Nandu Natekar is a former India

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 national champion.

Natekar has won over 100 national and international titles for India in a career spanning 15 years. Natekar was the first Indian to win a title abroad, in 1956. Natekar is a director of Natekar Sports and Fitness (NSF).

He won the Men's Doubles National Championship

Indian National Badminton Championships

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 a total of six times, Men's Singles National Championship a total of six times, and Mixed Doubles National Championship a total of five times.

He is an alumnus of Ramnarain Ruia College

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. His son, Gaurav Natekar

Gaurav Natekar

Gaurav Natekar is a seven-time Indian National Tennis Champion. He was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1996 for Tennis.His father, Nandu M. Natekar, is a national-level Indian badminton champion.-Achievements:*Represented the country in Davis Cup from 1992-97...

, is a seven-time Indian National Champion in tennis

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Achievements

• Won National level Men's Singles and Doubles Championship, as well as Mixed Doubles, multiple times in India.
• He has reached the last 8 in the All England Championships.

• Included among 'the Greats' in a souvenir published by Malaysia during the Thomas Cup
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   series in 1954-55.
• Men’s Singles Champion in the Selangor International Tournament in Kuala Lumpur
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   in 1956. His victory was also the first international victory by an Indian badminton player.

• Recipient of the first Arjuna Award
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   instituted in 1961.
• Voted the most popular sportsperson of India in 1961.
• Natekar and Meena Shaw won the Mixed Doubles title at Bangkok’s King’s Cup International Tournament in 1962. Won the Men’s Singles title at the same event in 1963.
• Represented India at the Commonwealth Games
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   in Jamaica
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   in 1965.

• Awarded Meritorious Service Award by the IBF
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  in 1989.
• Honoured at the Jagatik Marathi Parishad in Mauritius in 1991.
• Awarded Life-time Achievement Award by the Petroleum Sports Control Board of India in January, 2001.
• Awarded Sahyadri Navratna Puraskar in 2002, titled Ratna Saurabh.