Coaches & mentors

Guidance. Experience. Perspective.

Sporting experience and perspectives from the Velammal community.

The coaching bench

Mentors who have done it at the highest level.

Tennis

Founder and Director of Chennai Tennis Centre and an ITF-certified Elite Coach.

Career highlights

Directed the All India Tennis Association’s national coach education programme.
Served as an international expert and tutor for the International Tennis Federation.
Trained and certified more than 500 tennis coaches across India.
Ranked among the top three players in the state and top ten nationally during his playing career.

Badminton

Former international badminton player from Tamil Nadu who founded and directed Racketry and Aditya Elango Badminton Academy (AEBA).

Career highlights

Competed at the 2007 World Junior Championships in New Zealand.
Reached the round of 32 at the 2006 Polish Open and competed at the 2006 Bitburger Open in Germany.
Coached students who won more than 100 medals at district competitions.
Trained more than 500 students in beginner and advanced programmes.
Mentored national champion Srinidhi N. from 2014 to 2021.

Cricket

BCCI National Cricket Academy Level B coach and former Tamil Nadu and India Veterans player.

Career highlights

Table Tennis

Indian table tennis Olympian and mentor at SK Academy.

Career highlights

Carried India’s flag at the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony.
Received the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2022, the Padma Shri in 2019 and the Arjuna Award in 2004.
Won seven Commonwealth Games gold medals.
Won two bronze medals at the 2018 Asian Games in the men’s team and mixed doubles events.
Won the men’s singles titles at the 2010 ITTF Pro Tour Egypt Open and the 2020 ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open.

Football

LaLiga Academy Technical Director and UEFA Pro-licensed coach.

Career highlights

Coached at the Barcelona Academy in China and at football clubs in Poland.
Coached youth players at Grupo CP, Betanzos CF and CCD Cerceda in Spain.
His coaching approach dedicates 95% of training to work with the ball and prioritises intensity over volume.
Training covers physical conditioning, technical coordination, and tactical and cognitive development.

Strength & Conditioning

Founder and Director of R Accelerate with more than 17 years of strength and conditioning experience.

Career highlights

Personally trained R. Ashwin, Jos Buttler, Faf du Plessis, Robin Uthappa and Sanju Samson.
Served as head trainer for the Karnataka, Odisha and Assam Ranji Trophy teams and for the East Zone teams in the Duleep and Deodhar trophies.
Worked with the Tamil Thalaivas kabaddi team, the Tamil Nadu hockey team and squash player Joshna Chinappa.

Sports Physiotherapy

Founder and CEO of Stability Physio Care with 14 years of experience in sports and orthopaedic physiotherapy.

Career highlights

Qualifications include MPT (Orthopaedics), PGDEM (Malaysia), COMT (UK), CMT, CKT, CDNT and CCT.
Provided physiotherapy at the 2018 Senior National Women’s Football Championship in Odisha, the 2019 Indian Women’s League in Punjab and the 2022 Tamil Nadu Women’s League.
Supported the State-Level Inter-School Volleyball Tournament, the Media Cricket League in Chennai and the Satellite Cricket League in Chennai in 2023.
Served as head sports physiotherapist on the films Bigil and Jawan.

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