<figure id="attachment_3264999" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3264999" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3264999 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a43ee49b-k-letshanaa-bernama-230126-1.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3264999" class="wp-caption-text">K Letshanaa has now won three matches against higher-ranked opponents at the Indonesia Masters in Jakarta. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: National women’s singles shuttler K Letshanaa produced another upset at the Indonesia Masters today after defeating a higher-ranked opponent to secure her first semi-final in a World Tour Super 500 event.
Letshanaa, ranked world No 42, overcame Taiwan’s 37th-ranked Huang Yu Hsun 21-17, 21-18 in a 38-minute quarter-final encounter at the Istora Senayan in Jakarta today.
She stunned Canada’s world No 12 Michelle Li 21-14, 21-14 yesterday, having earlier defeated Taiwan’s 34th-ranked player, Hsu Wen-chi, 9-21, 21-12, 22-20 in the opening round.
In the semi-final tomorrow, Letshanaa will meet Nguyen Thuy Linh of Vietnam.
It will be her first semi-final appearance in the World Tour championships after qualifying for the quarter-final stage three times.
The winners in the singles category will take home US$37,500, and the runners-up US$19,000. The semi-finalists will receive US$7,250, and quarter-finalists US$3,000.

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