TALKING OF SPORTS WE LOVE

 

Basically, I am not a sportsman. Although I have played some games like football and badminton in my school days, I never showed an interest in sports. We know very well that sports are taught in the school by the drill master. We used to have an hour period every day for sports. The drillmaster comes in shorts and shoes. Since sports were in the school schedule, we were compelled to attend this class. I never played in my college days. I could see some of my colleagues go for tennis with their racket wearing white shorts and canvas shoes in the evening. Schools and colleges have playgrounds and some have indoor games facilities. Physical directors are in charge of them. But not all students make use of them.

Sports have strict rules. One has to follow strictly. Discipline is must. Sportsmen and women are generally coached by trained coaches. Physical training is given to those who are interested in this field. Practising sports is one the important activities of the sports persons. Physical and mental strength are necessary to go for sports. Sport for me is an entertainment although those are hard for the sports persons. I enjoy sports by sitting in my recliner munching some eatables. Sports channels of my TV show all kinds of sports (live) from anywhere in the world. Nowadays the French Open Tennis is going on at Roland Garros stadium, Paris from 22 May 2022 to 5 June 2022.

I enjoy mostly sports like Tennis, Badminton, Cricket, Football matches live in TV. They take place all over the world at important cities. Millions of people buy tickets and sit in the stadium to watch matches. But I like many others stay at home and watch such games. The TV channels add advertisements too on and off. Tennis matches take place every year at Australia, the US, France, England. Apart from these Tennis matches are played as ATP 1000 etc. at various other countries. I am watching such matches for the past fifty years or so. 

I have seen the tennis stars like Andre Agassi, Steffy Graf, Nadal, Federer, Djokovic and many others. They were and are outstanding players who won the matches many times and won cups and huge amounts of money. Generally, these stars are accompanied by their family members, friends, and coaches. Along with those people the fans. Every sportsman and woman has fans from all over the world. They are the ones who encourage the stars by shouting, clapping and singing. It gives immense joy to those who watch the matches.

Badminton gained worldwide popularity of late. China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, India, Denmark, and Spain are some of the important countries that participate in world tournaments every year. This game is played at various countries. Cricket is another sport that takes place mainly in India, Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and West Indies. A good old game played initially by England, India, Australia and Pakistan. Later on it spread to many other countries. Test matches last for five days. We used to hear the commentary from our radio sets or transistor. Now we have live telecasts. Also we have fifty over and twenty over matches. Some of the matches are very interesting to watch.

Similarly, football is a very interesting fast-moving game we see in Europe and South America. There are players who are paid heavily to score goals. India and Pakistan were the countries that used to play hockey. But nowadays many more countries like Japan, Australia, New Zealand, England, Netherland and Germany play this game. All the above games are played both by men and women.

In addition to these sports that entertain me there are hundreds of games in the Olympics that come once in four years. The last one was in Japan and the next one will be in Paris in 2024. Let us wait and see. - NARA