{"id":330883,"date":"2021-02-07T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330883"},"modified":"2021-02-07T08:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:11:31","slug":"india-tennis-legend-akhtar-ali-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-tennis-legend-akhtar-ali-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian tennis legend Akhtar Ali passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330884 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/akhtar-ali.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/akhtar-ali.jpg 410w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/02\/akhtar-ali-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/>India Tennis legend Akhtar Ali passed away on Sunday due to multiple health issues. He was 83.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He breathed his last in Kolkata.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A former Davis Cup coach is survived by his son, well known tennis player Zeeshan Ali and two daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled the demise of Akhtar Ali.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSaddened to hear about the passing of Akhtar Ali, a true tennis legend. \u2018Akhtar Sir&#8217; coached many of India\u2019s tennis champions. We conferred Bengal\u2019s highest sporting award on him in 2015. I was fortunate to always receive his warm affection. Condolences to his family and admirers,\u201d Mamata tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The legendary Vijay Amritraj in a tweet said, \u201cAktar Ali was terrific as a coach both when I was a junior as well as coach of our India Davis Cup team. Always pushed hard n kept the team relaxed. He did great service to Indian Tennis. RIP dear Aktar. Sincere condolences to Zeeshan n his lovely family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Tennis legend Akhtar Ali passed away on Sunday due to multiple health issues. He was 83. He breathed his last in Kolkata. A former Davis Cup coach is survived by his son, well known tennis player Zeeshan Ali and two daughters. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled the demise of Akhtar Ali. \u201cSaddened to hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[13908],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330889,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330883\/revisions\/330889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}