Author(s): Vikas Pandey and Dr. Ashwani Saini

Abstract:
In recent years, Tennis has become quite popular sports in India due to advent of many tennis sports achievers. Availability of Tennis infrastructure, programme and qualified Tennis personnel is a key to enhance the performance of grass roots tennis players and to spread a sports culture in the society. Keeping this fact in mind and to find the current status of in tennis infrastructure, programme and personal in India the present research has been taken up. A self-made questionnaire was prepared with the help of expert of physical education and sports to investigate the status of Tennis infrastructure, programme and personnel in public school of Delhi. Thirty Head of department of physical education/Physical education Teacher/Coach were selected randomly as the participant of the study. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. Findings of the study revealed that the sixty percent of the schools have tennis infrastructure and also have tennis programme, however there is lack of qualified tennis personnel in the schools. Further the schools that do not have tennis infrastructure are willing to construct sports facilities. It was concluded that qualified sports personnel are essential to run better tennis programme as the schools which have sports infrastructure and organize tennis programme with qualified sports personnel have good result in sports performance and have sports achievers with AITA national ranking. Finally school administration and management is promoting sports culture at their premises.

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