With a historic triumph in the PSA World ranking tournament in his kitty, India's ace squash player Ritwik Bhattacharya now aims to break into the top 30 in the next two years.
"My immediate aim is to qualify for the World Open, to be played in Lahore in December. And this will surely help me to attain a place in the top 30 in a couple of years," Bhattacharya, the first Indian player to ever win a PSA ranking tournament, told reporters at a function organised by his sponsors, JCT Mills, in Delhi on Monday night.
Ritwik won back-to-back PSA ranking tournaments in New Zealand last month and climbed to No. 72 on the rankings.
The three-time national champion said he would be playing a few more ranking tournaments in Spain and Qatar in the next couple of months as he need to break into the top 64 to qualify for the World Open.
The 24-year-old Delhiite, who is training in London under former UK No. 1 Neil Harvey alongside some of the world's best squash players for two years now, said, "After an indifferent last year everything has started falling into place and I am confident that I can make it to the top in world squash."
Pointing out that Indians play a lot of instinctive squash which affects the consistency, Riwtik said he is concentrating more on improving his technique and fitness to compete on the world stage.
"My game actually dropped in the first year. But I was focussing more on absorbing the exposure I was getting. Now I am confident about myself and believe that I can make it to the top," he said.
