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About a year ago, when Saurav Ghosal got on board Team Anahat as mentor and at times also a hands-on coach, he knew that her forehand wasn’t at the level it needed to be.

Anahat Singh was told that. But she also had to be shown that.

So, India’s 38-year-old retired squash star got on court for a game with the country’s brightest teen talent. The condition: they will play only on the forehand side. The challenge: “let’s see if you can beat me,” Ghosal told Anahat. She could not.

“She absolutely hates to lose,” Ghosal said. “And it made her realise that ‘if I need to get better and not lose, I need to get this right’….