Rising Indian shuttler Shankar Muthusamy defeated Hu Zhe An of China to seal a medal on the BWF World Junior Championships by reaching the boys’s U-19 singles semi-finals right here on Friday.
In the event, fourth seed Muthusamy registered a 21-18, 8-21, 21-16 victory within the quarterfinal match that lasted one hour and 31 minutes.
He turned solely the ninth Indian to win a medal on the World Junior Championships, with Lakshya Sen profitable the bronze within the remaining 2018.
Muthusamy will face Thailand’s Panichaphon Teeratskul within the semi-finals.
On Thursday, Muthusamy beat Thailand’s Nachakorn Pusri 21-10, 21-12 within the males’s singles pre-quarterfinals, whereas fifth seed Unnati Hooda defeated Japan’s Hina Akechi 17-21, 21-12, 18-21. Had to face defeat. Single
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
