The Indian squash contingent began its Asian Games campaign with comfortable victories over Singapore and Pakistan.
India's Saurav Ghosal advanced to the second round of the Qatar PSA World Squash Championship, beating Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi in straight games in Doha on Saturday.
Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa both the glamorous Chennai girls are let their racquets speak.
Egged on by a capacity crowd at the Siri Fort Sports Complex, the fourth seed mixed doubles pair of Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa came out with a heartening performance to lead the Indian charge in the squash team events of the Commonwealth Games.
Young Joshna Chinappa made it to the girls' under-19 and women's final in the Servo Open.
Saurav Ghosal and Ramit Tandon came up with wonderful displays to help India win the battle of Asians against Hong Kong and enter the quarter-finals of the WSF Men's World Team Squash Championship in Mulhouse, France.
Unseeded Indian Siddharth Suchude moved into the quarterfinals of the Rhode Island Open squash tournament in the US, beating Malaysia's Muhd Asyraf Azan in a tough five-game affair.
Playing against high-ranked and experienced opponent in Lee Ka Yi, the 15-year-old Anahat tried her best.
National squash champion Saurav Ghosal toppled fifth seed Amr Swelim of Egypt to enter the final of the US $ 15,000 Ornano International Open in Bordeaux on Saturday. The fifth-seeded Indian came from behind to beat top seed Renan Lavigne 7-11, 15-13, 11-5, 11-5 in the quarter-final and then quelled the challenge of Swelim 10-12, 11-2, 11-2, 3-11, 14-12 in the semi-finals.
Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal will be the top seeds in the men's and women's sections respectively in the 59th Senior National Squash Championships, scheduled to be held here from December 5 to 10.
The Indian advanced to the main draw of the British Open Squash with a straight-game victory over Aaron Frankcomb.
Giant-killer Saurav Ghosal notched up the biggest title of his career by winning the inaugural Ornano International Open, stunning third seed Davide Bianchetti in the final of the $ 15,000 PSA Tour squash event in Bordeaux.
India's Saurav Ghosal went down to England's Alister Walker 11/9, 6/11, 11/7, 11/9 in the second qualifying round at the 2007 Sheikha Al Saad Kuwait Open.
He scored a comfortable 11-8, 11-9, 11-4 victory over Tinothy Arnold at the CIMB Squash Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur.
India's Saurav Ghosal defeated Chong Kam Hing 11-8, 11-7, 10-11, 11-10 in the first qualifying round of the CIMB Squash Open.
Ritwik Bhattacharya and reigning national champion Saurav Ghosal stand just one win away from making the main draw of US $200,000 Kuwait Open squash tournament, after advancing to the qualifying finals of the event in Kuwait City. While Ritwik upset Australia's Aaron Frankcomb 11-4, 11-9, 11-6 in 53-minutes, Ghosal breezed past local favourite Mohd Al-Tuwary 11-5, 11-0, 11-3 in just 29 minutes.
India's top two squash players enjoyed contrasting fortunes at the Northern Open squash Championship.
Dipika Pallikal bagged a bronze medal, India's first in women's singles squash at the Asian Games.
Joshna Chinappa crashed out of the women's singles while National champion Saurav Ghosal got the better of compatriot Ritwik Bhattacharya to breeze into the men's semi-finals at the squash competition of the Asian Games.
Having won the gold way back in 2014, the team is targeting the top of the podium.
Ghosal became the first Indian ever to win the coveted British Junior Open U-19 Squash title, defeating Adel El Said of Egypt in the final at Sheffield in England.
The Indian challenge in the ROWE British Grand Prix squash championship came to an end after national champion Saurav Ghosal suffered a straight-game first-round defeat at the hands France's Gregory Gaultier in Manchester.
The ranking is based on the 17-year-old's performance during the last two years in tournaments across the globe.
Spearheaded by their number one player and individual bronze medalist Sourav Ghosal, India blanked Japan 3-0 to notch their second straight preliminary league victory in Asian Games men's team squash competition in Guangzhou on Monday.
Making a comeback from surgery at 37 years of age in a physically demanding sport like squash is tough to say the least but recent Padma Shri awardee Joshna Chinappa is determined to get back on the PSA Tour at the earliest.
India's challenge in the squash team event at the Commonwealth Games came to an end after the fourth seeded pair of National champions Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa went down fighting to the Malaysian duo of Nicol David and Beng Hee Ong in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles on Tuesday.
World junior number one Dipika Pallikal and third seed Saurav Ghosal kept alive Indian hopes sailing into the women's and men's semi-inals respectively in the 15th Asian Squash Championship in Chennai on Sunday.
James Willstrop, the world No. 2 squash player, believes that Indian squash is "buzzing" after two good performances in recent weeks.
India's top-ranked female player Dipika Pallikal kept the tri-colour fluttering by progressing into the quarter-finals of the women's singles squash event, even as compatriots Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa bowed out at the Punj Lloyd PSA and WISPA Masters in New Delhi.
Saurav Ghosal's good show in the World Championship propelled him to a career-high 15 in the men's world rankings published today by the Professional Squash Association (PSA).
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Aiming for that elusive singles Commonwealth Games medal Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa will make one last-ditch effort to break the jinx in Birmingham.
A round-up of Indian athletes' performances on Day 4 of the Asian Games, in Incheon, on Tuesday.
The fifth seeded pair, who had a shaky pre-quarterfinal match against a Malaysian duo, was in terrific touch in the quarterfinal match against third seed Tesni Evans and Peter Creed of Wales.
Ghosal and Pallikal hardly broke a sweat as they prevailed 11-8, 11-4 over the Australians
The Indian duo lost 7-11, 4-11 to King and Coll and missed out on a spot in the final of the event.
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The year 2023 will go down as extremely memorable for the Indian sports fraternity as players across various disciplines came together to script history at the Asian Games held in Hangzhou.
Shooters continued to deliver medals for India at the 17th Asian Games with the trio of Heena Siddhu, Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed cliching a bronze in the women's 25m pistol event in Incheon on Monday.
A fit-again Irfan Pathan feels that he is close to bowling at his best and it's just a matter of time before he is again back in contention for the seam bowling all-rounder's slot in the Indian cricket team that has been up for grabs for some time.
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