Is North-East India serving up the perfect recipe for sports development?
A total of 45 million is the North-East region’s population, comprising the ‘seven sisters’ or states. At the outset, a mere 3% of India’s overall population...
2022
The Cricket Paradox: A popular sport for men, yet a challenging one for women
Cricket in India is the most popular sport, yet women cricketers have a completely different experience coming through the ranks. What underlying issues have...
Breaking the Top-10 Ceiling: How can Indian paddlers move from junior to senior and dominate?
India has produced Jr. World top-10 players in table tennis, yet the transition into the senior circuit has not been easy. What are the underlying reasons - ...
Return to Play: How Indian tennis players handled the pandemic curveball
What will it take for India to produce Top-100 tennis players (singles) on a consistent basis? Can the pandemic offer the perfect opportunity to revive and t...
How India scaled Mt. Thomas peak: From a team of badminton champions to a champion team
Despite India having individual champions and Olympic medallists in badminton - the team hurdle always stayed, until the Thomas Cup triumph which is a succes...
2020
Play, the ideal learning ground for life skills
The famous American artist Fred Rogers once said “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning, but for children, play is ser...
Executive Coaching: The 100-hour milestone
As a tennis coach, I clocked 100 hours every month with relative ease. Inspired by the famous Timothy Gallwey, I assumed that my transition into an Executive...
Tennis transmission disrupted, a virus dominates the airwaves
At the turn of the 20th century, Vladimir Lenin stated: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” A profess...
Who will coach the tennis coaches?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? This is a well-known Latin proverb that translates to Who will guard the guards? If we apply the essence of this prove...
2019
The tale of 3 Cups – Davis, Laver, and ATP
Ask a fan of Federer, Nadal, or Djokovic on match statistics of their showdown matches at Wimbledon. You will have an information overload without a doubt....
Developing national sports culture
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics is less than a year away. Already there’s a buzz: How many medals will India win this time? These discussions will increase in intens...
The chants of ‘Vamos Rafa’ in Anantapur district
Any individual or organization that attempts to achieve social integration in a country like India knows how complicated things can get. It is the same as ...
The world of wheelchair tennis and India’s tryst with the sport
If you think sport is meant only for the able-bodied, think again. Except for being seated on the wheelchair, these players reckon with the same ground rul...
How tennis players can benefit from technology
Technology started as an enabler in our daily lives, then shifted to being an intruder and now it is termed an invader. And technological advances haven’t ...
When will the Next-Gen of tennis show up?
The true excitement of a sporting contest is the match-up between two players. When a young gun takes on a seasoned champion, the entire sporting fraternit...
Wimbledon 2019: The importance of a mind coach explained
The expectation of an athlete to deliver in every crunch situation is best understood by their coaches. While the primary coach takes care of improving the...
Technology innovation using Project Management principles
Background At the start of the 20th century, one had to wait for the next morning’s newspaper to know about what really is happening in the world around us. ...
The need for a student-athlete system in India
The term ‘student-athlete’ sounds like an oxymoron in the context of the Indian education system. Either you are a student, or you play sport, right? Wrong...
Closing the gender pay gap in tennis
1973 witnessed the most unusual and interesting tennis match ever played in history. Billie Jean King, one of the best women’s players of her time, accepte...
Why do Indian tennis players find it so difficult to cross the bridge from juniors to seniors?
Back in 1954, a 17-year old boy named Ramanathan Krishnan hailing from Nagercoil won the prestigious Wimbledon junior title and thus became the first ever ...
It is time to roll out the tennis red carpet (clay) season
12 tournaments over nine weeks across picturesque Europe - that’s how the claycourt season goes every year on the ATP tour during the months of April and M...
2018
Beyond the medals tally!
Today is the Day 9 of the 2018 Asian Games and I can’t help glancing the medals tally three times a day to check where India stands at the table. China has...
2017
Three Musketeers of Tennis!
Story of an Artist, Warrior and a Human Robot Back in my high-school days, I was an avid sports quizzer. So, in order to prepare well for competitions I w...
2016
Winning accolades down under
The world’s first grand slam was off to a fabulous start. A look at some exciting moments from the recently concluded Australian Open. Australian Open (AO), ...