Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal bagged silver medal in the mixed doubles event of the World doubles squash championship after going down to New Zealand’s Joelle King and Paul Coll in the final on Thursday.
Dipika and Ghosal went down 8-11, 8-11 to Joelle and Paul 8-11, 8-11 in the final to miss the gold medal.
Notwithstanding the loss, this championship has been historic for India with three medals won for the first time in the history of the Championship.
Besides Dipika and Saurav winning the silver, the other mixed pair of Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Sandhu as also the doubles pair of Joshna and Dipika won a bronze medal each for being the losing semi-finalists.
In addition the men’s doubles pair of Harinder and Ramit Tandon went on to finish a creditable fifth at the end of the play offs.
It was an unexpected end for Dipika and Saurav as the duo had beaten the New Zealand pair in the league just a day earlier. The Indian pair played well but failed to create the same magic.
