Nepali tennis players welcome Kantipur Max’s move to broadcast Wimbledon

This is the first time a Nepali TV channel is broadcasting the tournament. Tennis players hope the step would raise the game’s popularity in the country.

Sunira Thapa started playing tennis when she was 9. Ever since then, she always felt that the game never really attracted attention in Nepal in the same way other sports such as cricket and football did. This limited the exposure tennis players got. Nepali TV channels regularly broadcasted football and cricket matches but not tennis.