A day after guaranteeing she would depart the BWF World Junior Championships on the Nationwide Centre of Excellence in Guwahati with a medal, Tanvi Sharma made sure that that may not less than be a silver. Within the semi-final on Saturday, she beat China’s Liu Si Ya 15-11, 15-9 to seal her spot within the gold medal match.Earlier than Tanvi, solely two Indians – Aparna Popat (1996) and Saina Nehwal (2006, 2008) – had reached the ladies’s singles finals of the match. Popat had received a silver whereas Nehwal had received silver (2006) and gold (2008) throughout their runs to the title conflict.General, Tanvi is the fifth Indian to achieve the ultimate of the BWF World Junior Championships after Popat (1996), Nehwal (2006, 2008), Siril Verma (2015) and Sankar Muthuswamy (2002).Tanvi will face off with Thailand’s Anyapat Phichitpreechasak who bought the higher of compatriot Yataweemin Ketklieng 10-15, 15-11, 15-5.Prime-seeded 16-year-old Tanvi had additionally bagged a bronze medal within the Badminton Asia Junior Championships earlier this 12 months.In different occasions, India’s hopes of one other medal in girls’s singles have been dashed when eighth seed Unnati Hooda went down within the quarter-final in opposition to second seed Phichitpreechasak of Thailand on Friday.The identical day, within the boys’ singles quarterfinals, Gnana Dattu put up a powerful combat in opposition to third seed Liu Yang Ming Yu of China however his spirited effort was not sufficient to keep away from a 15-11, 15-13 loss.The combined doubles mixture of Bhavya Chhabra and Vishakha Toppo additionally fell quick within the quarterfinals in opposition to Chinese language Taipei’s Hung Bing Fu and Chou Yun An 15-9, 15-7.