Tanvi Sharma, Ayush Shetty progress to semifinals of U.S. Open badminton

The 16-year-old Tanvi wrapped up her match in 33 minutes with a positive 21-13, 21-16 victory over her higher-ranked Malaysian opponent Karupathevan Letshanaa.

Ayush additionally dished out a superb efficiency as he received the higher of junior world champion Chinese Taipei’s Kuo Kuan Lin 22-20, 21-9 in straight video games.

However, the lads’s doubles pair of Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi misplaced their quarterfinal match 9-21, 19-21 to Chiang Chien and Wei Wu Hsuan-yi of Chinese Taipei at Mid-America Centre on Friday.

Tanvi will tackle Ukraine’s Polina Buhrova within the semifinal on Saturday, whereas Ayush will run into prime seed Chou Tien-chen of Chinese Taipei for a spot within the title conflict.

Polina surprised third-seeded Sung Shuo-yun of Chinese Taipei in her quarterfinal match.

Ayush could have his job lower out within the semifinal towards the skilled Chen, who beat the Indian teenager on the Taipei Open.

But Ayush will take confidence from his good run in a 12 months through which he has made three semi-final appearances on the BWF World Tour 2025, together with the Orleans Masters and Taipei Open.

For Tanvi, it’s her maiden BWF World Tour Super 300 semifinal.