Can you play tennis with your eyes closed? Even the world's best players would be stumped to see how skillfully the blind play the game, tracking the speeding ball merely by sound, before smashing it back to the opponent's court accurately. If you want to see how they do it, Mumbai will have its first ever workshop this week to teach blind tennis, also called sound ball tennis due to the tinkling sound the specially adapted ball makes. The tennis camp is the brainchild of Ekinath Khedkar, 33, who is completely blind himself, but has a grand vision of India competing in the World Blind Tennis Championship. Khedekar first picked up the game himself as a postgrad student in the UK in 2015.

How it's played
Khedekar said, "I learned how to play sound ball tennis in London while pursuing my Masters degree as a Chevening Scholar in 2015. I was fascinated by the game. Persons with disabilities often get weighed down just fighting for a life with dignity, forgetting to enjoy life and its little pleasures. The idea is to listen to the jingling sound made by the ball, correctly anticipate its location and angle, and then strike it with the racquet, all while ensuring that neither your foot nor the ball crosses the line.