There is no end or start to the season in Indian tennis. The
players are constantly travelling to make points and boost their career.
Sometimes, it pays to stay busy by the end of the season when the top
professional s are training for the next season !
A bunch of Indian players, both men and women, will be
looking forward to having a ‘’radical’’ change to their fortunes, thanks to
Graphene XT Technology introduced recently by Head, one of the leading tennis equipment
manufacturer based in Austria.
Of course, someone like Leander Paes who had shifted to Head
sometime back, would attempt to continue with the winning ways as he had won
three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles with Martina Hingis this season. His
focus would be to keep his men’s doubles ranking up with a good run towards the
Rio Olympics, which would be his seventh Olympics on the trot, a record for any
sportsman, especially a tennis player.
While Andy Murray, the leading face of Head, promoting the
brand around the world, would attempt to add more Grand Slam titles and
possibly defend his Olympic gold won at Wimbledon during the London Games, the
less renowned Indian tennis players, including Vishnu Vardhan, who had such a
memorable London Olympics would attempt to ride on technology as much as their
will to succeed.
Sriram Balaji, VM Ranjeet, Mohit Mayur, Sidharth Rawat, Kaza
Vinayak Sharma, Anvit Bendre, Suraj Pabodh, Ronit Singh Bisht, Shaikh
Abdulllah, PC Vignesh and Prajwal Dev are some of the Indian players who use
Head or supported by it.
Already Ronit Bisht has made an impact by making the final
of the ITF men’s Futures event in Jassowal, Ludhiana. Sriram Balaji, recovering
from illness will be looking to get back to the winning ways that had seen him
reach a career best rank of 309 around the same time last year. He is a bit
confused about his training stint at the Schuettler Waske Tennis-University in
Germany, scheduled after the Chennai Open, coinciding with a series of
tournaments in Asia.
For sure, Balaji is a Challenger class player, and needs to
get back to that level soon. It is a pity that some Challengers would be
missing from the Indian calendar in the early part of next season. Noticeably,
the Delhi Open $100,000 Challenger would offer half the prize money this time.
Among the Indian women, Karman Kaur Thandi is the brightest
prospect, wielding the Head. If she can play her best, using her height, reach
and the big serves to good effect, she may be able to jump up in the ranking
list from her modest current status of being 776 in the world.
Rishika Sunkara, Snehadevi Reddy, Sowjanya Bavissetti, Sri
Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy, Sai Samhitha, Shweta Rana, Asha Nandakumar, Akshara
Iska, Vasavi Ganesan, Sneha Padamata, Himani Mor, Preethi Ujjini and Moulika
Ram are the other Indian women players using their Head to prosper on a tennis
court, with varying degree of success!
The Radical collection, promises to offer a broad range of
choice to match all of the tennis equipment, head to toe! Basically, the
Graphene XT technology makes room for better distribution of weight from the
shaft to the tip and grip, resulting in more power and an improved energy
transfer for a faster game.
From among the four models, Pro, MPA, S and LITE, the MPA
model has an adaptive string pattern (ASP). It allows the players to decide
between a 16/16 and a 16/19 string pattern for spin adaptability!
The distinct message is, the future is here and it is
Radical!
Interesting times ahead for the tennis players and enthusiasts.
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