Amar Mohite, who won the under-16 title at the first Grand Prix, has been seeded No 1 in his age category while the 16-year-old Jwala, one of the latest sensations to hit the Indian badminton scene, is seeded one in the under-16 too. The four-day Grand Prix will have a prize money of Rs 2 lakh spread over the 15 events with the qualifying rounds being played today.

In the qualifying rounds, Maharashtra boys Abhay Thakkar and Merric Gonsalves were impressive with victories. Thakkar defeated Charanjit Singh of AP 21-14, while Gonsalves outclassed KN Raju, also of AP, 21-7.

Seedings

Junior boys (singles): 1 Chetan Anand (A-I), 2 Arup Baidya (Railway), 3 Abhishek Bakshi (A-I), 4 Anup Sridhar (Kar), 5 A Prithvi(A-I), 6 Gaurav Singh (A-I), Mitesh Hajarnis (Railway), 8 V Diju (Railway). Doubles: Hajarnis/ Diju (Rly), 2 Bakshi (Rly)/ Anup Sridhar (Kar) 3, Anand/ Prithvi, 4 Chiloop Walson/ Rohit Haridas (Kerala).

Sub-junior (singles): 1 Amar Mohite (Mah), 2 Ajit Phatak (Mah), 3 Nishad Dravid (Mah), 4 Rohan Castelino (Kar), 5 Vikas Reddy (AP), Ustav Prakash (Kar), 7 Anshuman Hazarika (Assam), 8 Vinod Manual (Ker). Doubles: Vinit Manual/ Bidin Balan, 2 Mohite/ Phatak, 3 Reddy/ Sandeep Luis (AP, Ker), 4 G Gokul-Sawan Nawaz (Kerala).

Midgets (singles): 1 Anshuman Hazarika, P Kashyap, Anand Pawar, T Dinesh, Ajay Jayram, Ankur Uday, Rohit Sadani, Amit Khadgi. Doubles: Hazarika/ Pawar, 2 Dinesh/ Kashyap (Kar).

Mini (singles): MD Arupkiran (Kar), 2 RMV Gurasaidatta (AP), 3 S Arjun (Kar), 4 Rahul Jayaram (Kar).

Girls junior (singles): 1 Jwala Gutta (AP), 2 Parul Priyadarshini (Railways), 3 Tanmoyee Nandi (A-I), 4 Ketaki Thakkar (A-I). Doubles: Jwala/ Shruti Kurian (AP), 2 Gauri Narayan/ Fatima (A-I,Kerala).

Sub-junior (singles): 1 Jwala, 2 Aditi Biswas (Kar), 3 Ashwini AN (Kar), Nikita Hurkadli (Mah). Doubles: BN Ashwini/ MV Saritha, 2 Shalini Prakash/ Biswas.

Midgets (singles): 1 Aparna Balan, 2 Sayali Gokhale, 3 Aditi Mutatkar, 4 Riddhi Pajwani. Doubles: Gokhale/Shipi Kankani (Mah), Shipra Ghosray/Aditi Mutatkar.

Mini (singles): 1 Vardha Dixit (Mah), Mudra Dhainje (Mah).

Junior mixed doubles: 1 Fatima Nazneen (Kerala)/V Diju (Rly), 2 Ketaki Thakkar (A-I)/ Mitesh Hajarnis (Railways).