Bengaluru, June 19: Rohan Bopanna, the newly crowned Grand Slam champion, has blamed the country's poor grassroots system and lack of funding of foreign coaches as the reasons behind India's poor run in singles success in Tennis.
Vijay Goel felicitates Bopanna
Bopanna said: "We need to have a system in place at the grassroots level for the future of Indian tennis.
"That's one reason I have started myAcademyy in Bengaluru. I am also bringing a couple of coaches to my academy in Bangalore from outside.
"One from the United Kingdom and one from Serbia. They will be there for a year at least. I want the kids to have that opportunity to learn from experienced foreign coaches in their own country.
"They often spend a lot of money to get trained by foreign coaches for just one or two months, which is not of much help."
The Indian tennis ace is currently competing in the Queen's Club Championship along with Croatian Dodig and will play the round of 16 match tomorrow against Edmund and Kokkinakis.
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