Trip 2 India

Hi friends!  It’s been a long time. I was doing lots of things all these days. Finished my grade IV by writing exams in between training and got promoted to grade V. I’m happy that I got promoted. Travelled to India, went around Delhi and I am in Pune now.

I along with my mother and sister flew to Delhi from Lagos, Nigeria. Stayed in Delhi for two days, visited few places like Redfort, RajBhavan, India Gate, Jama Masjid, Hyderabad bhavan, etc. I did some shopping too, bought few bracelets, chains and earrings in Delhi. I love to wear them.

We came to Pune from Delhi. I had dropped out of playing from few tournaments as I got the opportunity to get trained with Mr.Nandan bal, the Indian Davis Cup team coach.

It's almost two weeks (since 9-April-11) I started playing in his academy. We play matches every day and I am enjoying them so…….. much. I enjoy playing doubles with my friends. Aditi, Divija, Vaishnavi, Anushka, Atharva, Ronak and 2 Armans are my friends in the academy.

I also played singles and doubles with Nidhitra, who is here for training from Coimbatore. She’s twelve years old and is ranked within the top 50 in U-12 category of the AITA rankings. She has a very hard serve and I am finding it difficult to return her serve. I will practice and learn to return even harder serves very soon.

I met few national players also like Prarthana Thambore. She is #2 in India, U-18 category. It's fun to do fitness with all of them.

I play  four hours a day and do fitness for one hour. I'm enjoying my tennis in Pune more than in Nigeria as i was playing alone there and here I have many friends to play with.

Sunday is a holiday for my tennis. So the Sunday, 17th April, Mom, Bhavi and I watched "IceAge Rio". I’m excited to watch the movie. Nidhitra also came with us. We all had fun together.

Wish you all a happy weekend and Happy Easter holidays.

Bye for now.

My Sister's first blog

Hi Frineds,

My sister observing me writing the blog, complained to Mom and Dad that they are not helping her to write blog and that she also wanted to write one.

As my sister (Bhavya) dictated and written by Mom, posting this blog.
Hope you will enjoy the first attempt from my Sister.

From Bhavya:

Roger has won many matches with Jokovic and he got big cup and Jokovic got a plate trophy. I'm happy because I did wall practice. I play rallies with my sister but not everyday.

Maanya is playing well but I like her match when maanya played with Oyin. But she is learning but not able to do, but she is trying, but she should learn more and then only she will win many matches and she will get a big cup.

When I grow big I will also win matches and I will play with my sister. I want to play with Roger Federer and other matches which we see on TV.

I watched so many days jungle juction (She meant Jungle Book) and kids channel. I love that channel and see many programs in that channel.

I love my school and I am in first grade already (yesterday she got the report card of UKG). I should not eat junk. I should eat only energy food.

bye bye

23-March-2011

The 1st time I broke the string of my wilson racquet, the 2nd time I broke the racket itself and now the third time I broke a ball. I am very happy that my power in the stroke is increasing.

I have very few days to play tounaments in india. From tomorrow onwards I am going to start fitness at home and in the tennis court.

My sister Bhavya is also learning tennis and she rallies a few balls from the service line. She is also improving a lot.

I was surprised when I heard that Novak Jokovic won against world no.1 tennis player Rafal Nadal in the finals of bnp paribas open in indian wells. I was even more surprised to know that now the world no.2 tennis player is Novok Jakovic and 3rd is Roger Federer. This happened because Roger Federer lost to Novak Jakovic in the semi finals of the same tournament.

I saw Marion Bartoli playing forehand and back hand also double handed. It was the first time I ever saw someone playing like this. She won against Yanina Wickmayer in that match which was a semifinal. In the finals she lost to caroline wozniacki.

Thats all for now :-)

My Federer

My favourite player in tennis is Roger Federer. I saw many matches in which Federer won. I believe he wins because he plays calmly and does not hurry while playing. The last match which I saw was Federer playing against Novak Djokovic  in the semifinals of Australian Open. I did not like that match because Federer lost the match. :-(

I like Roger Federer sooooo much that I bought a cap on which the logo "RF" is written.

I also have a video of "RF" about his childhood and younger days downloaded from You Tube (Dad showed this to me).

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ADJMUkdWmo

I like the William Sisters from the women tennis players.

The match I like the most is the match between Svetlana Kuznetsova and Schiavone in the fourth round of Australian Open. In the last set the scores were 16 games for Schiavone and 14 for Swetlana Kuznetsova and Schiavone won the match. It was a very interesting match and was the longest match in the history of womens tennis.Their energy was drained out but fought for every point of the game. It is the most memorable match I ever saw.

Longest match by time played
2011 fourth round, 4 hours and 44 minutes
Francesca Schiavone	6	1	16
Svetlana Kuznetsova	4	6	14
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_tennis_match_records Hello friends, hope you enjoyed reading "My Federer". Please tell me who is your favourite player and send me any rare information or videos of the players. Thank you

Maanya

07-March-2011

I started tennis when i was 7 years old in Bangalore, India. Later when we shifted to Tirupathi I improved my game under the coaching of Mr.P.G.Raju and started playing seriously. Following that we moved to Nigeria and under the new coach Mr.Sunday Igbinovia my game reached a new level now.

Two memorable days: the first day was when my racket strung broke for my shot and the second was when my racket itself broke.













My mother bought a new racket (Head Midplus) for me . Today (7th of March) I got 2 more new rackets (Wilson BLX, from USA) and I want to play with them in my next session.
My coach gave 3 days break as he is travelling and my next class is on 9th of March. I 'll be playing few tournaments across india in the coming April and May. I have three more weeks left to practice tennis before the tournaments.

I practice for two hours every day and my legs and hands pain so much that i can't even walk after my tennis class. But thank god due to my efforts on fitness (Skipping:1000/day, running on steps, jumping on steps and so on for 3 days a week) improved my fitness to withstand the physical needs during the practice sessions.

My serve improved a lot after coming here. I am also able to play long rallies and move around the court with ease.

Lot more to come from me. Keep reading. :-)

Welcome Note

Hi Friends,

Let me thank you for reading my blog. I consider this as your support for my aspiration to become a tennis pro.

I shall share my learnings, experiences and views on my own progress on playing tennis and also on the matches I see.

I wish to have your continuous support on my journey to be one of the best professional tennis players.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Maanya Viswanath