Top Seed Naishaa Bhatoye Eyes Double Glory At CCI-GMBA District Badminton Championship 2025

Mumbai city’s talented and skillful teenager Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye has the distinction of being the top seed in the women’s singles and girls’ under-19 singles, in the CCI-GMBA Yonex Sunrise District Badminton Championship 2024, organized by the Cricket Club of India (CCI) in association with the Greater Mumbai Badminton Association (GMBA), and which is scheduled to commence at the CCI badminton courts from Monday, June 2, 2025. Shivani Herlekar is seeded second behind the energetic and cheerful Naishaa in the women’s draw.

In the men’s competition, Ajay Meena has been given the pride of place, while talented teenager Harshit Mahimkar is seeded second. Piyush Kamble and Ruturaj Rathod are the third and fourth seeds respectively. Harshit is the number one seed in both the boy’s U-17 and boys’ U-19 singles events.

Competitions will be conducted in 22 categories. The events include Men’s and Women’s singles, doubles and mixed doubles, Boys’ & Girls’ U-19 and U-17 singles and doubles, Boys’ & Girls’ U-11, U-13 and U-15 singles, Men's Masters 80+ combination doubles, Women's Seniors 75+ combination doubles & Mixed 80+ combination doubles.

All Matches up to the quarter-finals will be played over best-of-3 games of 15 points with no extension or setting. Matches from the quarter-finals will be played over best-of--3 games of 21 points.

The seedings:

Men's singles: 1 Ajay Meena, 2 Harshit Mahimkar, 3 Piyush Kamble, 4 Ruturaj K.Rathod.

Women's singles: 1 Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye, 2 Shivani Herlekar.

Boys' U-17 singles: 1 Harshit Mahimkar, 2 Anay Pingulkar, 3 Vikrant Singh Negi, 4 Anmol Sharma.

Boys' U-19 singles: 1 Harshit Mahimkar, 2 Akshat Raisurana.

Girls' U-17 singles: 1 Risha Parab, 2. Thea Sheth.

Girls' U-19 singles: 1 Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye, 2 Devanshi Shinde.

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