Dr Swaroop Savanur
Dr Swaroop Savanur, Mental Conditioning and Peak Performance Coach
My vision is to ensure that every player, who comes to me, succeeds and excels in his game and in his life. Period. That’s my focus, that’s my joy.
Dr Swaroop Savanur, the Founder of MyMentalCoach is one of India’s most experienced Mental and Performance Coaches with over 15 + years of experience across various team and individual sports.
He is a doctor turned Mental Conditioning and Peak Performance Coach, who empowers elite athletes with psychological and mental skills to be confident, perform under pressure, learn the steps to be mentally tough and in peak performance, increase their mental strength and help them express their full potential, when it matters.
Influenced by the 2000′ Kargil war and the Sydney Olympics Debacle in 2001, he studied and implemented a Grass Roots Development Sports program in 2003, conducting 500 Football matches in Pune, under the name Future Vision Sports. Christened by this experience, he went to Switzerland to do a Diploma in EEG and Brain Conditioning, where he learnt and fell in love with the study of the brain.
Being a player himself in his college days and armed with his learnings of Indian Sports, he naturally gravitated towards ‘harnessing the power of the brain for sporting excellence’.
Career Milestones
Vidarbha Ranji Team
Dr Swaroop was appointed the Mental Conditioning Coach of the Vidarbha Ranji Team from 2013-16, for a period of 3 years that included India level players like Umesh Yadav, S.Badrinath, Faiz Fazal and Wasim Jaffer. He also worked with their U19, U23 and Women’s teams.
Till 2013, Vidarbha’s best seasons were 1970-71 and 1995–96, when it reached the quarter-finals of the Ranji Trophy. They were known to succumb under pressure. Totals of 80 all out were common. No one took the team seriously.
Within 3 years, Vidarbha Ranji Team topped the standings in all formats of the game(A Ranji record) and in 2016-17 season, won the Ranji trophy for the first ever time!
Indian Football Team for FIFA World Cup
Dr Swaroop Savanur was appointed Mental Conditioning Coach for the Indian Football Team for one of the most prestigious and India’s first ever FIFA World Cup tournament.
Apart from working with a Foreign Coach, players came from completely diverse cultural and ocio-economic backgrounds who had to play under extreme high pressure, playing in front of 40,000 strong crowd, when they had never played in front of even 400 people. The players were hailed in the media over their never say die spirit and attitude.
India players at the National Cricket Academy:
Dr Swaroop Savanur has been working with India’s top cricket players from 2019 at BCCI’s National Cricket Academy at Bengaluru, headed by Rahul Dravid.
He regularly conducts team and one on one sessions with India level players across various age groups.
Olympic Athletes and Elite Athlete Mental and Performance Training
Mental Training Sessions for Team India – Women’s Cricket Team
Training India No 1 Table Tennis Legend Sharath Kamal Achanta
Training India No1 Boxer in 77kg and Tokyo Olympics 2021 Qualified Pooja Rani
Trained India No 1 Tennis Star Ankita Raina
Training India No 1 Pro-Amateur Golfer Rohan DholePatil
Training India no 1 and World No 4, Sunil Kumar, Wrestler