Hyderabad,September,2010:
The second day of the Corporate Badminton
Tournament - Let’s Shuttle saw an
overwhelming response for the ‘Talent Search’.
Over 200 kids from different parts of the state
like Vijaywada, Eluru, Warangal attended the
search. One could see Gopichand diligently walking
the courts watching each kid show-off their talent
to the county's chief badminton coach.
The deserving ones
amongst these kids will be handpicked for further
training at the Academy.
The second round of ‘Corporate
Matches’ were hosted. Besides teams from Corporates an
IAS officers team is
also participating in the Corporate segment. The results of today’s
Corporate matches is as follows:
Men's Doubles Team Event:
Quarterfinals
1. Apollo Hospitals
beat My Home
2. IAS Officers team beat AMD
3. Qualcomm beat Matrix Labs
4. TATA Teleservices beat ADP
Bring it On! (triples) Open Team Championship:
1. IAS Officers Team beat Qualcomm
2. Qualcomm beat ADP
3. TATA Teleservices beat ADP
4. TATA beat Matrix Labs
On the final day tomorrow, Corporate
Matches Finale for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place playoffs; Celebrity Exhibition
Matches - "Sound Off", followed by Prize Distribution ceremony will be
organised.
Celebrity Exhibition Matches - "Sound
Off", will see fun games being played between Actors
Nagarjuna, Amala, Tarun, cricketer
RP Singh,
Saina Nehwal & Gopichand. The celebs will play fun games with
portable microphones attached to them! Hear them puff, scream, joke as the
audience cracks up to the mania!
Let’s Shuttle
is being organised to raise funds to upgrade infrastructure and train
badminton champions for the country.
The Tournament is supported by industry organizations like TiE, CII
and ITsAP and the idea and marketing is by an innovative start up firm ‘XL
Consulting’.
-Sept'2010