Tennis fanatic Sazzad trying a revolution

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Sazzad Mahmud, an amateur tennis player turned coach, is trying to sow seeds of professionalism and competitiveness among the youth through his Elite Tennis Academy. Sazzad, a businessman by profession, has been running the academy since 2014. Instead of building a separate tennis complex, he rents tennis facilities available in Dhaka where his academy students train six days-a-week. Currently, around 150 students aged 8-16 are learning tennis in his academy, 20 per cent of who are women. Sazzad is spending Tk one lakh each month out of his own pocket for the academy. This tennis fanatic hopes to spark a tennis revolution in a country obsessed with cricket. ‘Our objective is to make the age-level players’ physically fit, groom them by teaching them the basics of tennis and build up their competitive mindset. If they start to enjoy competition, I believe they will go far,’ Sazzad said in his interview with New Age.
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