Dipika Pallikal

Dipika Pallikal is an Indian professional squash player, born on 21 September 1991 in Kottayam into a Malayali family, and the first Indian player to break into the top 10 of the world rankings. Her mother played international cricket for the Indian women's team, including India's inaugural women's Test match in 1976. Pallikal turned professional in 2006, and after a brief training stint in Egypt in early 2011 she became more consistent, winning three WISPA titles that year, in Irvine, California, in the United States and in Hong Kong. That run took her to number 17 in the world rankings in December 2011 and to a ranking of 14 in February 2012.