Sports India

Mahesh Bhupathi’s career as a player may not be going great guns, but he still has reason to cheer. The ten-time winner of various Grand Slam Championships is now headed to Delhi. At The Palm’s Court and Country Club in Gurgaon, Bhupathi is opening his sixth tennis academy.

Called Mahesh Bhupati Tennis Academies, he already has centres in Mumbai, Cochin, Vashi, Udaipur and Nagpur with some 400 students enrolled. ‘‘Tennis has made me what I am and I want to spread this passion to the next generation,’’ says the 32-year old.