New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- While her colleagues faltered on their way to the business end of the BWF World Junior Championships, the women's singles top seed Tanvi Sharma ensured that there will be at least one Indian at the podium ceremony in Guwahati on Sunday as she rallied to win her quarter-final and assured herself of a medal on Friday. The 16-year-old, who had clinched a bronze at the Asian Junior Championships in July, came from behind to defeat Japan's Saki Matsumoto 13-15, 15-9, 15-10 in 47 minutes at the National Centre of Excellence. The player from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, kept her nerves under pressure and found winners with her crosscourt slices to beat Matsumoto in what was the first match between the two shuttlers. With the win, she became the first Indian female player to be assured of a BWF World Junior Championships medal in 17 years. This is India's first individual medal at the event since 2023 when Ayush Shetty clinched the men's singles bronze at Spokane. However, Tanvi is only the third female to medal at the prestigious event after Aparna Popat (silver in 1996) and Saina Nehwal (silver in 2006 and gold in 2008). The other medals have all come in men's singles category with Siril Verma (2015) and Sankar Muthusamy (2022) claiming silver while RMV Gurusaidutt (2008), HS Prannoy (2010), B Sai Praneeth (2010), Sameer Verma (2011), Lakshya Sen (2018) and Shetty (2023) winning bronze. India have never won a doubles medal at the World Junior Championships....