When Elias Ymer, the number one Swedish tennis player of Ethiopian descent, watched 'Dangal' he could not stop tears from rolling down his eyes. "It's not that people at the club stopped us from playing tennis but they questioned it. Now he is Sweden's number one tennis player since Robin Soderling's retirement in 2015 and the next best is his own younger brother Mikael, who is ranked 286. Elias worked with Soderling, the 2009 and 2010 French Open finalist, but the partnership did not work since the former world number four did not want to travel. "I played a lot of tennis in the last few weeks and did not play my best tennis.

Source: Ethiopian News November 24, 2018 11:48 UTC