The Indian mixed doubles pair of Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal suffered a 0-2 loss to New Zealand's Joelle King and Paul Coll in the semifinals of the squash competition at the Commonwealth Games
Soon after his victory on Wednesday, Saurav Ghosal was seen in tears. The player started weeping while the crowd behind him kept applauding him for achieving the feat.
Dipika Pallikal squandered a two-game advantage to go down 11-5 11-9 6-11 7-11 8-11 to the Egyptian in a dramatic opening round match of the squash event.
Joshna Chinappa, who had slipped to 12th after initially breaking into top-10 in July, has regained the position even as Dipika Pallikal held on to 19th spot
Saurav Ghosal produced a 76-minute epic battle against Karim Abdel Gawad before going down 9-11, 3-11, 11-8, 11-5, 9-11 in the quarterfinal match. On the other hand, Joshna Chinappa lost 7-11, 5-11, 6-11 to top seed Laura Massaro of England