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.