Khanna told Pickleball Now that last year’s selection didn’t go her way. “I thought I was up to the mark, but unfortunately, I could not clear the selection trials,” she said. She spent the whole year working on her game, and this time, it paid off. “For a moment I was speechless… I went numb,” she said, describing the moment she saw her name on the squad list. “Then the feeling was ecstatic. I was really over the moon.”