Anahat 3–0. History, done.
India’s first-ever World Junior squash champion wins in straight games; Dhawan’s praise reported, PM congratulates.
Anahat Singh won the girls’ singles title at the 2026 World Junior Squash Championships.
Anahat Singh won the girls’ singles title at the 2026 World Squash Junior Championships in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, beating Egypt’s Ruqayya Salem 3–0 with game scores of 11–3, 11–7, 11–9. According to the government’s broadcast service, she is the first Indian squash player to win the junior world title.
The Prime Minister’s office separately congratulated Singh, calling her “the first Indian squash player ever to win the World Junior Championship title.”
A syndicated report carried by NDTV quotes Singh as saying, “It means the world. I still feel like I’m dreaming,” and notes this was her last year as a junior. The same outlet, citing IANS, reported a congratulatory post from former India cricketer Shikhar Dhawan; the original post was not located by us.
Before the final, News On AIR recorded Singh as the top seed and Salem as the second seed. The event has seen long Egyptian dominance in recent years; the precise streak length varies across reports and is not stated here.