Tanvi Patri trailed 10-19 in the deciding game of the Youth Olympics badminton final. She saved six match points - missing three of her own along the way - before Zhang Yi Xin, the reigning world junior champion, closed the game out 26-24 in Dakar, Senegal, after an hour and twenty-two minutes on court. Patri lost the final. At 15, she is still the first Indian woman to win an individual Youth Olympics badminton medal.
The two players split the first two games - Patri took one 21-13 - before the decider turned into the match's defining stretch: from 10-19 down, Patri clawed back to hold three match points of her own, lost all three, then fought off six of Zhang's before the Chinese top seed finally served it out 26-24.
