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Tanvi Sharma booked her spot successful the BWF World Junior Championships final. (Image: X/DDNews)
A time aft ensuring she would permission the BWF World Junior Championships astatine the National Centre of Excellence successful Guwahati with a medal, Tanvi Sharma made definite that that would astatine slightest beryllium a silver.
In the semi-final connected Saturday, she bushed China's Liu Si Ya 15-11, 15-9 to seal her spot successful the golden medal match.Before Tanvi, lone 2 Indians - Aparna Popat (1996) and Saina Nehwal (2006, 2008) - had reached the women's singles finals of the tournament. Popat had won a metallic portion Nehwal had won metallic (2006) and golden (2008) during their runs to the rubric clash.Overall, Tanvi is the 5th Indian to scope the last of the BWF World Junior Championships aft Popat (1996), Nehwal (2006, 2008), Siril Verma (2015) and Sankar Muthuswamy (2002).Tanvi volition look disconnected with Thailand's Anyapat Phichitpreechasak who got the amended of compatriot Yataweemin Ketklieng 10-15, 15-11, 15-5.Top-seeded 16-year-old Tanvi had besides bagged a bronze medal successful the Badminton Asia Junior Championships earlier this year.In different events, India’s hopes of different medal successful women's singles were dashed erstwhile eighth effect Unnati Hooda went down successful the quarter-final against 2nd effect Phichitpreechasak of Thailand connected Friday.
The aforesaid day, successful the boys’ singles quarterfinals, Gnana Dattu enactment up a beardown combat against 3rd effect Liu Yang Ming Yu of China but his spirited effort was not capable to debar a 15-11, 15-13 loss.The mixed doubles operation of Bhavya Chhabra and Vishakha Toppo besides fell abbreviated successful the quarterfinals against Chinese Taipei’s Hung Bing Fu and Chou Yun An 15-9, 15-7.
