Manchester, Aug 4:
Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal have assured India of a medal by reaching the women’s doubles semifinals at the WSF World Doubles Squash Championship here.
After the 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallists won their quarterfinal yesterday night, there was double disappointment for India today when both the mixed doubles pairs, involving Joshna and Dipika, went down fighting in the quarterfinals.
In the women’s doubles Joshna and Dipika, the second seeds came, back from a game down to beat the lower seeded Canadians Samantha Cornett and Nikole Todd 10-11, 11-6, 11-8.
The focus will now be on them as they remain India’s only hope in the competition.
They take on the English duo of Jenny Duncalf and Alison Waters in the semifinals to be held later tonight.
Their win followed a double blow on Friday when the pairs Saurav Ghosal and Dipika, and Vikram Malhotra and Joshna crashed out one after the other in the quarterfinals held concurrently on side by side courts. (PTI)
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