Mumbai, Sept. 28 -- Anahat Singh did not waste much time storming off the court after her last singles point at the Asian Games. This is a teen who hates to lose - doesn't matter that she produced her career's biggest win the previous day and coasted along all week before that. This is a teen who is likely to see this as a gold gone - doesn't matter that the silver grabbed hadn't been done by any other woman squash player in the country. "She will be disappointed and sad, because I know how she is," Saurav Ghosal, India's squash ace mentoring Anahat said after the final. "But she can be proud of her week." She watched no Indian woman stand on the individual podium in 2023 Hangzhou from the bench as a 15-year-old. She went out there and did the job herself in 2026 Aichi-Nagoya as an 18-year-old. And silver medallist Anahat Singh it will be. Sivasangari Subramaniam, the Malaysian world No.5 defending champion, proved too hot, too good and a level too high for the 17th-ranked Indian in the 3-0 (11-4, 11-4, 11-7) sweep. And it will be silver medallist Abhay Singh as well. The world No.26 Indian lost to the 18th-ranked Malaysian Ng Eain Yow 3-0 (11-9, 11-5, 11-5) in his semi-final. Abhay, the headline-maker of the team gold three years ago, earned his first individual medal, and played his part in ensuring Indian squash has two singles silver medallists for the first time at the Asian Games. He is also only the second Indian man to win an individual squash medal, after Ghosal. Like Abhay, Anahat was after the gold at Aichi-Nagoya. More so with the added reward of a ticket to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. It couldn't be ticked off. The young Indian's career stage and ranking though is likely to keep her Olympic dream alive. "We know we have things to work on internally. And these matches and events are the building blocks towards making her more potent over the next 18-20 months," said Ghosal, the former top 10 pro. "If we do that, we're confident that she will be in a good space to not just be there (at the 2028 Olympics), but hopefully have some outside chance." Over the past 18-20 months, the prodigious talent has only risen: from being ranked outside 500 in December 2024 to cracking the top 30 in December 2025 to now into the top 20. This year, Anahat won her career's biggest title, the PSA Copper Squash on Fire Open, and finally achieved her long-held world junior champion dream. The Asian Games remained her biggest target for this year. And between her and the biggest prize in it stood Sivasangari. The 27-year-old of Indian descent entered this continental event as the player to beat, not just in Asia but even among the world's best. "Look, she (Siva) is in a very rich vein of form right now," said Ghosal. "She was extremely clinical, and Anahat couldn't find a way to force the door open." After the Indian kicked things off going 3-1 up, that door remained shut. Anahat hit the tin with her drops and clipped the side walls as Sivasangari reeled off eight straight points in the first game. The Indian teen smacked the ball in frustration during the second game. Those were the kind of signs of frustration that weren't there in her semi-final. Anahat engineered a memorable fightback against Satomi from two games down. Against Sivasangari, despite being more competitive in the third game, she couldn't....