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At $50K Women's Champion Fiberglass Texas Open 2014,, Houston, USA (Gold 50)

[SF] (4) Dipika Pallikal (IND,12) bt (2) Madeline Perry (IRL,8) 3-2 (11-7, 11-13, 13-11, 10-12, 11-4) (75m)

[F] (4) Dipika Pallikal (IND,12) vs (Q) Nour El Sherbini (EGY,13)

Dipika in the final beating 2nd seed and top-10 Irish player Madeline Perry in long tight match ... Dipika started well and won the first game without much trouble ... Next two games were closely fought as both players were tried hard ... These two games shared by each player in extra points ... In the fourth game Dipika was dominating rallies and had three match balls at 10-7 ... Suddenly Dipika lost her focus and made numerous mistakes to lose next five points ... Dipika recovered immediately and take control of the decider taking 6-1 lead ... Dipika kept her advantage and comfortably won this game and the match ... In the final she is having challenge of 18 yrs old young talented Egyptian Nour El Sherbini ... Last month Nour El Sherbini become the youngest player in history to reach the WSA World Championship final, she scored a series of upsets in Malaysia including beating WR#1 Nicol David ... Dipika is having 0-2 win-loss record against Sherbini.