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Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment hub of India . Nearly fifteen million people live here - Industrialists, film-stars, artists, workers, teachers and clerks - all living cheek-by-jowl in soaring skyscrapers and sprawling slums. They come from diverse ethnic backgrounds and speak over a dozen tongues, adding colour, flavor and texture to the Great Mumbai Melting Pot. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India.
Sport has always been an intrinsic part of the city’s history. Despite the space crunch, the city has managed to retain and maintain most of its sporting arenas like the Oval Maidan, The Wankhede stadium, The Bombay Gymkhana, The Andheri Sports Complex and so on. Mumbai’s association with tennis though has probably been akin to India’s perspective of tennis, which has largely meant three words for the common man: Sania, Leander and Mahesh! In a country where cricket has always been religion negating, even the national sport Hockey, Tennis inevitably took a back seat. Television was the only source for quality Tennis action.
But, the year-2006 changed it all for tennis lovers in Mumbai and the rest of India. This year saw India hosting its biggest international sports event, since the 1982 Asian Games. The tournament was held in at the Cricket Club of India in South Mumbai, and saw some of the biggest names in international Tennis battle it out in Mumbai.
Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open-2007, with its incredible success last year, promises a yet another week of sport, entertainment & big business converge in India’s city of dreams, Mumbai
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