Egypt conquered, Asia next: Anahat Singh plots her route to direct LA28 spot

5 min readJul 27, 2026 11:57 PM IST Anahat Singh defeated Egypt’s Ruqayya Salem in the finals. (Image source: PSA)Anahat Singh can’t wait to meet her cousins when she returns home. It’s the only way she feels she could make sense of the past few days. That, and catching the new Spiderman movie releasing at the end of the month. The 18-year-old, in her fifth and final attempt, won the squash Junior World Championship, a feat that ended 16 years of Egyptian dominance in the event, and landed a first-ever singles squash world title for a country that has produced world-level talent, but not quite like the teenager from Delhi.“I don’t think I’ve really had time to just sit down and actually understand what happened or exactly how it happened. I don’t think it’s going to sink in until I’m actua