Tanvi Sharma

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2025

Arnab Seal, Oct 24, 2025: The Times of India

Saina Nehwal achieved in 2008 what many would have thought impossible at that time – becoming a BWF World Junior Champion. Since then, badminton in India has seen many highs. But in recent times, the results have been rather underwhelming with star shuttlers failing to deliver on the big stage and the young ones taking longer than expected in finding their feet.

In this scenario, two youngsters managed to grab the imagination of Indian badminton fans — Unnati Hooda and Tanvi Sharma.


While the former played a major role in helping India grab a historic bronze in the team event of the recent BWF World Junior Championships in Guwahati, Tanvi became the first Indian female after Saina to grab a medal at the world junior meet after a gap of 17 long years. She is also the current junior world No. 1 and had made the finals of the US Open Super 300 early this year. Naturally the talk has started if Tanvi can become one of the next big stars of Indian badminton like Saina and PV Sindhu. Having grown up watching them play, Tanvi naturally looked up to them, fallin in love with their game and success. “I really like Sindhu didi ’s aggression on the court, how she plays, how she shouts after every point and she doesn’t look nervous at all. I love that attitude,” Tanvi tells TOI. 
But, it is Taiwanese shuttler player Tai Tzu-ying, whose style she loves the most and wants to imbibe in her own play. “Her game is very deceptive and I keep asking my coach everyday how to do those things. I have already learned the forehand slice from watching her matches,” she adds.


Tanvi has time to perfect those, but for now, she will need to improve in several other areas to reach the next level. “I will have to work on my fitness, court endurance and my net skills to go to the next level because playing at the highest level is not easy,” the 16-year-old says. 
Few know that young Tanvi started off as a budding judoka, but it was on watching her mother, Meena play a game of badminton with sister Radhika at their home in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur, that had her hooked. The sisters had talent and under the early guidance of Meena, they trained diligently.

When Radhika began training at the Gopichand Academy, Tanvi, then just six years old, followed suit. A resident-trainee, Tanvi was moulded for six years and on her return, began playing in national as well as international events.


“It was at this time that I wanted to take up the sport professionally and decided to train at the National Centre of Excellence in Guwahati,” she reveals. At NCE she got the chance to train under coach Park Tae-sang, the South Korean who sat courtside and cheered the Indian on at the world junior meet. “I love training with him. He’s funny and sometimes very strict,” she said.