Denmark's star shuttler Viktor Axelsen won the All England Open Badminton Championship for the first time on Sunday. After 21 years, a Danish player became champion. Earlier in 1999, Peter Gade won the championship. He then defeated Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia. Axelson beat Taiwan's top seed player Chou Tien-Chen 21-13 21-14 in the final. He won the match in just 46 minutes.
With this victory, Axelsen raised his career record to 10–2 against Chen. Chen defeated Axelsen in the World Tour Finals last year, while the Danish player had won 7 consecutive matches against Chen before that. The women's singles final top seed in the tournament will be played between China's Chen Yufei and Taiwan's Tai Tzu Ying. There have been 17 matches between the two. Tzu Ying won 14, while Yufei won 3.
Meanwhile, the Japanese duo of Yuki Fukushima-Sayaka Hirota defeated the Chinese duo Du Yue and Li Yin Hui 21-13, 21-15 to win the women's doubles title.
Also Read :