Vijay Amritraj Life History:

Vijay Amritraj born a14 December 1953 is a former tennis player from India sports commentator and actor. He was awarded the Padma Shri , India's fourts highest civilian honor in 1983

 Personal life;

Amritraj lives in California with wife shyamala who is sri Lankan Tamil, and sons Prakash Amritraj and Vikram His son Prakash Amritraj and newphew Stephen Amritraj are also professional tennis players. On 9 February 2001 Vijay Amritraj was appointed a united Nations ambassador for peace He has been raising awareness on the issues of drugs and HIV/AIDS and in raising funds to fight the spread of AIDS worldwide. Vijay amritraj founded the vijay Amritraj Foundation in 2006.

Acting Career;

Amritraj also had a brief acting career. His most notable appearance is probably as the MI6 agent Vijay in the 1983 James bond film octopussy. He also appeared briefly in star trek IV: The Last Prencict and the Yakov Smirnoff comedy What a country as well as a guest star on various television show such as hart to hart He has since gone on to become a sports commentator, has been a judge at the Miss Universe pageant and the has deceloped a successful multimedia business Amritraj is the host of a talk show named Dimensions with vijay Amritraj telcast on CNN-IBN.

Career;

After playinghis first grand prix event in 1970, Amritraj achieved his first success in singles in 1973 when he reaches the quarter-finals at two Grand Slam events At Wimbledon he lost in five sets to the eventual champion jan Kodes and later that summer at the US Open, lost to ken Rose wall after having beaten Rod Laver two round earlier. 

Amritraj beat Bjorn Borg in the second round in Forest Hills Open 1974 before losing to Rosewall in quarter-finals in 1979, he lost in the 2nd round of Wimbledon to defending champion borg after being up two sets to one and singles of world 4-1 in the fourth  set He reached his career high ranking in singles of world 16 in July 1980 In 1981, he reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon before losing in five sets to Jimmy Connors after being Up 2-0 He beat john mcEnroe in the first round of Cincinnati Masters in 1984 Overall he had five career wins over jimmy Connors in their 11 matches.

Amritraj was part of the India Davis Cup team that reached the finals in 1974 and 1987 Amritraj had a career singles win-loss record 384-296, Winning 16 singles and 13 doubles titles.