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All England Badminton Championships: Axelsen stopped in the quarterfinals and the Chinese team entered the semifinals in mixed doubles
Xinhua News Agency, London, March 15th (Reporter Zhang Wei) The All England Badminton Tournament held five individual quarter-finals on the 15th. Men’s singles world number one and Danish star Axelsen was eliminated by Indonesian Ginting. The Chinese team only has players advance to the semi-finals in the mixed doubles event.
The 30-year-old Olympic champion Axelsen faced Ginting who was 3 years younger than him that day. The two have met 17 times before, with Axelsen dominating with 13 wins and 4 losses, and has won 11 consecutive games since 2021. However, Axelsen, who easily won the first game at 21:8, fell into a passive position. He was behind for the second time, and was finally pulled back by Ginting at 21:18. In the decisive game, Axelsen chased for 6 points to level 18, but still lost at 19:21 after saving a match point. The best result in the three events this year is still the semi-finals of the Malaysian Open at the beginning of the year.
No. 5 seed Ginting will compete with Kristo Popov for a spot in the finals on the 16th. The French rookie defeated Japanese player Kouki Watanabe in straight games that day, who had eliminated Christo Popov’s brother Thomas Popov Jr. in the previous round.
Shi Yuqi, the No. 2 seed of the Chinese team who won the gold medal at the French Open last week, failed to move forward. He had a high fever the night before and retired after losing the first game at 12:21, watching Indonesian player Jonatan easily advance to the semi-finals.
In the women’s singles competition, No. 1 seed An Xiying, No. 3 seed Tai Tzu Ying and No. 4 seed Akane Yamaguchi all passed, but No. 2 seed Chen Yufei fell behind. The Chinese Olympic champion lost to Spain’s No. 5 seed Marin 17:21 and 15:21.
In addition, with the defeat of men’s doubles He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu and women’s doubles Zheng Yu/Zhang Shuxian, no one from the Chinese team advanced to the semi-finals in these two events. However, the defending mixed doubles champions Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong and Feng Yanzhe/Huang Dongping met in the semi-finals, which means that the Chinese team has secured a spot in the finals.
2024-03-16 07:32:00
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