cash. “Final 12 months, we noticed abilities like Anmol Kharab and Tanvi Sharma rising from the event. This 12 months too, we anticipate some new abilities to emerge. The primary draw for boys in addition to women singles might be of 32 every whereas the remainder of the classes will see a important draw of 16 every. There have been 467 entries for boys’ singles U19 class within the qualification draw whereas 174 entries have come for the women singles U19 qualification draw,” mentioned Sachdeva.
Previously, London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal had gained the women’ singles title in 2005 whereas double Olympics medallist PV Sindhu gained the title in 2010. Nationwide coach Pullela Gopichand’s spouse PVV Laxmi had change into the primary women’ singles winner within the event in 1991. Final 12 months, Haryana teen Anmol Kharb had gained the women’ U-19 title beating Tanvi Sharma of Punjab within the ultimate.
Pranauv Ram of Telangana had gained the boys’ U-19 title after his opponent Lalthazuala of Mizoram withdrew halfway into the match.
“Gamers born on or after January 1, 2006, are eligible to participate within the event and BAI obersevers might be strictly adhering to the age pointers. Lokesh Kumar Soni would be the chief referee together with Parijat Natu as deputy referee and Pankaj Saini as match controller. The event might be performed on the ten picket courts at Tau Devi Lal Sports activities Complicated in Panchkula and the qualification spherical matches will occur from September 12 to September 15 earlier than the principle draw occurs,” added Sachdeva.