Tanvi Sharma

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Tanvi Sharma
Personal information
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
Born (2008-12-22) 22 December 2008 (age 16)
Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India
Height1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Years active2022–present
HandednessRight
Coach Park Tae-sang
Women's singles
Career record45 wins, 16 losses
Highest ranking46 (29 July 2025)
Current ranking46 (29 July 2025)
Medal record
Women's badminton Badminton pictogram.svg
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
Asian Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Selangor Women's team
Asia Junior Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Surakarta Girls' singles
BWF profile

Tanvi Sharma (born 22 December 2008) is an Indian badminton player. [1] She is currently ranked World No. 1 in the BWF Junior Women's Singles. [2] Sharma was a part of the squad that won the gold medal at the 2024 Asia Team Championships. [3] She was also a part of the 2024 Uber Cup team. [4]

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Early life

Sharma was born in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. She was introduced to badminton at an early age by her mother Meena Sharma who played volleyball at the DC Complex. Tanvi joined the Gopichand Academy in 2016, where she trained as a non-scholarship trainee for five years until 2021. [5]

Achievements

Asian Junior Championships

Girls' singles

YearVenueOpponentScoreResultRef
2025 Manahan Indoor Sports Hall, Surakarta, Indonesia Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yin Yiqing 13–21, 14–21 Med 3.png Bronze [6]

BWF World Tour (2 runners-up)

The World Tour was announced in 2017 and implemented in 2018. [7] It is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation. The tour is divided into levels of Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and Super 100. [8]

YearTournamentLevelOpponentScoreResult
2024 Odisha Masters Super 100 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Cai Yanyan 14–21, 16–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2025 U.S. Open Super 300 Flag of the United States.svg Beiwen Zhang 11–21, 21–16, 10–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up

BWF International Challenge / Series (2 titles)

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2024 Bonn International Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Wang Pei-yu 21–19, 22–20Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2025 Denmark Challenge Flag of Indonesia.svg Ni Kadek Dhinda Amartya Pratiwi 21–13, 21–10Gold medal icon.svgWinner
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament
  BWF Future Series tournament

Junior International (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Girls' singles

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2023India Junior International Flag of India.svg Navya Kanderi 20–22, 21–18, 21–13Gold medal icon.svgWinner

Girls' doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2022India Junior International Flag of India.svg Radhika Sharma Flag of Malaysia.svg Ong Xin Yee
Flag of Malaysia.svg Carmen Ting
16–21, 15–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
  BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
  BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
  BWF Junior International Series tournament
  BWF Junior Future Series tournament

Performance timeline

Key
WFSFQF#RRRQ#AGSBNHN/ADNQ
(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semi-finalist; (QF) quarter-finalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Tournaments

Event20242025Ref
Senior
Uber Cup QF NH [9]
Asia Team Championships G NH [10]
Junior
World Championships QF TBA [11]
World Team Championships 6th TBA
Asian Championships 3R B [6]
Asian Team Championships 6th 6th [12]

BWF World Tour

Tournament World Tour BestRef
2024 2025
U.S. Open A F F ('25)
Indonesia Masters S100 2R 2R ('24)
Syed Modi International 1R 1R ('24)
Guwahati Masters QF QF ('24)
Odisha Masters F F ('24) [13]
Year-end ranking10046

Record against opponents

Record against Year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 13 December 2024. [14]

See also

References

  1. "Players: Tanvi Sharma". Badminton World Federation.
  2. "Tanvi Sharma crowned Junior World No 1". The Bridge. 1 July 2025.
  3. Nag, Utathya (9 January 2024). "Badminton Asia Team Championships 2024: PV Sindhu returns to spearhead Indian team - full squad". International Olympic Committees. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  4. "India announces Thomas and Uber Cup squad, Sindhu opts out to prepare for Paris 2024 Olympics". Sportstar. 4 April 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  5. "Tanvi Sharma starts lead-up preparation to World Juniors next month with U19 Krishna Khaitan Memorial title". The Indian Express . 20 September 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  6. 1 2 Sportstar, Team (26 July 2025). "Tanvi Sharma, Vennala Kalagotla win bronze medals at Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2025". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  7. Alleyne, Gayle (19 March 2017). "BWF Launches New Events Structure". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  8. Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018). "Action-Packed Season Ahead!". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  9. "Uber Cup 2024 quarterfinal: India loses to Japan 0-3". Sportstar. 2 May 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  10. "India women clinch Badminton Asia Team Championships title". Hindustan Times. 18 February 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  11. "BWF World Junior Championships: Tanvi Sharma lost to China's Xu Wen Jing in Women's Singles U-19 category". News on Air. 11 October 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  12. "India's campaign in Badminton Asia Junior Championships ends following defeat in quarter-finals". ANI. 1 July 2024. Archived from the original on 4 July 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  13. "Tanvi falters at final hurdle, Rithvik grabs maiden World Tour crown". The Times of India . 15 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  14. "Tanvi Sharma Head to Head". BWF-Tournament Software. Retrieved 13 December 2024.