Kathmandu, June 27 -- 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.

That is now about to change as this year Kantipur Max is broadcasting the Wimbledon, tennis's oldest tournament and the most prestigious, in a first for a Nepali TV channel.

"It's a big achievement here because TV mostly shows cricket and we don't get as much exposure," Thapa, the Butwal Open Lawn Tennis Tournament champion, told the Post. "I think it's going to raise awareness about t...