Karan Singh is the new India No. 2. (Instagram)
\n\nKaran Singh arrived in Hyderabad in January, short on form and shorter on equipment. The rackets he uses come from Austria, and nobody was travelling to India from Europe to bring. He was down to his last two.
\n\n"I was only playing with two left. I was stringing the racket after every match," he said, while speaking to Sports Now.
\n\nHe ended up winning the tournament anyway, defeating Dutch top seed Max Houkes in the final for his first professional singles title at home. Back-to-back titles in Bali and the M25 in Mumbai followed, and the 23-year-old is now India's No. 2 singles player.
\n\n"The past five, six weeks I played, it was one of the best weeks of my life so far. When you get that winning feeling, you don't want to stop. You feel like you want to work even harder," he said.
\n\nAdjusting and making do is a family habit. With nowhere for his son to train in Karnal, his father rented a plot of land and built the solution itself.
\n\n"I'm from Karnal and there are not so many places to train there. So my father was…
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