With Ghosal by her side, Anahat taking steady steps

By her own admission, Anahat Singh did not play her best squash at the British Junior Open, a prestigious junior tournament she won for the third time this week as its U-17 champion.

- Rutvick Mehta

MUMBAI: By her own admission, Anahat Singh did not play her best squash at the British Junior Open, a prestigious junior tournament she won for the third time this week as its U-17 champion. Her father would earlier play the role of travelling coach and sparring partner who'd also have to, on such occasions, give her the mental ammunition to pull through. In Birmingham this time, Anahat had by her side among India's most decorated squash pros - Saurav Ghosal.

"Just having him there gave me the confidence, that if anything goes wrong, he's there to help me out," Anahat, 16, said from London on Thursday.