From ‘curse’ to crown: How Delhi teen Anahat Singh scripted Indian squash history

5 min readMumbaiJul 27, 2026 06:55 AM IST Anahat Singh defeated Egypt’s Ruqayya Salem in the finals. (Image source: PSA)It was Anahat Singh’s fifth and, importantly, final chance to get it right at the World Juniors Championships in Canada. She had four quarterfinals, one bronze, plenty of deja vu, and even a French coach to match. Gregory Gaultier had been in her tactical corner as coach, the squash legend most famous for losing four Senior World Championship finals before winning the fifth, to teach her precisely how to handle this last week.The 18-year-old from Delhi, whose father is a lawyer and mother an interior designer, had called the World Juniors a “curse” because she kept missing the title. When she broke the curse, she became India’s first-ever world title holder among women. O