Maaya Rajeshwaran with Sunder Iyer of Lakshya Sports and Vijay Pandey of Amalgam Steel on the launch of Project Grand Slam in Pune.
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Lakshya Sports in collaboration with Amalgam Steel has launched Project Grand Slam to nurture girls in tennis from the grassroots degree to Grand Slam stage.
The brainchild of Lakshya Vice President, Sunder Iyer, and Sourav Mishra, the Joint Managing Director of Amalgam Steel, the mission goals to assist the chosen gamers in each doable means to assist them evolve into world class stars.
“Though this program, we want to see at least four to five girls play at all the junior Grand Slams regularly, and start a new chapter for Indian tennis. This will also help the girls make an entry via the junior wild cards into the professional events”, stated Sunder Iyer.
“We believe that sports is essential for holistic development, building character and instilling values such as team work, discipline and resilience. We want to have junior Grand Slam champions from India. Our objective is to give selected players with essential resources and assistance”, stated Vijay Pandey, president of HR at Amalgam Steel.
After rigorous evaluation, the mission has already chosen gamers n the 14-15 age group, Maaya Rajeshwaran, Prisha Shinde, Kaashvi Sunil, Aishwarya Jadhav, Rishitha Basireddy, Nainika Reddy, Yashika Shokeen, Sejal Bhutada and Akruti Sonkusare.
These gamers will likely be additional assessed by means of a collection of ITF junior occasions in India, earlier than additional pruning by April. Coaches will likely be travelling for these occasions to assist and consider the gamers. The mission may have famend coach Hemant Bendrey because the information. Coaches S Narendranath, Shivika Burman and Namita Bal will journey for the tournaments, together with physios and energy conditioning consultants,
The mission will present scholarship for coaching and competitors, help in journey and keep for tournaments, assist gamers avail world class coaching services, get coach help throughout tournaments, other than gear, gear and scientific assist for applicable coaching and higher restoration.
The mission hopes that the gamers would collect adequate world rating factors from the tournaments in Pune, Chandigarh, Delhi, Kolkata and Indore in order that the chosen gamers are in a position to compete in the next occasion in Thailand.
“We intend to have the first foreign coaching camp in Thailand”, stated Sunder.
The mission will get attire assist from Indian Tree, which has already established a robust presence within the Indian tennis market.
