India’s top junior badminton player, Tanvi Patri, stormed into the Under-15 girls’ singles final at the Asia Under-17 and Under-15 junior championships in Chengdu, China yesterday. Patri, the top seed in the girl’s U-15 category, overcame Thailand’s sixth seed, Kungkaew Kakanik, with a score of 21-19, 21-10. She will now face Vietnam’s second seed, Nguyen Thi Thu Huygen, who won her semifinal against China’s Liu Yu Tong.

In the U-17 boys’ singles, Gnana Dattu TT lost to Indonesia’s Radithya Bayu Wardhana with scores of 9-21, 21-13, 21-13, and will return home with a bronze medal.

In previous championships, India won gold in the U-15 boys’ singles and silver in the U-17 girls’ singles. Notable past winners include Samiya Imad Farooqui in 2017 and Tasnim Mir in 2019 in U-15 girls singles category.