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Purva Barve finished with a bronze medal after a semifinal loss in the Russian Junior White Nights 2017 at the “Arena”, Gatchina-Russia.<\/p>\nPurva Barve finished with a bronze medal after a semifinal loss in the Russian Junior White Nights 2017 at the “Arena”, Gatchina-Russia.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old World No. 43 thus ended her 21-match winning streak that she enjoyed across four tournaments. She began her run by winning gold in the Israel Junior, added a back to back gold at the Italian Open, returned to India and bagged the All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, before embarking for the Russian Junior challenge.<\/p>\n
At the \u201cArena,\u201d third seeded Purva stretched top seeded and World No. 12 Chasinee Korepap (Thailand) to the maximum before bowing 18-21, 20-22 in a long drawn 46-minute encounter.<\/p>\n
The loss for the Nikhil Kanetkar Badminton Academy \u2013 NKBA trainee was the second in her career. Earlier, Purva lost to the Thai in the Under-17 section at Singapore two years ago.<\/p>\n
Enroute the semifinal round, Purva played her quarter final match against Yulia Vasilyeva (Rus) which she won 21-10, 21-15 in the morning session.<\/p>\n
Purva\u2019s run was laced with a host of Russian players as opponents. In Round 1 she accounted for Mariya Malygina (Rus) 21-9 21-16, but then found herself battle through a tough three game fight against Anastasiia Sharapova to prevail 21-12, 21-23, 21-14.<\/p>\n
RESULTS<\/p>\n
SF: l 1-Chasinee Korepap (Tha) 21-18, 22-20 – 46 min
QF: b Yulia Vasilyeva (Rus) 21-10, 21-15 – 27 min
R2: b Anastasiia Sharapova (Rus) 21-12, 21-23, 21-14 – 52 min
R1: b Mariya Malygina (Rus) 21-9 21-16 – 20 min<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Purva Barve finished with a bronze medal after a semifinal loss in the Russian Junior White Nights 2017 at the “Arena”, Gatchina-Russia.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old World No. 43 thus ended her 21-match winning streak that she enjoyed across four tournaments. She began her run by winning gold in the Israel Junior, added a back to back gold at the Italian Open, returned to India and bagged the All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, before embarking for the Russian Junior challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[11264,466,21879,22380],"class_list":["post-35077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-badminton-badminton","tag-badminton-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-purva-barve","tag-russian-junior-white-nights-2017"],"yoast_head":"\n