India’s Abhay Singh and Japan’s Satomi Watanabe were picked as the best players for 2025 by the The Asian Squash Federation (ASF).

The awards will be presented at the Ceremony of the 33rd Asian Junior Individual Championships 2026 in Panzhihua, China in May.

Twenty-seven-year old Abhay is a Asian Games gold medalist as well as a five-time Asian Champion. Apart from helping India win the World Cup last year, Abhay had also grabbed two title at the Asian championships last year.

He partnered Velavan Senthilkumar for the Asian men’s doubles title in Malaysia as well as the mixed doubles with Anahat SIngh. Anahat was also named as the Best Women’s U19 player.

Watanabe, 27, won the World Games title last year defeating Marie Stephan of France in the final. She had also won her 10th PSA title after securing victory in Cleveland’s Squash in the Land during, shere she beat the 1st, 2nd, and 4th seeded players enroute to victory.

Watanabe, who trained in Malaysia for five years as a teenager, also became the first Japanese player to achieve a top-10 PSA World Ranking last year.

Meanwhile Malaysia’s Low Wa-sern was picked as the Men’s U19 best player.

ASF Performance Awards 2025

DATO ALEX LEE Award

Men: Abhay Singh (India)

Women: Satomi Watanabe (Japan)

HASSAN MUSA Award

Men’s U19: Low Wa-sern (Malaysia)

Women’s U19: Anahat Singh (India)

The ASF Award

Men’s Team: India in the World Squash Junior Team Championships 2025

Women: Hong Kong, China in the World Squash Junior Team Championships 2025

The ASF Development Award:

Pakistan Boy’s Team in the 22nd Asian Junior Team Championships 2025

ASF Coaches Awards 2025

ASF Coach of the Year:

Peter Genever (Hong Kong, China)
Fahim Gul (Pakistan)

ASF Junior Coach of the Year:

Max Lee (Hong Kong, China)

ASF Development Coach of the Year:

Low Wee Wern (Philippines)

ASF Coaches Certificate of Recognition:

Elise Ng (Hong Kong, China)
Faheem Khan (Hong Kong, China)
Joey Chan (Hong Kong, China)
Peter Genever (Hong Kong, China)
Roger Ngan (Hong Kong, China)
Wong Hon Fung (Hong Kong, China)
Muhammad Alamin Kamazahruman (Malaysia)
Gurshan Singh Tervinder Singh (Singapore)