Both made the grade at the World Junior women's squash with contrasting victories.
The men's final at the SAF Games will be an all-Pakistan affair as Ritwik Bhattacharya and Saurav Ghosal lost in the semi-finals.
The Indian ace was beaten by top seed Omneya Abdel Kawy in the quarter-finals of the World junior squash championship.
Joshna Chinappa beat former world number one Nicol David 11-8, 11-8, 11-8 in the second round of the El Gouna International squash tournament in El Gouna (Egypt) for her first ever win over the legendary Malaysian.
The mixed doubles pair of veteran Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu progressed to the pre-quarterfinals of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Wednesday.
Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa rose to 10th while Deepika Pallikal remained static at 19th in the latest Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings.
Joshna Chinappa's agonising wait for her maiden WISPA title continued as the Indian number one went down in straight games to top seed Jaclyn Hawkes of New Zealand in the final of the NSC Star Series squash tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
World snooker champions Advani will receive Rs 100,000 and a citation, while Chinappa, winner of three squash titles including the British Open, will get Rs 50,000.\n\n
India ended their Commonwealth Games campaign in squash with two silver medals after Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa went down fighting in the women's doubles final, in Gold Coast, on Sunday.
India's Joshna Chinappa crashed out of the US $53,500 WISPA British Open Squash Championship in Manchester after being humbled in the qualifiers by Fiona Moverley of England. World No 35 Joshna lost 12-10, 10-12, 11-7, 11-9 to Moverly, who is ranked 16 places below her, in the first qualifying round of the World Tour Gold event.
They lifted the men's and women's titles respectively of the 62nd CCI-Western India Squash championship.
The top seeded Indian ace was beaten by Egypt's Raneem El Weleily in the final of the World Junior Squash Championships.
The Asian junior number one said she is working to improve her technical flaws and fitness level.
The World junior squash runner-up attributed her defeat in the final of the tournament to nervousness.
India's youngest national champion entered the under-19 and women's final in the Indian Oil Open squash tournament.
A listless Joshna Chinappa succumbed to lower ranked Dutch Orla Noom in straight games in the final of the WISPA Challenger No.2 at the Indian Squash Academy court in Chennai on Saturday.
India's Joshna Chinappa overcame a stiff challenge from compatriot Dipika Pallikal to set up a title clash with Orla Noom of the Netherlands in the WISPA Challenger-2 event at the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai.
World junior No. 2 Joshna Chinappa denied 14-year-old Dipika Pallikal a third title cruising to a 9-5, 10-8, 9-1 victory at the CCI-Western India Open Squash Tournament.
Second seed Sandeep Jangra and top seed Joshna Chinappa won the men's and women's titles in the 32nd Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
India's highest-ranked Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa won back-to-back titles when she defeated Asian junior champion Wee Wern of Malaysia in straight games to clinch the NSC Super Satellite Series crown at the National Squash Centre, Bukit Jalil, on Friday afternoon. Joshna, ranked 39 in the world, played a tactical game to beat Wern 11-8, 11-7, 11-7 for her second title inside a week.
Joshna Chinappa defeated Rachael Grinham to secure a place in the semi-finals.
Ritwik Bhattacharya dethroned Saurav Ghosal to regain the men's crown, while Joshna Chinappa retained the women's title in the Sr National Squash Championships.
Sania shared a selfie with Indian badminton star PV Sindhu and Indian squash star Joshna Chinappa and thanked them for dropping in to meet Izhaan.
Sourav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa won the men's and women's titles respectively at the 54th National squash championships.
The Chennai girl climbed ten places from 60 in the latest women's squash rankings.
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.
India's leading squash player Joshna Chinappa on Monday said the game is not getting popular in the country because the available funds are not reaching the deserving players.
The Chennai lass won the girls' under-19 and women's titles in the Servo squash championship.
Local favourites Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal ensured India a place in the final of the WISPA Challenger-2 event as the duo set up a semi-final clash against each other in Chennai on Thursday. Both Joshna and Dipika met with hardly any resistance in their quarter-final matches. Second seeded Joshna outsmarted Laura Pomporters of France 11-5, 11-5, 11-6 in just 25 minutes, while sixth seeded Dipika overwhelmed England's Jenna Gates 11-2, 11-8, 11-4 in 17 minutes.
Joshna Chinappa beat Hong Kong's Annie Au to retain the women's title while Saurav Ghosal was outplayed by Amir Atlas Khan of Pakistan in the men's final of the 12th Asian Junior Squash championship.
India's ace squash player Joshna Chinappa lost to top-seed Vanessa Atkinson of the Netherlands in the final of the US $11,100 Liberty Bell Open Championship in Philadelphia, US, on Monday. Fourth-seed Chinappa (world rank 37), who scalped second-seed Jaclyn Hawkes of New Zealand in the semi-finals, was outplayed by Atkinson (ranked 11) 7-11, 7-11, 5-11.
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.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Joshna beat second seed Dipika Pallikal in the women's final while Ghosal downed Maharashtra's Siddharth Suchde in the men's.
The top seeded Indian will meet Delia Arnold of Malaysia next in the Asian Junior squash tournament.
Top seeds Ritwik Bhattacharya and Joshna Chinappa won the the men's and women's Open titles respectively in the 64th CCI-Western India Open Squash Championships on Sunday. The formidable Bhattacharya scored a 9-7, 9-1, 9-2 triumph over second seed Sandeep Jangra while Chinappa overcame England's Mandy Kennedy 9-5, 9-5, 9-2 in the women's final.
Joshna Chinappa pulled off a huge upset when she beat second seed Sharon Wee to reach the final of the NSC Tour 1 squash tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. The sixth seeded Indian No 1 fought gamely for 50 minutes to carve out a 9-6, 3-9, 1-9, 9-7, 9-2 victory over her illustrious Malaysian opponent.
India's Joshna Chinappa won the British Open Junior championship when she Tenille Swartaz 3-9, 9-3 9-6, 9-3.
Fifth seed Joshna Chinappa lost to fourth seed Mauela Manetta of Italy in the quarterfinals to crash out of the Betteridge and Breitliong San Diego Classic squash tournament.
Saurav Ghosal and Siddharth Suchde were the only Indians left in the men's singles event after two of their compatriots, including former national champion Ritwik Bhattacharya, crashed out in the second round of the Asian Squash Championships in Kuwait.
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