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Dipika Rebecca Pallikal Padma Shri Awarded In 2014

 
Dipika Rebecca Pallikal

Dipika Rebecca Pallikal

Award Name : Padma Shri

Year of Award : 2014

Award for : Sports and Games

Location : Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

 

Dipika Rebecca Pallikal is an Indian squash player. She is the first Indian to break into the top 10 in the WSA rankings. Pallikal came to prominence in 2011, when she won three WISPA tour titles to attain a career-best ranking of 13th. She broke into the top 10 in December 2012. Pallikal was runner-up in the Tournament of Champions in 2012 and reached the semifinals of the 2012 Australian Open. She won her sixth WSA title by winning the Meadowood Pharmacy Open on February 2013. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa won gold in the squash women's doubles event. In 2014, he received the Padma Shri Award. She was born on 21 September 1991 in Chennai, India.

She has studied Good Shepherd School, till her ninth standard and later moved to lady Andal School for her sports career. She has been playing squash from the age of 10 years. Sarah Fitz-Gerald is her official coach. She has played her first international tournament in London when she was in her sixth grade. She is a right handed player and had registered victories in German Open, Dutch Open, French Open, Australian Open and Scottish Open on the European Junior Squash Circuit. She takes her training classes at ICL-TNSRA Academy at Chennai. In November 2011, Dipika created history by becoming the first ever Indian female player to enter the league of last eight players by reaching the Quarter finals of World Open Squash Championship. She also recived the prestigous award "Arjuna Award" for Squash. Along with her squash career, she has also done bit of commercials and endorse a few products.

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