Aditya Joshi becomes world number one junior shuttler

Within six years, he started proving himself at the international arena and clinched the gold in Remensco Junior International tournament held in Russia in 2011. During the same year, he won a gold medal in Asian Sub-Junior championship held in Japan.

The shuttler reached up to the pre-quarter level in junior international championship held at Malaysia last year and played quarter-final of the junior world championship held at Bangkok.

His victory in the national junior championship held at Chandigarh last month made way for his top ranking.

Aditya was the national champion in 2013 and had won two gold medals in Junior International tournament held at Pune and a silver in the Senior National championship while his age corresponds to junior category.

His coach Amit Kulkarni, who is also the coach of MP badminton team, expressed happiness over Aditya's achievement.

His father Atul Joshi told PTI that he and other players believe that Aditya will perform well in the coming Olympics.

His mother Hemlata Joshi said when he was very small, she had to ensure that he did not watch cartoons or get addicted to TV, for which they did not install a cable TV connection till he grew up.