Chandigarh, Friday, February 17 : Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association (CLTA) will hold International Tennis Federation (ITF) Men’s Futures US$-10,000 Tennis Tournament at Tennis Stadium, Sector-10, Chandigarh from 20th to 25th February, 2012. The Qualifying rounds however will be played on 18th and 19th February, 2012.
Players from 17 countries are participating in the tournament. Countries being represented are India Japan; Taiwan; Uzbekistan; Ireland; Great Britain; Germany; Cambodia; Kyrgyzstan; USA; Hungry; Spain; Switzerland; Italy; Russia; China; Nigeria and Sri Lanka.
The Main Draw will have 32 participants in a singles event. Single qualifying round will have 32 entries. Sign-in deadline of qualifying rounds ended today at 1800 hours by which time 37 players had signed in for qualifying round. The singles qualifying round will be held on 18th and 19th February, 2012. 8 players will qualify for the Main Draw from the qualifying rounds alongwith 4 wild card entries which will make total complement of 32 players for the Main Draw matches which will be held from 20th to 25th February, 2012. The Wild Card entries are:-
Men’s Singles Main Draw:-
Player’s Name Country’s Name
Ranjeet Singh India (CLTA CHART Trainee)
Antonio Los Santos Malaysia (CLTA Trainee)
Abhijeet Tiwari India
Sidharth Rawat India
Men’s Singles Qualifying:-
Player’s Name Country’s Name
Digvijay Singh Naruka India (CLTA Trainee)
Dheeranush Singh Bhatti India (CLTA CHART Trainee)
Suraj Beniwal India
Dinesh Thangarajah Sri Lanka
Fatehdeep Singh India
Ronak Manuja India
The Indian challenge will be led by Vishnu Vardhan (318) India the top seed and CLTA CHART Trainee Vijayant Malik (472) the second seed. Arata Onozawa (487) from Japan is the third seed. India has 9 participants in the Main Draw while Japan has 3; Great Britain 2; Ireland 1; Germany 1; Cambodia 1; Kgrykistan 1; Uzbakistan 1; Taiwan 1.
Dr. Jasjit Singh has been appointed the Tournament Director, Ms. Sheetal Iyer will be the Tournament Referee. CLTA has made arrangements of the tournament officials at U.T. Guest House. The technical aspects of the tournament are being looked after by Mr.Gurvarinder Singh Sahota, Director Coaching, CLTA.
Mr. Rajan Kashyap, Patron-in-Chief stated that arrangements have been made for live telecast of the Semi-finals and Finals by Doordarshan on 24th and 25th February, 2012. Sh.Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister, Haryana will be the Chief Guest on Semi-finals while His Excellency Sh. Shivraj V. Patil, Governor Punjab & Administrator U.T. Administration, Chandigarh will be Chief Guest on the Finals. He hoped that the tennis lovers of the tricity will be able to see some exciting tennis during the week long international event.