Ella Diehl

Ella Diehl
Personal information
Birth name	Ella Karachkova
Country	Russia
Born	Kuybyshev, Russia
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Highest ranking	9 (2 December 2010[1])
Current ranking	104 (8 December 2013 [2])
Medal record Women's Badminton Representing  Russia European Championships 2010 Manchester Singles European Women's Team Championships 2014 Basel Women's team 2010 Warsaw Women's team
BWF profile

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

Career

Diehl 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 2005 Diehl won the women's doubles event at the Scottish International Open in Glasgow, and two 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 Diehl won the 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 Diehl beat current world champion Lu Lan of China to reach the semi final of Swiss Open Super Series.

In her home country Russia she has won 14 national titles as of 2009.

References

External links

• BWF player profile