Dipika Pallikal, Dinesh Karthik to tie the knot in 2015

New Delhi: India’s star sports couple Dipika Pallikal and Dinesh Karthik have decided to get married middle of next year after almost two years of togetherness, made official with their engagement last November. Squash queen Pallikal has usually been more vocal about the celebrated relationship but this time India cricketer Karthik took it upon himself to share the wedding plans.

“I have been ready for it (marriage) for sometime now. She has been ready for it from the beginning and the dates are more or less are final. We have gotten to used to each other a lot more than it was at the start. So basically, we are ready and there is no fear,” Karthik said.

They had to postpone their wedding this year owing to hectic schedules, more so for Pallikal, who had to focus on the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. As it turns out, it was worth the wait with the squash player drawing a record three medals from the mega quadrennial events.

“I can’t complain about how the script has unfolded. I can look forward to settling down in my life after the best year of my career. Having Dinesh by my side in the last year-and-a half has been special and I look forward to even better times,” said Dipika, who looked stunning in a pink dress.

Both, however, chose to keep the details of the wedding under wraps.

The wicket-keeper batsman had watched Pallikal win a historic gold in Glasgow Games while his fiancee travelled with Karthik in the last IPL.They say opposites attract and the same could be said about the two sportspersons. Pallikal is more outgoing while Karthik likes to keep a low profile.

“We are different personalities and that way we compliment each other. She likes to talk about us in public sometimes and I like to take a step down and keep my private life very private,” he said. “We try to spend maximum time with each other but in our profession it is not possible. And we have learnt to deal with it,” Dipika said.