The Pune Metropolitan District Tennis Affiliation (PMDTA) has give you an distinctive initiative to empower choose and deserving Indian doubles tennis gamers with obligatory wherewithal to pursue Tour and Challenger Titles—the programme is geared toward harnessing such abilities and making ready them to have the ability to win greater slam titles and Olympic medals for future. The PMDTA has additionally roped in Rohan Bopanna as a mentor for this distinctive initiative.
The programme is known as “Doubles Dream of India” is a worth addition programme for the Indian “Doubles Gamers” ranked within the Prime 200 within the ATP Doubles Rankings. The target of this programme is to supply help system together with travelling coaches and physios for these gamers to excel and totally deal with maximizing their probabilities of profitable increasingly ATP Challenger and Tour titles ultimately.
The ten Gamers who’re at the moment benefiting from this programme are Ramkumar Ramanathan, Rohan Bopanna, Saketh Myneni, Yuki Bhambri, N. Sriram Balaji, Divij Sharan, Arjun Kadhe, Purav Raja, Jeevan N, and Anirudha C.
“We started this program as a pilot mission in April 2022 and targeted on the ATP Challenger Circuit primarily being performed in Europe, USA and South America from April to November, 2022. We began offering prime notch touring Physios and Teaching assist to a selected group of Indian Males’s Doubles gamers and helped them carry out higher together with a number of Challenger Titles. Rohan (Bopanna) together with his connections throughout the globe has made this distinctive thought a actuality and I’m completely satisfied that we may come collectively to create one thing concrete and efficiently guarantee constructive assistance is rendered to a number of Indian Tennis gamers together with Divij Sharan, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Saketh Myneni Yuki Bhambri amongst others. All these gamers have given glorious suggestions for the assistance acquired in our final camp too,” mentioned Mr Kishor Patil, CEO of KPIT Applied sciences and President, PMDTA the mind behind this distinctive initiative.
“As most of those gamers at the moment journey on their very own and do not get the required help or steering when enjoying the tournaments, such programme was the necessity of the hour. This system particularly sends this help to them whereas on the Challenger circuit to assist them carry out higher,” defined Sundar Iyer, Founding Secretary of PMDTA and Hon Secretary Basic of MSLTA.
The PMDTA by means of its workplace bearers headed by Mr Kishor Patil (President), Mr Sunder Iyer (Basic Secretary), Mr Abhishek Tamhane (Secretary) and Mr Kaustubh Shah goals to make this programme a platform that may contribute in bringing glory for the nation by profitable medals for India.
The success of the pilot mission gave the PMDTA staff confidence to go for greater plans and lengthen such assist to increasingly benefactors. As a part of this initiative, PMDTA have additionally roped in new sponsor, Avenues Capital to come back on board for this system and additional improve the initiative and make it extra widespread for the Indian Doubles Tennis gamers.
“We just lately carried out a pre-season camp in Dubai for all of the gamers and introduced all people beneath one roof for a brief time period coaching programme. The camp was efficiently carried out from December 12 – 23 and was headed by a World Class Doubles Specialist coach Jeff Coetzee from South Africa who even have coached former World No 1 pair of Cabal and Farah of Columbia for nearly 6 years and helped them win a number of Grand Slams together with the coveted Wimbledon title. As a part of this initiative we additionally had our assistant coach M. Balchandra and a staff of three physios/trainers from India who additionally have been a part of this Camp to get some arms on expertise. The camp was extraordinarily effectively acquired by the 13 Indian and a couple of overseas gamers that attended the camp,” added Rohan Bopanna, who’ve performed an important position in selling the touring physio and coaches idea for this mission because it’s mentor.
Going ahead into 2023 the Program will proceed to help the Males’s gamers and can begin with the Ladies’s Doubles Program as effectively. Additionally, with the Asian Video games scheduled this yr and the initiative will focus to have gamers from the programme taking a brief at bringing glory to India on the Video games as effectively.