World Junior badminton bronze medalist Richie Duta Richardo of Indonesia is just a step away from claiming a third BWF International Series title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 18-year-old defeated Korea\u2019s Kim Hae-deun 21-11, 21-19 in the men\u2019s sing;es semi-finals at the Vietnam International Challenge in Hanoi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richie, won the Thailand International last year and the Malaysia International a year earlier, will be up against Taiwanese Cheng Ju-Sheng in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ju-Sheng defeated teammate Tsai Cheng-Han 21-16, 21-15 in his semi-final tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The match between the 13th<\/sup> seeded Indonesian and Ju-Sheng will only be their second encounter at the international arena. It was Richie, who emerged victorious then in three games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another 18-year-old, Rakshitha Sree Santhosh Ramraj, is also looking to win her third BWF International Series title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Indian second seed, who won the Slovenia Open and India International in 2024, proved to be too strong for a much older Kisona Selvaduray of Malaysia in her women\u2019s singles semi-final tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rakshita took just 30-minutes to dispose Kisona 21-11, 21-10 and book a place in the final against Hong Kong\u2019s Happy Lo Sin Yan. Happy was equally impressive as she defeated Wang Pei Yu of Chinese Taipei 21-7, 21-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In their only previous meeting at the German Open last year it was Rakshita, who emerged victorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The women\u2019s doubles produced an upset with the scratch duo of Gronya Somerville-Jospehine Wu defeating eighth seeds Moe Aoki-Hina Osawa of Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Australian-Canadian duo won their semi-final tie 21-16, 19-21, 21-15 and will play another Japanese pair Miki Kanehiro-Yuna Kato for the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The men\u2019s doubles semi-finals saw a marathon 82-minute battle with Indian youngsters Krishna Prasad Garaga-Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy prevailing over Cho Song-hyun-Kim Jae-hyeon of Korea 11-21, 23-21, 25-23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They will play the Japanese duo of Kenya Mitsuhashi-Daigo Tanioka in the fina,<\/p>\n\n\n\n SEMI-FINAL RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Richie Duta Richardo (Ina) bt Kim Hae-deun (Kor) 21-11, 21-19; Cheng Ju-Sheng (Tpe) bt Tsai Cheng-Han (Tpe) 21-16, 21-15<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Kenya Mitsuhashi-Daigo Tanioka (Jpn) bt Huang Tsung-I-Lin Ting-Yu (Tpe) 22-20, 21-16; Krishna Prasad Garaga-Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy (Ind) bt Cho Song-hyun-Kim Jae-hyeon (Kor) 11-21, 23-21, 25-23<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s singles: <\/strong>Rakshita Sree Santhosh Ramraj (Ind) bt Kisona Selvaduray (Mas) 21-11, 21-10; Happy Lo Sin Yan (Hkg) bt Wang Pei Yu (Tpe) 21-7, 21-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s doubles: <\/strong>Gronya Somerville-Jospehine Wu (Aus-Can) bt Moe Aoki-Hina Osawa (Jpn) 21-16, 19-21, 21-15; Miki Kanehiro-Yuna Kato (Jpn) bt Tomona Harima-Yuho Imai (Jpn) 22-20, 21-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mixed doubles: <\/strong>Hiroki Midorikawa-Nami Matsuyama (Jpn) bt Wee Yee Hern-Clarissa San (Mas) 21-13, 21-11; Chan Yin Chak-Ng Tsz Yau (Hkg) bt Tori Aizawa-Mayu Matsumoto (Jpn) 19-21, 21-16, 21-15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World Junior badminton bronze medalist Richie Duta Richardo of Indonesia is just a step away from claiming a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-10989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-badminton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo.jpg",2002,1127,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo-1536x865.jpg",1536,865,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo.jpg",2002,1127,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Richie-Duta-Richardo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10991,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions\/10991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}