Rethin Pranav and Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi had been the winners of the T.Ok. Ramanathan award for one of the best participant of the 2024-25 season (₹30,000 every) within the Tamil Nadu Tennis Affiliation (TNTA) annual day perform on the Madras Cricket Membership (MCC) right here on Tuesday.
TNTA president Vijay Amritraj stated that there was important curiosity among the many gamers to take part within the second version of the Chennai Open, a WTA 250 occasion, set to happen from October 27 to November 2.
Ramesh Krishnan presents the T.Ok. Ramanathan award to Rethin Pranav as Vijay Amritraj, President, TNTA, appears to be like on.
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“I feel it is going to be an excellent (participant) area as a result of the earlier week is in Tokyo in Japan (Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis – WTA 500). So, they are going to be on their approach right here. There are two different tournaments (Jiangxi Open, Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open) as effectively in China on the similar time (because the Chennai Open). However once more, there was plenty of curiosity (among the many gamers) in coming to our personal metropolis,” Vijay Amritraj stated.
He added that there’s a plan to arrange video screens (for streaming the Chennai Open matches) throughout town to reinforce public engagement.
“We hope to have LED video screens throughout town, so that individuals can sit on the Marina Seaside or in T. Nagar or wherever and have snacks and watch the matches, which I feel shall be an important increase for our sport and create much more curiosity within the State,” he added.
The award-winners: T.Ok. Ramanathan award (Greatest participant of the 2024-25 season): Rethin Pranav, Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi.
President award for essentially the most promising teen: Ishaan Sudharshan, Hemdev Mahesh, Deepthi Venkatesan, Diya Ravikumar Janaki
Justice P.S. Kailasam Memorial award for efficiency in junior Nationals: Boys: Singles: u-18: Winner: Kandhavel Mahalingam; Runner-up: Varun Verma.
Doubles: u-12: Runner-up: Ronnie Vijay Kumar.
Ladies: Singles: u-18: Winner: Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi; Runner-up: Diya Ramesh.
Doubles: u-14: Runners-up: Deepshika Vinayagamurthy and A.S.R. Bawyasri; u-16:Runners-up: Sanmitha Harini Lokesh and Savitha Bhuvaneswaran; u-18: Doubles: Winner: Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi.
Efficiency in Nationwide c’ships: Males: Singles: Winner: Rethin Pranav.
Ladies: Singles: Runner-up: Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi; Doubles: Runner-up: Sai Samhitha Chamarthi.
Efficiency in Nationwide Video games (Dehradun): Males: Manish Suresh Kumar (singles and doubles bronze, staff gold); V.M. Ranjeet (staff gold); Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (doubles bronze, staff gold); Lohith Aksha Bathrinath (combined doubles and staff gold); Ok.S. Dheeraj (staff gold)
Ladies: Lakshmiprabha Arunkumar (combined doubles gold, staff bronze); Janani Ramesh (staff bronze); Mirudhula Palanivel (staff bronze); Diya Ramesh (staff bronze)
Efficiency in Deaf & Exhausting Listening to c’ship: Males: Prithvi Shekar (Australian Open singles champion and doubles runner-up).
Efficiency in Wheelchair Tennis Nationals: Karthik Karunakaran (singles winner, doubles runner-up); Mariappan Durai (doubles runner-up); Balachandar Subramanian (doubles winner).
Representing India: Davis Cup / Fed Cup / u-12, u-14, u-16 / Wheelchair: Ramkumar Ramanthan, Sriram Balaji; BNP Paribas World Cup Asia Qualifying: Karthik Karunakaran, Mariappan Durai, Ok. Sathasivam; Billie Jean King Cup u-14 & u-16: Diya Ramesh (Junior Billie Jean King Cup Asia Oceania Last Qualifying, Kazakhstan).
Muthukrishnan Memorial award for many promising and performing participant (Boy): Varun Verma.
Nagamani Mahadevan award for many promising and performing participant (Lady): Diya Ramesh.
thirty second Sanmar TNTA Chennai Metropolis membership tennis league: Veterans (60+): Winner: MGC; Runner-up: Cosmopolitan Membership-A.
45+: Zone-A: Winner: MCC-A; Runner-up: Besant Nagar Membership-B; Zone-B: Winner: BNC-B; Runner-up: Nungambakkam Tennis Membership-A; Zone-C: Winner: Anna Nagar Membership; Runner-up: Madras Race Membership.
Common: Zone-A: Winner: MCC-A; Runner-up: NTC-C; Zone-B: Winner: GNC-A; Runner-up: Anna Nagar Ok Block-A; Zone-C: Winner: Presidency Membership-A; Runner-up: BNC-B; Zone-D: Winner: MCC-M; Runner-up: Gandhi Nagar Membership-C; Zone-E: Winner: Besant Nagar Membership-C; Runner-up: Madras Membership-B; Zone-F: Winner: Presidency Membership-B; Runner-up: YMCA Kilpauk.
sixteenth UCAL-TNTA Chennai inter-club league-cum-knockout c’ship: Winner: MCC; Runner-up: BNC
Printed – July 22, 2025 09:10 pm IST
