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Tecnifibre players Dipika Pallikal and Mohamed El Shorbagy are top world junior seeds

India's Dipika Pallikal and Egyptian Mohamed El Shorbagy have been named as top seeds for next month's World Junior Squash Championships, the World Squash Federation event which has attracted players from 28 nations to the ICL Squash Academy in Chennai, India, from 29 July to 2 August.

Born and raised in Chennai, Dipika Pallikal is seeded to become India's first ever world squash champion.  Already ranked inside the women's world's top 50, 17-year-old Pallikal has established a significant junior career, winning the British Junior U17 Open title in 2008 and reaching the final in both the British Junior U19 Open and Asian Junior Championship earlier this year.

 

Title-holder Mohamed El Shorbagy has the chance to become only the second player in history to win the men's crown twice.  The 18-year-old favourite from Alexandria has already enjoyed a meteoric run in the sport - and boasts a senior world top 20 ranking following notable success on the PSA World Tour which has included final berths in the recent Spanish Open and Irish Open and a quarter-final finish in last year's World Open in his maiden appearance in the sport's premier championship.

El Shorbagy's predicted final opponent is Malaysian Ivan Yuen.  Winner of the recent Asian Junior Championship title, also in Chennai, the second seed from Selangor made his debut in the world's top 100 in May.

Paris here I come !!!!!

hey guys ☺

I esperons tous que vous etes belle et a un tres romntique valentines!! 

Well no I don’t know French I just thought I’d start with a bit of French n impress you guys. Hehe. And how did I know the first line in French? Well there is something called google, and googled it! Hehehe anyways I hope everyone had a very romantic valentines. I dint so I really hope u guys did. Well thinking about it .It was kind of okay .I was in the perfect city (Paris) to celebrate valentines and I was with one of the most important men of my life (my coach) .So no regrets☺ 

PARIS 

Uffffffff !!What a beautiful city. I went there a year back and I absolutely loved it n I had to go back this year. This year in Paris I did everything I wanted to do which I dine get to do last year. SHOP SHOP n SHOP! But first I needed to play well n perform in my tourney cause without performance I dint think my coach would let me step out of the hotel. Lol. So first 3 days only squash (the only thin I love more than shopping) .I got to Paris about a day before the tourney to get used to the courts. I absolutely loved the people at the club –tres utile et tres affectueuse☺(I hope I got tat right). Sometimes google can’t be very accurate you see! Hehe .Yea so about the tourney. Hmm well I thought I played well. I thought after the injury it was quite a good performance to get back on court after a month n play some good matches. I did think I played well but I also thought that I should have won the semis which I lost 13-11 in the 5th.But not taking away the credit from Manuela (Italy) she played exceptionally well n was one step ahead of me. Truthfully speaking I went to the tourney to just gain my confidence back after the whole injury period and dint think of reaching the semis. But as I got on court for every match all I wanted was to win. And I did give my best, which is the most important thing. Malcolm Willstrop once told me its not about winning always its about performance. Yes! We all want to win but at the end of the day if u don’t we have to think about the brighter side of things.. And I think all these losses r definetly going to make me learn something in the future☺

A brand new start to the year

Hey guys,

Firstly a very happy new year to everyone. I am kinda excited and nervous about my first post on the blog. I hope I just reach out to u people in a way :)

Its been quite a tough process getting to start posting on the blog.I mean veryyyy tough.In the process Shorbagy became my french tutor(since the whole blog is in french). So we both decided that we finally get out of are beds and start posting.Well definitely we arnt lazy (well maybe a little) :).So we finally started to write but then we realised how do we great u guys ?with a 'hi'?with a 'hey' ?and Shorbagy comes up with a' hello'.So I plan not to listen to him(typical girl) and just greet u guys like friends:)

Its been a good start of the year for me.Reaching the finals of the BRITISH JRS at the start of the year was a good start to the season..I would have definitely wanted to win ,but went down fighting in the finals..Its my first year in the 19s so hopefully looking forward to next year.

As u know tecnifibre is been like family and as soon as i got off court after losing the finals  Gui (Guillaume) was standing rite next to me and he exactly knew what to say to make me happy. All he said was 'your PINK racquets will arrive in 4 days ' and a smile came to my face:)After that I really couldnt think of my lose and just waited for my PINK raquets to arrive..My raquets had arrived and the only thing I could think about was getting on court and playing :)

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Dipika Pallikal is an indian Tecnifibre squash player. She won the British Junior Open U17 last year and was runner-up U19 this year. She's one of the future top players. For Tecnifibre, she has accepted to speak about her life on the WISPA tour, week after week, talking about her matches, the cities she discovers every months and so on.

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