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Arjuna Awardees in Tennis

The game of Tennis is very much popular now a days in India. In fact it is growing interests about itself in the minds of the people of India in a very rapid pace. However, it has been very much popular for quite a long period of time since the Indians started to play the game. Hence, it has also produced a good number of "Arjuna Award" winners throughout its journey in India. Those winners were really the all time great Tennis players of India.

Ramanathan Krishnan was the first Tennis player in India who won the "Arjuna Award" in the year of 1961. He was immediately followed by Naresh Kumar who won the award in the year of 1962. After him, Jaidip Mukerjee became the winner in 1966 and in 1967, I was the turn for Premjit Lall to claim the award. The veteran and one of the most famous Indian Tennis players known to the entire world, Vijay Amritraj won the "Arjuna Award" in the year of 1974. After a gap of 4 years, Nirupama Mankad won it in 1978-79. Then in 1980-81, another very famous Indian Tennis player Ramesh Krishnan won the award.

Sania Mirza became the last Tennis player so far to win the  Arjuna Award in 2004After Ramesh Krishnan became successful to win the "Arjuna Award", the Indian Tennis players failed to claim the award for another long period of 4 years. Anand Amritraj won it in the year of 1985 and then there was again a gap of 5 years that ended by the help of Leander Paes who won the award and broke the dead lock. Mahesh Bhupathi followed him very successfully to win the award in 1995 after there was another 5 years` gap. Later on these two players played together to form one of the greatest Doubles Team in the world and they also became the most popular and famous Tennis players after Vijay Amritraj. The award was named after Gaurav Natekar in 1996 and Asif Ismail won it in the year of 1997. After Akhtar Ali became the winner of the award in 2000, the latest Tennis sensation and the new brand of Tennis in India Sania Mirza became the last Tennis player so far to win the very much honourable and prestigious "Arjuna Award" in the year of 2004.

If anyone keeps the discussion in mind, he/she will surely be convinced that the game of Tennis is very much popular in India and it is evident that it will grab more and more attention and popularity of the people of India in the future.

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