People like JK and Amit are nutts, it is useless to talk to them. They still don%u2019t get my point. Yes Sania is making lots of money and representing lots of products. The corporate world is not supporting her but supporting themselves by getting advertised. Why the corporate world not supporting dhakkans like you. Sania got the attention of corporate and media once she became the professional player and became well known. We need our infrastructure to produce these kind of players (not start supporting them once they already are at their peak) Don%u2019t forget Sania is competing with players of developed nations who are well taken care of from the day one they have come to this world. We are one billion plus by default we should have natural talent in everything including sports. We should be able to pick the talent from the day one and trained them to play at international level. Its like you are going for competitive test may be you are naturally talented than all the participants, but you didn%u2019t have proper guidance or training, than you can not compete with people who are professionally trained from day one. Some countries start training their athelete from day one, they let the baby born in the swimming pool if he/she has to become swimmer. Watch the technique of the worlds best and generate muscles and work on the body from very beginning, any way it s too much for some guys to understand, they would beat the drum from behind
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by JK on May 31, 2007 11:07 PM Permalink
Sameer is gonna build a corporate and build an infrastructure for poor kids and generate more Sania Mirza clones. If you are a Corporate Honcho would you spend your money on building some tennis court in sme obscure village? Prudence will tell you to invest in Sania Mirza's dress instead. Tennis is a professional sport and it is every man to himself. Dont blame corporates to cme to the rescue.If someone needs to rescue indian sports then it is the Govt and not corporates and it needs to give preference for team sports like hockey and football.
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by Amit Jain on May 31, 2007 11:12 PM Permalink
Sameer Joshi, you are absolute humbug of a fool!! you don't know what you are talking about!! Sania Mirza has corporate sponsors and also advertises for some corporates who are not her sponsors!! How can you mix the two issues?? they are two completley different issues!! Sania Mirza gets corporate support; without that support, she would not be able to compete on a global basis!! Cmon, she is not Serena or Amelie to do that!! Get this clear first and then you will understand!!
Abouut corporate support for the game as such, well, that is a different topic and is mainly applicable to a sport that is played at a professional level in the country!! Eg. as a hockey player, i can play for Punjab police or HPCL, HPCL then builds the facilities to promote their won interests!!
that kind of penetration is still not seen in Tennis!! It is still seen as a game of the elite!!
