Nitin Kirtane (born 4th March 1974) is an Indian professional
tennis player
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ...
. Kirtane won the gold medal at the 2002
National Games of India
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The country's first few Olympic Games, now renamed as National Games, were held in North India (De ...
and along with
Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born 7 June 1974) is an Indian former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a major tournament (with Rika Hiraki). With his win at the 2006 Australian Open mixed doubles, he ...
was the runner-up at the 1992 boys
Wimbledon Championship
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.
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 1 (0–1)
Doubles: 6 (0–6)
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1974 births
Living people
Indian male tennis players
Racket sportspeople from Pune
Asian Games bronze medalists for India
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games
Recipients of the Dhyan Chand Award