The tennis scene in India is discouraging with no youngster holding any promise for the future. Professionalism and easy money in doubles competitions are factors, which are killing the development and nurturing of young talent to play in men’s and women’s singles matches. Even greenhorns, who show some promise initially, are lured by monitory gains to be made in the doubles matches. All they need to do is to find a male or female partner from around the world and enter the numerous doubles competitions. The situation today, is far cry from days, when India was able to produce high quality tennis players. Beginning with Akhtar Ali, Ramanathan Krishnan, Jaideep Mukherjee, Premjit Lal, SP Mishra, Amritraj Brothers, Ramesh Krishnan and up to Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi; there were singles contenders in grand slams and ATP events. On their day, these guys were able to give top world players a run for their money. On the women’s side, Sania Mirza emerged as the lone contender and with great promise, she stayed there for a while, before espousing the doubles game completely. Ironically, the budding entrants learnt their lessons from two prominent predecessors; Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi.