Extract From Maharastra State Lawn Tennis Association Annual Report for the year 2000 - 2001

Shri Praveen Kumar is a former International Player. He is a AITA Level 1 qualified and USPTR Coach. He works with advance and mini tournament group. He has Played second division league in Germany with three years coaching experience. On behalf of the President, Vice president and the Members of the Managing Council I have great pleasure in presenting the report of the Association.

It was a great honor for MSLTA to get the opportunity to be the first association to felicitate Padmashree Padmabhudhan Shri. R.K.Khanna, President of All India Tennis Association and Shri Ramesh Desai, Hon. Secretary General of AITA for their contribution forwards development and promotion of the game of tennis in India. The felicitation function was held, on the occasion of AITA Executive Committee Meeting and Extra Ordinary General Meeting, at MSLTA on 26th August 2000.

The AITA sponsored scheme at MSLTA continues with a new format in which only 50% expense is sponsored by AITA while the other 50% is taken care  of by MSLTA. Shri Praveen Kumar, is coaching this group. Rohan Gajjar, Sonal Phadke, Megha Vakharia and Liza Pereira were the players selected for this scheme. These players fared extremely well in the AITA as well as ITF Tournaments.

This group consists of Players who are successfully performing at State and National level. Shri Praveen Kumar, National Ranked Player imparts training to this group. There are 25 trainees in this scheme and they have been performing well in the state and National Tournaments.

This is a group of selected trainees trained by shri Praveen kumar who have the potential to perform better and have the talent to come up at a National and International level. There are 20 trainees in this scheme.

Aim of this scheme is to introduce tennis to youngsters, college students, and adults. There are about 350 trainees in this group.