Dipika Pallikal
Squash Player
Squash player from India known for being a multiple-time Women's Squash Association Champion. She made it to the seminfinals at the 2012 Australian Open, becoming the first Indian player to do so.
She was born in Chennai and participated in her first international tournament while in sixth grade.
She has received the Arjuna Award, the second-highest award given to an athlete by the Indian government, in 2012.
She became engaged to cricketer Dinesh Karthik in November 2013 and they married in 2015.
She and Nicol David are both internationally-known female squash players.