Guwahati, Oct 6: Bolstered by the presence of experience campaigners like Unnati Hooda and Rakshitha Sree and a strong line-up that includes a current and former junior world number 1, host India are gearing up for a historic performance in the BWF World Junior Badminton Championships that gets underway at the National Centre of Excellence from Monday.

The BWF World Junior Championships has returned to India after a gap of 17 years and will be played in two phases from October 6-19.

The first phase will see 36 teams vying for the coveted Suhandinata Cup in the mixed team championships followed by the individual championships for the Eye-Level Cup.

India has so far won a total of 11 individual medals in the history of the championships with their best-ever performance coming in Pune 200

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