Tanvi Sharma enters Taipei Open final with straight-game win

Young Indian shuttler Tanvi Sharma stormed into the women's singles final of the Taipei Open Super 300 with a straight-game win over Chinese Taipei's Huang Yu-Hsun here on Saturday.

The 17-year-old from Punjab, who finished runner-up at last year's US Open Super 300, beat Yu-Hsun 21-17 21-11 in a one-sided semifinal that lasted 33 minutes.

The Junior World Championships silver medallist will face either compatriot Unnati Hooda or Vietnam's sixth seed Nguyen Thuy Linh in Sunday's final.

Tanvi, a member of India's gold medal-winning team at the 2024 Badminton Asia Team Championships, has enjoyed a rapid rise over the past two years.

She finished runner-up at the Odisha Masters Super 100 and Guwahati Masters Super 100 in 2025, besides winning the Bonn International in 2024 and the Denmark Challenge in 2025.