Nearly 10 years ago in the 2014 Asian Games, the Indian men’s team struck a historic gold that included Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, who played a crucial role. Dipika Pallikal, on the other hand, bagged a historic women’s doubles gold with Joshna Chinappa in the Commonwealth Games that happened two months earlier in July 2014.
In 2023, with hardly two months remaining for the Asian Games in Hangzhou, the two trailblazers of Indian squash, are in a joint pursuit for a possible second gold medal for the country in the Games’ history.
Dipika and Harinder are riding high after having won the first Asian mixed doubles championship — described as a ‘test’ event ahead of the Asian Games — in Hangzhou (China) in June this year. Seeded third, the Indians defeated the top two seeds to bag the prestigious Asian title.
