India, July 25 -- Anahat Singh went a step beyond where she had fallen the previous times but couldn't manage to go a step further, as she lost in the semi-finals of the 2025 World Squash Junior Championships to Egypt's Nadien Elhammamy in Cairo on Friday.

The only non-Egyptian woman standing in the last four, the Indian shrugged off a slow start to hold multiple game balls in the second and third games, but couldn't close it out in the 11-6, 14-12, 12-10 contest in which Elhammamy rode the crowd that was loudly vocal in the support of their home face.

Anahat, 17, had crashed out in the quarter-finals of the junior Worlds for the past three editions and was eager to better that in Cairo. While she did become the first Indian woman to ma...