BWF World Junior Championships 2022 LIVE: Sankar Muthusamy assures medal, to play semifinals in BWF World Junior Championships 2022

BWF World Junior Championships 2022 LIVE: India’s Sankar Muthusamy advanced to the semifinals of the World Junior Badminton Championships 2022 as he defeated China’s Hu Zhe An in the Men’s Singles quarterfinal on Friday. With the victory he has assured atleast a bronze medal and will become the 9th Indian to win a medal in the history of the Junior Championships. He will next face Thailand’s Panitchaphon Teeraratchakul in the semifinals. Follow Badminton World Junior Championships 2022 LIVE updates on InsideSport.IN

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India last won a medal in the 2018 edition in which Lakshya Sen clinched the Bronze medal. India have so far won one gold, three silver medals and five bronze medals in the tournament so far. All the medals have come in the singles.

Quarterfinal Match

Sankar Muthusamy BEAT Hu Zhe An – 21-18, 8-21, 21-16

Matches on 28th October

Sankar Muthusamy BEAT Nachakorn Pusri – 21-10, 21-12

Matches on 26th October Results

Boys Singles

Sankar Muthusamy BEAT Basilio Porto – 21-4, 21-5

Girls Singles

Unnati Hooda BEAT Gianna Stiglich – 21-11, 21-7

Anupama Upadhyay LOST TO Zhang Xin Ran – 15-21, 10-21

Rakshitha Ramraj LOST TO Na Kyung Park – 13-21, 13-21

Women’s Doubles

Shreya Balaji Srinidhi Narayanan LOST TO Drouin / Margueritte – 18-21, 21-16, 21-17

Mixed Doubles

Samarveer / Radhika LOST TO Inque / Ishikawa – 18-21, 16-21

Defending champions (2019 Edition)

Men’s singles – Kunlavudt Vitidsarn – Denmark
Women’s singles – Riko Gunji – Japan
Men’s doubles – Leo Rolly Carnando / Daniel Marthin – Indonesia
Women’s doubles – Lin Fangling / Zhou Xinru – China
Mixed doubles – Feng Yanzhe / Lin Fangling – China

Denmark Open 2022 Schedule

1st round– October 24
2nd round – October 25
3rd round – October 26
4th round – October 27
Quarterfinal – October 28
Semifinal – October 29
Final – October 30

Top Seeds

France’s Alex Lanier, who is currently the World No. in the Junior ranking is the top seed in the boys singles, while Junior World No.1 in Girls singles Anupama Upadhyay is the No.1 player in the Girls World Junior rankings is the top seed in the tournament.

Boys Singles

Alex Lanier – France
Alwi Farhan – Indonesia
Justin Hoh – Malaysia
Shankar Muthuswamy – India
Tauri Kilk – Estonia
Victor Lai – Canada
Sanjeevi Padmanabhan – Germany
Charles Fouyn – Belgium
Yeison Esleiter – Gautemala
Karim Krehemier – Germany
Bodhi Ratana Gotama – Indonesia
Luca Zhou – Mexico
Jacob Houe – Denmark
Christian Kjaer – Denmark
Noah Haase – Netherlands
Alessandro Gozzini – Italy

Girls Singles

Anupama Upadhyaya – India
Sirada Roongpiboonsopit – Thailand
Ester Nurumi Wardoyo -Indonesia
Polina Buhrova – Ukraine
Unnati Hooda – India
Lucia Rodriguez – Spain
Tasya Farahnailah – Indonesia
Lisa Curtin – England
Pitchamon Opatniputh – Thailand
Emilie Drouin – France
Lucie Amiguet – Switzerland
Kaloyana Nalbantova – Bulgaria
Sophia Noble – Ireland
Petra Maixnerova – Czech Republic
Benedicte Sillasen – Denmark
Lucie Krulova – Czech Republic

India’s Boys Singles Draws

India’s Bharat Raghav, who is unseeded in the tournament will take on England’s Michael Pang in the first round of the tournament. If the Indian advances to the second round, he will face a big challenge from the top seed Alex Lanier.

India also has the unseeded Ayush Shetty who is in the first quarter of the draws. He will begin his campaign by facing Manvel Harutyunyan in the first round. If he reaches the third round of the tournament, he is likely to be up against eighth seeded Charles Fouyn from Belgium.

Meanwhile, fourth seeded Sankar Muthuswamy has received a bye to the second round. He will begin the campaign by facing the winner between Ziga Podgorsek and Remus Ng in the second round.

India’s Girls Singles Draws

Top seed Anupama Upadhyay finds herself in the first quarter of the draws. She has received a bye to the second round and will face the winner between Singapore’s Elas Lai and Iceland’s Hrafnhildur Ingvarsdottir in the second round. The other seeded players in this quarter are seventh seed Tasya Farahnailah from Indonesia and 16th seed Lucie Krulova.

Fifth seed Unnati Hooda too received a bye to the second round and she is set to begin her campaign by facing either Sri Lanka’s Ranithama Liyanage or Namie Tsukazan in the second round.

Where to watch BWF World Junior Championships 2022 LIVE streaming?

The LIVE streaming of the tournament will be on the official YouTube channel of Badminton Spain.

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