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Mr. Arun Patil – Jt. Secretary NMSA Mr. Arun Lakahani – President MBA

Mr. Dattu Patil – Jt Secretary NMSA Mr. SS Shetty – Hon .Secretary MBA

K.K.Shivkumar Mr. Shivajiraje Bhonsale – MBA

Mr.Deepak Naidu Mr. Magesh Kashikar – MBA

Mr.Shrishail Mitkari Mr. KN Manik - MBA

Mr. Ashish Bajpai - MBA

TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE

Organising Committee

Mr.N Parmeshwaran – Chairman United Sportz

Ms.Anjali Sharma- MD United Sportz

Mr.Prashant Mukherjee – United Sportz Tournament Rules & Regulations for Players

The first Edition of the ‘’United Maharashtra Badminton League’’ will be open to all players from

the State of Maharashtra, including those ex-State players who now play for any government

organization like Air India, Railways, Petroleum Board’s etc. from the State of Maharashtra. The tournament will be held on 4 days, beginning on the of 5thof January and ending on the 8thof

January 2017 at the Navi Mumbai Sports Association, Vashi, Navi Mumbai

10 teams will be split into 2 groups-A and B, with each group consisting of 5 teams each.

Each team will play the remaining 4 teams in the group Once and the top 2 teams in either group

would go ahead to play the Semi – Finalsand the Finals.

The format is a Best of 7arrangement where all the matches in the tie will have to be played during

the group stage.

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The ‘Best of 7’ Format is as under

o Men’s Open Doubles 1 o Men’s Open Singles 1 o Women’s Singles o Mixed Open Doubles o Veteran Doubles (Minimum age 35 of both players as on 01/01/2017) o Men’s Open Singles 2 o Men’s Open Doubles 2

One tie would consist of 7 matches as mentioned above and 1 point would be awarded for each match

won, with the exception of a team winning the tie 6-1 or 7-0, in which case a Bonus Point would be

awarded to the team.

Each Playing Member in the team can play only 1 Match per Tie.

If at the end of 4 matches two teams have the same number of points, then the number of ties won would

be considered, if that too remains the same, then the total number of games won would decide who goes

through to the Semi-finals.

Each match in the tie will be 3 games of 15 points each, however, the semis and finals would be 3

games of 21 points each, with a difference of 2 points in both the cases.

The captain of each team will give the tie sheet half an hour before the start of play.

The laws of badminton as per Badminton World Federation (BWF) shall apply.

The tournament is an invitational tournament extended towards the Top Maharashtra players

across the Men’s, Women’s and Veteran’s Category.

The players would be picked up by way of an auction with each team consisting of 11 players, and

3 substitutes, 1 sub each in the men’s, women’s and veterans’ category taking the team total to

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Each team would be guided by 1 Coach / Team Manager who would be assigned to one of the

owners well before the Auction Day.

The Player’s base price would be decided by the tournament committee based on previous

performances in State and National Level tournaments.

If a Player is picked up in the Auctions, the price at which he is bought for in a team, would

directly go to the player and will be handed over to the player on the 7th of January, the last day

of the group stage matches.

The list of players who are eligible to participate in the tournament are mentioned in Annexure-A

below. If any other player wishes to participate in the tournament, He/ She too can send His/ Her

entry, and all such entries will be considered by the Tournament Committee on a case by case

basis.

The entry form is attached in Annexure B. All the players are requested to fill the form and send it

to entry@unitedsportz.club before the 10th of December 2016.

The Men’s players would be part of the auction as either as a Singles Player or a Doubles Pair and

should accordingly tick that check box in the form, for which they wish to be considered.

The committee reserves the right to refuse any entry without assigning any reason whatsoever.

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Entries will be restricted and the committee will have the final authority to accept/ reject entries.

The list of players who are bought at the auction. Along with their respective teams would be

uploaded on the MBA website 2 days after the auction date.

All outstation players (other than those residing in MS, GM, Thane and Raigad) would be provided

free accommodation on the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th of January.

Yonex shuttles will be provided for all the matches and Qualified Umpires as approved by MBA

would be appointed.

Once a player registers for this tournament, he / she is also confirming his / her availability for the

duration of the ‘’United Maharashtra Badminton League’’.

Please send your entries : entry@unitedsportz.club

For any further Queries or Clarifications please call

N. Parameshwaran ( Pam) : 09833269813

Anjali Sharma : 09820642956

Varad Govande : 09833803373

Shreyas Krishnamurthy : 08080155432

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Annexure- A

The Following Women’s Players have been invited to take part in the UMBL

Sr. No. Name of the Player District

1 Ankita Malgaonkar BOR

2 Akshaya Warang GM

3 Kareena Madan GM

4 Gauri Ghate GM

5 Deanne Rodrigues GM

6 Supriya Devgan GM

7 Aparna Popat GM

8 Riya Arolkar GM

9 Naheed Divecha GM

10 Rajvi Sampat GM

11 Sayali Parab GM

12 Ahilya Harjanee GM

13 Farah Moloobhai GM

14 Vaishnavi Iyer MS

15 Aishwarya Narayanmoorthy MS

16 Tanvi Lad MS

17 Himanshi Pandey MS

18 Janvi Pandey MS

19 Jyot Rekhi MS

20 Sanjana Santosh MS

21 Karishma Wadkar MS

22 Sonal More MS

23 Pooja Develekar MS

24 Kalpita Sawant MS

25 Simran Singhi MS

26 Riya Pillai MS

27 Arya Shetty MS

28 Janvi Jagtap MS

29 Ishani Sawant MS

30 Bhagirati Sharma MS

31 Shruti Shetty MS

32 Vinaya Shetty MS

33 Prajakta Sawant MS

34 Purnima Deshmukh MS

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35 Mrunmayi Saoji Nagpur

36 Varada Dixit Nagpur

37 Vaishnavi Bhale Nagpur

38 Malvika Bansod Nagpur

39 Rashi lambe Nagpur

40 Rasika Raje Nagpur

41 Ritika Thaker Nagpur

42 Arundati Pantawane Nagpur

43 Vaidehi Chaudhary Nashik

44 Aarya More Nashik

45 Smit Toshniwal Nashik

46 Aditi Kute Nashik

47 Vishakha Pawar Nashik

48 Dhanya Nair Pune

49 Neha Pandit Pune

50 Rucha Nikam Pune

51 Shruti Mundada Pune

52 Revati Devasthale Pune

53 Manasi Gadgil Pune

54 Mudra Dahinje Pune

55 Sayali Gokhale Pune

56 Purva Barve Pune

57 Aditi Kale Pune

58 Prerna Joshi Pune

59 Anika Lele Pune

60 Rajshree Bhave Pune

61 Deepali Joshi Pune

62 Anjali Kunte Pune

63 Pratibha Nair Pune

64 Manjusha Sahastrabuddhe Pune

65 Sanashree Dhamdere Pune

66 Tanishka Deshpande Pune

67 Anjali Lagu Pune

68 Vallari Bukane Thane

69 Mrunmayee Deshpande Thane

70 Saili Rane Thane

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The Following Veteran Players have been invited to take part in the UMBL

Sr. No. Name of the Players District

1 Milind Kulkarni ANG

2 Sujeet Kamble BOR

3 Sidhraj Shah GM

4 Yogesh Padukone GM

5 Vilas Kuvale GM

6 Shailesh Daga GM

7 Ayaz Bilawala GM

8 Ajay Bhatia GM

9 Jitesh Padukone GM

10 Milind Ghate GM

11 Kaldor Salazar GM

12 Rajesh Dsouza GM

13 Fabian Dennis GM

14 Bibhash Chaterjee GM

15 Gautam Ashra GM

16 Sushant Niddodi MS

17 Sachin Bharati MS

18 Anees Badmi MS

19 Anand Vithalkar MS

20 Ajay Srivastava MS

21 Manish Hadkar MS

22 Sandeep Mohan MS

23 Rajeev Lund MS

24 Mayur Tawade MS

25 Kiran Makode Nagpur

26 Jayendra Dhole Nagpur

27 Amit Deodhar Pune

28 Rohit Velhal Pune

29 Ajay Bhagwat Pune

30 Atul Pathak Pune

31 Siddharth Nivsarkar Pune

32 Mahesh Utgikar Pune

33 Amod Athawale Pune

34 Vineet Dabak Pune

35 Sameer Bhate Pune

36 Praveen Raut Pune

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37 A. Suresh Pune

38 Ajay Thatte Pune

39 Sangaram Patil Pune

40 Harish Angolkar Pune

41 Sudarshan Bhutada Pune

42 Mitesh Hazarnis Thane

43 Bhushan Paithankar Thane

44 Raghav Bhosale Thane

45 Niranjan Shahane Thane

46 Abhimanyu Baste Thane

47 Saurabh Pradhan Thane

48 Srinivasan Thane

49 Sanjay Deshmukh Thane

50 Sameer Ghadi Thane

51 Ajay Salvi Thane

52 Rajesh Singh Thane

53 Ashish Bhide Thane

54 Sumeet Patankar Thane

55 Ajay Viz Thane

The Following Mens Players have been invited to take part in the UMBL

Sr. No. Name of the Players District

1 Malhar Kulkarni Ahmednagar

2 Mandeep Singh BOR

3 Ninad Kamat Kolhapur

4 Siddhesh Aroskar GM

5 Harsh Zaveri GM

6 Sagar Chopda GM

7 Nigel Dsa GM

8 Viplav Kuvale GM

9 Firoj Mulani GM

10 Pratik Kishore GM

11 Jaidev Menon GM

12 Nikhil Mansukhani GM

13 Yash Tiwary GM

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14 Akshay Manwadkar Kolhapur

15 Karan Jadhav Kolhapur

16 Pauras Kulkarni Kolhapur

17 Harshil Dani MS

18 Chirag Shetty MS

19 Shlok Ramachandran MS

20 Kaushal Dharmamer MS

21 Anand Pawar MS

22 Ajay Jayaram MS

23 Prasad Shetty MS

24 Abhidnya Sawant MS

25 Nikhil Kolhatkar MS

26 Ameya Joshi MS

27 Rohit More MS

28 Sanket Shirbhate MS

29 Deep Rambhiya MS

30 Akshay Kadam MS

31 Anmol Behrani MS

32 Arijeet Bose MS

33 Akshan Shetty MS

34 Amit Khadgi MS

35 Harsh Jagdane MS

36 Tanishq Saxena MS

37 Likhit Bangera MS

38 Aditya Pandya MS

39 Rohit Sadani MS

40 Saidinesh Reddy MS

41 Vansh Singh MS

42 Amit Kshatriya MS

43 Akshat Patil MS

44 Abdul Bari MS

45 Siddhesh Raut MS

46 Siddharth Nageshkar MS

47 Sushrut Karmarkar MS

48 Sarang Lakhani Nagpur

49 Samit Dandawate Nagpur

50 Sourabh Kerhalkar Nagpur

51 Govind Sahastrabuddhe Nagpur

52 Gaurav Rege Nagpur

53 Pratik Bode Nagpur

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54 Rohan Gurbani Nagpur

55 Pranav Lokhande Nagpur

56 Gaurav Mithe Nagpur

57 Siddharth Thakur Nashik

58 Vinayak Dandawate Nashik

59 Ajinkya Patharkar Nashik

60 Nishad Dravid Pune

61 Sameer Bhagwat Pune

62 Sudanshu Medshikar Pune

63 Varun Khanwilkar Pune

64 Ishan Talwalkar Pune

65 Gandhar Marathe Pune

66 Wasim Shaikh Pune

67 Ruturaj Deshpande Pune

68 Darshan Kulkarni Pune

69 Kunal Gole Pune

70 Akhilesh Joshi Pune

71 Lokesh Sonawane Pune

72 Hruitvik Ambekar Pune

73 Sahil Lokhande Pune

74 Narendra Patil Pune

75 Abhishek Swadi Pune

76 Rohan Panse Pune

77 Gaurav Thote Pune

78 Tushar Belapure Pune

79 Mayank Gole Pune

80 Ameya Oak Pune

81 Arya Bhivpathki Pune

82 Rushabh Deshpande Pune

83 Harshad Bhagwat Pune

84 Sahil Lokhande Pune

85 Abhishek Kulkarni Pune

86 Vineet Kamble Pune

87 Devashish Navadikar Pune

88 Anirudha Mayekar Pune

89 Apurva Jawadekar Pune

90 Dhiraj Kumar Gaurav Sanghli

91 Rishikesh Mali Sanghli

92 Shripad Pardeshi Sanghli

93 Tushar Mulay Solapur

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94 Akshay Dewalkar Thane

95 Kabir Kanzarkar Thane

96 Akshay Raut Thane

97 Abhishek Kulkarni Thane

98 Eshan Naqvi Thane

99 Nihar Kelkar Thane

100 Utkarsh Shilwant Thane

101 Prashant Bahatre Thane

102 Shreyas Krishnamurthy Thane

103 Varad Govande Thane

104 Shrishail Mitkari Thane

105 Ganesh Mahalle Thane

106 Ameya Pawar Thane

107 Prasanjeet Shirodkar Thane

108 Bisal Das Thane

109 Jishnu Sanyal Thane

110 Vignesh Devlekar Thane

111 Ekendra Darji Thane

112 Aman Farokh Sanjay Thane

113 Siddhesh Hudekar Thane

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ANNEXURE B

Organised Jointly with MAHARASHTRA BADMINTON ASSOCIATION

PLAYER INFORMATION

(PLEASE TICK WHEREVERAPPLICABLE)

NAME: _________________________________________________

ADDRESS: _________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________

DISTRICT: __________________________________________________

DOB: ______________ SEX: __________ JERSEYSIZE:

CONTACTNO: _______________________________________

EMAILID:

EVENT: MENSSINGLES WOMENSCATEGORY PLAYERSIGNATURE

MENSDOUBLES VETERANSDOUBLES

(To be filled only by Men’s and Veteran DoublesPlayers)

PARTNER’SNAME:

PARTNER’SDOB:_____________ PARTNERS JERSEYSIZE:

PERFORMANCE IN THE LAST 2 YEARS (JAN 2015 – NOV2016)

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Note- All Men’s players will tick either the ‘Men’s Singles’ or ‘Men’s Doubles’ Checkbox

Last Date of Entries – 10th December 2016

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