World champion Laura Massaro`s title defence was ended in bitter-sweet fashion by her friend and team mate when she lost in four up-and-down games to a Alison Waters in the quarter-finals.
India's top squash player Dipika Pallikal battled past lower-ranked Line Hansen to reach the quarterfinals of the USD 58,000 China Open here on Thursday.
World No.19 Joshana Chinappa took a game off fourth-ranked Alison Waters of England before losing in the opening round of the Women`s World Squash Championship here Tuesday.
India`s top woman squash player Dipika Pallikal has moved two places to be No.10 in the latest WSA rankings.
Joshna Chinappa put up a valiant fight against Alison Waters but the world number four eventually managed to tame the unseeded Indian 3-1 in the Women`s Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Open Open.
