Dipika Pallikal, the hot girl of Indian squash

New Delhi: Dipika Pallikal, Indian squash player, is the first Indian woman to break into the top 20 in the WSA rankings. She won 3 WISPA tour titles in 2011 that saw her attain a career best ranking of 13. She was runner up in the Tournament of Champions 2012 and reached the semifinals of Australian Open 2012.Dipika Pallikal, also known as Dipika Rebecca Pallikal was born on 21 September 1991 to Syrian Christian parents 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 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. She finished in the top eight. She claimed a career best ranking of 14 as a result of these victories in February 2012, surpassing the earlier best world ranking by an Indian - 27th by former national champion Misha Grewal in 1995.In January 2012, she became the first Indian ever to reach the summit clash of a Silver event when she reached the final of the Tournament of Champions squash meet in New York.In August same year, she went one step further when she reached the semifinals of a gold event, the 2012 Australian Open, another first for an Indian.She has been conferred with the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting award in the year 2012.