Prakash Padukone is a former Indian badminton player from Karnataka.
Background
He was born on 10 June 1955 to a Chitrapur Saraswat family. He was born in Padukone (village), village near Kundapura, Udupi district, Karnataka, India from where the surname originates and now he currently lives in Bengaluru with wife Ujjala and has two daughters, Deepika Padukone, an actress and Anisha Padukone, a golfer.
Career
Prakash Padukone"s life story has been chronicled in the biography "Touch Play", by Development South. Sukumar. The book is only the second biography of any badminton player. Prakash was initiated into the game by his father Ramesh Padukone, who was the Secretary of the "Mysore Badminton Association" for many years.
Padukone"s first official tournament was the Karnataka state junior championship in 1962.
He spent much of his international career training in Denmark, and developed close friendships with European players such as Morten Frost. After his retirement in 1991, he was the chairman of the Badminton Association of India for a short while.
He was the coach of the Indian national badminton team from 1993 to 1996.