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                                     Photo via <a href="https://visualhunt.com/re/a29bd5">VisualHunt</a> It's nice to see the action unfold at a local tournament. For the game of tennis to feature in the popularity charts of young athletes, local tournaments, play an essential role! While boys and girls sweat it out together, the chances for them to beat the odds, and emerge as front runners for national and international tournaments gets higher. The good part to see is that the traditional male dominance in tennis is a thing on the past, thanks to better education of parents, on how well girls have been performing at the world stage.  What was once categorized as a #testosterone high male-only game, has almost equal participation from women, who bring grace to the game, along with different winning strategies.  The numbers recorded at local tourneys may st...

Photo credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mad_african78/360707027/">Mad African!: (Broken Sword)</a> via <a href="https://visualhunt.com/re/cd0c2d">VisualHunt.com</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/"> CC BY-NC</a> Don't you just love this game?  Tightening guts, beautiful centre courts, energetic ball boys and girls, fit-as-fiddle players and enthralled audiences.  Welcome to the local tennis tournament, with much fan fare, spring-in-their-feet kids and equally ping-pongy parents. Tennis doesn't feature in the top 10 sporting careers in India, but boy, has it grown in acceptance.  Local tennis tournaments look easy on the onset, however have a lot of preparation and ground work to be done. It needs tightly sewn team work, proper scheduling of rosters and much more.  Beyond just preparations, it needs the right stakeholders to be a part of the action, backstage an...