Dipika Pallikal is an Indian squash player. She is the first Indian woman to break into the top 10 in the WSA rankings. She won 3 WISPA tour titles in 2011 that saw her attain a career best ranking of 13. Later, she bettered that with a top 10 ranking in December 2012. She was runner up in the Tournament of Champions 2012 and reached the semifinals of Australian Open 2012. She won her sixth WSA title by winning the Meadowood Pharmacy Open on February 2013.
Dipika Pallikal, also known as Dipika Rebecca Pallika was born on 21 September 1991 to Sanjiv and Susan Pallikal from Kerala in Chennai, India. 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 trains at the ICL-TNSRA Academy at Chennai under Cyrus Poncha and Major (rtd) S. Maniam. Her coach is the six time world champion, Sarah Fitz-Gerald to whom she attributes most of her recent success. She studies in Ethiraj College in English department (IIIrd year-2012-2013).
Dipika turned pro in 2006, but her career was filled with ups and downs initially. She became more consistent and started notching up winning performances after her brief training stint in Egypt in the beginning of 2011.
She clinched her first of three WISPA titles for 2011 in September by winning the Orange County Open in Irvine, California. She notched up her second in the United States with another WISPA tour event victory. The third came in Hong Kong in the Crocodile Challenge Cup in December 2011 and that took her to number 17 in world rankings. However it was her performance in the World Open that shot her into the limelight.
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Questions of this week:
1. How many runs Australia scored against India in the 6th One-Dayer of the ongoing Series in India?
2. For which team Aaron Finch played in Indian Premier League (IPL) Season-6?
3. How many runs Shikhar Dhawan scored in the 6th One-Dayer of the ongoing Series in India?
4. Which teams have made it into the semifinals of the ongoing Eid-Diwali Milan Cup T20 Tournament?
5. Who is Ranjeet Bali?
Answers of the last week:
1. 295 runs 2. Did not play in IPL-6 3. Aditya Mehta and Pankaj Advani 4. Hilal Rather 5. Secretary DDCA.
The best entry of this week was received from Tushar Mahajan, H No-55, Lower Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu.
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