Ayush Shetty, who has now become India’s No 2 men’s singles player, picked his biggest title of his career to date, by out-peppering the compulsive jump-smasher Brian Yang of Canada.
A glorious, full-blooded cross court smash that travelled the diagonal length of the Council Bluffs court in Iowa mid-central USA, gave the 20-year-old, 6-foot-4 a Super 300 victory at the US Open as he won 21-18, 21-13 in 47 minutes.
Shetty, built like Viktor Axelsen, and playing imperiously like him, punctured hopes of the jumpy Yang, and it mattered little if he was playing from the easier slower side or the tougher faster one.