Indian challenge in the World Junior badminton championship will now depend entirely on how the boys perform in the next few days after the country's challenge came to an end in women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles on the second day of competition in Chiba, Japan on Wednesday.
In the absence of Asian Junior champion P V Sindhu, the girls contingent was not expected to bring home a medal but none of them could even manage to clear the first three rounds.
However, there will three singles representatives in the fourth round in the boy's section with rookie Harsheel Dani leading the charge. Dani, who recently won the Sushant Chipalkatti u-19 tournament in Pune, upset 9/16 seed Matthias Almer of Austria 21-19, 21-13 to set up a fourth round clash with 5/8 seed Teck Zho soo of Malaysia.
Also advancing to the fourth round were 5/8 seed C Rohit Yadav and Pratul Joshi. Rohit defeated Fikri Ihsandi Hamadi of Indonsia 21-11, 21-15 while Joshi packed off 9/16 seed Mahbub Thomi Azizan of Indonesia 23-21, 14-21, 22-20 in the third round encounters.
In the absence of Asian Junior champion P V Sindhu, the girls contingent was not expected to bring home a medal but none of them could even manage to clear the first three rounds.
However, there will three singles representatives in the fourth round in the boy's section with rookie Harsheel Dani leading the charge. Dani, who recently won the Sushant Chipalkatti u-19 tournament in Pune, upset 9/16 seed Matthias Almer of Austria 21-19, 21-13 to set up a fourth round clash with 5/8 seed Teck Zho soo of Malaysia.
Also advancing to the fourth round were 5/8 seed C Rohit Yadav and Pratul Joshi. Rohit defeated Fikri Ihsandi Hamadi of Indonsia 21-11, 21-15 while Joshi packed off 9/16 seed Mahbub Thomi Azizan of Indonesia 23-21, 14-21, 22-20 in the third round encounters.
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