How the new national champion Vishwakarma is whacking the ball so hard?

After practising against a beast which throws a tennis ball at a speed of 280kms per hour, it was not a surprise that Siddharth Vishwakarma was whacking the ball around, catching his opponents by surprise at the National championships.

Not even Arjun Kadhe, the strongest of the players at the championship, could stop the unheralded Varanasi lad from stealing the thunder. He pounded winners from both flanks with his angled shots, leaving his rivals gasping.

Vishwakarma whose world rank is a humble 1221, is not even inside top-10 in India. Not even top-20. He is a distant 30 while Kadhe is India number six and was recently part of Indian Davis Cup team as a reserve member.

Someone for whom heavy spin was the biggest weapon, adding power to his ground strokes took one month, heading into the nationals.

This transformation came about after his coach Kamlesh Shukla brought a customised bowling machine from the USA and recovery machines from Korea to give his ward the best possible options .