08/30/2024
Maya lost today at the to Swedish Nellie Taraba Walberg 3/6, 3/6. It was good match but Nellie was a better player and showed it on key moments.
This was Maya’s last match as a junior tennis player as she has enrolled in college and started with Boise State Women's Tennis. Maya had a decent junior career reaching 94 in the world in ITF Junior ranking and playing in 3 junior slams. I want to thank Egor Shestakov , Phil Dent at Dent Tennis Academy, Rod Hinze, Ryan Akers, Joel Rockmore Jr. and Filiberto Flores for working with Maya on different tennis and conditioning aspects last year.
Special thanks to my friend former top 400 ATP player Fazal Syed who kept us in the house for few days, trained her and drove to NY today to be on court coach during the match. Also thanks to Beck Roghaar , her coach at college who came to support Maya but could not coach her due to NCAA compliance.
The day ended great with Fazal taking us out to eat at a street side Pakistani eatery eatery in Jackson Heights where we transformed Beck into a brown man today:)
The Tennis Wizard