Emerging tennis player of Nanded : KAIVALYA KALAMSE
Determination, Hard work and self confidence takes any body on top in any chosen field of work. It has been found true in case of Kaivalya Kalamse, a 10 year lad from the city. In a tender age of 10 he has shown a great determination and will to climb the ladder of success in Lawn tennis. Kaivalya Kalamse, has stamped his impact in the category of Boy’s U-10 in the tennis world of Maharashtra. In the Boys U-10 category he is ranked No.7 in Maharashtra for the year 2009.
Born on 26th of July 1999 at Nanded, he is very active and energetic since his childhood. Considering his nature, his parents rightly thought to start with some sport activity and they have chosen a individual sport- lawn tennis- in the month of May-2007. He really flourished from 2008-09 season.
His memorable tournament was the Inter Zonal scholarship tournament held at Kolhapur in December 2008. He won 8 matches out of 11 and become eligible to get the scholarship from MSLTA. (Maharashtra Lawn Tennis Association ) in the first attempt itself. 
The most exciting tournament he played was at Kolhapur in Dec.2009. He brought glory to Nanded and to himself by winning a Boys U-10  tournament, first of its kind. One more such exciting tournament was again a MSLTA Inter zonal scholarship tournament held at Aurangabad in the month of December 2009

He won 11 matches out of 12, defeating players from Kolhapur, Solapur, Nashik, Nagpur zones.
He has also won a local tournament organized by Nanded club and honoured by presenting a trophy by the hands of honourable collector, shri Srikar Pardesi.
In his making, the coaches-Mr.Ganesh Kadam, Mr. Raviprakash Surve and Mr.Sukhchain singh has great role along with his Parents. The President, Mr Ali panjawani, Secretary, Dr.Paliwal, Madhu Gupta, Nand Kumar Meghde and the members of Nanded district lawn tennis association had also given him the inspiration and encouragement for playing.


Performance of Kaivalya in different tournaments
i) October 2007: Nanded-Talent series- participated in U-10 and U-12. Qualified and played in main draw of both events. Lost in first rounds.
ii) December 2007: Kolhapur- Talent Series- participated in U-10 event. Qualified for main draw. Lost in first round to Vatsin thakkar of Mumbai 4-8.
iii) November 2008: Solapur- Talent Series- participated in U-10 and U-12. In Boy’s U-10 got wild card entry in main draw and won first round against keval shah of Solapur 7-1. Lost in pre-quarter again to vatsin thakkar 7-3. In U-12 group won one qualifying round against Jai mendusa of Mumbai 7-4 but lost in second qualifying round against Debnath Agastya of Mumbai 7-1.
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iv) November 2008: Nagpur- Talent Series - participated in U-10 and U-12 events. Qualified for main draw in both events. He won first round U-10 against Dewani Arjun of nagpur 7-0 and lost in pre quarter to Keshav mishra 2-7. In first round of U-12, he lost to Sunish Dhruv 3-7.
v) December 2008: Kolhapur- talent series- U-10 and U-12 events.This tournament was not fruitful to Kaivalya, He lost in the second qualifying rounds in both events But in the same month he has performed extremely well in the Inter Zonal Scholarship matches held by MSLTA at Kolhapur. He won 8 matches out of 11 and stood combined second and won the scholarship of MSLTA in the first attempt itself.
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vi) February 2009 : Panchgani – Talent Series- participated in U-10 as 8th seed and moved into quarter final .In the quarter final he lost to Prathamesh shinde of Sangli 8-6.
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vii) May 2009: Nerul, New Mumbai – Talent Series- participated in U-10 and U-12 doubles. Here in U-10 he lost to Vatsin thakkar in the quarter finals 7-4 and in U-12 doubles,with Srirang sohni of Mumbai, won the quarter final against Druv sunish and his partner, a very closely fought match.  Lost to Neil laplikar and maniyar of Mumbai in the semi final.
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viii) May 2009: Pune – Attended a camp for selected Boys by MSLTA. After the camp immediately He participated in a Super Series at the same venue. In the qualifying rounds only he lost to aditya gokhale of pune 8-3, much higher ranked player.
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ix) May 2009: Panchgani – talent Series- Participated in U-10 and   U-12 events. Here he shows his best performance in both groups, reaching quarter finals of U-10 and U-12. In U12 group He defeated Aditya chaloo of Pune 7-1 in first round and in Pre-quarter he defeated to a over confident Yuvraj raghuvanshi from Indore, a higher ranked player. In the quarter finals he lost to Rohan bhave of Pune 8-3. In U-10, he lost to Srirang Sohni of Mumbai 7-2.
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x)  June 2009: Mumbai – Talent Series- participated in U-10 and U-12 events. In U-10 group He lost in the first round itself to the top seed Dhruv sunish 7-2. In the U-12 group He won the first round against Romil kamdar 7-3, but lost in the second round to Vatsin thakkar 7-3.
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xi) June 2009: Talent series- Hyderabad- participated in U-12 event. He won two matches in the qualifying rounds against Shastri sunish 7-4 and against Reddy 7-2. But lost in the first round of main draw to Aeluguri T