Saturday 28 November, 2009

Unsung Indian Sport persons

DEEPIKA PALLIKAL



Dipika Pallikal is a squash player.She played her first international tournament in London when she was in her sixth grade, and till date, Dipika has won the German Open, Dutch Open, French Open, Australian Open, Scottish Open on the European Junior Squash Circuit.

TANIA SACHDEV




Tania is the eighth Indian Woman Grandmaster. Tania won her first international title when she was just eight. She has already won the World and Asian junior titles. Her current Elo rating is 2435 (January 2009); her peak rating is 2432 (July 2008) so far. In 2008 she topped the Asian Chess Championship with 6½ points out of nine rounds.








PANKAJ ADVANI




Pankaj Advani is a World Champion in snooker and billiards from India.He won his first world championship title in 2003 IBSF World Snooker Championship in China.
After winning the IBSF World Billiards Championship in 2005 at Qawra, Malta, when he defeated fellow countryman Devendra Joshi, he became only the second cueist after Malta's Paul Mifsud to have won both the billiards and snooker world titles.[2] He has been coached by Arvind Savur for almost a decade at Bangalore. Advani, who is the only player to have achieved a "grand double" of winning both the points and timed formats at the IBSF World Billiards Championships 2005, has repeated the same feat at the 2008 Championships held in Bangalore as well.