Michael Joseph Rodrigues was a five-time national

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champion of

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Retrieved 23 September 2010. winning the National Boys Singles in 1956 and the Men's Singles in 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961 and 1962. In 1962 he was also the Captain of the Pakistan Team at the

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in Bombay, India. In 1963 he also participated in the Far East Championship.

Education

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n origin, he was educated at St. Patrick's High School,

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Retrieved 23 September 2010. He graduated with a medical degree from Dow Medical College, Karachi, in 1965.
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Later life

Rodrigues later became a general surgeon and migrated to the

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. He was first licensed to practice through a California license in voluntary service in 1974. He has admitting privileges at Alvarado Hospital,

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