Ayush Shetty defeated 21-8, 21-10 by Shi Yuqi at last, after a sensational week at BAC | Badminton News
4 min readApr 12, 2026 06:31 PM IST One of the harshest realizations for Ayush Shetty amidst all the elation of a fantastic week, will be that big tournament finals like the Badminton Asia Championships, don’t come along every now and then. Or that his 21-8, 21-10 demolition by Shi Yuqi, deserved more resistance on his part. Chinese World champion Shi Yuqi, who first reached the BAC finals in 2019, had to wait seven more years to get there again and finally win, at 30. A pandemic, a year-long soft-ban for discipline, two Olympic exits, and a video clip of a nasty toe-blister that he showed the world on TV scandalising his federation, caused one right kerkuffle, before he got a second chance in 2026, converting this one. Ayush’s new training buddy, PV Sindhu, could tell him similar stuff about Olympic finals – stars just font align that often even if you start at 20-21. Ayush’s clump of unforced errors in the first set at the BAC Ningbo finals against Shi Yuqi, might get glossed …









