The Peninsula Cup
Finally A Tennis
Event Worth Making A Racket About! To promote Junior Tennis in India, the Academy
launched the Peninsula Cup - the biggest ever
Junior Tennis Tournament in the history of Indian tennis
!!
Press Conference - Launch of
the Peninsula Cup
Junior Tennis Championships of the NCR
The Week, 17 Sep 1995
"Tempered steel can be strong. Tempered
tennis players can be stronger. Especially if they can
take the heat of an exacting training regimen. And that
is what B.P. "Bobby" Singh's school promises!
Today, his Peninsula Tennis Academy (PTA) is all set to
become one of the best equipped tennis cum educational
schools in India."
Business Today, 22
July 1995
"Advantage Birender Pal "Bobby"
Singh for turning an obsession into a business and coming
up aces with his Peninsula Tennis Academy. "The
academy has facilities comparable to international
standards," admits Krishnan."
Sunday, 7 November 1993
"An academy near Delhi will provide both
home and training centre to youngsters interested in
making tennis a career. Besides intensive training in
tennis which includes guidance from stalwarts like
Ramanathan Krishnan, the academy provides the comforts of
home and formal schooling".
Target, January 1992
"If you are young and all set for the net,
with vigour for volleying and aspiration for aces, the
Peninsula Tennis Academy in New Delhi may be right up
your court! Planned on the lines of tennis academies
abroad, the PTA will be the first of its kind single stop
in India offering both professional tennis coaching and
normal schooling for future tennis toppers! So after
Ramanathan, Vijay, Ramesh and Leander.... it could well
be YOU!"
Hindustan Times, July 2004
Advantage kids in tennis
court!! See more coverage of the hugely successful
Peninsula Cup 2004 under News!
The Hindu, 9 May
1991
"PTA" will
unearth talent. I am confident of the scheme chalked out
by the PTA and that is why I have decided to take up this
assignment" says the maestro who had often refused
to take up coaching in the past. "My father was once
my coach and I have passed on the lessons to Ramesh. I
would
love to share it with the youngsters at PTA"
Krishnan adds.
The Telegraph, 9 May 1991
"Tennis Academies
are the Answer": Ramanthan. "I liked the very
idea of the academy and its concept. It is similar to
what has been happening in the United States". His
son, Ramesh, who was also present at the briefing, said
he had attended such a clinic in Florida and had
benefited immensely.
The Hindu, 1 Dec 1991
"I was impressed
by the scheme at PTA. I feel it will provide the answer
to the needs of modern coaching in India. I will be very
dedicated in my approach. I owe it to my country",
says Mukerjea.
The Hindustan Times,
26 May 1991
"The Peninsula
Tennis Academy is a concept that has persuaded an
otherwise diffident Ramanathan Krishnan, still the
Greatest Tennis player in Indian Tennis History, and
Krishnan's dour and dogged Davis Cup teammate Jaidip
Mukerjea, to forsake the comforts of retirement and take
an active interest in coaching a new generation of tennis
players. The man behind the concept is Bobby Singh, a
former player of standing who is capable of involving
former champions in a coaching scheme that begins at the
grassroots. The Peninsula Tennis Academy has begun on a
rousing note".
The Business & Political Observer, 3 June 1991
"B. P. Singh, or
Bobby as he is called, believes the way to develop tennis
in this country is by making it pay. Only then will
tennis be thought of as a career, and good talent be
attracted to it. With this in mind, he is planning for an
eventual super circuit of Indian Tennis with a lot of
prize money. The first tournament is called the Campa
Amateur Tennis Cup."
City Scan, January
1993
"The promotion of
sporting events as an enterprise has finally filtered
through to the capital with Eternit Everest joining hands
with Peninsula Tennis Academy to organise a nationwide
tennis tournament for Juniors."
Evening News, 15 Oct
1993
"First genuine
tennis academy....Founders eye on Wimbledon."
The Economic Times,
26 Feb 1995
"Before setting
up the academy, the consummate professional that he is,
Singh visited tennis academies in Europe and USA. His aim
was to replicate the best there was in the world. The
Peninsula Tennis Academy is equipped with state-of-the-art
ball machines, tennis analyst computers, servo-meters and
mental toughness kits, making it one of the most advanced
in the country."
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