| In order to promote the budding sports talent DSCL sponsors
several schools in basic inter-school sports related tournaments around the
areas of operation in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan & Gujarat.
DSCL is a premier sponsor of lawn tennis in India. The company entered the
tennis scenario with the objective to encourage and promote young talent by
providing a platform of high quality tennis competition so that it could help
India make a niche for itself in the International arena.
In the first year in 1992, the Company organised Open Tennis Championship for
Delhi State under the aegis of All India Tennis Association (AITA). The
National status for the juniors' championship was awarded to DSCL in 1996. In
1998 the company was given the responsibility by AITA to conduct the
prestigious National Hardcourt Tennis Championship. Since then, the company has
been organizing the most sought after Championship on the Tennis calendar on
the National circuit - the DSCL Open (National) Tennis Championship at the DLTA
Complex, Africa Avenue, New Delhi. Some of the players who have made name from
the tournament and moved on to higher echelons are :- Syed Fazaludin, Gaurav
Natekar, Harsh Mankad, Vinod Shridhar, Vishal Uppal, Vijay Kanan, Nitin
Kirtane, Sunil Kumar, Asif Ismail, Saurav Panja, Uzma Khan, Sai Jaylakshmi,
Rushmi Chakravorty, Archna Venkatraman, Sonal Phadke, Radhika Tulpule, Amanjot
Singh, Lisa Pareira, Sania Mirza and Sanaa Bhambri.
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