Tanvi Patri Becomes Third Indian To Secure Gold At U-15 Badminton Asia Championships
Tanvi Patri became the third Indian girls' singles player to be crowned Asian U-15 champion in Chengdu, China.
New Delhi: Tanvi Patri grew to be the third Indian ladies’ singles player to be topped Asian U-15 champion on Sunday with an emphatic win over Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen interior the finals of the Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Championships in Chengdu, China.
The Indian pinnacle seed defeated second seed Nguyen 22-20, 21-11 in 34 minutes to clinch the title with out dropping a single activity at some stage inside of the tournament, as per a press launch from the Badminton Affiliation of India (BAI).
With the win, Patri joins the likes of Samiya Imad Farooqui (2017) and Tasnim Mir (2019) to be topped Asian U-15 champions.
The 14-12 months-ancient India wanted time to settle into essentially the most constructive in opposition to Nguyen and that allowed the Vietnamese to run the eventual champion close interior the outlet activity. Alternatively as soon as she closed out the outlet activity, she converted into in whole administration and closed out the in shape with out breaking an even deal sweat interior the second activity.
“Tanvi Patri’s title-prevailing run at the Badminton Asia Championships, alongside with Gnana Dattu’s bronze medal interior the U17 males’s singles kind, over as soon as more underlines the sturdy potential pool India possesses and the efforts of the Badminton Affiliation of India to realize and nurture this potential. The sturdy and extraordinarily competitive home circuit has been playing an vital role in getting outfitted our pinnacle gamers for such predominant out of the country leisure pursuits. I am assured that we're outfitted to peer many more title triumphs from not simply Tanvi and Gnana, but distinctive Indian juniors interior the drawing near times, acknowledged BAI Secretary Conventional Sanjay Mishra.
India’s Gnana Dattu TT additionally bagged a bronze medal interior the boy’s U-17 singles kind, even as three distinctive Indian gamers made it to the quarter-final stage of the competition.
Penalties:
U-15 Adult ladies singles final: 1-Tanvi Patri (Ind) bt 2-Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen 22-20, 21-11.
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