Hyderabad : Hyderabad’s Start Up, SportsCult  which is committed to develop sports culture in India organised a 7 Day All India Tennis Association Foundation Level –III Coaches Course.

This course concluded  Tuesday evening in city. It was organized by Sports cult under the Auspices of TSTA and APLTA.  It was  held at Sports Cult at Miyapur in City. 28 participants from Andhra Pradesh.

Telangana, Chandigarh, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh are participating.

The Coaching was conducted by Narsing, Chief of Admin for AITA Coaches Education at Delhi and

Kawaljit  Singh from Chandigarh. He is a Junior Davis Cup Coach, who gave lot of national players. He has 70 plus  training programmes to his credit. Who has 37 International Tennis Federation Training assignments to his credit.

The highlight of the Coaching camp is that it was held after the gap of 7 years in the city. The

participants  include two fathers Babu Reddy from Bangalore and Giridhar Patnaik from Mumbai. Babu Reddy, a  builder got enrolled himself into the coaching to help his two daughters—Indiayana and Bhartiyana.    Both are highly ranked players under 13years category.  I got enrolled myself to help my daughter  further their ranks in the sports and go forward in the game, informed Babu Reedy. Giridhar who is  working with Godrej said, he wanted to help and groom his three years old daughter in Tennis.

That is  why he has enrolled himself for the coaching.  Sajida Tasneem, the only lady coach said, there are not   many lady tennis coaches. The city can boast of only ten. I wanted to make a full time career in Tennis  Coaching, she said.

The idea behind this coaching is to groom coaches of different levels.  This is a basic course. After the gap of 3 months they can go for level 4.  Level 5 given to those coaches who deal with National Level players.  This is a license to teach tennis. This certification enhances the image of the coach.  Level 6 Coaching is not available in India.  It will be held in January 2016.  This is an international level coaching and international body gets involved into it said Narsing.

We will make sports a culture in India, informed Mr. Bobby Reddy, MD & CEO Sports Cult who left  cosy IT job of 21years to start SportsCult. We Target to reach 100,000 people to train in svarious sports by the year 2020  by building  400 Neighbourhood sporting facilities. Among other plans include developing Coaches(already has 20 on board), building Sports Club etc, informed Bobby Reddy.

It has already developed three facilities in the city. Constructed three Tennis Courts and Six more are in the pipeline. One Academy has come up Surya Academy Bachupally in the City outskirts, where Sports like Tennis, Cricket and Skating, played and taught

This coaching has come to Hyderad after a gap of 7 years because there is a demand now.  Hyderabad is doing well in the sport. All under 13 ranks, there is a long list of Hyderabad players, informed, KawaljitSingh.

The standard of the coaching in India is very good.  Best coaches are under our banner AITA, Mr. Singh informed. India has got Silver Recognition for its Coaches Education.  We are one of the 22 nations in the world who got silver recognition out of 142 nations who recognize coaching education

In India 3000 coaches have gone through AITA coaching and another 4000 more are yet to take up any such coachings, they informed.

Europe and Spain are doing well in the sport in international arena.  Most ranked players come from these regions internationally.  In Asia, India, China, Japan, Korea are doing well.  In India, Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Telangana And AP are doing well.  India has 6000 IATA ranked players.  We are quite far to produce world number 1 players from India.  There are many reasons. No one takes it full time career. Sponsorship is always a problem.

When asked how long will Sania Mirza go on, both said as long as her fitness allows, she will go.  Keeping the way she is playing, she will go at least another 5 to 6 years they informed.