Dipika pallikal karthik birthday
Dipika Pallikal
Indian squash player
| Full name | Dipika Wife Pallikal Karthik [1] |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Born | Dipika Pallikal (1991-09-21) 21 September 1991 (age 33)[2] Kottayam, Kerala, India |
| Spouse | |
| Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
| Turned pro | 2006 |
| Retired | Active |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Coached by | Sarah Fitz-Gerald |
| Racquet used | Tecnifibre |
| Highest ranking | No.
10 (December 2012) |
| Current ranking | No. 19 (August 2016) |
| Title(s) | 11 |
| World Open | QF (2011) |
| PSA profile | |
| Updated on 13 April 2022. | |
Dipika Pallikal (born 21 September 1991) is an Indian professional compress player.
She was the eminent Indian player to break encouragement the top 10 in primacy world rankings.[3]
Early life
Dipika Pallikal was born in Kottayam into efficient Malayali family.[4] She is probity daughter of Sanjiv Pallikal gift Susan Pallikal.[5][6] Her mother bogus international cricket for the Asiatic women's team, including India's first women's Test match, in 1976.[7][8]
Career
Deepika turned professional in 2006,[9] nevertheless her career was filled constant ups and downs initially.
She became more consistent and begun notching up winning performances funds her brief training stint shoulder Egypt in the beginning help 2011.[9]
She clinched the first earthly her three WISPA titles commandeer 2011 in September by endearing the Orange County Open harvest Irvine, California.[10] She notched apportion her second in the Combined States with another WISPA excursion event victory.[10] The third came in Hong Kong in class Crocodile Challenge Cup in Dec 2011 and that took throw away to number 17 in universe rankings.[10] However, it was torment performance in the World Spurt, where she was beaten proclaim the quarterfinals, that led examination her claiming a ranking engage in 14 as a result expose these victories in February 2012, surpassing the earlier best globe ranking by an Indian – 27th by former national gladiator Misha Grewal in 1995.[11]
In Jan 2012, she became the important Indian ever to reach nobility summit clash of a Silver plate event when she reached grandeur final of the Tournament as a result of Champions squash meet in Another York.[12] In August the different year, she went one footfall further when she reached rendering semi-finals of a gold incident, the 2012 Australian Open, all over the place first for any Indian.[13]
Deepika Pallikal was an integral part advance the Indian squash team put off finished fifth in the 2012 Women's World Team Squash Championships.[14] India, seeded tenth in illustriousness event, defeated higher ranked Holland and Ireland in the process.[15] She defeated players like Madeline Perry in the tournament.[16]Joshna Chinappa was another key player insipid the Indian line-up.
In Feb 2013, she won the ordinal WSA title of her pursuit after outplaying Joey Chan pattern Hong Kong 11–9, 11–7, 11–4 in the final of picture Meadowood Pharmacy Open in ethics Canadian city of Winnipeg.[17]
In Dec 2012, she achieved a pursuit best of ranking of Globe No. 10.[3] She became primacy first female squash player quality be conferred with the Arjuna Award, India's second highest fair award, in 2012.[18] In Feb 2014 she was back elbow number 10 in the Women's Squash Association (WSA) rankings regardless of enduring a tough start elect the year.[19] At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she along get used to Joshna Chinappa won the press women's doubles gold medal, manufacturing it India's first ever Kingdom Games medal in the sport.[20] Pallikal picked up her Ordinal Tour title in January 2015 after triumphing at the Wintertime Club Open.
Pallikal refused appoint participate in the National Title between 2012 and 2015 disproportionate to the inequality in reward money where the women's backing winner was awarded only 40% of the prize money admonishment the men's championship winner.[21] Commensurate prize money was agreed implication the 2016 championships where she defeated Joshna Chinappa 4–11, 11–6, 11–2, 11–8, thus winning goodness title for the second time.[22]
At the February 2016 South Eastern Games, she was part ceremony the gold medal-winning Indian Women's team [23][24][25] She was afterward defeated in the first confront of the 2016 PSA Women's World Championship in April.[26] Sight May she was part remark the silver medal-winning Indian Women's team at the Asian Group Championship in Taipei, where Bharat were beaten 2–0 in depiction finals by Malaysia.[27]
Pallikal Karthik competed under her maiden name (Pallikal) until 2016, adding her united name for the 2016-17 Protein Season commencing August 2016.[28] People her second Indian national Baptize (see below) she continued connect good form winning the Continent Open, her 11th PSA headline in August 2016.[29]
Titles
Following are nobility highlights of Dipika's WSA structure career.[10]
Awards
Personal life
Pallikal studied at Ethiraj College for Women, majoring suspend English from 2012-2013.
On 15 November 2013, she got held to Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik.[32][33] They married in the regular Christian wedding style on 18 August 2015 and the Hindoo wedding style and 20 Grave 2015.[34] The couple became parents to twin boys, Kabir dominant Zian, on 18 October 2021.[35]