Squash

Abhay Singh (born 3 September 1998) is an Indian squash player and a member of the national team. He is a World Cup and Asian Games gold medalist, and a five-time Asian Champion. As of December 2025, he is ranked 29th in the world.

Akanksha Salunkhe (born 24 January 1999) is an Indian squash player. Salunkhe reached a career high ranking of 62nd in the world as of February 2025.

Anahat Singh (born 13 March 2008) is an Indian squash player. She has won two bronze medals at the 2022 Asian Games, and gold medals at the World Cup, Asian Championships, World Junior Championships and the Asian Junior Championships.

Anaka Alankamony (born 10 July 1994) is an Indian squash player. She held a career-high world ranking of 59 in 2010 and won the Arjuna Award, the second-highest sporting honour of India, in 2014.

Anil Nayar is a former squash player originally from India. He was the first Indian player to win the Drysdale Cup tournament in London 1965 (then the de facto junior world championship event). , in 1969 and 1970, twice in Canada, once in Mexico and eight times in India.

Anwesha Reddy (born 3 September 1991) is an Indian female squash player. She was a member of the Indian women's squash team which claimed bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games though she was a non-participant during the team event. Anwesha also represented India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and competed in the women's singles.

Aparajitha Balamurukan (born 17 March 1994) is an Indian female academic and professional squash player who is generally a regular member of the Indian squash team. She achieved her highest career PSA ranking of World No. 77 in August 2010 during the 2010 PSA World Tour.

Bhuvneshwari Kumari (born September 1, 1960) is a former women's squash champion from India. She is a recipient of prestigious awards like Padma Shri and Arjuna Award. She is also a record holder of Guinness Book of World Records for being India's national champion 16 consecutive times.

Dipika Pallikal (born 21 September 1991) is an Indian professional squash player. She was the first Indian player to break into the top 10 in the world rankings.

Guhan Senthilkumar (born 18 April 1996 in Salem) is an Indian professional squash player. As of March 2018, he was ranked number 225 in the world, which made him the 7th highest internationally ranked Indian squash player. As a junior, he won the 2017 Penang Open.

Harinder Pal Sandhu (born 31 March 1989) is an Indian professional squash player. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 47 in April 2018.

Janet Vidhi (born 18 January 1995 in Delhi) is a professional squash player from India. She lives in Delhi. She is the 9th Indian woman squash player in history to enter the world top-100 rankings.

Joshna Chinappa (born 15 September 1986) is an Indian squash player. She became the youngest Indian national champion at the age of 14. She is a two-time World Champion and four-time Asian Champion.

Komal J. Sharma (Born 6 Nov 1991, Chennai) is an Indian actress, model and former squash player, who works in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi films. She has acted in films such as Hungama 2 (2021), Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea (2021), and The Greatest of All Time (2024).

Kush Kumar (born May 29, 1996 in Dhampur) is a professional squash player who represents India. Kumar graduated with a finance degree Trinity College. Kumar now works for a hedge fund called Matrix Capital Management based in Boston.

Lakshmi Shruti Settipalli (born 12 June 1996) is an Indian squash player. She was ranked 30 in the junior European circuit at the end of 2012. She played as a professional when she was seventeen, achieving a world ranking of 145 in August 2013.

Mahesh Mangaonkar (born 23 March 1994 in Mumbai) is a professional squash player who represented India. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 44 in January 2015.

Manek Mathur (born 6 February 1988) is a professional Indian male doubles squash player originally from Mumbai, currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. He is the head squash professional at the Racquet and Tennis Club. Mathur and his doubles partner Damien Mudge were the number one ranked team in the world as of 2018.

Misha Grewal (born 23 May 1970) is an Indian former professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of 27 in March 1995. She was an Indian national champion on four occasions.

Raj Manchanda (5 August 1945 – 1 December 2024) was an Indian squash player. He won six straight National Squash Championships from 1977 to 1982. Also a member of the Arjuna Award, he received the Arjuna Award in 1980.

Ramit Tandon (born 21 August 1992) is an Indian professional squash player. He is a bronze medalist at the Asian Games and a gold and a silver medalist at the Asian Team Championships. As of Oct 2024, Tandon is ranked 28th in world rankings.

Ritwik Bhattacharya (Bengali: ঋত্বিক ভট্টাচার্য; born 14 October 1979 in Pathankot) is a squash player from India. The flag bearer of Indian Squash on Professional Squash Association tour, as an accomplished junior players he brought momentum in the Indian squash scene. Ritwik trained in England for five years under coach Neil Harvey, and was once India's highest ranked squash player (until superseded by Saurav Ghosal in 2013) and its most successful with nine PSA tour titles till date.

Sandeep Ramachandran (born 13 January 1997) is an Indian professional squash player. As of January 2022, he was ranked number 165 in the world. He won the 2021 MST Dubai Squash Series.

Saurav Ghosal (Bengali: সৌরভ ঘোষাল; born 10 August 1986) is an Indian squash player. 10 in 2019.

Siddharth Suchde (born 20 January 1985, in Mumbai) is a professional squash player from India. He grew up in India, Scotland and Switzerland. He studied in Cathedral School in Bombay, and completed his high school education from Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sunayna Kuruvilla (born 22 May 1999) is an Indian professional squash player. As of February 2018, she was ranked number 89 in the world. She has played in the main draw of numerous professional tournaments.

Surbhi Misra (born 9 August 1990) is an Indian squash player. She replaced a feverish Dipika Pallikal in the Indian squash squad in the women's singles event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. That year, she reached her career-best ranking of 79.

Tanvi Khanna (born 23 July 1996) is an Indian squash player and a member of the national team.

Veer Chotrani (born 25 October 2001) is an Indian squash player who is a member of the national team. As of October 2025, he is ranked 49th in the world.

Velavan Senthilkumar (born 26 March 1998) is an Indian professional squash player. He is a World Cup gold medallist and a three-time Asian Champion.

Vikram Malhotra (born 16 November 1989 in Mumbai) is an Indian professional squash player. As of September 2023, he was ranked number 828 in the world.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), a Government of India enterprise, gives monthly scholarships to economically weaker young sportspersons who have the potential to excel in sport, in games including badminton, boxing, wrestling, kabaddi, chess, athletics and para sports. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. A scholarship is awarded for one year and can be extended up to two years based on annual performance. The number of scholarships is fixed game by game; for the 2025-26 round, for example, badminton had 6 (3 for men and 3 for women) and kabaddi had 20.

Under instructions of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), central government ministries and departments can directly recruit meritorious sportspersons to Group C posts (including erstwhile Group D) that are filled by direct recruitment, in relaxation of the normal recruitment procedure. The list of qualifying sports has 65 disciplines (63 listed in 2020, with Tennis Ball Cricket added in January 2021 and Yogasana in June 2022). Kudo, Karate, Taekwondo, Golf, Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, Badminton, Cricket and Tennis are among them. Railways and a few scientific and atomic-energy services follow separate rules.