Anahat Singh Wins Bronze at 2025 World Junior Squash Championships

India's No. 1 women's squash player, Anahat Singh, won the bronze medal at the 2025 World Junior Squash Championship, ending a 15-year medal drought for India in the Championship. Deepika Pallikal was the last Indian to win a medal, a bronze, in the 2010 World Junior Squash Championships. No Indian has ever won a gold medal at the World Junior Squash Championships.

The World Squash Junior Championships are being held in Cairo, Egypt. Men and women players under 19 years of age are allowed to participate in the Championship.

The men’s and women’s singles titles will be held from 21 to 26 July 2025, while the men’s and women’s team championships will be held from 27 July to 1 August 2025 at the same venue.

Historic Bronze for Anahat Singh 

Second-seeded 17-year-old Anahat Singh faced Egyptian Nadien Elhammamy in the semi-final, which she lost 3-0. The losers of the semi-finals at the World Junior Squash Championships are awarded bronze medals.

Earlier in the quarter-finals, Anahat had defeated Egypt’s Malika Elkaraksy 3-0.

The Egyptians have dominated the Squash junior circuits, and for the first time since 2019, the finalists of both the men's and women’s singles will feature Egyptian players.

About Anahat Singh 

Anahat Singh is one of India's most promising women's squash players. 

She came into the limelight by winning the gold medal in the Under-11 girls category of the British Open Squash Tournament.

In 2021, she became the first Indian to win the 2021 US Open (Under-15) singles title.

In 2023, she won the British Junior Open Squash Under-15  Singles title.

At the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games held in 2023 in China, Anahat won two bronze medals in the women's team event and in the mixed event with Abhay Singh.

In the same year, Anahat became the second-youngest Indian to be crowned the national champion. 

In 2024, Anahat Singh won nine PSA Challenger titles, in addition to successfully defending her Indian senior and junior national titles that year.

Award and Honours 

Anahat Singh was honoured with two awards at the 2024-25 Professional Squash Association (PSA) Awards. 

She bagged the Women’s Challenger Player of the Season award.

She shared the Women’s Young Player of the Season title with Egypt’s Amina Orfi.