{"id":119309,"date":"2021-07-29T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=119309"},"modified":"2021-07-29T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:07:37","slug":"badminton-player-shri-nandu-natekar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/badminton-player-shri-nandu-natekar\/","title":{"rendered":"Badminton player Shri Nandu Natekar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Q. Recently the famous player Nandu Natekar passed away. He was related to which sport?<\/strong><br>a) Cricket<br>b) Football<br>c) Badminton<br>d) None of these<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ans : c<br>RELATED FACTS:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 28, 2021 Nandu Natekar, one of the superstars in Indian badminton history, passed away in Pune due to prolonged illness.<\/li><li>He was 88.<\/li><li>In the 1950s and 1960s, Natekar was a household name all over India, thanks to his exploits on the court across the globe.<\/li><li>The first Indian shuttler to win a tournament overseas \u2014 the Selangor International crown in Kuala Lumpur in 1956.<\/li><li>Natekar was among the first batch of the Arjuna Award recipients in 1961 when the awards were introduced.<\/li><li>His international achievements included making it to the All England Championship quarterfinals in 1954 and representing India in the Commonwealth Games in Jamaica in 1966.<\/li><li>He bagged six singles, six doubles and five mixed doubles National titles during his glorious career.<\/li><li>His footwork was often compared to that of a ballet dancer while his deceptive wrist-work left his opponents and connoisseurs spellbound.<\/li><li>Interestingly, it was another racquet sport \u2014 tennis \u2014 that was his first love.<\/li><li>He excelled in tennis as much as badminton, losing to the legendary Ramanathan Krishnan in the 1951 National junior championship final.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; ABHISHEK KUMAR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/other-sports\/indian-badminton-great-nandu-natekar-dead\/article35576017.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/other-sports\/indian-badminton-great-nandu-natekar-dead\/article35576017.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Recently the famous player Nandu Natekar passed away. He was related to which sport?a) Cricketb) Footballc) Badmintond) None of these Ans : cRELATED FACTS:- On 28, 2021 Nandu Natekar, one of the superstars in Indian badminton history, passed away in Pune due to prolonged illness. He was 88. In the 1950s and 1960s, Natekar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":119310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119311,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119309\/revisions\/119311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}