New Delhi: Former table tennis champion and coach Venugopal Chandrasekhar passed away today in Chennai.
He was popularly known as ‘Chandra’, he died at the age of 63.
Sad day for Indian #tabletennis. V Chandrasekar passed away this morning. Go well, sir!
— Amol Karhadkar (@karhacter) May 12, 2021
V Chandrasekhar, one of India’s prominent Table Tennis champions of the seventies and eighties, passed away due to #Covid19 today in Chennai. The Arjuna Awardee was @sathiyantt‘s first coach and trained many other TT stars across generations.
— Prasad Ramasubramanian (@PrasadrsTOI) May 12, 2021
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