Western lane
(Book)

After the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Gopi, who has been playing squash since she was a small child, is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father, and soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best.

Gopi has been playing squash since she was a small child. After the death of her mother, she is enlisted in a quietly brutal training regimen by her father. Soon the game becomes her world as she slowly distances herself from her sisters in hopes of becoming the best. On the court she is not alone: she is with the players who have come before her. And she is with Ged, a boy with his own formidable talent. - adapted from jacket