Arjuna Award Winning Former Table Tennis National Champion V Chandrasekar passes away

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Three-time National table tennis champion and former International paddler Venugopal Chandrasekar has passed away following COVID-related complications. He was 63.
Chandra, as he was popularly called, was a pioneer both as a player and a coach.
He was one of the most popular paddlers of his time, winning three national championships.
Chandra had reached the semifinals of the Commonwealth Games in 1982.
He won the Arjuna Award in 1982.
Apart from this, he helped India to progress to category I from II in the 1983 Tokyo World Championships.
Chandra started to serve the game as Coach since 1984, shaping the careers of numerous TT champions such as G Sathiyan, S Raman among others.