{"id":324354,"date":"2025-12-03T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324354\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:02:09","slug":"aussie-tennis-coach-todd-clark-lauds-khelo-india-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324354\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie tennis coach Todd Clark lauds Khelo India games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAIPUR: Australian coach Todd Clark, a prominent figure in Indian tennis and a strong supporter of the Khelo India initiative, believes the Khelo India Games will greatly benefit India long-term by providing teenagers opportunities to engage in sports.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving in India in 2008, Clark has made the country his home, deeply immersing himself in its culture. He currently serves as Director of Tennis at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha and is mentoring players at the <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/rajasthan-to-host-khelo-india-university-games-2025-in-november\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Khelo India University Game<\/a>s Rajasthan 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Khelo India games are fantastic to have happened to this country. There is nothing more troublesome than a bored teenager. What these games have done all over the country is that they have given these teens opportunities to pick up sports and excel at them and eventually make a career. Sports also inculcate character,\u201d Clark told SAI Media.<\/p>\n<p>With over 30 years of coaching experience, Clark praised the Government of India for the Khelo India initiative. \u201cThe current Central Government is quite keen on the idea of a fit India. These games are going to promote health and wellness among the youth. Furthermore, the infrastructure will get a boost. I am quite impressed with the facilities that I have seen in Jaipur so far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After arriving, Clark worked at the Harvest Tennis Academy in Punjab and coached in <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/poised-to-establish-new-identity-on-global-landscape-says-ex-gujarat-varsity-vc-on-cwg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gujarat <\/a>and Haryana. He was part of the Indian team when Vaishnavi Adkar from Pune won a bronze in women\u2019s singles at the 2025 Summer World University Games\u2014India\u2019s first-ever women\u2019s tennis medal at the event and only the second overall, following Nandan Bal\u2019s silver in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Clark sees significant talent in Indian tennis but stresses better talent identification and counseling. \u201cI think India has a lot of talent. Though I believe talent identification could be better. Counselling kids on what sport to pick could also be better. For example, you need to be a certain height to be a good tennis player, 6 feet or thereabouts, so if you are, say, 5\u20194\u201d, your chances of being a top-class tennis player are very low, so you should pick up another sport that suits you. So, it\u2019s important players are advised in the right manner,\u201d he said. (IANS)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Also Read: <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/topheadlines\/shubman-gill-begins-rehabilitation-ahead-of-t20i-series-against-south-africa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shubman Gill Begins Rehabilitation Ahead of T20I Series against South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAIPUR: Australian coach Todd Clark, a prominent figure in Indian tennis and a strong supporter of the Khelo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,182382,63,182381,85,182383,747],"class_list":["post-324354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-aussie-tennis-coach-todd-clark","tag-australia","tag-khelo-india-university-games","tag-sports","tag-teenagers-opportunities","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}