Life’s a ‘cold calamity’ but Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj doesn’t seem --- or want --- to realise it. Just the other day he decided to pull out of the China Futures because it was just too cold.
Now, people all over the world have braved chill and come out firing on all cylinders, in varied disciplines including tennis. Remember, India’s tennis ace Leander Paes playing in tracksuits in freezing China and still winning the Davis Cup rubber for the country.
More cold statistics to chill your senses:
1. On January 1 last year, the US Tennis Association (USTA) Northern organised the Coldest Day of Tennis and tried to set a world record for the coldest tennis match ever played (currently this record does not exist). The match started at 8 a.m. with a temperature reading of minus 16 degrees Celsius and ended at 11 a.m. at minus 4. The big challenge was keeping the tennis balls warm enough so that they would bounce. The balls were kept warm in a car that had its engine running, and exchanged every five minutes.
2. British adventurer Lewis Gordon Pugh swam one kilometre in July 2007 near the North Pole to highlight the effects of global warming and break his own record for the world's coldest swim. Sporting just a swimming cap, trunks and goggles, Pugh swam one km in minus 1.8 degrees. "Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer," said Pugh, who set the record for the coldest human swim off Antarctica at zero degree.
Did all these people crib about the fact that the courts or the waters were too cold for comfort?
Maybe, Prakash should think twice before playing in the Davis Cup rubber against Uzbekistan in Delhi too. The National Capital is still in the grip of a cold wave!!
Now, people all over the world have braved chill and come out firing on all cylinders, in varied disciplines including tennis. Remember, India’s tennis ace Leander Paes playing in tracksuits in freezing China and still winning the Davis Cup rubber for the country.
More cold statistics to chill your senses:
1. On January 1 last year, the US Tennis Association (USTA) Northern organised the Coldest Day of Tennis and tried to set a world record for the coldest tennis match ever played (currently this record does not exist). The match started at 8 a.m. with a temperature reading of minus 16 degrees Celsius and ended at 11 a.m. at minus 4. The big challenge was keeping the tennis balls warm enough so that they would bounce. The balls were kept warm in a car that had its engine running, and exchanged every five minutes.
2. British adventurer Lewis Gordon Pugh swam one kilometre in July 2007 near the North Pole to highlight the effects of global warming and break his own record for the world's coldest swim. Sporting just a swimming cap, trunks and goggles, Pugh swam one km in minus 1.8 degrees. "Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer," said Pugh, who set the record for the coldest human swim off Antarctica at zero degree.
Did all these people crib about the fact that the courts or the waters were too cold for comfort?
Maybe, Prakash should think twice before playing in the Davis Cup rubber against Uzbekistan in Delhi too. The National Capital is still in the grip of a cold wave!!
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