MUMBAI: Nitu Ghanghas  Nikhat Zareen, Saweety Boora  and Lovlina Borgohain, will be buoyed by the home support as they fight hard to change the colour of their medals at the Women’s World Boxing Championships here this weekend.

The 4 Indian boxers are confident of at least a silver after they pulled off thrilling victories in their respective semifinal bouts on Thursday. A technically sound boxer, Nikhat has used her years of experience in the ring and tactics to pull off win after win despite getting little to no time for recovery. The spotlight also returns on Lovlina, who has been able to put behind the underwhelming year.

She would have breathed a sigh of relief as she finally broke the bronze medal jinx and qualified for her maiden World’s final. She will take on Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Australia’s Caitlin Parker in the final on Sunday. The third boxer bidding to change the shade of her medal is Nitu.

The 2022 Strandja Memorial and CWG gold medallist has been unstoppable this tournament, notching three RSC wins before edging out Kazakh Alua Balkibekova. She has evolved as a boxer in the past year and is now able to adapt her game according to the opponent rather than just counter-attacking from a distance. She reaped the benefit of this in her semifinal.She will be the first Indian in action as she faces Asian Championships bronze medallist Lutsaikhan Altantsetseg of Mongolia in the final on Saturday.

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