Goa, May 31 -- Vivek Menezes

After an extraordinary four years conquering the high-powered US college squash circuit, Yash Fadte is back home in Goa, turning down an impressive job offer in wealth management that would have allowed him to live comfortably in America. The 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles will feature squash for the very first time, and our young champion from Vasco da Gama has set his eyes on glory for India. Already, while making a difficult leap from India's smallest state, he became an All-American and led the University of Rochester to its first Hoehn Cup, and won the 2024 Skillman Award for embodying "the highest ideals of college squash."

Yash has always blazed a historic trail of victories: the Under-19 Asian J...