The Gandaki province government has started training in tennis sport for to identify young talent and find a future in the sport.

Tennis training for children under the ‘Khelcha Gandaki’ initiative is organized by the Provincial Sports Council Gandaki. The program started on Saturday at the tennis court in Pokhara Stadium with the coordination of the Gandaki Province Tennis Association and technical support of the Kaski District Tennis Association.

This training program for children will be conducted for two months. The goal is to bring the children who are busy with their mobile phones to the playground. A total of 25 children between 6 to 16 years of age are participating in the training program, said the Secretary of Gandaki Province Tennis Association, Naveen Chali.

Likewise, member secretary of Provincial Sports Council Gandaki, Sridhar Sharma, said that the tennis training for children will help produce talented tennis players in the country.

Through this training program, we have aimed to bring the children from the underprivileged community in the society to the tennis field and produce national tennis players”, said the president of Gandaki Province Tennis Association, Binod Kayastha.