20 -year -old Ayush Shetty has emerged as India’s new hope in badminton and has taken the title of US Open. In the final match, Ayush confronted Brian Yang in Canada, where he won his first BWF World Tour title by winning 21-18, 21-13.
20 -year -old Ayush Shetty has won the title in Mains Singles at the US Open. This first BWF of Ayush Shetty has won the World Tour title. Not only this, so far no senior player could win the BWF title at the senior level so far. In such a situation, it was the first BWF title of the year in badminton for India. Yes, Ayush has ended the title drought in Indian badminton with this brilliant victory.
The final match of the US Open was played between India’s Ayush Shetty and Canada’s Brian Yang. The match lasted for 47 minutes, in which the win over world number 33 Yang made Ayush the champion. The grand finale started with equal. The first set started on 6-6 scorline.
But, then Shetty took it to 11-6 in a brilliant manner, but then Yang also returned to 16-16, but then Ayush once again made a good comeback in the last moments and made the first set in his name. Then the second set of Ayush won very easily. In this way, defeated 21-18, 21-13 in 47 minutes.
Bronze medal winner of World Junior Championship 2023 resumed the competition with a win on Denmark’s World No. 85 Magnus Johansson 21-17, 21-19. He then defeated compatriot Tharan Mannapalli 21-12, 13-21, 21-15 in the pre-quarterfinals. The next 2 wins were found against Kuan Lynn (22-20, 21-9) and World No. 6 Chow Tien Chen (21-23, 21-15, 21-14).