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BUDDING
TALENTS
Sachika
Balwani won the National Squash Championship
At the age of eight,
she has achieved the national squash champioship
on the very first attempt.
Bubbly
Sachika Balwani has begun playing squash at the
age of seven. The tiny tot can be seen wining her
No.11 full-size Wilson racket at the Otters Club
courts and picking up the rudiments of the game
from Chandrakant Paar, who is particularly good
with kids of this age. Pawar sees a bright future
for this bubbly player. Sachika has been playing
the game for six months now and father Ashwin already
sees her gaining in self-confidence. Sachika was
playing tennis earlier at the Willingdon Catholic
Gymkhana. Rehmat Khan had advised her to play tennis
and squash on alternate days, saying it would be
good for her squash. She followed it for some time.
Now it is only squash. The Bombay Scottish student
can always look to brother Ishaan for guidance.
The lad who has been improving steadily over the
years was ranked four in the Air-India juniors in
the under-13 last year. The brother-sister duo is
bound to raise eyebrows in the years to come having
taken to the game like the proverbial fish to water.
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