Divyansh Singh: 11-year old badminton player from Ayodhya, Divyansh, has become a star overnight with his brilliant performance. By his family, Divyansh is affectionately known as “Harry Potter” because of his activities, which are highly reminding of the fantasy novel’s renowned hero. He mesmerises people with his unique actions, frequently scaling the wall of his home and displaying his balancing act, and even using the house broom as a ride, exactly like Harry Potter does.
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Divyansh started playing at the age of three
At the age of three in 2015, these enthusiastic actions brought this Ayodhya kid to the badminton court. Seven years later, on Thursday at the mini nationals in Noida, he became the first-ever national champion in the boys’ under-11 division. This was the first time of this category being played.
Divyansh Singh defeated Anikesh Dutta of Assam 21-17, 21-16 in two games. Telangana’s Hamsini Chadaram won the under-11 girls’ singles championship for the first time after easily defeating Assam’s Subhrasree Smita Baruwati in straight games, 22-20, 21-17.
After the match, Divyansh said “I was confident about winning and didn’t allow Dutta to free his arms and kept tossing the shuttle up, while winning the first game. In the second, we were locked at 14-all at one moment. Thereafter, I chose to play an attacking game and won easily in the end.”
Divyansh was confident about his win
The youngster, who won both the singles and doubles titles in the under-11 division in the state tournament in Bareilly last month, said that he entered the mini nationals simply to take home the trophy.
Diyavnsh, who will compete in the sub-junior nationals beginning on Saturday at the UP Badminton Academy in Lucknow, said, “My parents only allowed me to participate if I was confident, so I had to win at all costs.”
The family intended to use Divyansh’s love for sports, and at the time, badminton was the only sport the family knew about, according to Divyansh’s mother Pratibha Singh, an RJ for All India Radio (AIR) in Faizabad, UP.
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