Anahat's junior worlds run ends
Mumbai, July 26 -- 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 semis of the 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 quarters 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 make the semis since D...
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