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The young Indian shuttles Ayush Shetty and Unnati Hooda continued to impress at the Taipei Open 300 badminton tournament, beating their respective rivals in difficult three-game competitions to progress in the semi-finals of the events of male and female singles in Taipei on Friday. Taking the court first, Unnati, the 2022 Odisha Masters and the champion of the Masters of Abu Dhabi 2023, fought hard for 52 minutes to take over the local Navestrs Hung Yi 21-8 19-21 21-19 in the female quarter-finals.
Earlier, India, 17, ranked 53rd in the world against the 65th of his opponent, has done a short work on another Taipei Lin Sih Yun 21-12 21-7 Naveter in the knockout stages.
She will then face Tomoka Miyazaki’s seeded from Japan. The Japanese defeated Hsiang Lin of Taipei 17-21 21-8 21-17 in another quarter-final.
The 20-year-old Ayush, a bronze medalist in the world championship in 2023, who defeated senior professional Kidambi Srikanth during a second-round ending, amazed the seventh seeded from Canada Brian Yang 16-21 21-14 21-14 in a competition that lasted an hour and 11 minutes to go to the last stage.
The rising Indian, who had amazed all the Championships of England, Lee Chia Hao, in the opening round, will then display the winner of the other quarter -final match between the Chouse Chouse Chouse head of Tien Chinese and Moh Zaki Ubaillah in Indonesia.
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