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Tennis comes into its own!

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A few days ago, Aita announced the Indian Tennis League (ITL), which has been inspired by cricket’s Indian Premier League (IPL) and the World Team Tennis (WTT), held every summer in the US. Initial expectations include attracting some of the biggest, recently retired names in world tennis to this event.

A league of its own – Business of Life – livemint.com

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IPL’s ‘Twittergate’!

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With the spat between the 2 protagonists of the IPL ‘Twittergate’ now hitting Parliament, i.e. Tharoor’s conduct being questioned by the opposition parties, and with demands for his resignation becoming more strident, my thoughts on Shashi Tharoor and Lalit Modi.

Urbanomics: Is Sachin Tendulkar "choking" his opponents into submission?

Urbanomics: Is Sachin Tendulkar “choking” his opponents into submission?

Is there something about high-performing stars having an adverse effect on their opponents?
Do not their opponents rise to the challenge?
Is there not a case for improving one’s game in the presence of greats?
Maybe not!

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Brown water kayaking in Mumbai

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I found this fascinating quote today:

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IPL Musings

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We’re too self-absorbed!

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An interesting article by Aakar Patel as to why Indians are self-obsessed and thus poor team players!

What do you think?

I agree, to a large extent, that cricket, the Indian public’s passion, is not a true team sport.

Team sports are about understanding, a true choreography , a meeting of minds, hearts, souls translated into fluid motion, team action.

A similar thing could be said about tennis , specially the Indian Davis Cup team except for the doubles pair. And, mind you, team harmony does not mean that 2 players should be buddy-buddy. They just need to be civil and challenge each other to be better, to complement each other. Perhaps, that’s why we may never see another champion Davis Cup pair like Paes and Bhupathi come out of India for a long,long time.

But then, I guess, that’s why we are about genius and individual excellence. Not bad traits by themselves but then why in a population of over a billion do we have such few instances of them? Ah then, the excuses for this failing have been trotted out by our politicians for over 6 decades and hence I refuse to recount them here.

Just as we could never be another US or a Japan, but come on , China faces the same challenges as us, maybe even more! So why cannot we be the tiger we were meant to be? Our national animal is the tiger, after all!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can then have quite a different undertone! Quite a notion! But then nations are formed of notions, are they not?

Have a great weekend!

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Mumbai Cyclothon – 21st Feb, 2010 – Well Done!

I participated in the Amateur Community Ride on my new Fomosa Power Sport mountain bike! The Amateur & Corporate riders started their race at 8:30 a.m from Rangsharda grounds at Bandra Reclamation. We started a bit late, around 8:35 a.m. I completed the race at 9:30 a.m. 24kms in 55 minutes! More time than I anticipated! I didn’t go all out to outrace participants. I was happier being safe rather than sorry! I also decided to conserve energy for the Sea Link stretch! And did I need it! The Sea Link leg was fantastic. It was quite warm and the uphill climb at the start of the Sea Link was really hard on the thighs. Gatorade to the aid! I guess road cycling really is not the same as stationary biking .Good fun!

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Sachin – God of Cricket(Records)

Another post on Tendulkar! For the statistically inclined!

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Quote of the day:
We are the people our parents warned us about. – Jimmy Buffett

____ Does this say something? About us?

Sachin’s Double!

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I completely missed Sachin’s double, since I was just too busy catching up with my beauty nap!

But some articles from the blogosphere for the cricket fanatics!

http://jinojoy.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/the-little-master/

http://childoftheocean.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/tendulkar-odi-double-century/

http://newshyderabad.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/sachin-becomes-first-batsman-to-hit-odi-double-ton/

http://morethanjustagame.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/and-then-there-was-the-one/

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. – Konrad Lorenz

Tennis, AITA, Mumbai University & Kalina Campus

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The All India Tennis Association now has a Tennis Centre of Excellence at the Kalina Campus, Mumbai University.

It boasts 7 State of the art Synthetic Floodlit Tennis Courts, a fully equipped gym with trainers, professional coaching for children and adults, pay & play facilities and ample parking facilities.

The address is:

AITA Trust,

University of Mumbai,

Vidya Nagari,

Kalina Campus,

Santacruz East,

Mumbai – 400 055

Tel No: 3265 3930/2290 9415

Email:tceaitatrust@yahoo.com

PS: This is for informational purposes only. This is not, in any way, an endorsement.

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