India’s prime desk tennis gamers Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Achanta Sharath Kamal reacted to the loss of life of Arjuna awardee V Chandrasekhar after the previous desk tennis participant and coach handed away on Wednesday. Chandrasekhar handed away at 64 and is survived by his spouse and a son. Chandrasekhar was a three-time nationwide champion and Sharath Kamal calls it a “pity” that he didn’t have a longer career as a player and that he could have achieved so much more had he continued. His playing career was abruptly cut short due to a botched knee surgery at a hospital in 1984, which led him to lose mobility, speech and vision. However, he fought back those ailments to serve the game as a coach and also fought a legal battle against the hospital and got a verdict in his favour.
Sathiyan, in an exclusive conversation with News18.com, explained his coronavirus condition and said it was actually a mild case. “He was perfectly fine. He had a few symptoms like fever. We were in talks with the doctors as well making sure he was getting the best of care, bed and oxygen support. Three days before he got admitted he was fine, like he had a bit of fever and slight body pain. But the doctor wanted to admit him as a precaution,” Sathiyan mentioned. The Olympic-bound paddler additional defined that his earlier illnesses and medical situation was the issue and which will have been one of many causes.Sharath additionally advised News18.com that his father was in contact with Chandrasekhar’s supervisor and his father and Chandrasekhar had even spoken to one another.
“It’s a really private loss, I used to be below him for 14 years from 1998 to 2012. I’ve educated below him utterly in my junior days. He has taught me how to maintain a racket and play desk tennis. It was that form of a really shut relationship with him, even my dad and mother had been very shut to him. It is totally stunning, he’s not even that previous and used to be so energetic. Very unhappy, I don’t know what to say,” Sathiyan expressed.
Sharath, on the other hand, explained that he didn’t know Chandrasekhar very closely and mostly knew him only as a coach and interacted during tournaments.
“He was the state coach in 1994 when I was in the U-12 category and that was my first interaction with him. I was never coached by him because I was mostly abroad and he couldn’t travel much because of his health conditions.
“He was a great character. One thing what I know about him is that he is very lively. Despite his health conditions, he was always very jovial. We will all be missing him surely,” Sharath mentioned.
Sathiyan, who had a more in-depth affiliation with the Arjuna awardee, had extra insights to share. “He advanced me as a participant, allowed me to play my fashion. He was the one who advised me variations and placements had been my robust factors and that I ought to work on that and take that path. Even although lots of people had been towards that saying that ‘he is not attacking, he doesn’t have the standard fashion’ however Shankar sir mentioned it was my fashion and I ought to go along with that. I achieved loads in my junior days below him.”
Sathiyan shared that he decided to move to his current coach Subramanian Raman because Chandrasekhar couldn’t travel with him and the latter was more than happy to let him go. In fact, Raman was one of his trainees. “I was constantly in touch with him, even after I won the nationals last year. He was the first person to call me. When I was 12 and lost the national finals, I remember him telling me ‘Don’t worry you lost this. You are a national champion material in the senior category.’ This is really shocking for me and my mom.”
Sathiyan mentioned it was due to Chandrasekhar that he began enjoying desk tennis at a really younger age. “He began his new academy close to home, Medimix Chandra TT academy, and it was among the best within the nation at that time of time. My mother took me and my sisters to be part of. I used to be younger and doubtless would have joined later however Chandra sir endured that it was higher for me to begin younger and that’s how I began enjoying. He was already an Arjuna awardee and received me into enjoying after I was 5 years previous.”
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