They flitted briefly upon the tennis world's stage...

[prasen9]

I was in India at Zeeshan's time. I remember him not as being anywhere near Vijay's class or Ramesh's either. Most of the media did not hype him as such either. At least the Kolkata media. He suddenly disappeared from the scene. That is, there were not very many articles about him, his ranking began to go down and he was off the news. Don't know what happened to him. I had thought he had several years of tennis left when he disappeared.

[PKBasu]

From long ago, there was a golden era for Indian tennis in the 1920s. During that period, Cotah Ramaswami became a Cambridge Blue at tennis (and cricket, I think). He won a round at Wimbledon (singles) in 1922. He also played Davis Cup for India, at a time when there was a lot of talent available, so he only got to play doubles, but won both his matches in 1922. In the World Group quarter-final, India lost 1-4 to Spain, but Ramaswami and his partner HA Fyzee defeated Eduardo Flaquer and Manuel de Goma in a 5-setter (on the grass at Bristol, UK). The pair they beat, Flaquer/de Goma, were the Wimbledon doubles finalists the following year (1923)!

At the age of 40, C Ramaswami made his test cricketing debut on the India tour of England in 1936, making 40 and 60 in the two innings. In the next (his last) test, he made 29 and 41*, ending with a batting average of 56.66 in tests, all away matches!

[rajitghosh]

Interesting article I found
https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/hL3EjZ ... Dayal.html

[PKBasu]

What a life, and a wonderfully-written article. Certainly much better than Leela Row Dayal's Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela_Row_Dayal

But we do already have a thread on her here, based on that article in Mint.

[prasen9]

Is Row an anglicization of Rao?

[PKBasu]

Yes, like Basu for Boshu. There was a famous half-Indian English cricketer called Raman Subba Row, for instance: the cricketer's father wrote it "Rao".

[Atithee]

There are Rao names people in Pakistan too. Where does that come from?

[rajitghosh]

There was a player by the name of Inderjit Singh who played in the 1967 US Championship. Is much known about him? There were 2 Singhs that year the other being Jasjit.

[prasen9]

There are Rao names people in Pakistan too. Where does that come from?

The government of Pakistan answers this: ([url=https://okara.dc.lhc.gov.pk/PublicPages ... spx}source[/url])

Rao
The Rao, are a Rajput tribe, after independence of Pakistan, the East Punjab/Haryana Rao have settled down mainly in the districts of Okara, Lahore, Sheikhupura, Bhakkar, Bahawalnagar, Rahim yar Khan District (specially in Khanpur tehsil), Layyah, Vehari, Sahiwal and Multan of Punjab. They speak a Haryanvi dialect which is often called Ranghari. In districts of Okara, Pakpattan and Bahawalnagar which have the densest concentrations of Rao, they consist to be brave, with many serving in the army, police and Civil Services. They maintain an overarching tribal council (panchayat), which deals with a number of issues, such as punishments for petty crime or co-operation over village projects.

Most Rao are now bilingual, speaking Punjabi and Sindhi, as well as still speaking Ranghari/Haryanvi. A large number of Rao are also found in the capital city of Islamabad, where they speak Urdu with Ranghari accent.

Okara is home to a lot of Politician, Doctors, Lawyers, Army Officers and Big Landlords including Quaid-e-Tamir-e-Shehar / Fakhar-e-Okara Rao Sikandar Iqbal 25th Defence Minister of Pakistan, Rao Muhammad Afzal Khan, 19th Chief of Air Staff (Pakistan) Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, & Shabbir Ahmad Rao (Late), Dr. Rao Ali Bahadur Khan (Late) {Okara's First Doctor}. Kanvar saeed advocate{late}.RaoAbdul mujeeb khan advocate

[Atithee]

Thanks, Prasen. I met a Rao Muslim in india recently and he also told me the same information. I thought Rajputs were archenemies of Muslim invaders and this surprised me a bit.

[prasen9]

They were but people move around in search of better opportunities or simply because they want to. If someone moved to Punjab, even in the Muslim-majority areas of it and did fine, they stayed there. Unlike when tempers are extremely frayed due to events and riots happen, Muslims, Hindus, etc. live together in the same geographical area, and are friendly to each other generally.

Maybe the kind mods will move this somewhere else?

[rajitghosh]

There was a player by the name of Inderjit Singh who played in the 1967 US Championship. Is much known about him? There were 2 Singhs that year the other being Jasjit.

Does anyone know bout Inderjit Singh? Was he Jasjit Singh's brother?