Tanisha Crasto
Tanisha Crasto is an Indian badminton player who specialises in mixed doubles. She won the gold at the Asia Team Championships in 2024 and the bronze medal at the 2023 Asia Mixed Team Championships. With her doubles partner Dhruv Kapila, she touched her highest world ranking of 16 in May 2025.
She represented Bahrain and United Arab Emirates before switching to India in 2017. She represented India at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics in the Women's Doubles event, but didn't advance past the group stage.
Early life
Crasto was born in Dubai to Tulip and Clifford Crasto from Goa, India, and studied at The Indian High School, Dubai.Career
UAE and Bahrain
In 2013, Crasto made her international debut for Bahrain in junior tournaments and won her first major BWF international title representing Bahrain at the 2016 Bahrain International Challenge tournament partnered with Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsar Variella. She is ranked among the top UAE based badminton players. She also became the youngest winner of the UAE Open tournament.In 2017, when she was 14 years old while representing UAE, she created history by winning the Indian Club UAE Open tournament in the women's singles event after beating Negin Amiripour of Iran. She was also part of the Prime Star Sports Academy club that won the Shuttle Time Dubai Club Badminton Championship.
India
In 2017, after participating in Gulf-based tournaments, she shifted to India and represented Goa in Indian tournaments. She then represented India at the 2019 Badminton Asia Junior Championships and the 2018 and 2019 BWF World Junior Championships.In 2021, Crasto joined the India national badminton team and participated in the Uber Cup and Sudirman Cup tournaments. She was the runners-up in the mixed doubles event while partnering with Ishaan Bhatnagar at the 2021 Scottish Open.
In 2022, Crasto played her first ever BWF World Tour Super 500 event at the India Open, participating in both the women's doubles and the mixed doubles events. However, she and her respective partners lost in the first rounds of both disciplines, going down to fourth seeds Benyapa Aimsaard and Nuntakarn Aimsaard in the women's doubles and compatriots Gayatri Gopichand and Sai Pratheek K in the mixed doubles. In her next tournament, the 2022 Syed Modi International, she participated in the mixed doubles, where she and Ishaan Bhatnagar clinched their maiden Super 300 title, beating compatriots Srivedya Gurazada and T. Hema Nagendra Babu in the final.
Achievements
World Tour (5 titles, 3 runners-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. The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.Women's doubles
| Year | Tournament | Level | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Abu Dhabi Masters | Super 100 |  BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 4 runners-up)Women's doubles
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