Tasnim Mir (born 13 May 2005) is an Indian badminton 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 and Nagpur 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, Myanmar. 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, Indonesia, 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 held in October 2021 in Aarhus, 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 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 where she is coached by Edwin Iriawan at the Assam Badminton Academy.
Achievements BWF World Tour (1 runner-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Women's singles Year Tournament Level Opponent Score Result 2025 Al Ain Masters Super 100 Shriyanshi Valishetty 21–15, 20–22, 7–21 Runner-up
BWF International Challenge/Series (4 titles, 4 runners-up) Women's singles Year Tournament Opponent Score Result 2022 Iran Fajr International Yulia Yosephine Susanto 21–11, 11–21, 21–7 Winner 2022 (II) India International Challenge Samiya Imad Farooqui 14–21, 21–17, 21–11 Winner 2023 Iran Fajr International Tanya Hemanth 7–21, 11–21 Runner-up 2023 Maldives International Ashmita Chaliha 21–19, 17–21, 11–21 Runner-up 2023 (II) India International Unnati Hooda 18–21, 10–21 Runner-up 2024 Iran Fajr International Lo Sin Yan 14–21, 12–21 Runner-up 2024 Réunion Open Rakshitha Ramraj 21–15, 21–19 Winner 2026 Réunion Open Aakarshi Kashyap 21–11, 22–20 Winner BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament BWF Future Series tournament
BWF Junior International (6 titles, 1 runner-up) Girls' singles Year Tournament Opponent Score Result 2019 Dubai Junior International Treesa Jolly 21–15, 21–19 Winner 2020 Nepal Junior International Letshanaa Karupathevan 21–17, 21–14 Winner 2021 Bulgarian Junior International Mariia Golubeva 21–10, 21–12 Winner 2021 Alpes Junior International Emilie Drouin 21–14, 21–14 Winner 2021 Belgian Junior International Antonia Schaller 21–10, 21–11 Winner
Mixed doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2019 Dubai Junior International Ayan Rashid Galuh Dwi Putra Zainaba Reem Siraj 21–16, 22–24, 21–19 Winner 2020 Nepal Junior International Ayan Rashid Murugappa KS Sania Sikkandar 17–21, 14–21 Runner-up
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 Team events 2020 Uber Cup QF
World Tour Tournament BWF World Tour Best Ref 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Indonesia Masters A Q2 Q2 ('26) Thailand Masters NH A 1R 1R ('26) German Open A 1R A QF 1R QF ('25) Orléans Masters A 1R A 1R ('23) Australian Open A 1R A 1R ('23) Macau Open NH 2R 1R 1R 2R ('24) Taipei Open A 1R 1R ('26) Vietnam Open A 1R 1R A 1R ('23, '24) Indonesia Masters Super 100 A A 1R QF QF ('25 I) A Korea Open A 1R A 1R ('23) Al Ain Masters NH A NH F F ('25) Syed Modi International A 1R QF 2R QF ('24) Guwahati Masters NH 1R 2R QF QF ('25) Odisha Masters 2R 2R 2R SF SF ('25) Year-end ranking 54 73 58 52 49 Tournament 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Best
Awards and recognition Others Sportstar Emerging Hero Award 2022
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