Guwahati, Oct. 19 -- India's Tanvi Sharma had to settle for a silver medal in the girls' singles event competition in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Junior Championships tournament held at Guwahati, Assam, on Sunday.

In the final, Tanvi went down 7-15, 12-15 against Anyapat as India's campaign on home turf ended with an individual silver and a team bronze. Tanvi is the fifth Indian to bag a silver medal in the competition after Aparna Popat (1996), Saina Nehwal (2006), Siril Verma (2015) and Sankar Muthuswamy (2022) achieved that feat in the past, as per a press release from the Badminton Association of India (BAI).

In the boys' singles final, China's Liu Yang Ming Yu avenged his loss in the Asian Junior Championships earlie...