SHILLONG, Apr 18: The leaders of all the eight groups in the women’s section held sway on the opening day of the team championships in the 83rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the SAI Indoor Stadium here on Monday. The Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB), Bengal A, Haryana, Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB), Maharashtra A, Tamizhaga Table Tennis Association (TTTA), Maharashtra B and Karnataka are well and truly entrenched after two rounds of matches. However, the […]
Table tennis veteran Chandrasekar passes away
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AAA Three-time National table tennis champion and International player V. Chandrasekar passed away here on Wednesday due to COVID-19 related complications. He was the president of Tamizhaga Table Tennis Association.
The 63-year-old, who was the Director and head coach of the SDAT-Medimix TT Academy in Mogappair (Chennai), was admitted to a city hospital last week or so for COVID-19, after which he developed lung infection.
Chandra, as he was popularly called, has groomed many top-level players such as S. Raman, Arul Selvi, Chetan Baboor, N.R. Indu, M.S. Mythili and G. Sathiyan, Preyesh to name a few.