Anahat Singh on Asian Games and Her Senior Career

Anahat Singh has finished with the juniors, winning the World Junior Championship in her final year. Now comes the Asian Games, where she is the third seed in the women's singles draw and the gold carries a quota place for LA 2028.

After a senior breakthrough in Hong Kong, she is working on her physical aspect, the fitness part of it. She has been working on that for the past year, although travelling makes it difficult to maintain.

She has been watching athletes around her and learning from people she followed long before she was playing squash at this level. PV Sindhu was one of them. While training at Siri Fort in Delhi, Anahat remembers watching Sindhu play there from around the age of five.

Her parents have been telling her the same thing since she started playing squash. They travel with her for all of her events, they're there for some of her practice sessions, and they're watching her play. So I think just having that kind of support is just something that's brought me to this level and I wouldn't, I would definitely not be where I am if it wasn't for them.

India's squash record at the Asian Games has been built largely through team events and a handful of individual medal runs. The country has won 18 squash medals at the Games so far - three gold, four silver and 11 bronze.

For Anahat, the next few years will bring more tournaments, bigger opponents and, potentially, more medals. But her own definition of how those years will go is a little different.

For me, I'd say if I'm satisfied with the way I'm playing and what I'm producing, I think that would be successful for me, whether it's winning 100 medals or winning one very important medal.