BENGALURU: Sharath Kamal continues to be the country’s trailblazer in table tennis. While he plays an individual sport, the Chennai-based stalwart is a team man, taking along a generation of paddlers.
The Padma Shri awardee, the brain behind the ongoing camp for eight young paddlers here, said: “We have been training in Chennai, but the ceiling of the facility, which plays a role in determining the conditions, is not high and the facilities are not so great. At Lakshyan Academy of Sports, I’m a mentor and we wanted to give our players quality practice at a good facility. Here they have access to physiotherapy, recovery and strength and conditioning at one place. Also, Chris (Pfeiffer) and I have a long association and he willingly came on board.”
