India, March 23 -- For a sport that has only had a handful of Indians get to where she's at currently, Anahat Singh is pretty nonchalant about being among the world's best 20 female pros at age 18.

"I think this was the easier part," she said, sitting back for a chat after partaking in numerous photos and videos as the women's champion of the home PSA event.

She nods her head when a sporting adage is brought up - it is more difficult to stay on top than to get there. Not that she, or her mentor Saurav Ghosal who has gone a few levels higher as a former top-10 pro, think this is where she is likely to stay.

"We genuinely don't believe that this is the ceiling," said Ghosal.

Anahat's surge into the elite over the past year, from being r...