Mumbai: After displaying his passion and affection for cricket, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan flaunted his love towards tennis and divulged that as a teenager he aspired to become a tennis player.
Walking down memory lane, Bachchan revealed that after his Senior Cambridge Examinations were finished by November and admissions into University were scheduled after seven-eight months and then as there was nothing to do he picked up tennis racquet on the recommendation of his mother Teji Bachchan.
''... So my Mother noticing me wave a tennis racquet at a club that one of our more affluent friends took me to, felt I had it in me to be a player.'' wrote the thespian, who was in London spending quality time with his kids and grandkids, in his blog posted on Thursday.
Bachchan got candid and said he soon was enrolled into the RajKumari Amrit Kaur Coaching Scheme at the NSCI Stadium, New Delhi where there were gravel and green courts for the beginners and others respectively.
Pointing out his great pace of learning the sport, he said, ''I went pretty rapidly from the beginners to the C court and then the B in those few months. It would have been a few more weeks before I would have been invited to the A, grass courts.'' Big B said that unfortunately the University opened and College began and ultimately tennis went off the grass and also off from his curriculum as well but he did enjoy several hours at the courts besides its rigorous regimen.
Recalling the moments of punishment at tennis court for being failed to perform well, he wrote, ''every time you missed a volley or made an error on your ground strokes, it was 10 rounds of the 400 meter track of the stadium with our racquets held above our heads!'' The actor said that nothing comes easy in life not even any game.
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