In the first round of the men's singles match, Tokyo Olympic champion Axelsen of Denmark lost 1:2 to Singaporean Luo Jianyou and was upset. Axelsen, currently ranked No. 1 in the world, is in great form this season. He has only lost 3 games before and won 7 titles including the T

Xinhua News Agency, Huelva, Spain, December 13 (Reporters Liu Yang and Xie Yuzhi) The second match day of the 2021 World Badminton Championships will start on the 213th. In the first round of men's singles, Tokyo Olympic champion and Danish player Axelsen lost 1:2 to Singaporean player Luo Jianyou, and were upset and eliminated.

Axelsen in the game. From World Badminton Federation official website

Axelsen, currently ranked No. 1 in the world, is in great form this season. He has only lost 3 games before and won 7 titles including the Tokyo Olympics men's singles championship. Due to the absence of strong opponents such as Japanese star Kento Momota and Indonesian player Ginting at this year's World Championships, Axelsen has become the favorite to win the men's singles championship. In the previous four encounters with Luo Jianyou, the Dane had never failed.

In this game, Axelsen continued his good form this year in the first game and won the first victory at 21:14; but Luo Jianyou fought back in the second game and returned the favor with 21:9; in the final game, Axelsen was in full form. Wu, lost to his opponent 6:21 and suffered a tragic reversal.

Luo Jianyou in the competition. From the official website of the World Badminton Federation

Axelsen praised Luo Jianyou's performance after the game and believed that his opponent "definitely deserved this victory." At the same time, he admitted that his performance in the second and third games was too bad and "would rather forget them." He said: "I will wait a few days and then look back to see what I can learn from this game. But now I am a little exhausted."

In the first round of the women's singles match that day, Chinese player Zhang Yiman defeated Hong Kong player Zhang Yanyi in two straight games at 21:10 and 21:13. In the second round, she will face No. 3 seed, Japanese player Nozomi Okuhara .

In the first round of men's doubles, the Chinese combination Ou Xuanyi / Zhang Nan defeated the Indian combination Aaron George/Sanyam Shukla at 21:15 and 21:14. They will face 4 in the second round. No. seed, Malaysia combination Xie Dingfeng /Su Wei translated. Another Chinese pair, Wang Chang/Di Zijian, lost two games in a row at 9:21 and 13:21 against the Japanese pair Koga Teru/Saito Taichi, and missed the next round. .

14 The World Badminton Championships will start the second round of competition. In the men's singles, Lu Guangzu will face off against the No. 4 seed, Chinese Taipei player Zhou Tiancheng ; Zhao Junpeng will face off against the Japanese player Watanabe Koki; Li Shifeng will challenge the 12th seed, the Indian Si Ricante. In the women's singles, the No. 8 seed He Bingjiao will face the French player Bartomene.

In addition, in the doubles arena, the men's doubles combination Liu Cheng / Huang Kaixiang will face the Japanese combination Takuro Hoki / Kobayashi Youwu ; women's doubles top seed Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan will face Peruvian combination Castillo/La Torre; mixed doubles top seed Zheng Siwei / Huang Yaqiong will play against Hong Kong combination Zhang Dezheng /Wu Yongrong; another mixed doubles pair Ou Xuanyi/Feng Xueying will face the Russian pair Alimov/Davletova.

Editors: Liu Yang, Yu Sihui, Zheng Daojin, Du Qiuyu (internship)