For Sara Tendulkar, the past few weeks have been a crash course in pressure,
unpredictability — and the emotional weight of watching a team you care about go the
distance.
As the owner of Mumbai Grizzlies in the Global E-cricket Premier League, she entered this
season with no prior experience in team management or esports. “Honestly, this was a very
new role for me,” she said after the final match. “I had more questions than answers.”
The team made it all the way to the final — a high-intensity, down-to-the-wire match that
ended in a loss, but left behind a different kind of win. “We’ve always looked at this as a
journey,” Sara said. “It wasn’t just about the trophy. It was about how we grew as a
team.”
Despite her calm exterior, the finale was anything but detached. “I didn’t expect to feel the
same butterflies I do when I’m in a stadium watching a match live — but I did. I had my
heart in my mouth,” she said. Sitting beside her that day was her mother, Anjali Tendulkar,
equally tense. “We were both sitting there, plucking at our fingernails.”
This was Sara’s first public foray into sport not as a spectator, but as someone actively
shaping what happens behind the scenes — from team strategy and morale to dealing with
setbacks and big moments under pressure. “You realise quickly that ownership isn’t about
calling the shots — it’s about trusting the people you’ve put your faith in. And letting them
play.”
The experience, she says, was eye-opening — not just for what it demanded, but for how it
made her feel. Her reflections, shared in a quiet Instagram post after the match, were less
about results and more about resilience: “We didn’t win the title, but we won in every way
that mattered — belief, trust, fight.”
It’s a measured take from someone who has grown up adjacent to the game, but is only
now beginning to experience its emotional extremes firsthand. One tournament in, and Sara
Tendulkar has already learned what many in sport take years to understand: it’s not just the
outcome that stays with you. It’s everything in between.
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