Angela Yu (badminton)

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Angela Yu (badminton) - Wikipedia

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Angela Yu
于亚杰

Personal information

Country

Australia

Born

8 March 2003 (age 21)
Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

Height

1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)

Handedness

Right

Women's doubles

Highest ranking

17 (with Setyana Mapasa, 26 November 2024)

Current ranking

17 (with Setyana Mapasa, 26 November 2024)

Medal record

Women's badminton

Representing Australia
Oceania Championships
	2024 Geelong	Women's doubles
	2022 Melbourne	Mixed doubles
Oceania Women's Team Championships
	2020 Ballarat	Women's team
	2024 Geelong	Women's team
Oceania Junior Championships
	2019 Melbourne	Women's doubles
	2019 Melbourne	Mixed doubles
	2019 Melbourne	Mixed team
	2019 Melbourne	Women's singles

BWF profile

Angela Yu

Traditional Chinese

于亞傑

Simplified Chinese

于亚杰

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yú Yàjié

Angela Yu (born 8 March 2003) is an Australian badminton player.^[1] She won a gold medal in women's doubles at the 2024 Oceania Badminton Championships. She represented Australia in women's doubles at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Angela was born in Box Hill, Melbourne to former Chinese badminton players Tang Yongshu and Yu Qi. Her brother, Jack Yu is also a badminton player and is part of the Australia national team.^[2]

Career

In 2023, Angela partnered with Setyana Mapasa. She won her first World Tour title with Setyana at the 2023 Kaohsiung Masters.^[3] The duo then won the Bendigo International and the Sydney International.^[4] In 2024, Angela and Setyana reached the semi-finals of the 2024 Swiss Open but lost to Hsu Ya-ching and Lin Wan-ching.^[5] Angela and Setyana also reached the semi-finals of the 2024 Australian Open and became the first Australians to reach the women's doubles semi-finals at the home tournament since 2009.

The duo earned enough ranking points to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics women's doubles event. Although they did not proceed to the knockout stages, they did win against Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa in the group stage to salvage a point and place third in the group.

Achievements

Oceania Championships

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2024	Leisuretime Sports Precinct, Geelong, Australia	Setyana Mapasa	Kaitlyn Ea Gronya Somerville	21–18, 21–11	Gold

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2022	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Australia	Mitchell Wheller	Oliver Leydon-Davis Anona Pak	9–21, 21–23	Bronze

Oceania Junior Championships

Girls' singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Australia	Shaunna Li	16–21, 15–21	Bronze

Girls' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Australia	Kaitlyn Ea	Majan Almazan Kelly Xu	15–21, 21–13, 21–16	Gold

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Australia	Jack Yu	Edward Lau Shaunna Li	21–17, 19–21, 21–16	Gold

BWF World Tour (1 title)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,^[6] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.^[7]

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2023	Kaohsiung Masters	Super 100	Setyana Mapasa	Maiko Kawazoe Haruna Konishi	21–19, 8–21, 21–19	Winner

BWF International Challenge/Series (13 titles, 8 runners-up)

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2023	Mongolia International	Setyana Mapasa	Lui Lok Lok Ng Wing Yung	16–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2023	Bendigo International	Setyana Mapasa	Hsu Yin-hui Lin Jhih-yun	18–21, 22–20, 27–25	Winner
2023	Sydney International	Setyana Mapasa	Sylvina Kurniawan Poon Lok Yan	21–16, 21–18	Winner

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

BWF Future Series tournament

References

^ "Angela Yu | Profile". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
^ Sukumar, Dev (26 July 2024). "All in the Family: Angela Yu Follows in Mum's Footsteps". olympics.bwfbadminton.com. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
^ "前国羽选手女儿入籍澳洲携搭档击败国羽女双". www.yuqiudi.com. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
^ "November High Performance Update - Badminton Australia". 2023-11-01. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
^ "前中国奥运铜牌得主入籍澳洲女儿携搭档反戈击败中国女双 - 体育 - 羽球". 星洲网 Sin Chew Daily Malaysia Latest News and Headlines (in Chinese (China)). 2024-03-21. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
^ Alleyne, Gayle (19 March 2017). "BWF Launches New Events Structure". bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
^ Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018). "Action-Packed Season Ahead!". bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

External links

Angela Yu at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com (alternate link)
Angela Yu at BWFBadminton.com

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