Diva Bhatia of Lucknow is simply 17 and dreams massive, a lot in order that she aspires to win the French Open and see the Indian tricolour flying excessive at Roland Garros.
Decided to be world No. 1, she is leaving no stone unturned to grasp her dream, placing in two hours of train and three hours of tennis follow and shunning social engagements.
“I need to be World No. 1 at some point and can be comfortable to fly the Indian tricolour at Roland Garros by successful the French Open. I need to be Serena Williams of India and set a file within the sport,” stated Diva who performs drums to beat stress.
“I adopted Poland’s Iga Świątek initially and then it was Serena who has at all times been a constant performer. Each Iga and Serena have nearly the same enjoying model. Psychological power makes a giant distinction,” stated Diva, who has grow to be a non-vegetarian to achieve “further power.”
Diva has employed El Salvador’s former Davis Cup and Federation Cup captain Andres Weisskopf as coach and Argentine health coach Alejandro Lacour (health coach of WTA 30 ranked participant Kate Watson).
The 2 consultants are serving to her practice nicely in Lucknow at a tennis facility on a five-star lodge premises for a month. Diva’s father Kapil Bhatia used to comply with seven-time Wimbledon champion Steffi Graf and at all times needed his daughter to play tennis. Earlier than Diva took up the game, he talked to her to learn the way severe she was in regards to the sport.
“My dad and mom, together with my mom Ritu Bhatia, at all times stood by my choice and I’ve promised to be a great tennis participant at some point and I need to be identified on this world as Diva Bhatia and not because the daughter of well-established dad and mom,” stated the lady, who’s presently No. 1 in U.P, among the many prime 10 in India and the highest 700 in world in Underneath-18.
Diva began tennis on the age of 12, and by no means regarded again, successful 4 titles within the final 4 months within the Latin America event tour. She tasted her first main success, ending runner-up in zone-wise state degree SGFI event in Agra in 2018. She went on to characterize her state on the nationwide degree in Hyderabad, ending as a semi-finalist.
She determined to work tougher thereafter. After coaching for a yr at Siri Fort in New Delhi in 2018-19, she went to Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France to raised her approach from 2019-22.
On growing her abilities, she performed and received nationwide tournaments in France in addition to Ten Professional World Worldwide Junior event and made a great place for herself in French rankings, in each under-16 in addition to girls’s tournaments.
She now goals to win Junior Grand Slams inside two years. Diva, who reached the semi-finals in Open Ladies’s Match at Guayaquil in Ecuador in South America this April, is out to play, win and make a spot for herself within the top-100 juniors on the planet.
Diva’s mom Ritu, who accompanies her in every single place and owns the Lucknow Aviators crew in Delhi Professional Tennis League, stated she has lower brief her personal work to 70 per cent solely to let her daughter play tennis as a lot as she will be able to.
“I’ve nearly completed my social life and stay busy with my daughter in order that she will be able to proceed her ardour for tennis,” stated Ritu, an architect by occupation.
J60 Santo Domingo: Quarterfinalist in singles, and doubles too
J60 Mexico: Quarterfinalist in doubles
J60 Mexico: Quarterfinalist in doubles
J60 El Salvador: Quarterfinalist in singles and semi-finalist in doubles
J60 El Salvador: Runner-up in doubles
J30 Mexico: Quarterfinalist in singles and semi-finalist in doubles
J60 Mexico: Quarterfinalist in singles and semi-finalist in doubles
J30 Honduras: Winner in singles and runner-up in doubles
J30 Ecuador: Semi-finalist in singles and doubles
J60 El Salvador: Semi-finalist in singles and doubles
J60 Jamaica: Semi-finalist in doubles
J30 Nicaragua: Semi-finalist in singles and runner-up in doubles
J30 Nicaragua: Semi-finalist in singles and doubles
