Ningbo(China), April 12 -- India's Ayush Shetty, who lost the Badminton Asia championships 2026 men's singles final match to Shi Yu Qi earlier on Sunday has said that he needs to upgrade his fitness and further develop his deep court game so as to be more competitive.

Shi Yu Qi, ranked number 2 in the world in men's singles registered a dominating 8-21, 10-21 over 20 year old Ayush.

Speaking to the press after the final match Ayush spoke about the learnings from the match"definitely there are lot of learnings from this, I have to work on my endurance, my strength, the variation from the back(court)... it is a good lesson for me"Yu Qi, the 2025 Paris World Championships gold medalist took charge of the match from the very start, he was abl...