The Pune Metropolitan District Tennis Association (PMDTA) has get a hold of a novel initiative to empower choose and deserving Indian doubles tennis gamers with essential wherewithal to pursue Tour and Challenger Titles—this system is geared toward harnessing such skills and making ready them so that you can win larger slam titles and Olympic medals for long run. The PMDTA has additionally roped in Rohan Bopanna as a mentor for this distinctive initiative.
The program is called “Doubles Dream of India” is a price addition program for the Indian “Doubles Players” ranked within the Top 200 within the ATP Doubles Rankings. The purpose of this program is to supply strengthen machine together with touring coaches and physios for those gamers to excel and completely center of attention on maximizing their probabilities of profitable increasingly ATP Challenger and Tour titles ultimately.
The ten Players who’re lately taking advantage of this program are Ramkumar Ramanathan, Rohan Bopanna, Saketh Myneni, Yuki Bhambri, N. Sriram Balaji, Divij Sharan, Arjun Kadhe, Purav Raja, Jeevan N, and Anirudha C.
“We began this program as a pilot project in April 2022 and focused on the ATP Challenger Circuit primarily being played in Europe, USA and South America from April to November, 2022. We started providing top notch traveling Physios and Coaching help to a specific group of Indian Men’s Doubles players and helped them perform better including several Challenger Titles. Rohan (Bopanna) with his connections across the globe has made this unique idea a reality and I am happy that we could come together to create something concrete and successfully ensure constructive help is rendered to several Indian Tennis players including Divij Sharan, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Saketh Myneni Yuki Bhambri among others. All these players have given excellent feedback for the help received in our last camp too,” mentioned Mr Kishor Patil, CEO of KPIT Technologies and President, PMDTA the mind in the back of this distinctive initiative.
“As most of these players currently travel on their own and don’t get the required support or guidance when playing the tournaments, such program was the need of the hour. The program specifically sends this support to them while on the Challenger circuit to help them perform better,” defined Sundar Iyer, Founding Secretary of PMDTA and Hon Secretary General of MSLTA.
The PMDTA via its place of work bearers headed by way of Mr Kishor Patil (President), Mr Sunder Iyer (General Secretary), Mr Abhishek Tamhane (Secretary) and Mr Kaustubh Shah objectives to make this program a platform that may give a contribution in bringing glory for the country by way of profitable medals for India.
The good fortune of the pilot mission gave the PMDTA group self belief to head for larger plans and lengthen such assist to increasingly benefactors. As a part of this initiative, PMDTA has additionally roped in new sponsor, Avenues Capital to come back on board for this system and additional give a boost to the initiative and make it extra standard for the Indian Doubles Tennis gamers.
“We recently conducted a pre-season camp in Dubai for all the players and brought everybody under one roof for a short term training programme. The camp was successfully conducted from December 12 – 23 and was headed by a World Class Doubles Specialist coach Jeff Coetzee from South Africa who also have coached former World Number 1 pair of Cabal and Farah of Columbia for almost 6 years and helped them win several Grand Slams including the coveted Wimbledon title. As part of this initiative we also had our assistant coach M. Balchandra and a team of three physios/trainers from India who were also part of this Camp to get some hands on experience. The camp was extremely well received by the 13 Indian and 2 foreign players that attended the camp,” added Rohan Bopanna, who has performed a a very powerful position in selling the touring physio and coaches thought for this mission as its mentor.
Going ahead into 2023 the Program will proceed to strengthen the Men’s gamers and can get started with the Women’s Doubles Program as neatly. Also, with the Asian Games scheduled this 12 months and the initiative will center of attention to have gamers from this system taking a brief at bringing glory to India on the Games as neatly.