She Started Playing Squash at 32. The World Said No. She’s India #2 Now
Palak Maheshwari picked up a squash racket for the first time at 32. Three years later, she holds the national No. 2 ranking in the W035 category and is preparing for the World Squash Masters. This is not a late-bloomer story. It is something more deliberate than that.New Delhi [India], April 30: There is a particular kind of confidence that does not announce itself. It shows up in decisions, the kind that look questionable from the outside and obvious only in hindsight. When Palak Maheshwari walked onto a squash court for the first time at the age of 32, most people around her would have had questions. She did not seem to have any.Today, three years after that first session, she is ranked No. 2 in India in the W035 squash category — runner-up at the Squash Masters Nationals (a 7-s...