Kapil Dev to Prakash Padukone: Meet India's first gamechangers
Ahead of the release of Ranveer Singh's '83', a film on India's pathbreaking cricket World Cup victory, Forbes India looks at the journeys of sportspeople who flipped the switch for India on the global stage
Curated By: Kathakali Chanda, Madhu Kapparath
Growing up in Chennai in the 50s and 60s, Vijay Amritraj was aiming to play tennis professionally, something no one during his time had heard of. "Yes you play tennis, but what do you do for a living?’ most people would ask me,” says Amritraj, India's highest-ranked professional singles player ever. Through his storied career in the 1970s and 80s, in which he reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon twice, Amritraj was considered the 'A' of the ABC of world tennis, legends [Bjorn] Borg and [Jimmy] Connors constituting the other two of the troika
