Sherleen Amelia Thassim won the Girls\u2019 Singles title of the Inter-Club Tournament, one of the leading competitions organised and conducted by the Saudi Badminton Federation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sherleen, 15-years of age, representing her club, Al-Faisaly BC from Al-Majmah, which is about 200 km away from the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, contested in the Under-17 age group and won the Girls\u2019 Singles gold medal at the core tournament to move up in ranks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tournament included professional badminton clubs from Saudi Arabia, where the shuttler with Sri Lankan roots claimed the gold medal with ease in the final. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has been in constant form with her training schedule of five days of wide practice to achieve the plum in her age category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In recent times, Sherleen was elected as the Head Prefect at her school Al Rowad International School because of her dedication, commitment, and leadership qualities as a student in the 10th grade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An outstanding American-Sri Lankan talent, Sherleen is showing to be a versatile shuttler on the brinks of representing Saudi Arabia at international level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout the second week of January 2025, Sherleen is set to compete in the Elite 8 Tournament that will be held in Jeddah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is where the top tier Under-17 girls will come together to be ranked among the best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2023, she managed to bag the bronze medal in Singles and silver Medal in Doubles in the Under-15 girls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her siblings, Noah (13) and Kayan (14), who are also from Al Rowad International students, played for the boys Under-15 category and secured multiple medals for their respective professional clubs hosted by the Saudi Badminton Federation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sherleen Amelia Thassim won the Girls\u2019 Singles title of the Inter-Club Tournament, one of the leading competitions organised and conducted by the Saudi Badminton Federation. Sherleen, 15-years of age, representing her club, Al-Faisaly BC from Al-Majmah, which is about 200 km away from the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, contested in the Under-17 age group and won the Girls\u2019 Singles gold medal at the core tournament to move up in ranks. The tournament included professional badminton clubs from Saudi Arabia, where the shuttler with Sri Lankan roots claimed the gold medal with ease in the final. She has been in constant form with her training schedule of five days of wide practice to achieve the plum in her age category. In recent times, Sherleen was elected as the Head Prefect at her school Al Rowad International School because of her dedication, commitment, and leadership qualities as a student in the 10th grade. An outstanding American-Sri Lankan talent, Sherleen is showing to be a versatile shuttler on the brinks of representing Saudi Arabia at international level. Throughout the second week of January 2025, Sherleen is set to compete in the Elite 8 Tournament that will be held in Jeddah. This is …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[1293,73,134],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-sherleen-amelia-thassim","tag-slsports","tag-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"\n