India, Jan. 6 -- Surya Charisma Tamiri is a keen follower of women's badminton, particularly two of the game's splendid achievers - former world champion PV Sindhu and three-time All England winner Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei. "I idolise them. I like Tai Tzu's strokes and I love Sindhu didi's rally game," says the 19-year-old.

For years, Surya has watched the matches of the two greats and tried to imbibe their qualities. Her observation skills, along with her efforts on court, bore fruit in the last week of December when she clinched the women's singles title at the National Championships at her home town.

Though the Vijayawada shuttler has been around in the domestic circuit for some time, winning national ranking titles, this was h...