Gaurav Natekar (born 4 April 1972) is a seven-time Indian National

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Champion.Indian Express (newspaper)
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Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, on ...

in 1996 for Tennis.Pune Records
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Nandu M. Natekar Nandu M. Natekar (Undivided India, 12 May 1933 – 28 July 2021) was an Indian badminton national champion. Career Natekar won over 100 national and international titles for India in a career spanning 15 years. Natekar was the first Indian to ...

, was a national-level Indian badminton champion.

Achievements

*Represented the country in

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from 1992-97. Was member of the team that reached the semi-final in '93 *Double gold medallist at the Hiroshima

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in 1994 (team event and doubles with

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) *Double gold medallist in SAF Games in

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'93,

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'95, and

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'97. *Won the National hard & grasscourt titles in singles and doubles in the same year (1992) *Two National singles, seven doubles and five junior titles. Highest ATP ranking: singles 272, doubles 167.

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* * * Recipients of the Arjuna Award Living people Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games medalists in tennis Indian male tennis players Tennis players at the 1994 Asian Games Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games South Asian Games gold medalists for India 1972 births South Asian Games medalists in tennis {{India-tennis-bio-stub