City squash player Tiana Parasrampuria, a Class 10 student of Bombay Scottish, Mahim, considers winning a bronze medal at the Asian Juniors Squash Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, last month, special. The Matunga-based player said winning the Asian trials (April 11 to 16 in Chennai) 10 days before her ICSE board exams (April 25 to May 20) and then getting a bronze a couple of weeks after her last paper was not an easy task for her.

In the semi-finals, she lost to Japan's Akari Midorikawa 3-0 (11-2, 11-5, 11-9). En route her bronze, she stunned Malaysia No.1 and the tournament’s top seed Thanusa Uthrian 3-0 (11-4, 11-3, 11-0) in the quarter-finals. Earlier, Tiana beat Sri Lanka’s Ramlila Wood in the first round 3-0 (11-6, 11-4, 11-3) and Hong Kong’s 2nd seed Wong Hailey Shing Fei 3-0 (11-7, 11-7, 11-9) in Round Two.