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About Meena Parande
- Meena Parande (born 12 December 1931) is an Indian Table Tennis player. She was the 10th Indian woman to be crowned as a champion.
- During her career as a Table Tennis player from year 1948 to 1965, she was the National Champion four times.
- She represented India to England in 1954 and to Japan in 1956.
- On the International level, she had toured Singapore, Bangkok, Vietnam, Pakistan and Shri Lanka.
- She received training from Mr.
- Chandorkar of Nagpur.
- After retiring from Railways, she trained many players for Table Tennis from 1965 to 1985.
- The players trained by her, amongst other, include are Dr.
- Charudatta Apte, Rajeev Bodas, Suhas Kulkarni, Ajeya Sidhaye, Neela Kulkarni, Nandini Kulkarni and Sunanda Kane. In 1951 her grandmother encouraged her to play table tennis.
- She learnt the nuances of the game very quickly and started playing competitive table tennis in year 1951 itself.
- Her rise in the sport was prolific.
- She travelled extensively in India and abroad for participating in table tennis matches at national and international level.
- She was The National Champion for 4 years; first in 1954 at Baroda, in 1956 at Saharanpur, in 1957 at Ahmedabad & finally the Triple Crown of Table Tennis in 1959 at Calcutta.
- She played for Maharashtra State from 1953 to 58 & then for the Indian Railways from 1959 to 1965.
- She is the first Maharashtrian woman to represent India in World championship twice (London in 1954 & Japan in 1956).
- She also represented India in Asian championship at Singapore in 1954, Bangkok in 1955, Vietnam in 1961 & Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1963.
- She was ranked number 3 in Asia in 1954.
- She toured Sri Lanka & Pakistan thrice and won the local tournaments there. While playing table tennis she coached many boys and girls in Pune amongst those are the following:- famous neurologist Dr.
- Charudatta Apte, Ajay Shidhaye, Ajay Tulpule, Prakash Tulpule, Rajiv Bodas, S.K.
- Bayas, Makaranda Godbole, Shrikant Kale, Suhas Kulkerni, Nandini Kulkerni, Neela Kulkerni, Sunanda Kane, Ranjana Vaidya and many more and thus popularized the game in Pune.
- Nandini Kulkerni, Neela Kulkerni, Sunanda Kane represented India in World championship and many more represented Maharashtra ‘B’ in National championship.
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