Squash championships: Mixed day for Indian players

16 August,2016 08:03 AM IST |   |  PTI

India's top doubles pair of Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal began their campaign on a positive note with two Pool league wins on the opening day of the WSF World Doubles Squash Championship here yesterday

Joshna Chinappa


Melbourne: India's top doubles pair of Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal began their campaign on a positive note with two Pool league wins on the opening day of the WSF World Doubles Squash Championship here yesterday.


Joshna Chinappa

The top-seeded Indian pair defeated Malaysia's number one pair, the Arnold sisters Delia and Rachel and then followed it up with a win over Australia 2, which comprises Sarah Cardwell and Christine Nunn.

The mixed doubles also brought good news for India with Joshna and Harinder Pal Sandhu being one pair and Dipika and Saurav Ghosal, the second seed, the other.

The reverse for India came in the men's doubles where Harinder Sandhu and Ramit Tandon lost two matches to Australia 1 and Colombia 1.

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