Playing Competitive Tennis and Business & Leadership Lessons Learned from Sports with Anand Tharanathan

The Asian American Athlete

On this episode, host Justin Hong interviews tech executive, business leader, and former competitive tennis player Anand Tharanathan.
During the interview, Anand talks about his backstory and how he got started playing tennis (2:23), his tennis career, training routine, diet & nutrition, and more (4:12), coming to the precipice of a pro tennis career before ultimately choosing not to pursue that route (8:30).
He also reflects back on the decision not to pursue a pro career (17:15) and shares lessons that he’s taken from his tennis career that he has applied in his business career (19:15) and in leadership (24:35).
He also discusses his admiration for Roger Federer (26:27), best practices that he’s implemented to help him grow as a business leader (29:05), and more.

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