Site Search

FLASH: BASKETBALL:....53rd P.D. Chidambara Sourya Naraynan Memorial Rolling Trophy All India Basketball Tournament 2012...live score....The Score will updated in the Evening IST Time Evening
 Sporty India Forum
Board Index Latest Posts Welcome Guest   [Register]  [Login]
Sporty India Institutions:   by  on 2009-10-31 01:19:04
 Subject :Coach who mentored Saina’s early progress is no more.. 2011-08-12 00:45:16 
sportyin
Joined: 2009-06-16 00:07:19
Posts: 77
Location: 
  • 4294967149
HYM28MIR_27713f.jpg


He was known to lecture Saina Nehwal to not expend too much energy, and urging her to increase her repertoire of strokes, but Mir Mahboob Ali — one of the shuttler’s earliest coaches who passed away in Hyderabad last week — will be best remembered for convincing her to make one of the most important dietary alterations of her life.

Hailing from a strict vegetarian family, Nehwal was patiently goaded by Ali to start her meat intake and other non-vegetarian fare, to help supplement her dietary requirements in her early years.

“He ensured she had strong nourishment in the most crucial years alongside training her in the on-court techniques,” Nehwal’s father Dr Harvir Singh recalls.

The 69-year-old coached her occasionally between 2000-2003 at Hyderabad’s Nizam Club. But more than any stroke or training technique, the family most fondly remembers how Ali devoted hours to help the then 10-year-old sharpen a particular piece of footwork or shot that she’d learnt under Md Arif at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium.
IP Logged
Page # 


Poll

Will Saina Nehwal ever win the World championship?

Results

Copyright © 2009 Sporty India

Login Form