Harsheel Dani (born 12 August 1996) is an Indian male
badminton
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player. He represented India in the Asian and
BWF World Junior Championships
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. He also became the U-19 singles champion in the junior nationals. Currently training at the Uday Pawar Academy in
Mumbai
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under Indian Coach Uday Pawar, he aims to compete at various international tournaments in order to transition smoothly to the senior circuit .
Background
He attended Thakur College in
Kandivali for his undergraduate education.
Career
In 2012 he won the second Karvy All India junior-ranking badminton tournament.
He was the runner-up of the 2015
Turkey International
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.
At the
2016 Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold, he reached the quarterfinal.
He was the semi-finalist at the
Austrian Open in February 2016.
Harsheel is part of the national training camp at the Pullela Gopichand Academy in Hyderabad, and has left with the team to compete at the
Canada Open
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.
In the
2016 Premier Badminton League, he represented
Mumbai Masters.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series
''Men'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
References
External links
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Indian male badminton players
21st-century Indian sportsmen
1996 births
Living people
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