Indian table tennis player V Chandrasekhar Arjuna-award winner died at a private hospital on Wednesday due to COVID-19 related complications.
He was 64 and lived with his wife and a son.
He was popularly known a three-time national champion.
Born in Chennai, this player had reached the semifinals of the Commonwealth Games in 1982, he was also a successful coach.
His playing career was cut short in 1984 following a botched knee surgery at a hospital which led to him losing mobility, speech and vision. He fought back to recover and served the game as a coach.
He also fought a legal battle against the hospital and got a verdict in his favour.
Current Indian paddler G Sathiyan was among his trainees.
The table tennis fraternity in Chennai moarned his death, saying that the sport had lost a legend.
