Tanvi Sharma’s bid to script history by winning a gold medal at the BWF World Junior Championships ended in heartbreak as she lost in straight games to Thailand’s Anyapat Phichitpreechasak in the women’s singles final here on Sunday.

Tanvi, 16, who became only the third Indian female shuttler — after Saina Nehwal and Aparna Popat — to reach the final of the tournament, lost 7-15, 12-15 to her second-seeded opponent.