Jagsher Singh Khangurra assures India of medal at World Junior Championships

BWF World Junior C'ships: Jagsher Singh Khangurra confirms medal for India, reaches semifinal

India’s Jagsher Singh Khangurra battled back from a game down to assure himself of a medal at the BWF World Junior Badminton Championships. He reached the boys’ singles semi-finals with a 6-15, 17-15, 15-12 victory over Chinese Taipei’s Yuan-Syue Jhuang in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday.The 14th seed, who hails from Nabha in Punjab, became only the ninth Indian boy to secure a podium finish at the junior Worlds.In the girls’ singles, Shaina Manimuthu suffered a 15-5, 15-8 defeat to China’s Yi Qing Yin in the quarter-finals.Treesa-Gayatri advanceIndia’s Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand advanced to the women’s doubles quarter-finals of the BWF Super 750 tournament. The unseeded Indian pair upset fifth seeds Rachel Allessya Rose and Febi Setianingrum of Indonesia 21-16, 21-17.India’s Kidambi Srikanth and Ashmita Chaliha exited the tournament. Srikanth lost to France’s Alex Lanier 21-11, 15-21, 15-21, while Ashmita succumbed to Japan’s third seed Akane Yamaguchi 18-21, 10-21 after a promising start.