{"id":11111,"date":"2026-04-01T09:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=11111"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:33:35","slug":"abhay-and-watanabe-best-in-asia-anahat-and-wa-sern-best-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/abhay-and-watanabe-best-in-asia-anahat-and-wa-sern-best-juniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhay and Watanabe best in Asia; Anahat and Wa-sern best juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India&#8217;s Abhay Singh and Japan&#8217;s Satomi Watanabe were picked as the best players for 2025 by the The Asian Squash Federation (ASF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards will be presented at the Ceremony of the 33rd Asian Junior Individual Championships 2026 in Panzhihua, China in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He partnered Velavan Senthilkumar for the Asian men&#8217;s doubles title in Malaysia as well as the mixed doubles with Anahat SIngh. Anahat was also named as the Best Women&#8217;s U19 player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s Squash in the Land during, shere she beat the 1st, 2nd, and 4th seeded players enroute to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Malaysia&#8217;s Low Wa-sern was picked as the Men&#8217;s U19 best player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ASF Performance Awards 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>DATO ALEX LEE Award <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Men: <\/strong>Abhay Singh (India)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Women: <\/strong>Satomi Watanabe (Japan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HASSAN MUSA Award <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s U19: <\/strong>Low Wa-sern (Malaysia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Women&#8217;s U19: <\/strong>Anahat Singh (India)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The ASF Award <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Team:<\/strong> India in the World Squash Junior Team Championships 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Women: <\/strong>Hong Kong, China in the World Squash Junior Team Championships 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The ASF Development Award:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan Boy\u2019s Team in the 22nd Asian Junior Team Championships 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ASF Coaches Awards 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>ASF Coach of the Year:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Genever (Hong Kong, China)<br>Fahim Gul (Pakistan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ASF Junior Coach of the Year:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Max Lee (Hong Kong, China)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ASF Development Coach of the Year:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Low Wee Wern (Philippines)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ASF Coaches Certificate of Recognition:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Elise Ng (Hong Kong, China)<br>Faheem Khan (Hong Kong, China)<br>Joey Chan (Hong Kong, China)<br>Peter Genever (Hong Kong, China)<br>Roger Ngan (Hong Kong, China)<br>Wong Hon Fung (Hong Kong, China)<br>Muhammad Alamin Kamazahruman (Malaysia)<br>Gurshan Singh Tervinder Singh (Singapore)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Abhay Singh and Japan&#8217;s Satomi Watanabe were picked as the best players for 2025 by the 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