Nachiket Chawathe, who won the men's title at PJ Hindu Gymkhana State Ranking Table Tennis tournament recently, has been top seeded for the Bombay YMCA championships which gets under way at the Sachivalaya Gymkhana from Saturday.

Mallika Parekh has been given the pride of place in the women's section. She is topseeded in girls too with Aditya Mahagaonkar being the No 1 seed in junior boys.

The Seedings
Men: 1. Nachiket Chawathe (MSD), 2. Rohit Choudhary (Pune), 3. Sanjay Nemlekar (MSD), 4. Mahendra Chiplunkar (MCD), 5. Gandeep Bhiwandkar (MCD), 6. George Joseph (MCD), 7. Nishant Kulkarni (MSD), 8 Upendra Muley (Pune).

Junior Boys: 1. Aditya Mahagaonkar (MSD), 2. Eric Fernandes (MSD), 3. Mitesh Puranik (MSD), 4. Ankur Mahajan (MSD), 5. Shashant Juvekar (MSD), 6. Aditya Tawade (MSD), 7. Omkar Torgalkar (MSD), 8. Amol Pandit (MCD).

Sub-junior: 1. Aditya Tawade, 2. Omkar Torgalkar, 3. Aniruddha Sukale, 4. Sanket Utagi (Thane), 5. Sohail Kothare(MSD), 6. Aniket Koparkar (Pune), 7. NB Shaikh (Thane), 8. Rohan Chinchwadkar (Thane).

Cadets: 1. Aniket Koparkar, 2. Rohan Chinchwadkar, 3. Sunil Shetty (MSD), 4. Nikhil Bhandari (Thane), 5. Abhijit Kamat (Thane), 6. Arnav Dey (Thane), 7. Aman Baglu (Thane), 8. Keshav Thakkar (MSD).

Women: 1. Mallika Parekh (MSD), 2. Shalmali Mhatre (MSD), 3. Mamta Prabhu (MSD), 4. Radhika Ghatnekar (Thane).

Junior girls: 1. Mallika Parekh, 2. Mamta Prabhu, 3. Shalmali Inamdar (MSD), 4. Kshipra Gogate (Pune).

Sub-junior: 1. Madhurika Pathar (Thane), 2. Manasi Bhagwat (Thane), 3. Ashwini Mokashi (Thane), 4. Ruhi Chawla (Dhule).

Cadets: 1. Juili Inamdar (MSD), 2. Rutu Deshmukh (Thane), 3. Aslesha Bodas (Pune), 4. Saveri Rathod (Nagpur).

State athletic meet in September

The senior State athletic Championships will be held at Balewadi, Pune, on September 7 and 8. Interested participants from Bombay City District should send the list of events to Govind Dangi atPriyadarshini Park before August 30.

WIAA to organise four car rallies

The Western India Automobile Association (WIAA) will organise four major car rallies this year and the star attraction will be the rally starting from New Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta and ending in Mumbai, repeating the event of the Golden Jubilee Rally held 30 years back. WIAA has also planned to organise race meets on their own race track in Gujarat on a regular basis and Gymkhanas and woman's car rally are on the cards.

WIAA will also be one of the supporters for the vintage and classic car events being organised in Mumbai, Pune and Goa. A vintage and classic car rally is being proposed from Mumbai to Goa shortly.

SNDT badminton tournament

The SNDT Women University will be conducting the senior Inter-Collegiate Badminton and Table Tennis tournament on August 30 and 31 at the University Pavilion, Marine Lines.