Tasnim Mir (born 13 May 2005) is an Indian
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...
player. She is a former BWF World Junior Number 1.
Early life
Mir was born in Mehsana, where her father Irfan Ali Mir worked in the police department. He was also a badminton coach, and introduced Mir to the sport when she was seven or eight years old.
When twelve, she stopped attending daily classes in school to focus on badminton training.
Career
2018
Mir won the U-15 singles and doubles titles at national sub-junior tournaments in
Hyderabad
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and
Nagpur
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in January and July 2018 respectively. In October of that year, she again won an U15 title and then the U17 title as well.
The following year, she broke through the domestic junior ranks by winning the national U-19 girls' title while still 14 years of age.
In 2018, Mir also played her first international event, the
Badminton Asia Junior U17 and U15 Championships, in
Mandalay
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Mandalay was founded in 1857 by Ki ...
,
Myanmar
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. While she lost in the quarter-finals in the U15 singles event, she partnered Meghana Reddy to win the gold in the U15 doubles.
2019
In 2019, she excelled at the
Badminton Asia Junior U17 and U15 Championships held in
Surabaya
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,
Indonesia
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, winning the U15 singles crown. Besides, she won the singles and mixed doubles titles in the Dubai Junior International Series, and got to the quarter-final stage of the Korea Junior Open International Challenge.
2020
In 2020, she earned a bronze at the Dutch Junior International.
2021
Mir represented India at the
2020 Thomas & Uber Cup
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held in October 2021 in
Aarhus
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, Denmark. She won one and lost one of her two singles matches in the group stage.
2022
Mir claimed the women's title at the India International Challenge badminton tournament in
Raipur, Chhattisgarh
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in September 2022, upsetting several seeded players on her path to the win.
Mir trained briefly at the
Gopichand Badminton Academy in 2018, before making the move to
Guwahati
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where she is coached by Edwin Iriawan at the Assam Badminton Academy.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 4 runners-up)
''Women's singles''
:
BWF International Challenge
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tournament
:
BWF International Series
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tournament
:
BWF Future Series
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tournament
BWF Junior International (6 titles, 1 runner-up)
''Girls' singles''
''Mixed doubles''
: BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
: BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
: BWF Junior International Series tournament
: BWF Junior Future Series tournament
Performance timeline
Tournaments
''Senior level''
World Tour
Awards and recognition
Others
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Sportstar
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History and profile
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Emerging Hero Award 2022
References
External links
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Living people
2005 births
People from Mehsana district
Racket sportspeople from Gujarat
Sportswomen from Gujarat
Indian female badminton players
21st-century Indian women