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BWF World Junior Championships: Medal hopefuls Tanvi Sharma, Unnati Hooda and Rakshitha Sree R launched their BWF World Junior Championships campaigns with comfortable victories, while all four boys’ singles players also sailed through the next round at the National Centre of Excellence here on Tuesday.

Top-seeded Tanvi thrashed Poland’s Wiktoria Kaletka 15-2, 15-1 in just 11 minutes while eighth-seed Unnati eased to a 15-8, 15-9 win over Hong Kong’s Liu Hoi Anna in 23 minutes. Rakshitha Sree then overcame the challenge of Lucy Yang of Canada 15-5, 15-9 to get her campaign going.

Indonesia’s Thalita Wiryawan, seeded seventh, was the highest girls’ singles player to be knocked out. Chinese Taipei’s Shu-Yu Wen fought back from a game down to beat 12-15, 15-7, 15-8 in 34 minutes.