【Body News】The dream of defending the title of the “big devil” in badminton is broken! The 2023 World Badminton Championships in Denmark is being held on Friday (25th) to stage the top 8 battle. The world’s “ball king” Viktor Axelsen (Viktor Axelsen), who takes advantage of the home court, was defeated by India’s “big brother” Puran Prannoy HS reversed and missed the top four. As for Tai Tzu Ying, the “Queen of Heaven” from Chinese Taipei, who played in the World Championships for the last time, she also lost to Spanish star Carolina Marin in straight sets. She has never tasted the taste of a world champion in her career.
Axelsen won the title in 2017 and 2022. This year, he is on his way to the Triple Crown. Recently, he defeated Ireland’s Nguyen Ri, France’s Christo Popov and Taipei’s Zhou Tiancheng in two consecutive rounds. In the semi-finals, they met Prannoy. The two sides have played against each other 9 times in the past. “Shi Yi” has an absolute advantage of 7 wins and 2 losses. This game also made a good start. It took a 9:2 lead in the first match and went straight to 21:13. Next up. However, in the second game, Prannoy began to find a way to break through, and entered the technical tentative with 11:9, and then opened the score with a 4:0 offensive, and pulled back a victory with 21:15.
Axelsen (Photo: Badminton Photo) Pranoy (Photo: Badminton Photo)
In the decisive game, Prannoy became more and more courageous, leading 7:6 and scoring 5 points in a row, throwing away Axelsen who made frequent mistakes, and finally completed the reversal with 21:16, repelling the “big devil” for the third time in his career, scoring 4 Strongly challenged the last runner-up and the world’s No. 3 genius Kunlavut Vitidsarn from Thailand. The latter also defeated Taipei 2:1 (18:21, 21:15, 21:13) after one game behind Wang Ziwei advanced. In the other semi-final, Japan’s “first brother” Naraoka Isao, who eliminated China’s Shi Yuqi, was defeated by Denmark’s Anders Antonsen.
Dai Ziying (Photo: Badminton Photo) Ma Lian (Photo: Badminton Photo)
In women’s singles, Tai Tzu Ying, who participated in the World Championships for the last time in her career, and Ma Lian, the three-time champion, joined the top 8. Although “Xiao Dai” had a slight advantage in the match record with 10 wins and 9 losses, this match did not perform as expected , made too many mistakes in the first game, lost consecutive points after 5:5, and fell behind by 6:11 in the half game. After the technical timeout, Ma Lian continued to suppress “Xiao Dai” in front of the net, widening the gap by 7 points at most, and winning by 21:16 Take the first round. Tai Ziying won 4 points in a row at the beginning of the second game, and was chased by the opponent to 10:10. She entered a timeout at 11:10 with a backhand in front of the net. Unfortunately, she made frequent mistakes and went out of bounds in the second half of the game. On the other hand, Ma Lian took advantage of the momentum Gaining 7 points in a row opened 17:12 in one fell swoop, and finally made another victory at 21:14, returning to the top 4, and will face the Japanese player Akane Yamaguchi who is striving for the third consecutive championship.
This season’s hottest world “first sister” South Korean talented girl An Seying defeated former world champion Nozomi Okuhara 2:1 (16:21, 21:10, 21:11), and the top 4 battled against Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Chen Yufei of China.
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2023-08-26 04:22:58
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