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Anahat Singh
Indian professional squash player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anahat Singh (born 13 March 2008)[1] is an Indian squash player and a member of the national team.[2] She has two gold medals at the Asian Championships and a bronze at the World Junior Championships.[3] She has won 21 tour titles and is ranked 54th in the world, as of July 2025.[4] In 2025, Singh won the Young Player of the Year and Challenger Player of the Year at the PSA Awards.[5]
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Early life
Singh was born in Delhi on 13 March 2008 to Tani Vadehra and Gursharan Singh. While her mother is an interior designer, her father is a lawyer. Both her parents used to play field hockey.[6] Her uncle used to play tennis.[7] Inspired by P. V. Sindhu, a five year old Singh began playing badminton.[8] Singh watched her and dreamt of victory at the Olympics.[9]
She used to accompany her sister Amira who played squash.[10] After playing a few squash tournaments where she performed well, she grew fond of it and switched to the sport.[11]
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Early beginnings (2019–2022)
Singh first rose to prominence after winning the U11 title at the British Junior Open in 2019.[12] This was followed by the European Junior Open, the Dutch Junior Open and the Scottish Junior Open titles the same year.[13] In 2021, she won the US Junior Open title by defeating Jayda Marei from Egypt. The next year, she won the German Junior Open, the Dutch Junior Open and the U15 title at the Asian Junior Championships.[14] At the age of 14, she became the youngest to represent India at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[15]
Asian Junior Champion & Asian Games medalist (2023)
Singh started off her year by winning the 2023 edition of the British Junior Open in the U15 category after beating Egypt's Sohaila Hazem.[16] In August, she won the U17 title at the Asian Junior Championships held in Dalian, China.[17] She then won two bronze at the 2022 Asian Games in both the mixed doubles category with Abhay Singh and in the women's team event.[18] Singh became the senior national champion in November after Tanvi Khanna retired in the finals due to an injury.[19] She is the youngest national champion and the youngest Indian to win a medal at the Asian Games.[20] Singh ended the year on a high by winning the U19 title at the Scottish Junior Open by defeating home player Robyn McAlpine 11-6, 11-1, 11-5.[21]
9 tour titles, breaking into top 90 (2024)
In January, Singh finished as a runner-up in Girls U17 category at the British Junior Open after a loss to Nadien Elhammamy.[22] In the same month, she won her first PSA Tour title at the JSW Willingdon LMS Tournament after defeating Japan's Erisa Sano Herring 11-4, 11-3, 11-7.[23] This was followed by a win at the Hamdard Squashters Northern Slam in April where she defeated Korean Hwayeong Eum 11-6, 11-4, 11-5.[24] Her third title came in June at the HCL Squash Tour Chennai on defeating compatriot Rathika Seelan 11-5, 11-3, 11-3.[25] During the final of the Dynam Cup SQ-Cube Open, she gave her opponent Ruqayya Salem from Egypt a walkover due an injury.[26] Singh proceeded to win the PSA Challenge 3 against Sri Lankan Chanithma Sinaly scoring 11-0, 11-1, 11-4 in the final.
Her fifth title was HCL Squash Tour Kolkata where she defeated Filipino Jemyca Aribado 11-5, 11-3, 11-7. Then, she won Costa North Coast Open by defeating Akari Midorikawa from Japan by 11-6, 11-6, 11-7. She won the NSW Open against Hong Kong's Helen Tang with a score of 8-11, 11-6, 11-3, 11-4.[27] The Sunil Verma Memorial saw her defeating fellow Indian Shameena Riaz 11-4, 11-3, 11-1. Singh's last title of the year was the Western India Slam where she defeated India's #1 and her higher ranked fellow Akanksha Salunkhe 11-8, 11-8, 11-8. She won nine tour titles in 2024, becoming the first woman to do so in a year since Nicol David back in 2010.[28] She had 38 wins out of 40 matches, 31 of them with a dominant 3–0 scoreline. She was also featured in PSA Squash Tour's list of players to watch out for.[29] Singh also broke into the top 100 and jumped 51 total spots to reach her highest world ranking of 82.[30]
Maiden WSC and Asian Champion (2025–)
Singh started off the year by winning British Junior Open again at the 2025 edition.[31] She defeated Egyptian Malika Elkaraksy with a score of 4-11, 11-9, 6-11, 11-5, 11-3. This was her third title at the tournament.[32] At the 2025 Asian Junior Team Championships, she won every match without losing a single set.[33] Since her fellow members lost their matches, the team settled for a bronze.[34]
In March, she won the SRFI Indian Tour 11-6, 8-11, 11-8, 11-5 against compatriot Akanksha Salunkhe in the final.[35] In the same month, she won the Indian Open with a dominant 11-9, 11-5, 11-8 win against Helen Tang of Hong Kong.[36] Winning back-to-back challenger 15 titles placed her at 62 in world rankings, a career high for her.[37] During the WSC Asia qualifier, she defeated Hong Kong's Toby Tse 11-4, 9-11, 11-2, 11-8 to qualify for her first World Squash Championships.[38] She is the youngest Indian to contest the WSC.[39]
During the first round of the 2025 WSC, she caused an upset by defeating world number 28, Marina Stefanoni of the United States, by 10-12, 11-9, 6-11, 11-6, 11-6.[40] The second round was against world number 15 Fayrouz Aboelkheir of Egypt. She lost the match but skilfully managed to snag a set from her.[41]
At the British Open qualifiers, Singh defeated higher ranked Marie Stephan of France 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 to enter the main draw. She is the youngest in the draw since Nour El Sherbini in 2012.[42] The first round saw her win over Lisa Aitken of Scotland 11-3, 6-11, 11-8, 11-3. Next round was against WR 9 Sivasangari Subramaniam of Malaysia. She lost 10-12, 11-9, 8-11, 7-11 but snagged a set from her.[43]
Singh won her first end of the season PSA Awards after being voted Young Player of the Year and Challenger Player of the Year.[44] At the 2025 Asian Doubles Championships, she struck gold in both the women's and mixed doubles events with her partners Joshna Chinappa and Abhay Singh respectively.[45] She next won the Asian Junior Championship in the under 19 category, having previously won the under 15 and 17 titles as well.[46]
Singh was seeded second at the 2025 World Junior Championships.[47] She became the first Indian woman to reach the semi-finals of the event in 15 years.[48] She clinched the bronze after losing the semi-finals to Nadien Elhammamy 11-6, 14-12, 12-10.[49]
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Coaching record
At the start of her career, Singh was coached by Amjad Khan and Ashraf Hussain, followed by Ritwick Bhattacharya.[50] Since a couple of years, she is coached by both Stéphane Galifi and Grégory Gaultier.[51] Indian squash icon Saurav Ghosal is her mentor and helps her decide which tournaments to play.[52]
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Awards and nominations
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