Angela Yu (badminton)

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.

Angela Yu 于亚杰
Yu at the 2023 Kaohsiung Masters
Personal information
Country	Australia
Born	(2003-03-08) 8 March 2003 (age 22) 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	35 (with Gronya Somerville, 22 July 2025)
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Australia Oceania Championships 2024 Geelong Women's doubles 2025 Auckland Women's doubles 2022 Melbourne Mixed doubles Oceania Mixed Team Championships 2025 Auckland Mixed team 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

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
2025	Badminton North Harbour Centre, Auckland, New Zealand	Gronya Somerville	Mimi Ngo Maureen Clarissa Wijaya	21–10, 21–12	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 (2 titles, 2 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
2025	Polish Open	Gronya Somerville	Lauren Lam Allison Lee	21–19, 15–21, 15–21	Runner-up

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament