Anaka Alankamony

Anaka Alankamony is an Indian squash player, born on 10 July 1994, who held a career-high world ranking of 59 and won the Arjuna Award, the second-highest sporting honour of India, in 2014. She was crowned Asian Junior Squash Individual Champion in Korea in 2008 and in 2009 set a world record as the youngest person to earn the WISPA title, at the age of 15, becoming the second Indian after Joshna Chinappa to do so. She won the same title again in 2012 and took a team bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and a team silver medal at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. From 2013 she studied at the University of Pennsylvania and played for its women's squash team.