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The Week gone by will always be memorable for all Indians. A couple of Firsts have happened for Indian Sports. And guess what they have not been in Cricket. I guess everyone knows what I am talking about, yes Sania Mirza winning the Hyderabad Open and Narain Karthikeyan getting his F1 super licence.
The Queen of Indian Tennis has had an omnious start for 2005. Winning her first WTA title in her home tournament was just the icing on the cake. Let's pray that this was the first of many titles in her career. The confidence displayed by her on court and also off court showed maturity beyond her age. Hope that other upcoming tennis players take inspiration from her performance and we get to see few more players breaking through and making it big in the WTA tour.
Having free entry for the matches was a very good move by Globosport. The overwhelming response of the hyderabadis was heartning to see. Hope the organizers of Chennai Open take a cue from this. The only sour point of the whole tournament was the very un-Tennis like (more cricket like) behaviour of the crowd. I guess all the players (including Sania) would have found the crowd's behaviour a bit disturbing. The other unfortunate event was Anna-Lena Groenefeld's injury. Not only did it wash out the second semi-final, but more importantly it robbed Martina Navratilova of progressing further in doubles.
Narain Karthikeyan "The Fastest Indian on Earth", is going to be just a bit more faster. Another example of patience and perseverence personified. This man has been around for sometime. An ordinary human would have given up on his dream by now. But I guess that's what differentiates the achievers from the rest of the crowd. Modesty is another virtue of this extraordianry coimbatorian. Setting achievable targets (completing races, getting into points table and somewhere down the line a podium finish) will not only see him getting better race by race but also see take him to greater heights. All the best Narain !!!
The other day I was seeing a special program on NDTV. It dealt with the certain International and National level women hockey players from Jharkhand. Felt really sad to see plight of certain players who have nothing in their hands even after having been an International player for the country. The apathy towards sports by the state government is really irksome.
Well that's all for this week. More of my musings next Sunday...
Till then over and out.....
essdee
The Queen of Indian Tennis has had an omnious start for 2005. Winning her first WTA title in her home tournament was just the icing on the cake. Let's pray that this was the first of many titles in her career. The confidence displayed by her on court and also off court showed maturity beyond her age. Hope that other upcoming tennis players take inspiration from her performance and we get to see few more players breaking through and making it big in the WTA tour.
Having free entry for the matches was a very good move by Globosport. The overwhelming response of the hyderabadis was heartning to see. Hope the organizers of Chennai Open take a cue from this. The only sour point of the whole tournament was the very un-Tennis like (more cricket like) behaviour of the crowd. I guess all the players (including Sania) would have found the crowd's behaviour a bit disturbing. The other unfortunate event was Anna-Lena Groenefeld's injury. Not only did it wash out the second semi-final, but more importantly it robbed Martina Navratilova of progressing further in doubles.
Narain Karthikeyan "The Fastest Indian on Earth", is going to be just a bit more faster. Another example of patience and perseverence personified. This man has been around for sometime. An ordinary human would have given up on his dream by now. But I guess that's what differentiates the achievers from the rest of the crowd. Modesty is another virtue of this extraordianry coimbatorian. Setting achievable targets (completing races, getting into points table and somewhere down the line a podium finish) will not only see him getting better race by race but also see take him to greater heights. All the best Narain !!!
The other day I was seeing a special program on NDTV. It dealt with the certain International and National level women hockey players from Jharkhand. Felt really sad to see plight of certain players who have nothing in their hands even after having been an International player for the country. The apathy towards sports by the state government is really irksome.
Well that's all for this week. More of my musings next Sunday...
Till then over and out.....
essdee
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