Dipika P. Karthik - PB WR # 10 in Dec 2012

[Saniapower]

Congratulations to Dipika Pallikal. Some good wins against big names in this event. She's been playing like a top 10 for quite sometime now. She was a top 10 before, hopefully she will be there again soon.

[suresh]

One week, we have Dipika Pallikal and Rachel Grinham playing in the finals of the US$50K Macau Open and in the following week, at the US$50K China Open, they are playing the qualifiers! It appears that squash has a only 16 players in the main draw. Here is Dipika's section of the draw:


[QR1] Dipika Pallikal, (IND, 17) vs Jessica Turnbull, (AUS, 90)
[QR1] Misaki Kobayashi, (JPN, 34) vs Tong Tsz-Wing, (HKG, 50)

Jessica Turnbull is 18 years old and must be new to the senior circuit.

[PKBasu]

Great job in winning the title last week, including a win over world #8 (and top seed) in the SF.

This week's China Open field must be a lot stronger (despite the prize money being the same), since Deepika was seeded fourth last week but has to play qualifiers this week.

[sameerph]

Dipika easily qualified for main draw at China with a couple of easy wins in the qualifying.

At $50K China Open, Shanghai

[Q1] Dipika Pallikal (IND,17) d. Jessica Turnbull (AUS,90) 3-0 (11-0, 11-6, 11-4)

[Q2] Dipika Pallikal (IND,17) d. Misaki Kobayashi (JPN,34) 3-0 (11-4, 11-3, 11-8)

Main draw -

[R1] (Q) Dipika Pallikal (IND,17) vs. (7) Madeline Perry (IRL,9)

[suresh]

Dipika got the best possible pairing in R1 -- all other qualifiers play higher seeds. I hope she makes use of it and takes a crack at Nicole David in R2.

[Omkara]

WR 17 has to qualify.... can't they just have bigger draw size

[sameerph]

Another top 10 win for Dipika with a thumping scoreline

At $50K China Open, Shanghai


[R1] (Q) Dipika Pallikal (IND,17) d. (7) Madeline Perry (IRL,9) 3-0 (11-8, 11-7, 11-4)

Next match is as tough as it can get.

Next,
[QF] (Q) Dipika Pallikal (IND,17) vs. (1) Nicol David (MAS,1)

[gbelday]

Wow, that is an awesome scoreline! Good luck Dipika for the next round! Go give it your best. You never know

[Omkara]

She is playing top 10 squash.... atleast she should put up a good fight

[Atithee]

Nicol David is the daughter of an Indian-Malay father. She is a phenomenal athlete.

[sameerph]

At $50K China Open, Shanghai

[QF] (Q) Dipika Pallikal (IND,17) l. (1) Nicol David (MAS,1) 1-3 ( 6-11,11-9,6-11,6-11)

This time Dipika took a game off her but Nicole still proved too strong for her.

[suresh]

Dipika is getting there!

[sameerph]

Dipika got enganged with Cricketer Dinesh Karthik yesterday in Chennai . This is the related news -

Cricketer Dinesh Karthik gets engaged to Squash ace Deepika Pallikal

[Omkara]

Getting engaged at 22.....

[PKBasu]

Dinesh Kartik was playing in the Ranji Trophy yesterday, so he couldn't have got engaged yesterday! The story suggests the engagement was last week. Anyway, congrats to both! (I didn't realize that DK was already married and divorced once; that's quite something at 28...).