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Role of Sports Media Managers
by mukesh sharma on Aug 13, 2008 05:59 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

Shameless Indian sports media managers have no grudge on failures of so called sports icon.

In above given article they have tried hard to hide the failure of the most hyped sports personalities of the world.

In last 5 years just evaluate the achievements of Sania its close to negligible. Still some how media managers are trying to salvage their so called white collars.


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  RE:Role of Sports Media Managers
by parveen baig on Aug 13, 2008 06:10 PM   Permalink
Just belittling sania won't help. Leander at 30 plus is still wins a match or two for india compare to younger generation. Sania might not get much opportunity to play for country but at least inspire a generation of young kids and their parent to take a serious look at tennis. Yes whenever she goes sthe first sentence the commentator anywhere in the world will say she represent 100 million people and carryes the weight of the whole nation. Propbably sometime she too might be thinking its only individual game with country not getting any benefits but still people will reminder her. To reach top 100 itself is great with no coach. People see only hpye and her advertisement revenue but they forget that inspite of all hype unlike other top class player she cann't afford a coach on continuous basis. Neither the country she represent can pay her enough to get a desent coach. Same with leander. With no coach, no proper training place [india doesn't have any world class and abroad its bit too high] these people are atleast making the world take notice that India does exist. Though leander went to play some memorable game for India, Sania made sure that India too can get an opportunity to host some of the teir III level of WTA matches which will definately give more opportunity to future generation to get expose to international tennis and gain valuable experience at the early stage of their career. No matter what its sania mirza who made all of us to see tennis as sport lik

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