Prof (knarayen) played against the likes of Chiradeep Mukerjea, and caught the fag end of Premjit Lall and Jaidip Mukerjea’s careers. His brother once beat Ramesh Krishnan.
In our day, we had as many as 5 Indians in the singles main draw at Wimbledon in 1973. And even in the 1980s, we often had 3-4 Indians (Vijay, Anand, Ramesh, Sashi) playing in a Slam main draw, plus some like Bhanu Nunna or S Vadudevan playing qualifiers.
But, yes, this is the first time in about 5 years that we have two Indians in the final round of qualifying at a Slam; if they both make it in, I think it’ll be the first time we have two Indians in the main draw of a Slam since Leander and Mahesh both played singles (and MB agave a tough fight to Moya) at Wimbledon.