indian in tennis ground

India's ex Tennis sports person has passed a long way since its inception in India and has produced several legendary Tennis players, so far. The Indian Tennis players have showed their excellence inside Tennis court in several internationally acclaimed Tennis tournaments, during their periods. They have also earned significant recognition and reputation in the international arena, by stunning the spectators with their talent. From Vijay Amritraj to the latest sensations like Sania Mirza or Somdev Devburman, a variety of such players adorn the collection of Indian tennis. The other two legendary Indian Tennis players like Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have brought a lot of glory to India and have been doing so, till now.

The first Indian Tennis sports player, who came into limelight for showing excellent performances, was Mohammad Saleem, who won the Punjab Championship in the year 1915. He was the first Indian to win this tournament and he did phenomenally well to win successive titles in the tournament, from 1919 to 1926, as well. The other two players of that time like NS Iyer and Mr. Nagu also got significant successes in various tournaments. After that, the Indian Tennis players like Ghouse Mohammad, the Fayzee brothers like AH Fayzee and AA Fayzee, Cotah Ramaswamy, Krishna Prasad, Ramanathan Krishnan, etc got recognised at the international arena for their talents.

was Vijay Amritraj, who played an important role in taking the Indian Tennis to a new height, when he reached the quarterfinal stage at two Grand Slam events, in 1973. After that, Ramesh Krishnan also showed excellent performances in various international Tennis events and brought glory to India. In the modern times, Leander Paes won a bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympics, in 1996 to become the first Indian in more than 4 decades to win an individual medal in the Olympics. He along with Mahesh Bhupathi made one of the all time greatest Doubles Tennis pairs in the history of Tennis, during the later half of 1990s and the first half of 2000s. Mahesh Bhupathi won a total of 10 Doubles Grand Slam titles with different partners, something that is considered as one of the best achievements for a Tennis player. The other Indian Tennis players like Sania Mirza and Somdev Devburman have also shown their talents and capabilities in different international events, in recent years. Sania Mirza became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 US Open. Apart from these legendary and eminent players, there are also several talented and promising Indian Tennis players, who have the potential to become a Tennis legend in the future. Karan Rastogi is one such player, who was born on 8th October, 1986 in Mumbai. He started playing tennis at the age of only 3 and had reached the semi-finals of the Australian Junior Open Championship in 2004. Rupesh Roy is considered another talented Indian Tennis player. Hailing from Kolkata, Rupesh was born on 16th February 1969 and his favourite is Grass court. He is a right handed player and plays double handed backhand shot. Another talented Indian Tennis player is Navdeep Singh. This confident and determined young player has conquered the National Junior (under 18) title in recent years to prove his potentialities. The young Indian Women Tennis player, Gayatri Krishnan is the daughter of Tennis legendary Ramesh Krishnan. Though she is at a tender age and is now playing junior level Tennis, she is definitely showing a lot of potentialities. Parul Goswami is a talented young Indian Women Tennis player, who hails from Uttarakhand. She was born in 1986 and was ranked first during the year 2002. She has also won the National Championship in 2007. Tejasvi Rao from Hyderabad is another talented Indian Tennis player, who is showing exceptional performances at a very young age. Another young Indian Tennis player is Isha Toor, who hails from Chandigarh. She won the AITA zonal meets in Meerut and Delhi and also won two successive titles in the AITA talent series. Born on 8th July, 1988 in Hyderabad, Tara Sharma is the daughter of famous Tennis player, Parameswaran Iyer. Tara represented India in the junior Federation Cup for two years and also reached finals in both times. Her brother, Venkat Sharma is also considered as one of the top junior players in India, in his age group. Once ranked as India`s No.1 at the under-18 level, Rohan Dinesh Gide is another talented Indian Tennis player. He was born on 20th February in 1987 and had won 4 single junior tournaments in 2005. Samriddh Burman is a young Indian Tennis player, who hails from Kolkata. Nirvick Mohinta is considered as the new star and hope of Indian Tennis. Nirvick was born on 23rd October 1986 and started playing Tennis at the age of 8, encouraged by his athlete parents. He has won four All India Tennis Association tournaments. India`s No.1 ranked player in the Junior Girls` category is Venkatesh Poojashree. She hails from Mysore. Another talented Indian Tennis player is Navdeep Singh, who is a former National Junior Champion. Once ranked as India`s No.1 at the under-16 level, Preethi Subhramanian is an exceptional Tennis player, who won 25 titles and was runner-up for 24 times in ITF, AITA, State and District level tournaments. Hailing from Coimbatore, she has also won three ITF junior tournaments. Sanna Bhambari is another new star of Indian Women`s Tennis. Though she is at a very tender age, she has already got significant successes.

Tendulkar is today's Bradman....

Saluting the longevity of Sachin Tendulkar, West Indies great Brian Lara has described the Indian batting legend as the 'Don Bradman' of modern era but refused to the compare the icons of different eras.

Lara, himself a legendary left-handed batsman from the Caribbean, said what astonishes him the most about Tendulkar is his longevity.

"I don't think there is any race. Both are great players. Tendulkar has shown the world what he is capable of and his longevity in the game is something to be really appreciated," Lara said.

"The time he will spend in the game, records are going to tumble. The fact that someone can be there from the age of 16 and still at the age of 37 perform brilliantly is something that I cherish more than anything else," he said.

The West Indies player is of the opinion that Australian great Don Bradman, who ended his career with an incredible Test average of 99.96, and Tendulkar should not be compared as they played and flourished in different eras.

"He is our period's Don Bradman. Forget the difference in averages with Bradman but whoever I have spoken to who have seen very old players in action, they believe that he (Bradman) would not have averaged 99 in today's sports like cricket.

"So I believe that Sachin is our period's Bradman," Lara, who visited Dubai for a jewelry brand endorsement, told Gulf News.

IPL 4 AUCTIONS

They are the pillar of the Indian Test team but Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman may have to lower their base prices in order to keep the franchises interested for the upcoming fourth edition of Indian Premier League.

Sources in the franchises said they would only be interested in buying the two star batsmen if the duo lower their base price from Rs 92 lakh (USD 200,000) to the lower bracket of Rs 46 lakh (USD100,000).

"Let's get one thing clear. Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble's IPL performance is pretty decent. So one can expect that Sourav who is an all-rounder can be bought for a decent price considering his base price of Rs 92 lakh. Also for KKR, buying him at a lower price from auction is a far more viable option than going for retention where he would cost USD 1.8 million," a senior KKR official said.

Officials of a couple of more franchises also aired the same opinion.

"Dravid and Laxman do not feature in the T20 or ODI teams. So the only place where they play is IPL. The first edition had a lot of novelty factor. But now the teams are more focussed on curtailing the budget and getting their economics right so now way one can expect a franchise to spend Rs 1 crore on Dravid or Laxman as they won't be automatic choices in the playing XI," one of the officials of a western-India based franchise said.

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India crushes New Zealand

Piloted by Virat Kohli, who hit his second consecutive century, and some smart bowling and fielding, India made a winning start in the five-match ODI series against New Zealand on Sunday.


Put into bat by Kiwis stand-in captain Ross Taylor, India were bowled out for 276 in 49 overs, falling 25 to 30 runs short of what skipper Gautam Gambhir would have envisaged, but spinners R Ashwin (3/50) and Yuvraj Singh (3/43) helped the home team to bundle out the Kiwis for 236.

New Zealand's latest loss by 40 runs was their fifth in-a-row in ODIs, coming on the heels of a 0-4 drubbing at the hands of Bangladesh. The Kiwi pacers failed to exploit the early morning conditions as Indian openers Murali Vijay and skipper Gambhir gave the side a fluent start. Vijay started playing his shots early on while Gambhir joined the party soon after hitting Daryl Tuffey for two fours in one over, charging down the wicket. After raising 44 runs in quick time, both, however, perished rather tamely. Vijay tried to loft Tuffey over mid-on only to give a leading edge that wicketkeeper Gareth Hopkins, playing in place of injured Brendon McCullum, held running back a long way behind the wicket.

The Indian lower order could manage just 58 runs in the last 10 overs as seven wickets fell in a heap. It was only because of a late charge by Yusuf Pathan, who hit the only six of the innings, that India managed to put 276 runs on the board. Pathan made 29 off 19 balls. When New Zealand batted, it was Yuvraj, the bowler, who pegged them back by striking thrice in the middle overs. Skipper Taylor only put up some resistance, hitting a 69-ball 66 with the help of three fours and three sixes, and shared a 67-run third-wicket stand with Kane Williamson.

New Zealand kept losing wickets at regular intervals thereafter and would have faded out of the contest but for a belligerent ninth-wicket partnership between Kyle Mills and Nathan McCullum. The duo added 50 runs off 47 balls to briefly revive Kiwis dying hopes. However, Sreesanth, returning for his third spell, dismissed both of successive deliveries to seal a convincing 40-run win. On a slow wicket where Yuvraj and Ashwin were pretty effective, the visitors sorely missed their skipper Daniel Vettori, who was ruled out on the morning of the match with a sore back.

Somdev Creates History....

Somdev Devvarman created history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal in the men's singles tennis event of the Asian Games while discus thrower Krishna Poonia bagged a bronze as India claimed three more medals to maintain their 8th spot on the 11th day of competitions on Tuesday.

Second seed Somdev, who had won a gold in the men's doubles event alongwith Sanam Singh on Monday, upset top seed and world number 44 Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-1, 6-2 in the lop-sided summit clash to achieve the historic feat.

India eyes MotoGP in 2012

The promoters of India's inaugural Formula One Grand Prix in 2011 are in talks with MotoGP bosses to bring the world motorcycling championship to the country, a company spokesman said on Tuesday.

The 5.14 km track being built at Greater Noida, some 35km from Delhi, will host the 18th leg of next year's Formula One championship on Oct. 30, subject to final approval, and the race promoters are looking at other options to make the track financially viable.

Indian automaker Mahindra Group is enthused by the development and will launch a team in the 125cc category, the Times of India newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Gul Panag Molested In Delhi Half Marathon!!

Delhi has steadily maintained its image as one that is extremely unsafe for women. The victim this time was none other than the actress, who is a sports enthusiast, Gul Panag, who has never missed an opportunity to put her fitness regime to test.

On Sunday, 21st November, when Gul Panag participated in Half Marathon held in Delhi, she was groped by the men standing at the starting point. They took advantage of the crowd to feel her up and the actress was obviously quite taken aback by the whole indecent act.

It was a typical women-in-crowded-places syndrome and Gul being the fighter, instead of letting this event disturb her more than required, went ahead with the marathon and completed the run.

Gul says that she has participated in several other marathons and has never experienced something like this before and blames it on the Delhi culture. She feels that compared to Mumbai, something like this is expected in Delhi, which is typical of that city.

The offenders on the other hand took advantage of the melee and got away. Gul too realised the futility of filing a complaint as she really cannot recognise the offenders considering the crowd of people.

Aamir Khan has decided to take a break from his acting career

After enjoying one of the biggest successes in Bollywood, Aamir Khan has decided to take a break from his acting career. Currently, he is only focused on his wife's directorial debut, "Dhobhi Ghat," and his next production "Peepli Live." Following this, his attention will be on his nephew, Imran's, "Delhi Belly." It seems he will not be taking a leading actor role until 2012.

When it comes to planning a filmi career, no one knows it better than Aamir Khan. Many of our B-town beauties would hit the panic button if they didn’t have atleast one movie in hand, and even sign up for mediocre projects in desperation (no faults of theirs, blame it on the rat-race). But this Khan man has a strange way of planning his career. Well, call him an idiot if you please, we think he’d love that too. After enjoying one of the biggest successes of Indian cinema, Aamir has pulled the brakes on his bollywood career.

Currently he is only focussed on his wife’s directorial debut, Dhobhi Ghat, and his next production Peepli Live. Soon after that all his attention will be on nephew, Imran’s Delhi Belly. So dearies, chances are that we won’t be seeing AK in a full-fledged role till 2012.

IPL 3 - Going Bigger and Better

The IPL's Season Three promises to be bigger and better, and not just because a UK- based brand evaluation firm has pegged the value of cricket's biggest circus at Rs 18,999 crore, more than double of what it was last year.

The IPL action is happening every where. Apart from watching the matches on television, viewers will have a whole lot of options. They could either catch the matches on giant screens in restaurants are even complementing the IPL experience with drinks named after the teams or see them at multiplexes. UFO Moviez, a digital distribution company, will telecast all 60 matches live across theatres in the country. In Delhi, some multiplexes that the company has tied up with are PVR Cinemas, DT Cinemas and Movie Time.

For the first time, IPL has tied up with vRock Mobile to be its Value Added Services ( VAS) partner. It means, apart from getting SMS and MMS updates, users can tune in to commentaries by cricket experts on their mobiles - an experience limited so far to television and radio. If being online is your preferred mode of communication, you can log on to YouTube, which will live stream all 60 IPL matches with a time lapse of only five minutes.

Fans can also catch the cricketing fever by downloading the IPL application on their iPhones or by tackling the official IPL T20 game that has been launched by India Games on Facebook. The online media, meanwhile, is buzzing with activity.

An analysis by The Nielsen Company using Nielsen Online Buzz Metrics, which has measured online posts on message boards, blogs, discussion groups and Twitter across all cricket- following nations, have found that the overall buzz about IPL in social media is almost twice as high this year.

The analysis shows that Kolkata Night Riders is the most discussed team online, a distinction it had in 2009. Among the players, Ricky Ponting is the most discussed online, like he was last year.

This year, the IPL management is also out to prove that it is not only about fun and games. It has partnered with the UN Environment Programme to make cricket fans across the world more eco-sensitive.

Through this long- term partnership, the IPL joins the ranks of global events such as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup, and even the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which are working hard to project themselves as 'green' events. IPL has grown, bigger and better.

Green Common Wealth Games in India

Delhi will host the XIX Commonwealth Games between 3-14 October 2010 which will see the participation of 71 Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA). The Games are being held for the first time in India and assume great national importance and are a matter of pride for the country. There will be 17 sports played across 22 sporting venues, 43 training venues and a new state-of-the-art Games Village is being built to house the athletes and CGA officials.With 71 countries participating, India can showcase herself as being an environmentally responsible nation.

Environment will play a key role in this year's Commonwealth Games with the organisers announcing a series of green measures from boosting energy efficiency and air quality to expanding the city's forests. Organisers and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) are going to jointly promote Ecological Codes over the next eight months in the run-up to the opening ceremony.Delhi Government along with the Central Government has taken several initiatives to fulfill Delhi's green city agenda. Delhi has already introduced CNG-propelled public transport system like public buses, auto, taxis. Even Delhi government has recently introduced subsidies on the cost of battery-operated cars and two wheelers to keep harmony with nature. And these hybrid buses would add an extra edge to Delhi's eco-friendly transportation structure to be provided during the Games.

Beside the eco-friendly hybrid buses, Delhi government has also constructed an eco-friendly stadium for 2010's Common Wealth Games. This stadium which is the chosen venue for boxing competitions.Other green initiatives underway are ‘green’ buildings that are being constructed, the Balewadi Sports Complex being one of them. “Rainwater harvesting, waste water treatment and recycling plant, insulated roofs, heat reflecting surfaces, low floor sanitary fittings, solar water heaters and cross ventilation are some of the features these green buildings will comprise.