Dipika Pallikal, the reigning doubles world champion in girls’s and blended occasions, will lead the eight-member Indian squash staff on the Asian Games 2023 to be held in Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China, from September 23 to October 8.

The squash occasions are scheduled from September 26 to October 5 and will likely be held on the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Squash Court. Medals will likely be on provide in 5 occasions – males’s and girls’s singles, males’s and girls’s groups and blended doubles. The blended doubles occasion is making its Asian Games debut in Hangzhou.

Squash on the Asian Games 2023 will begin with staff occasions on September 26. The singles and blended doubles begin on October 1 and can conclude on October 5. Matches will be seen reside in India.

Pallikal received particular person bronze at Jakarta 2018 however has not featured in aggressive singles since 2019. However, she is going to function within the blended doubles at Hangzhou 2023.

The 31-year-old Dipika Pallikal will staff up with Harinderpal Singh Sandhu in blended doubles. The duo received the Asian blended doubles squash championship on the identical venue in June and are anticipated to be the highest seeds on the Asian Games.

Joshna Chinappa and Saurav Ghosal, who additionally received particular person bronze medals final time, are anticipated to hold the Indian problem within the girls’s and males’s singles, respectively.

The Indian girls’s squash staff additionally includes a 15-year-old Anahat Singh, an under-15 Asian champion in 2022 and the under-17 Asian champion in 2023.

The Indian males’s squash staff consists of Saurav Ghosal, Mahesh Mangaonkar and Harinderpal Singh Sandhu. The Indian trio was a part of the four-member staff that bagged India’s solely Asian Games gold in squash at Incheon 2014. The 25-year-old Abhay Singh is the opposite member in India’s four-member males’s staff at Hangzhou.

At the final version of the Asian Games in 2018, Indian squash gamers returned with one silver and 4 bronze.

Squash made its Asian Games debut at Bangkok 1998. Since then, India have one gold, three silver and 9 bronze medals for a complete of 13.

Indian squash staff for Asian Games 2023

Men’s staff: Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu

Women’s staff: Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna

Asian Games 2023 squash schedule and reside begin occasions for India

All in Indian Standard Times (IST)