of their respective sports. overcoming challenges of a patriarchal society where opportunity often doesn't knock on the door for mostly talented women athletes. until the age of 12, i played with boys, so i was always a shorter hitter and i also had to make more up—and—downs so that, you know, it kind of complimented that i needed to do that and i enjoyed practising it, so that kind of became, i guess, a skill i worked on. there's a lot more that can be done to facilitate junior golfers and girls playing biggertournaments, notjust in india, but playing abroad as well, but, yeah, it's definitely better than it was when i was a junior, obviously. the indian 0pen has grown so much over ten years. when i go home and i see, you know, there's so many young girls who are so good now, we didn't have that so much when i was growing up. to see them already reaching this level is really amazing. access to more facilities would be something that could make it so much more accessible to so many more people, so i think that could make a big difference, definitely.