New Delhi: India's top squash player Dipika Pallikal has moved a place up to be 14th in the women's world rankings. Pallikal broke into the top-15 for the first time in her career last month and has been playing well ever since she started training in Australia with coach and five-time World Champion Sarah Fitz-Gerald. The 20-year-old made the final at the Tournament of Champions in New York last week....
11:18 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: India's young woman squash sensation Dipika Pallikal's hopes of winning a sixth WISPA title went up in smoke when she lost her title clash against Natalie Grinham of the Netherlands in the Tournament of Champions in New York on Thursday night. Pallikal, playing her ninth match in 10 days, looked too tired and foot-weary as she lost 4-11 3-11 3-11 in 25 minutes while playing the biggest match...
06:02 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: Dipika Pallikal became the first Indian ever to reach the summit clash of a Silver event when she clinched a three-set thriller against New Zealand's Jaclyn Hawkes to march into the final of the Tournament of Champions squash meet in New York on Thursday. Seventh seed Pallikal, India's top-ranked female player, overcame a spirited challenge from fifth seed Hawkes to prevail 11-5 14-12 11-9 in the first semi-final...
08:43 PM, Jan 26, 2012
New Delhi: Riding on her three WISPA title wins, India's young woman squash sensation Dipika Pallikal moved up to a career-high 15th place in the world rankings. Pallikal began 2011 at 29th spot and claimed her third WISPA title of the year in December in the Crocodile Challenge Cup in Hong Kong and that took her to number 17 in world rankings. She clinched her first WISPA title of the...
11:16 AM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: Third seed James Willstrop of England notched up his 14th victory in 15 meetings against compatriot Peter Barker, with a convincing 11-4, 11-3, 11-3 win in their last-four clash at the 2011 Punj Lloyd PSA Masters squash tournament on Saturday. Willstrop also stretched his unbeaten run to 14 matches on the tour and will now take on fourth seed Gregory Gaultier of France in the final on Sunday,...
11:44 PM, Dec 17, 2011
Top-ranked players like Ramy Ashour, James Willstrop and India's Saurav Ghosal are sweating it out at Punj Lloyd PSA Masters. ...
08:59 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: Top seeds Ramy Ashour, James Willstrop and India's Saurav Ghosal sailed into the pre-quarterfinals of Punj Lloyd PSA Masters squash tournament on the second day of the USD 1,65,000 event here on Tuesday. Among other seeded players, Peter Barker and Daryl Selby, both from England, also advanced to the last-16 stage of the final PSA World series event of the year. Newly-crowned national champion Ghosal eased past higher-ranked...
10:19 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Chennai: Indian Squash Academy trainee Karan Malik scalped seeded Vikas Jangra of Services in the first round of the National senior squash championship here on Wednesday. Malik defeated 5-8th seed Jangra 11-3 11-9 5-11 0-11 11-6. Higher seeded players like defending champion Saurav Ghosal in men's section and top seed Dipika Pallikal in women's had an easy outing on the centre court. However, Kush Kumar stole the limelight with his...
11:15 PM, Dec 07, 2011
After becoming the first Indian woman to break into the top-20 in the world rankings, Dipika Pallikal has now set her sights on the top-16. ...
10:59 AM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: Malaysian star Nicol David reached a new milestone in her illustrious career when she was inducted into the World Squash Federation's Hall of Fame. Ranked number one on the women's circuit, David became the first active player in the history of the sport to receive the honour. The induction was conducted by fellow countryman HRH Tunku Imran at a gala dinner in Rotterdam as part of the World...
08:08 PM, Nov 11, 2011
Chennai: Malaysia's Nicol David will be inducted into the World Squash Federation 'Hall of Fame' as part of the World Squash Awards programme at the World Open Championship/WSF AGM dinner in Rotterdam on November 5. The world number one female player, who is going for a record sixth women's World Open title in the Dutch city this week, will be inducted by compatriot HRH Tunku Imran, the WSF Patron and...
09:54 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: Following her title triumph in the WISPA Dread Series 2 tournament in Washington recently, ace Indian squash player Dipika Pallikal reached a career-high world ranking of 19 on Monday. Pallikal faced stiff resistance from England's Sarah-Jane Perry before prevailing 11-9 11-3 11-7 in the final to win the Dread Series 2 tournament in Washington. The Chennai girl showed good form throughout the championship and won it without conceding...
09:50 AM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: The country's top-ranked female racqueter Dipika Pallikal, who became the first Indian squash player to break into the top-20 in the world rankings, suffered a first-round defeat to Kasey Brown of Australia on Sunday night, to bow out of the US Open in Philadelphia. Unseeded Pallikal lost to world number six Brown 8-11 8-11 6-11 in 44 minutes at the Daskalakis Athletic Center at Drexel University. The 20-year-old...
10:50 PM, Oct 03, 2011
Chennai: India fought hard but eventually ran out of steam going down to former champions Australia in the quarterfinal of the World Squash Team Championship at Padewrborn (Germany). In the quarterfinals on Thursday night, Aussie top rung player, David Palmer recovered from a game down to get the better of India's highest ranked player Saurav Ghosal 7-11 11-8 11-4 11-5 in 51 minutes. Siddharth Suchde fought gallantly before going down...
10:19 AM, Aug 26, 2011
Paderborn, Germany: Sixth seeded India moved into the quarterfinals of the men's World team squash championship with a runaway 2-0 win against giant-killers Denmark here on Wednesday to set up a clash with fourth-ranked Australia. It is only the second time in the past three decades that India has reached this stage. The last time was in 2005 when the event was played at the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai....
12:22 PM, Aug 25, 2011
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