JOSHNA CHINAPPA--- BORN 1986
-----first beneficiary of the 40 core Mittal Champions Trust.
A trainee of the Indian Squash Academy (erstwhile ICL academy), Chennai, Joshna is currently ranked 32 in the world.
NSC Series No. 6 (Tour 12) 2009 - Winner
British Junior Open, 2005 – Winner
Asian Junior, 2005 – Winner
World Junior, Belgium, 2005 – Runner-up
British Open Junior, 2004 – Runner-up
SAF Games, Pakistan, 2004 – Gold
Hong Kong event, 2004 – Runner-up
Asian Championship, 2004 – Bronze
Malaysian Junior, 2004 – Winner
Indian National Junior, 2004 – Winner
Indian National Senior, 2004 – Winner
Indian National Senior, 2004 – Winner Indian National Senior, 2004 – Winner Indian National Senior, 2004 – Winner
The youngest woman National Champion of India, Joshna Chinappa started plying Squash at the tender age of 7 and till date she has already earned hundreds ...
It was a magical day (yesterday 30th March 2010) the second day of matches as India duo Joshana and Dipika made it to the finals with an upset victory over the no.1 seeds and former medalists at the 2006 event from England Jenny Duncalf and Allison Waters (6-11,11-8,11-4 ). In the quarter finals they upset Dominic Lloyd Waters and Laura Briggs also of England 11-4, 11-9. In both the matches our girls were crisp in their drives. Joshana was once again lethal on the backhand side. Dipika played the perfect supporting role.
Read more: http://www.sportskeeda.com/2010/03/31/international-doubles-championships-joshana-dipika-in-finals/#ixzz2CUturXUp
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Sunita Rao is a former tennis player
who has 8 career titles on the ITF Women’s Circuit
and has also reached 7 finals in the singles.
Sunita, who usually plays for America has also played for India
on the Fed Cup and 2008 summer Olympics
(where she partnered with Sania Mirza)
out of her love towards her motherland. She was top-ranked
throughout her junior career and played her first WTA match
at the WTA Brasil Open in the year 2002.
It was in the year 2008,
Sunita who was born in New Jersey has her roots in India,
as her parents are basically from Karnataka.
