‘Carrying your braincells?’ Mentor’s snide remark before Anahat’s Jr Worlds title

5 min readUpdated: Jul 26, 2026 11:11 PM IST Anahat’s Jr in action. (PSA)It’s just the way GenZ is wired. When newly-crowned squash Junior World champion Anahat Singh was lacing up her shoes to face Ruqaiyya Salem in the finals at Ontario, mentor and coach Saurav Ghosal dropped a snide one: “Are you carrying your braincells today?” It was a remark meant to awaken the 18-year-old from possibly being slightly casual and ending up underwhelming in the title match. She retorted: “Braincells are awesome today.” Saurav left it at, “That’s debatable…”The Delhi teen went on to nail her fifth attempt at a junior world title to settle the debate. “She’s got a few doses (read as scoldings) this week. But we do it because we know she can take doses. She doesn’t go into a shell,” Saurav says. Anahat’s