Welcome to another issue of Advantage Tennis. I hope that you enjoy reading this issue as much as you have enjoyed reading our earlier issues. As always, we have tried to improve our magazine content and quality with every new issue. Advantage Tennis is devoted to the cause of promoting and encouraging tennis as a sport in India by providing a high quality magazine at an affordable price. We hope that we have been able to provide you with a magazine worth its cause. We look forward to your continued readership and association with Advantage Tennis in the years to come. This issue includes some excellent articles including ‘Roger Federer: Greatness Unlimited’ which discusses Federer as one of the greatest players ever to play the game. ‘Ten Greatest Rivalries’ in tennis is another interesting article which highlights some of the top rivalries in the modern era. ‘Tennis Moms’ talks about the challenges that women tennis players face of juggling a career with motherhood. Tennis has been dominated by only a handful of players over the last decade. Novak Djokovic is one of them. ‘The Djoker is Back’ is an article on the great competitor that is Novak Djokovic. In this issue we have also covered some of Asia’s top players. Hyeon Chung of Korea is the rising Asian star and Naomi Osaka of Japan has just created history by becoming only the second singles Grand Slam winner from Asia by winning the U.S. Open title 2018. Our poster this year is Naomi Osaka as we wanted to showcase the rise in the achievements of Asian players. With the rise in the popularity of tennis in Asia, there have been a number of milestones
achieved by Asian players. To further elaborate on this topic an interesting article titled ‘Who is the Greatest Asian Tennis Player?’ is also featured in this issue. On the Indian front we have two exclusive interviews with Asian games Gold medalists and Doubles specialists Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan. Their achievement at the Asian games has been covered in the At the US Open article A Switch to Gold for Bopanna–Sharan. The Rafa Nadal Tennis Academy is one of the best coaching centres in the world based out of Spain and has contributed an important article on ‘Sports Kinesiology’. Novak Djokovic is our choice for the Men’s Player of the Year. He ended the year as the world No.1. Djokovic has won 72 ATP titles in his career At the Australian Open including 14 Grand Slam titles. He has held the No.1 spot in My letter would not be complete the ATP rankings for more than 200 without mentioning the following weeks overall in his career. In 2018, people for their support and belief in he won Wimbledon and the US Open Advantage Tennis. I would like to thank and returned as the No.1 player in the Kamesh Srinivasan, Janella Rachel, world. Simona Halep is our choice for Bhagya Iyyavoo, Shreya Chakravertty, the Women’s Player of the Year. She Rohinee Iyer, Priyansh, Deepti became the world’s No.1 player in Patwardhan, Sharmistha Chaudhuri, 2018, a ranking she first achieved in Aman Jaiswal, Ashish Anand, Aseem October 2017. She has won 18 singles and Divya Chauhan, Sunit Kumar Jain, titles in her career including the French Harinder Singh, Amit & Saket Dalmia, Open singles title in 2018. Kailash Chander, Rajinder Arora, my The 2019 AITA, WTA and ATP parents, husband Amit Sood and my calendars and Top 50 singles and sons Jaisal & Arman. doubles rankings of the ATP, WTA, and AITA have been provided for the avid tennis followers. ‘AT Trivia’ is also included in this issue for all our readers who are interested in testing their Priya Nanki Singh Sood knowledge on tennis. Editor-in-Chief
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