Tata Open India International Challenge Badminton Tournament 2010 starts on December 21, 2010
Tournament to be held from December 21- 25, 2010 at state-of-art badminton courts at Cricket Club Of India (CCI), Mumbai Tata Open India International Challenge 2010 will witness participation from international Badminton players coming from Indonesia, Malaysia Singapore, Bangladesh, Nepal and Thailand along with a strong contingent of leading Indian players Tata group along with Tata Capital has extended the relationship with Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy for next 3 years (Till July 2013)
Mumbai, December 14, 2010: The Tata group, in its long term endeavour to support sports, today announced the commencement of Tata Open India International Challenge 2010 in Mumbai. This year Tata Open has achieved a unique milestone by attracting players from leading nations in South & South East Asia which include Indonesia, Malaysia Singapore, Bangladesh, Nepal and Thailand. The Tata group along with Tata Capital has sponsored the tournament with the prize fund of US$ 15,000 (Approx Rupees Six lakh Seventy five thousand) Tata group along with Tata Capital has extended the relationship with Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy for next 3 years (August 2010 - July 2013). As part of this association, three Tata Padukone Badminton Centres are currently being run in Bengaluru, Pune & Mumbai. These centres aim at providing world-class training to improve skills and further harness the young flourishing Badminton talent in India. Tata Open India International Challenge 2010 has been organized by Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA) under the auspices of Maharashtra Badminton Association (MBA) and will get underway at state-of-the-art India’s first air conditioned badminton courts at the Cricket Club of India (CCI), Mumbai from December 21 to December 25, 2010. The qualifying rounds of the tournament will be held on 21st December and the main draw will commence from 22nd to 25th December. The points earned in this tournament will qualify for world ranking points. The finals will be held on 25th December. In the Men’s Singles category, the leading International players like Alamsyah Yonus who was the Indian Grand Prix Gold Tournament winner at Chennai, Tommy Sugiarto (Son of Former World Champion Icuk Sugiatro), Misbun Ramdan (Son of Malaysian Great Misbun Sidek) and six other strong Malaysian Singles players, Thailand Players, Stanislav Pukhov a Russian player and Daniel Gouw from USA will be playing along with top Indian players like Anup Sridhar, Aravind Bhat, Ajay Jayaram, Anand Pawar etc. In the Women’s singles category, top Indonesian players such as Ana Rovita, Fransiska Ratnasari will be the main attraction along with Indian National Champion Trupti Murgunde, Sayali Gokhale & P V Sindhu the National Junior Champion. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Atul Agrawal, Vice President–Corporate Affairs, Tata Services Ltd. said “Sports has been an integral part of the Tata way of life and the Tata group endeavors to develop talent by providing a unique platform to Badminton players. He further added, “This year we are taking Tata Open to an international level and we are very happy to extend our relationship with PPBA for next 3 years. We wish our players all the best and are sure that they will find the tournament an exciting experience”
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Amar Sinhji, Head- HR, Tata Capital Ltd said, “Tata Capital is a young company in the Tata Group and we constantly seek out noble ways to identify and support young and emerging talent. We are extremely honored to be supporting the Tata Open India International Challenge 2010. By supporting such sincere and genuine initiatives of Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, we feel proud of having invested in an initiative that gives young players a chance to realize their potential in a tough and demanding sport like Badminton. Tata Capital conveys its best wishes to the young aspirants to battle it out for the coveted Tata Open 2010 Trophy.” Mr. Prakash Padukone, Director, Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, said, “Mumbai has not witnessed a good international badminton tournament for a long time and this year we have received participation from young promising players coming from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. Mumbaikers will be able to see the future champions of the world. I am grateful to Tata’s to upgrade this event to an international level. I am also thankful to Yonex and CCI for associating with us and I hope this event becomes an annual affair”. Tata Open India International Challenge Badminton tournament 2010 has been organized by Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA) under the auspices of Maharashtra Badminton Association (MBA) and Badminton Association of India (BAI). For more information on this please log on to www.ppba.in The Tata group has a rich tradition of contributing towards sports such as tennis, archery, billiards, football, hockey and athletics among others. The Tata group’s association with sports goes back to more than three quarters of a century. The Tata Sports Club was formed, to encourage sports and sportspeople within and outside the group. The Club's endeavours have been directed at spotting and developing potential by providing an early platform for individuals to realize their ambitions in sports. Yonex will be the official equipment supplier for the tournament & is hosted by Cricket Club of India, Mumbai. Radio City is the official Radio partner for this exciting tournament. About Tata group: The Tata group comprises over 90 operating companies in seven business sectors: communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals. The group has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents, and its companies export products and services to 85 countries. The total revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $67.4 billion (around Rs319, 534 crore) in 2009-10, with 57 per cent of this coming from business outside India. Tata companies employ around 395,000 people worldwide. The Tata name has been respected in India for 140 years for its adherence to strong values and business ethics. Every Tata company or enterprise operates independently. Each of these companies has its own board of directors and shareholders, to whom it is answerable. There are 28 publicly listed Tata enterprises and they have a combined market capitalization of $101.3 billion (as on December 2, 2010), and a shareholder base of 3.4 million. The major Tata companies are Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Indian Hotels and Tata Communications. About Tata Capital Limited: Tata Capital Limited is a subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited. Tata Capital is registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a Systemically Important Non Deposit Accepting Non Banking Financial Company. A holistic financial services provider, Tata Capital caters to the diverse needs of retail, corporate and institutional customers, directly or indirectly through its subsidiaries. Its range of offerings include Consumer Finance, Advisory Services, Commercial Finance, Infrastructure Finance, Securities
Business*, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Credit Cards and Travel & Forex Services *through Tata Securities Limited. About Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy: Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy was launched on October 1st, 1994. Located in Bangalore, the Academy is the brainchild of Mr. Prakash Padukone, Mr. Vimal Kumar and Mr. Vivek Kumar all stalwarts of Indian Badminton. Having won many International Badminton laurels for India, they knew well what was required to hone the future Indian Badminton Stars. They have created an Indian Badminton Academy, which imparts World-class Badminton coaching to trainees who are selected solely on merit and to whom training and facilities are provided on a scholarship basis. Encouraged by the success of the Bangalore Centre, PPBA established the Pune Centre during July 1999. The three centres at Bangalore, Pune & Mumbai together all christened as Tata Padukone Badminton Centre. For further information, please contact: Gaurav Prabhu / Ankita Shethia / Sayantani Ganguly Vaishnavi Corporate Communications Mob: 9867069281/ 9867035855/ 9867035857 Email:
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The lists of players participating in the Tata Open India International Badminton Tournament- 2010 are: (refer Annexure)
Tata Open All India International Badminton Tournament 2010 MENS SINGLES
S.NO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Lastname YUNUS JAYARAM TEDJONO PAWAR BHAT SUGIARTO Pukhov WONG SRIDHAR ELANGO GOH AVIHINGSANON ABDUL LATIF PANG ZAINUDDIN LIM B. BANSAL GOUW MISBUN RAMADHAN CHOPDA VERMA
Firstname Alamsyah Ajay Andre Kurniawan Anand Arvind Tommy Stanislav Zi Liang Derek Anup Aditya SOON HUAT Suppanyu MOHAMAD ARIF Alex ISKANDAR ZULKARNAIN FANG YANG Sai Praneeth Oscar DANIEL MISBUN RAMDAN Arif Sagar Sourabh
NAC INA IND INA IND IND INA RUS SIN IND IND MAS THA MAS CAN MAS MAS IND IND USA MAS INA IND IND
PRAKASH
Aditya
IND
SUBAGJA CHOPRA RHUSTAVITO K. H.S.
Riyanto Guaranshu Shesar Hiren Nandagopal Prannoy
INA IND INA IND IND
S.No 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62
Lastname Firstname BEHAL Mayank LEE JIAN JEE JOLLY Prakash MATAYANUMATI Siriwat AI WEI JIAN KHAN Enayetullah Md.AHSUN HABIB Parash MOSTAFA Mohammed Jabed UDDIN Md Rais CASTELINO Rohan D'SA Nigel HAZARIKA Anushuman JOSHI Pratul K Ajay Kumar K Srikanth KRISHNA SDS N. V. S. Vijetha PATEL Pratik REDDY B.Sumeeth SAINI Vikram SAINI Vipul SINGH Prem SINGH Ravinder T Nagendra TANISHAK K VERMA Sameer TAMRAKAR Sajan Krishna MEHATA Indra KHARBNDA Himanshu TENE Andre Marteen SHRESHTRA Bibek PRADHAN Bishal BASHAH Salah Mahdi
NAC IND MAS IND THA MAS BAN BAN BAN BAN IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND NEP NEP IND INA NEP NEP IRQ
WOMENS SINGLES S. N o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Lastnam e SU LTANA SH APLA AKTER HU LDER RATNASARI RO VITA CHRISTINA AN GGU NI NAQVI M URGU NDE GO KH ALE PU SARLAVENKATA PANDIT VARTAK SAHDEV P.C RANE SAHASTRABUDDHE DAHIN JE GH ORPADE KU NNATH LAD SH RESTHA TAM AN G JIN DAPO N Rawinda RAM ADHIN I DAS SANYAL BASU M ATARI
Firstnam e Alina aktar Rozina Dulali Fransiska Ana M ariaElfira Febby Parssa Trupti Sayali Sindhu N eha G ayatri M ohita Thulasi Saili Sam pada M udra Sanyogita JaquelineRose Tanvi Pooja N agshalaDevi N ichaon PRAJO N GJAI H anna Kristi Sheshadri Bibari
N AC BAN BAN BAN BAN INA INA INA INA IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND IND N EP N EP THA THA INA IND IND IND
MEN DOUBLES S. Member ID Memb er ID No 1 2 Lastname 1 1 12714 15681 MOSTAFA 2 53025 15685 UDDIN 3 51082 51075 Yoga 4 78073 57839 KONA 5 55356 55448 DEWALKAR 6 42776 83614 B. 7 15850 51312 MANUEL 8 24172 83950 REDDY 9 93627 94561 K 10 55447 82724 VIJAY 11 78917 95414 SINGH 12 4252 91450 TAMRAKAR 13 15683 56665 MEHATA 14 48692 53771 YI 15 53779 52701 TANG 16 53549 30342 CHALARDCHALEAM 17 15342 15690 SINGH 18 55357 55352 GILL 19 50532 50490 KURIAN 20 29722 54836 PHAISANSOMSUK
Firstname 1 Moham med Jabed Md Rais Ukikasah Tarun Akshay Sai Praneeth Vineeth B.Sum eeth Srikanth Ram C. Prem Sajan Krishna Indra LIU Yew Loong,Jonathan Patipat Ravinder Tanvir Thomas Suwat
Lastname 2 M d.AHSUN HABIB KHAN RIYADI C HOPRA VISHNU K. KRISHNA H.S. T SHANMUGHASUND JOSHI SHRESHTRA PRADHAN YEO WONG PUANGPUAPECH M ISHRA BEHAL ANTONY UTTAMANG
NAC Firstname 2 1 NAC 2 Parash BAN BAN Enayetullah BAN BAN Joko INA INA Pranav IND IND Arun IND IND Nandagopal IND IND SDS IND IND Prannoy IND IND Hem anagendra Babu IND IND Sanjeeth IND IND Ankush IND IND Bibek NEP NEP Bishal NEP NEP Zhao Jiang Ter ry SIN SIN Zi Liang D erek SIN SIN nipitphon THA THA Utsav IND IND Mayank IND IND Joy T. IND IND Wasapol THA THA
WOMEN DOUBLES S. Member Member No ID 1 ID 2 Lastname 1 1 88646 54782 AKTER 2 94843 89240 SULTANA 51651 28248 BALAN 3 4 99026 33280 POLAVARAPU 73173 75410 PUSARLA VENKATA 5 56471 57564 RANE 6 7 72855 60781 AGASKAR 50207 91707 SHRESTHA 8 53582 63624 AMITAPAI 9 10 54971 27829 DEKA 39494 KURIAN 11 13711 57971 JINDAPOL 12 41856
Firstname 1 Rozina Alina Aparna Jyotshna Sindhu Saili Jui Pooja Savitree Abantika Shruti Pattharaporn
Firstname 2
NAC 1
NAC 2
Dulali aktar Prajakta Pradnya Thulasi Sanyogita Parssa Nagshala Devi SOMSRI Sampada Nitya Nitchaon
BAN BAN IND IND IND IND IND NEP THA IND IND THA
BAN BAN IND IND IND IND IND NEP THA IND IND THA
Lastname 2 HULDER SHAPLA SAWANT GADRE P.C GHORPADE NAQVI TAMANG Nessara SAHASTRABUDDHE SOSALE JINDAPOL
MIXED DOUBLES
S. Member M em ber No ID 1 ID 2 Lastn ame 1 1 156 85 88646 KHAN 2 156 81 94843 Md.A HSUN HABIB 89240 MOSTAFA 3 127 14 4 530 25 54782 UDDIN 5 554 48 51651 VISHNU 28248 CHO PRA 6 578 39 54971 GILL 7 553 57 8 553 56 33280 DEWALKAR 99026 K 9 936 27 554 47 28319 VIJAY 10 11 156 83 50207 MEHATA 91707 PRADHAN 12 566 65 53582 CHALARDCHALEAM 13 535 49 14 303 42 63624 PUANGPU APECH 15 789 17 65076 SINGH 41856 MATAYANUM ATI 16 150 94 17 New 14783 KK
Firstname 1
Enayetullah Parash Moham m ed Jabed Md Rais Arun Pranav tanveer Akshay Srikanth Ram C. Indra Bishal Patipat nipitphon Prem Siriw at Manjush Mohan
Lastname 2
AK TER SU LTANA SHAPLA HULDER BALAN SAW ANT DEKA GA DRE PO LAVARAPU DAS SHRESTHA TAM ANG AM ITAPAI Nessara BHATI JIN DAPO L BASUM ATARI
Firstnam e 2
Rozina Alina aktar Dulali Aparna Prajakta Abantika Pradnya Jyotshna Kristi Pooja Nagshala Devi Savitree SOMSRI Radhika Singh Pattharaporn Bibari
NA C NAC 1 2 BA N BA N BA N BA N IND IND IND IND IND IND NEP NEP THA THA IND THA IND
BAN BAN BAN BAN IND IND IND IND IND IND N EP N EP THA THA IND THA IND
