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RoundGlass Sports is set to launch a Tennis Academy with Aditya Sachdeva to be appointed as the technical director. Aditya is a well-known coach in the Indian circuit, with more than 20 years of experience at the top level, during which he has produced top players like Yuki Bhambri and Divij Sharan.

Indian Tennis star Sania Mirza feels that India needs to be a sporting nation overall, not for just weeks or a month before the Olympics. The 2020 Tokyo Olympian urged that the schools need to encourage the kids more, to take up sports seriously, while a corporate structure also needs to come in.

Sania Mirza and her Chinese partner Zhang Shuai have been eliminated from the 2021 Indian Wells Open after a loss in the opening round of the women’s doubles event. In spite of claiming the first set, the Indo-Chinese pair succumbed to the pressure and eventually lost the match 6-4, 3-6, 13-15.

The Indo-Chinese pair of Sania Mirza and Zhang Shuai lost in the first round of the Chicago Fall Tennis Classic 2021, against CoCo Vandeweghe and Caroline Dolehide 1-6, 7-5, 6-10. The result comes after Zhang and Mirza had won the Ostrava Open 2021 in the Czech Republic last week.