Dipika Pallikal

8:17 PM

Dipika Pallikal - India's New Sports Beauty

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Dipika Pallikal - India's new squash hope Dipika Rebecca Pallikal (born on 21 September 1991) is a talented squash player from Chennai who is fast emerging as a squash superstar. Dipika has been steadily gaining points in the junior circuit and she recently won the Asian junior championship in Singapore. She has the rare distinction of being the first Indian Squash player to be ranked No. 1 in the European and Asian Squash Ranking (under 15 category).

“It was a really good experience for me in the Dutch Open. One of the biggest wins of the year was the Asian Junior Championships. And being Asia’s No 1 is a really big thing in India,” Dipika says.

She played her first international tournament in London when she was in her sixth grade, and till date, Dipika has won the German Open, Dutch Open, French Open, Australian Open, Scottish Open on the European Junior Squash Circuit.

Dipika is being sponsored by the L.N. Mittal Trust. Dipika trains at the ICL-TNSRA Academy at Chennai under Cyrus Poncha and Major(Rtd) S. Maniam.

She is also into modeling and has signed a contract with Globus Ltd. She has appeared in an ad for the Sri Lankan company Ole (a branch of Coca Cola) which was splashed all over Sri Lanka a few months ago.

She is currently training in Egypt and is grooming herself to become the best squash player in the country.

10:36 AM

Dipika Pallikal - India's new squash hope

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Dipika Rebecca Pallikal (born on 21 September 1991) is a talented squash player from Chennai who is fast emerging as a squash superstar. Dipika has been steadily gaining points in the junior circuit and she recently won the Asian junior championship in Singapore. She has the rare distinction of being the first Indian Squash player to be ranked No. 1 in the European and Asian Squash Ranking (under 15 category).

“It was a really good experience for me in the Dutch Open. One of the biggest wins of the year was the Asian Junior Championships. And being Asia’s No 1 is a really big thing in India,” Dipika says.

She played her first international tournament in London when she was in her sixth grade, and till date, Dipika has won the German Open, Dutch Open, French Open, Australian Open, Scottish Open on the European Junior Squash Circuit.

Dipika is being sponsored by the L.N. Mittal Trust. Dipika trains at the ICL-TNSRA Academy at Chennai under Cyrus Poncha and Major(Rtd) S. Maniam.

She is also into modeling and has signed a contract with Globus Ltd. She has appeared in an ad for the Sri Lankan company Ole (a branch of Coca Cola) which was splashed all over Sri Lanka a few months ago.

She is currently training in Egypt and is grooming herself to become the best squash player in the country.

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Chennai India's Dipika Pallikak (right) is a new name on the WISPA circuit from the growing Indian squash program.

2:19 AM

dipika news

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ONE of the city’s biggest forthcoming marathons, registration for GiveLife Chennai Marathon opened on Thursday.

The event kicked off in grandeur enough to get in crowds with tennis legend, Vijay Amritraj, Karthi P Chidambaram and other Indian athletes like Mohammed Riyaz and R Natraj, besides younger sports icons like Squash champions Deepika Pallikal and Joshna Chinnappa.

The first registration form was signed by Karthi Chidambaram. “India has been a nation of spectators. Our participation in sports is dismal.

Physical fitness should be made a part of the syllabus and physical fitness teachers must be treated with the same respect and given the same pay as the others,” he said.

Vijay Amritraj, who though being fashionably late, turned out to be a delight for the kids as he first went over to greet them warmly and even posed with them for a photograph.

“I think it’s a very special gift to be able to do things through an NGO to serve people. Unless we address such important issues, it is very difficult to help,” he said.

Calling out to students to participate, he said, “It’s very important that between 3 pm to 6 pm, students are not inside their homes, but outside, involved in any sport.

Chennai Marathon has to evolve like the New York marathon.” Akhila Srinivasan, MD of Shriram Life and Chairperson, GiveLife, and Fr Jegath Gaspar Raj, Co-Founder of GiveLife, briefed on the various terms and prizes of the marathon.

The total prize money involved is an enormous Rs 70 lakh. The first prize for the professional marathon in both men and women categories separately is Rs 10 lakh, the second prize is Rs 5 lakh and the third prize is Rs 3 lakh, besides other special awards.

The marathon will be sponsored by the Chennai-based construction company, MARG. It will be held on August 31 would take place under five categories- Course for professional athletes 18 years and above (21.9 km), The City Run for general public (7 km), Junior Run for school children (7 km), Masters Run for the elderly (3 km) and the Wheel Chair Run for the disabled (500 m).

The registration for the marathon can be made at www.givelifechennaimarathon.com or at designated locations. The fee is Rs 100.

2:13 AM

Saurav clinches ICL Open squash, Dipika runners-up among women

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Chennai (PTI): Top seed Saurav Ghosal did short work of his Indian compatriot Ritwik Bhattacharya 7-11, 11-7, 11-7, 11-6 to win the ICL Chennai Open Squash Championship here on Sunday.

Saurav was tentative in the beginning before he found his grooves to come back from one game down and pocket the match in 40 minutes.

In the women's section, fifth seeded Indian Dipika Pallikal's dream run in the tournament was halted at the last hurdle as she lost to fourth seed Annie Au of Hong Kong 3-9, 8-10, 8-10 in 44 minutes.

Second seed Ritwik was in his elements in the first game as he led 3-0 and later 7-3 over his top seeded opponent before taking the game 11-7.

From the second game onwards, however, Saurav shifted gears and his gameplan to keep the ball in play and slowing down the pace to go for his measured shots, particularly the forehand drives, did the trick.

Saurav levelled the score by winning the second game 11-7 but in the third game the two were 4-all. Here, Saurav adopted front court play and relied on rhythm to take the score to 9-5 including a 'stroke' point award in his favour before winning it 11-7.

In the fourth game, Saurav did not give any leeway for Ritwik to come back into the match after a 7-3 lead. Ritwik also seemed to be distracted by some of the referee's decisions.

In the women's final, Dipika, playing in her first WISPA final, showed her inexperience and seemed overawed by the big occasion. Annie made mincemeat of India's pin-up girl to win in straight games.

8:33 AM

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7:55 AM

Interview with Deepika pallikkal the squash star

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The following videos are snippets of an interview given by Dipika Pallikal few months ago.

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7:40 AM

Dipika Pallikal - India's hot squash babe

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Till date, Dipika has won the German Open, Dutch Open, French Open, Australian Open, Scottish Open on the European Junior Squash Circuit.

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