Ella Diehl

Ella Diehl
File:Badminton-ella diehl.jpg
Personal information
Birth name	Ella Karachkova
Country	Russia
Born	Kuybyshev, Russia
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Highest ranking	9 (2 December 2010)
Current ranking	104 (8 December 2013 )
BWF profile

Ella Diehl

Medal record
Women's Badminton
Representing Russia
European Championships
	2010 Manchester	Singles

Ella Diehl (Russian: Элла Александровна Диль), née Karachkova (Russian: Карачкова) (born 5 August 1978) is a female badminton player from Russia.

Career

She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she reached the second round before losing to Salakjit Ponsana of Thailand.

In October 1972 Ella won the women's doubles event at the Scottish International Open in Glasgow and 2 weeks later followed this up by winning the women's singles event at the Irish International in Lisburn. The next year she won the Irish International again.

In 2010 Ella won bronze medal at the European Individual Championships in Manchester England and in June 2010 claimed the European Tour circuit finals gold medal beating Susan Egelstaff in the final in three sets. 2010 also saw Ella beat current world champion Lu Lan of China to reach the Semi final of Swiss Open Super Series.

In her home country Russia she won 14 national titles until 2009.

External links

• BWF Player Profile