All Josh for the games National squash

CHENNAI: National champion Joshna Chinappa has had a mixed year so far. Starting the year as the highest ranked Indian female squash player in the world at No. 34, she rose to No. 28 in June, her career best, before plummeting to No. 34 again and having Dipika Pallikal take her place as India's No. 1 female squash player.
Joshna won the German Open in May and reached the semifinals of the Heliopolis Open in September but other events have been a mixed bag of results."It felt good to win in Germany, especially with a dominant 3-0 win in the final. I had beat Gaby a month earlier. It helped me to gain confidence," she says. "The other events were a let-down. I felt on hindsight that I could have done better, but it's no use looking back now."
Joshna is looking forward to the CWG and is confident of performing well. "I have been training well for the past couple of months and it will surely reflect in my performance in Delhi," she says. Joshna, who trains in England with world-renowned coach Malcolm Willstrop says her training regime is focused on fitness. "Competing with foreign athletes, one needs to be as fit as possible," she says. "So I do a lot of strength training and conditioning. I also do running, cycling and plyometrics, a kind of exercise which aims to an exercise to produce fast and powerful movements."
Joshna will also be competing in the doubles category with Dipika and national coach Cyrus Poncha is confident that they
represent the best hope for a medal for India. "The preparation has been good. We will put our best foot forward," says Joshna.
They duo taking the doubles game more seriously, after winning an invitational tournament in Manchester this year. They beat the Australian duo of Kasey Brown and Donna Urquhart in the final of the ESR International doubles championship in Manchester.
"We play well as a combination because we know each other's game so well. That level of comfort helps us bring out the best in each other's game. That is why when we play against each other, the games are usually a tight affair," says Joshna.
The game of squash runs in the Chinappas' blood. Joshna's great grandfather, Field Marshall KM Cariappa, who was also the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, was a regular squash player. Her father, Anjan Chinappa, represented Tamil Nadu in the game.