https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Mir_Khasim_Ali 2026-10-28T00:00:28Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mir_Khasim_Ali&diff=169095&oldid=prev 2020-04-05T11:14:55Z

<p>Adding local <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Short_description" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Short description">short description</a>: &quot;Indian table tennis player&quot;, overriding Wikidata description &quot;table tennis player&quot; (<a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Shortdesc_helper" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Shortdesc helper">Shortdesc helper</a>)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indian table tennis player}}<br /> {{BLP sources section|date=February 2019}}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Mir Khasim Ali&#039;&#039;&#039; born in Hyderabad, A.P. was [[India]]&#039;s Men&#039;s Singles Champion in [[table tennis]] from 1968 to 1969. He was honoured with the prestigious Arjuna award.<br /> <br /> Ali began playing table tennis in 1960 at the age of 11. He was the National Junior Champion in 1963, the National Senior Champion in 1968 and 1969, runner-up in the Commonwealth Championships of the Afro-Asian Championships in 1971 and a member of the Indian T.T. team from 1966 to 1973.<br /> <br /> His first trip abroad representing India was to East Africa in 1966. Also in 1966 in [[Sri Lanka]] ([[Ceylon]] as it was then called) where the South Zone Inter-University Championships were held. Khasim represented [[Osmania University]], which lost in the finals to [[Bombay University]], thanks to U.S. Gurjar who pulled off an upset win over Khasim.<br /> <br /> Gurjar repeated the feat in the Madras Nationals in December 1966. He was National Champion in 1968 and 1969 and runner-up in 1970. In 1971 he met [[Zhou Enlai]] and was present during the [[Ping Pong Diplomacy]] between [[China]] and the [[United States]]. During his heyday, [[Andhra Pradesh]] reached the finals of the National team events on nine occasions, winning the title once, and until 1973 he was an automatic choice in the Indian team.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> V. BALAJI - &#039;&#039;Souvenir of the Mir Khasim Ali Table Tennis Benefit Tournament&#039;&#039;, April 1985, by Iqbal Ali<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Ali, Mir Khasim}}<br /> [[Category:Indian male table tennis players|Khasim]]<br /> [[Category:Indian Muslims]]<br /> [[Category:Recipients of the Arjuna Award]]<br /> [[Category:Living people]]<br /> [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]</div>

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