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Friday – January 24th, 2014 India  110  45 Macau China Final. India Win. FINAL India  39  68  86  110  110 Macau China  10  22  31  45  45     Following the men’s team’s comfortable win yesterday, Indian women followed suit with a lopsided victory over Macau China. There are four women’s teams at this edition’s […]

Spaniard Francisco Garcia took charge of the Indian national women’s team in July 2013. Garcia’s coaching credentials are suitably impressive. Prior to joining the Indian squad, he was involved in various coaching programs in Spain, Denmark and Finland. He has also served as a private development coach for a number of elite Spanish women players […]

As always, the women’s final was held first, a little bit earlier in the evening, before the prime-time crowds were expected to show up. Only a few of the other players, close friends, and some of the organizing officials sat through most of the game; looking around the arena, there were far more empty seats […]

Vamos! Vamos! Vamos!” Coach Francisco Garcia energetically roared at the young Indian women on court, “Go! Go! Go!” Garcia – a Spaniard – admits the occasional language gap from his mother tongue to English to Hindi or any of the other regional languages like Marathi, Tamil, or Malayalam that the girls in his team spoke. […]