Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
He was always good at returning a difficult serve, but this may well be the best effort of Sudan Dewan’s career.
After graduating from Northmont High School and playing tennis a year at Purdue University, Dewan transferred to Wright State and became a star of the Raiders’ early 1980s teams. His senior year, WSU was ranked among the top 20 teams in the nation in NCAA Division II.
His younger brother Nick played four years at Wright State tennis and was the MVP of the team.
Their sister Renu teamed with Jamie Plummer at Northmont to win the Ohio High School Athletic Association doubles title in 1980. Renu went on to become a three-time, All-Mid-American Conference player at Toledo and, four years ago after coaching a decade and a half in Ohio and India, she was enshrined in the Miami Valley Tennis Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
The three kids’ accomplishments, though,were dwarfed by those of their late dad — Amrit Dewan — who was the national badminton champion of India in 1951 and 45 years later won the U.S. Senior doubles championship, masters division.
Their mom, the late Dr. Gopi Dewan, was a prominent physician in Mumbai, India, before gaining similar stature here and becoming one of the original founders of the Hindu Temple of Dayton.
