August 30, 2024 Announcement
13-year-old Tanvi Patri of Odisha, and a trainee of our Academy, won the
Under-15 Girls Singles Title at Badminton Asia U17 & U15 Junior
Championships 2024 which was held at Chengdu, China from 20 th to 25th
August 2024.
Top seeded Tanvi defeated second seeded Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen of Vietnam
22-20;21-11 in the finals.
Tanvi Patri became only the third Indian to achieve this feat after Samiya Imad
Farooqui (2017) and Tasnim Mir (2019)
Tanvi's dominated throughout the tournament by not dropping a single game
in all her five matches that she had played.
In the final, Patri was trailing 11-17 but kept her calm as Nguyen made a series
of unforced errors and grabbed the opportunity with both hands to claim the
first game.
Patri continued the winning momentum, dominating the second game from the start to eventually seal the match and clinch the Gold Medal.
