At the start of this year, Yashaswini Ghorpade felt stuck. For the last few months, her results felt stagnant. She dropped from No 2 in the women’s singles table tennis national rankings to No 8. A paddler who predominantly thrives on her backhand, she was working on getting her forehand receives and attacks up at the same level. It eventually ended up in causing more confusion in her natural gameplay, leaving her confidence at an all-time low. But come the 87th Senior National Table Tennis Championships in Indore last month, Ghorpade put all the inhibitions behind her to be crowned the national champion for the first time in her budding career. She beat Olympian Sreeja Akula in the quarter-finals, the young Suhana Saini in the semi-finals, and staved off a stiff challenge from the teenaged Syndrela Das to lift her maiden title. “I had a two-week training camp in Bengaluru which helped,” said Ghorpade in a conversation with The Bridge. That camp with long-time coach Anshuman Roy proved to be a boon for Ghorpade. The …