Bengaluru, Dec. 27 -- The applause at the KSLTA rose easily, but for Rohan Bopanna's parents MG Bopanna and Malika Bopanna, it carried the weight of years.
As the screen replayed images from a career that stretched across decades, they were not counting titles or rankings.
At "Celebrating Rohan's Legacy 2002-2025", a felicitation event, his parents looked back on pre-dawn mornings, long drives to distant practice courts, and a boy who resisted school with remarkable determination but never once resisted a ball.
Rohan, they recalled with gentle laughter, was a restless child. Sitting still did not come naturally to him. Studying for more than half an hour felt unbearable. There were days when getting him to school required more negotiatio...