“Generally sports activities start at the age of 10. I started when I was 18. So there was less time and many things to learn”.
Yes, Om Kubal started late. While at Mumbai’s Ruia College, Om first had an experience...
CHETAN CHANDRAKANT KATE
DOB: 31st August 1990
State: Maharashtra
City: Mumbai
Club: Team CK
Chetan Kate is one of the men without whom Pickleball would not have happened in India. Way back in 2010, when Sunil Valavalkar desperately needed some young blood, Chetan...
The rise that has just started needs consistency to keep the graph moving upwards. But the fact is that Indian sport still lags far behind than the West. An eyewitness to this, Sunil Valavalkar writes about how a predominantly...
with Madhulika Choudhary
DOB: 30th August 1997
State: Rajasthan
City: Sikar
Club: VDN & Playard
“I used to play Lawn Tennis in Jaipur’s Vidhyadhar Nagar Stadium. At that time the trials for 4th Senior National Pickleball Tournament were going on in the stadium...
Gianni Infantino was re-elected FIFA president unopposed at the 69th Congress of FIFA in Paris. The 49-year-old Swiss was the only candidate and the traditional vote was replaced with a round of applause at the Congress. Infantino replaced disgraced former president...
with Ashish Ravindra Mahajan
DOB: 2nd March 1996
State: Maharashtra
City: Mumbai
Club: Team CK and Pickleball NX
Ashish Ravindra Mahajan is grateful to Mr Chetan Kate for introducing him to Pickleball. An alumni of M. L Dhanukar College in Mumbai, the initial...
with PRASHANT KALANI
DOB: 22nd July, 1990
State: Rajasthan
City: Jaipur
Club: Rajasthan Pickleball Association
Prashant Kalani had an indulgence towards sport from his childhood. He and his friends were often spotted playing Cricket, Football, Basketball or Tennis in local clubs and fields....
with KADAMBARI PATIL
DOB: 10th August, 1996
State: Maharashtra
City: Mumbai
Club: Maharashtra State Association
Kadambari Patil is one such player who can be regarded as the first-generation of Pickleball players in India. An avid Mumbaikar, Kadambari was a go-happy lucky girl when...
The girls rule the world! That is true in Westeros where power ranges from Cercei Lannister to Daenerys Targaryen to Sansa and Arya Stark. They are all queens in the Game of Thrones.
The Lannisters and the Targaryens have now...
Just some weeks prior to the big Cricket World Cup to be held at England and Wales, another team in Indian colour has set the prologue. India South team beat Team England in the finals of the Street Child...