Mumbai, June 19 -- Shameena Riaz realised she had ticked off a "special" goal from the manner in which her father hugged her.

"In the last 20 years," she said, "I've never gotten a hug like that from him."

The father is Mohammed Riaz, India's former hockey captain, a two-time Olympian and two-time Asian Games medallist, the first medal came on his debut in 1994 in Japan.

Thirty-two years later his daughter is set to feature in her first Asian Games, in the same country, but in a different sport.

Shameena earned the last spot in India's four-member women's squash team for the continental event in Aichi-Nagoya through the selection trials in Chennai. Joining Anahat Singh, Joshna Chinappa and Tanvi Khanna - part of the bronze-winning tea...