By Paritosh Pramanik
CITY’S youngest and International Master in chess Raunak Bharat Sadhwani added another feather to his cap by winning the People’s Choice Award constituted by Lakshya Sports.
Pune based Not for Profit organisation Lakshya Sports supports several national and international sports personalities. The organisation is also helping several Indian athletes prepare for Tokyo Olympics.
Lakshya recently launched its awards contest where the winner was selected by general public through online voting.
City’s talented and youngest Shiv Chhatrapati award winner Raunak emerged winner with maximum votes. He pipped the likes of Aditya Mittal (chess), Naman Tanwar (boxing) and Yash Aradhya (motor racing).
The award function was held at Pune a couple of days back.
Raunak, a student of Centre Point School, Katol Road, is supported by Lakshya and Sony Pictures Network Limited.
Raunak received the award from Sony CSR head Rajkumar Bidawatka amid presence of several international sports personalities which included Grandmaster Abhijeet Kunte, Pooja Rani who recently won gold medal at Asian Athletics, table tennis star Manika Batra to name a few.
Raunak was ecstatic after winning the prestigious award. “It means a lot to me. This award is really special as it was based on voting system. Countrymen chose me for this award rather than any panellists,” said Raunak. “It proves that I am favourite to so many people around the country,” he added.
Raunak said it is just the beginning and he will work hard to win many such awards in future.
“It’s just a beginning. I want to achieve many more prestigious awards in future and for that I will work hard because every award is based on performance. If I perform well the awards would come,” said Raunak.
The chess wizard said he was confident of winning the award as he has performed well in recent past. “I was confident of winning as I have won a title at The Arbor School Blitz Tournament, organised by Home of Chess, Dubai, UAE and did well at the 21st Dubai Open,” he mentioned.
Raunak will be preparing for a few tournaments lined up in June and would try to get the GM title in these tournaments.
“I will be playing tournaments in Europe, Russia and China in June. I have started preparation for it and would try to get the Grand Master title during these tournaments,” said Raunak, son of Bharat and Heena Sadhwani.
“I am training hard to take my game to the next level,” concluded 13-year-old Raunak, who trains with a Russian Grandmaster.
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