India, Sept. 26 -- HT Syndication

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], September 26: A notice goes up in the lobby of a Gurugram tower listing the sports on offer downstairs that term. There are eleven of them. The father reading it played one.

His daughter picks taekwondo. He has never watched a bout, cannot explain the belts, and signs her up anyway.

F2P's data shows that across Delhi-NCR, this is now the more common version of how a child starts a sport. FanToPark Play, which runs coaching for more than 1,000 children across 95+ residential societies in Gurugram, Noida, Dwarka and the wider NCR, opened its enrolment records for July 2026.

Taekwondo is the most played sport in those societies, at 25 per cent of all participation. Badminton i...