INDIA: TENNIS: CALCUTTA BOY AT THE FUTURE HOPE INDIA CHARITY ORPHANAGE HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO TOSS THE COIN AT WIMBLEDON TENNIS TOURNAMENT FINALS
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INDIA: TENNIS: CALCUTTA BOY AT THE FUTURE HOPE INDIA CHARITY ORPHANAGE HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO TOSS THE COIN AT WIMBLEDON TENNIS TOURNAMENT FINALS
- Title: INDIA: TENNIS: CALCUTTA BOY AT THE FUTURE HOPE INDIA CHARITY ORPHANAGE HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO TOSS THE COIN AT WIMBLEDON TENNIS TOURNAMENT FINALS
- Date: 4th July 2000
- Summary: CALCUTTA, INDIA (JULY 4, 2000) (ANI) CHILDREN PLAYING TENNIS (SOUNDBITE) (English) RAJU, A BOY WHO WILL TOSS THE COIN AT THE WIMBLEDON FINAL, SAYING: "I am feeling very great to go there and I am also very happy that I am representing India." VARIOUS OF TEACHERS TEACHING RAJU (SOUNDBITE) (English) TEAM GRANDAGE, DIRECTOR, FUTURE HOPE, SAYING: "Every child we have or most of the children we have here are from the streets. What is exciting about this trip is that it just shows that if you give a child from the streets a chance, then they can excel. People like yourself and myself who come from advantaged backgrounds, we automatically have a chance. I think it's very important to give youngsters with no chance a chance because they can do as well as you can or I can." CHILDREN PLAYING TENNIS
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- Location: CALCUTTA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA
- Country: India
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