Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna has been appointed as the new vice-president of the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association(KSLTA) as he stepped into the zone of tennis administration.

This is four-year term where a new set of office bearers elected from February 2020 to January 2024 where R. Ashoka, minister, government of Karnataka, is the new president.

The 40-year-old player was scheduled to play in Indian Wells but the event got cancelled and he was left stranded at the airport.

According to The New Indian Express, Bopanna said, “announcement came in the nick of time,” Bopanna laughs when talking about it a day later from his residence in Bengaluru. “I ended up staying at the (Doha) airport for 17 hours. I didn’t want to go out because of the situation (threat of coronavirus).

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