{"id":49743,"date":"2026-04-11T22:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jantantratoday.com\/?p=49743"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:28:43","slug":"badminton-asia-championships-indias-ayush-shetty-knocks-out-world-no-1-to-enter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jantantratoday.com\/?p=49743","title":{"rendered":"Badminton Asia Championships : India\u2019s Ayush Shetty knocks out World No.1 to enter finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-49744\" src=\"https:\/\/jantantratoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ayush-Shetty-in-action-during-his-semifinals-match-at-the-Badminton-Asia-Championships-2026-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jantantratoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ayush-Shetty-in-action-during-his-semifinals-match-at-the-Badminton-Asia-Championships-2026-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jantantratoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ayush-Shetty-in-action-during-his-semifinals-match-at-the-Badminton-Asia-Championships-2026-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jantantratoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ayush-Shetty-in-action-during-his-semifinals-match-at-the-Badminton-Asia-Championships-2026-768x332.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jantantratoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ayush-Shetty-in-action-during-his-semifinals-match-at-the-Badminton-Asia-Championships-2026-1536x663.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jantantratoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ayush-Shetty-in-action-during-his-semifinals-match-at-the-Badminton-Asia-Championships-2026-2048x884.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faridabad , Jantantra Today\u00a0 \/\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\"><b>China, April 11, 2026 :&#8212;&#8212;<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">\u00a0Twenty-year old Ayush continued his giant killing streak at the Badminton Asia Championships as the next gen Indian ace defeated defending champion and World No.1 Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand 10-21, 21-19, 21-17 to reach the men\u2019s singles final on Saturday in his debut at the event.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">Shetty became the first Indian men\u2019s singles player to reach the final since 1965.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">While the first game wasn\u2019t in favour of the 2023 World Junior bronze medallist, Shetty overcame his early setback to comfortably dominate the next two games without letting Vitidsarn, the Olympic Silver medalist any chance for a fight back.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">Ayush took a 12-4 lead in the second game and though Vitidsarn closed the gap at 13-11, the Indian always looked comfortable.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">Entering the third game with the same confidence Ayush sealed his first finals spot at the Asian Championships in 1 hour and 15 minutes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">THe will next face the winner of the match between Chou Tien Chen (WR #6) and Shi Yu Qi (WR #2)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Faridabad , Jantantra Today\u00a0 \/\u00a0 China, April 11, 2026 :&#8212;&#8212; \u00a0Twenty-year old Ayush continued his giant killing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category--ncr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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