Anahat Singh wins U-15 British Open squash title
The Hindu
The 14-year-old, who was India's youngest athlete at the Commonwealth Games last year, beat Sohaila Hazem of Egypt 3-1 in the final
India's fast-rising squash player Anahat Singh on Sunday won the girls under-15 title at the prestigious British Junior open here.
The 14-year-old, who was India's youngest athlete at the Commonwealth Games last year, beat Sohaila Hazem of Egypt 3-1 in the final.
The British Junior open is held in January every year. This year, it was held after a gap of two years due to COVID-19.
In the quarter-finals, Anahat beat Harleen Tan of Malaysia 3-0 before blanking Malak Samir of Egypt 3-0 in the semifinals .
This was her third final at the British Junior Open.
Anahat had won the under-11 title in 2019 and finished runner-up the year after in the girls under-13 category.
The India player will now be preparing for the Asian Junior team championships, to be held in Chennai in February.
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.