India’s young talented shuttler Taarini Suri continued the good work as she maintained her amazing winning streak and completed another hat-trick of triumphs by winning the gold medals in the Girls’ Under-15 singles and doubles competitions and the Mixed doubles under-15 event of the Swedish Youth Games 2021 at Malmo, Sweden on Sunday.
The 14-year-old Mumbai girl Taarini, who trains with Hufrish Nariman at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy at the Cricket Club of India (CCI), had claimed three crowns in FZ FORZA Finnish Youth 2021 Badminton Championship in Finland, earlier this month. Taarini had bagged the Girls’ Under-15 singles title and the Girls’ Doubles Under-17 and the Mixed Doubles Under-17 titles.
“I am very happy as I worked really hard. Honestly, I did not think that I would be so successful and win all these events. But what makes me all the more happier is that despite playing with a different set of players in the doubles, I managed to quickly adjust and even though we did not practice as a team, I was able to perfectly combine with them,” Taarini stated in a texted message.
Taarini finished with a 100 percent all-win record and that too did not drop a single game in all three competitions.
In the singles final, Taarini Taarini Suri the joint third-fourth seed outshone Sweden’s Anvita Harakamani in straight games 21-9, 21-10 with a degree of comfort in just 21 minutes.
Earlier, Taarini and Swedish partner Matilda Ståhle, the top-seeded pair combined effectively to assert the supremacy over the second-seeded Danish pairing of Matilde Moesgaard and Athene Lyduch Thornild by clinching a satisfying 21-16, 21-14 in 32 minutes.
Taarini completed her grand treble when she along with her Ukraine partner Fedir Tiurin defeated the Denmark combination of Eline Landsvig and Frederik Hinding scripting a deserving 21-14, 21-16 victory.
Results:
Girls’ under-15 singles – final: 3/4-Taarini Suri (India) beat Anvita Harakamani (Sweden) 21-9, 21-10.
Girls’ under-15 doubles – final: 1-Taarini Suri (India)/ Matilda Ståhle (Sweden) beat 2-Matilde Moesgaard/Athene Lyduch Thornild (Denmark) 21-16, 21-14.
Mixed under-15 doubles – final: Taarini Suri (India)/Fedir Tiurin (Ukraine) beat Eline Landsvig/Frederik Hinding (Denmark) 21-14, 21-16.