Veer Chotrani


Veer Chotrani is an Indian squash player who is a member of the [India men's national squash (sport)|squash team|national team]. As of October 2025, he is ranked 49th in the world.

Early life

Chotrani was born on 25 October 2001 in Mumbai to Meera and Manish Chotrani. His father is a former two-time national squash champion. He also has a younger sister Jiya. Chotrani first started playing squash when he was six years of age. He finished his schooling from Jamnabai Narsee School.
In 2019, Chotrani moved to the United States to pursue academics. He excelled at the college squash circuit and was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year at Cornell University during his freshman year. In his senior season, he was unanimously awarded the Ivy League Player of the Year award and became the first squash player from Cornell to win the College Squash Individual National Championships. Chotrani also won the Skillman Award for demonstrating outstanding sportsmanship and maintaining a high level of play. He is being coached by David Palmer since 2019.

Career

Chotrani has won two Asian Junior Individual Championship titles with one being under-13 and the other being under-19. He became the third Indian to win the under-19 title after Ravi Dixit and Velavan Senthilkumar.