196 players for 8th edition of PYC-VINSYS Racquet LEAGUE 2025
Pune, 4th March 2025: A total 196 players will represent 6 teams in the 8th edition of PYC VINSYS Racquet League 2025 that will be organised by the PYC Hindu Gymkhana in its Table Tennis, Tennis, and Badminton facilities from March 5, 2025. The Final will be played on Sunday, 9th March 2025.
Kumar Tamhane, President of PYC Hindu Gymkhana and Mr. Sarang Lagu, Joint Secretary of the PYC Hindu Gymkhana said that this unique league which was formulated by its members and will include veterans, men’s, women’s and juniors playing in a team and participating in racquet sports namely table tennis, tennis and badminton. This is the 8th Year of the League.
Sarang Lagu, Joint Secretary added that PYC Gymkhana is the only club in the city to offer its members seven different leagues one in cricket, one in badminton, one in basketball, one in football, one in snooker, one in table tennis one in tennis with a view of health and recreation of its members through sports. The league will bring members on a common platform and help them bond as a team as each match in the tie will be of utmost importance, he added.
Lagu further added that this will be the first year that the VINSYS has graciously sponsored this event. We are glad that this event is being held at the club with great success for the past 8 years, he added.
A Tie between two teams will consist of 7 Matches of Badminton, Table Tennis and Tennis Sport, so in total 21 Matches will comprise of a tie. Players have been awarded stars as per their playing abilities in every sport and on the same basis they were auctioned. The league will witness national level players in all three sports in action.Matches in all 3 sports will be the first five Open Doubles matches of 30 points each, except Match No 6 & 7 will be 20 points each. Nandan
Dongre has been appointed as tournament director.
In an auction 196 players were selected to represent six teams which included Ravetkar Musketeers (Amol Ravetkar & Parag Chopada), Iyer-Badamikar Colts (Atharva Iyer & Siddharth Badamikar), Pandit Javdekar Talwars (Ranjit Pande), Spears (Amol Jog & Ashutosh Agashe), Seinumero Rockets (Tushar Mengale), Lancers (Alok Telang).
Apart from that, this competition also will be held for Kids League for ages below 14. A total of 56 Kids will be seen in action in this event.
A tournament committee composed of Abhishek Tamhane, Tushar Nagarkar, Tanmay Agashe, Sarang Lagu, Ranjit Pande, MS. Dipti Sardesai, Kedar Nadgonde, Nandan Dongre have been formed for the smooth conduct of the event.
