India, March 19 -- Not too long ago, India's male squash field was largely a one-man army carrying the country's flag at the top level. Now, it's a troop of men pushing each other to raise their markers individually and, with it, Indian squash collectively.

Four Indians lie in and around the world's top 50 of the men's PSA rankings: Abhay Singh (26th), Ramit Tandon (37th), Veer Chotrani (43rd) and Velavan Senthilkumar (51st).

That's not usual for Indian squash, in which Saurav Ghosal was the runaway leader for years and, although he had some others behind him at different points, the gap was often wide.

It's never been closer. Once Ghosal walked away Tandon took over the India No.1 tag. At present, it rests with Abhay. At this week's J...