Chinese players to face Viktor Axelsen at homeground
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CHINESE PLAYERS TO FACE VIKTOR AXELSEN AT HOMEGROUND
WORLD CUP IN BADMINTON
COPENHAGEN
DENMARK
- AUGUST 2023
PRODUCER ANDERS KONGSHAUG
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STORY
This year’s World Championships in Copenhagen is getting closer, and the chinese players will soon know who to face in Royal Arena in their fight for a World Championship medal.
The seedings for the World Championships was just published and in Men’s Singles is the top seeded Viktor Axelsen from Denmark.
Viktor Axelsen is currently the reigning World Olympic Champion and All England winner, as well as winner of the Olympic Champion in 2020.
He will be the hardest to beat for the Chinese players.
Viktor Axelsen taught himself Chinese, because he considered China the most important Badminton country in the world. Axelsen gaver himself a Chinese name of 安賽龍.
He won several titles.
- World Championships: Winner 2022
- All England Open: Winner 2022
- Olympic Games: Gold 2020 in Tokyo
- Olympic Games: Bronze medal 2016 Rio
- World Championships: Gold 2017
- All England Open: 2019
He also won multiple tournaments among the European Badminton Championships, Thomas Cup: Representing Denmark, Axelsen contributed to his team’s victory in the prestigious Thomas Cup, and various other tournaments on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Tour and Grand Prix circuits.
Privately decided Axelsen to move to Dubai in August 2021. It gave him shorter travel time to most events in Asia, which allows him more remaining time to rest or warm-up. Another reason was the health factor since he suffers from asthma and acute rhinitis.
In Denmark, where it tends to be cooler and where his allergy can be triggered faster during Spring and Summer by things such as flower pollen, dust, or animal dander.
Axelsen’s girlfriend, Natalia Koch Rohde, gave birth to a baby girl named Vega Rohde Axelsen on 15 October 2020. On 7 October 2022, she gave birth to their second baby girl named Aya Rohde Axelsen. Her father Henrik Rohde was head coach of the winning team in the Danish league and he is now also helping with the coaching of her husband Viktor Axelsen.
The other highest settings are.
- Women’s Singles: An Se Young (Korea)
- Men’s Doubles: Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Ardianto (Indonesia)
- Women’s Doubles: Chen Qing Chen/Jia Yi Fan (China)
- Mixed Doubles: Zheng Si Wei/Huang Ya Qiong (China)
The host nation Denmark has three seedings in the single’s categories and two in the double’s categories.
This year’s World Championships takes place from 21.- 27. August. It is the fifth time Denmark hosts the individual World Championships.
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- TOTAL OF BADMINTON TRAINING
- WOMEN’S TRAINING
- VIKTOR AXELSEN LEG TRAINING WITH RUBBER BAND
- SOUNDBITE (IN MANDARIN): VIKTOR AXELSEN, WORLD CHAMPION
“I think I’ve been doing very well lately, so in terms of my own requirements and my own hopes and stuff for the World Championships, of course I hope I can get a good result, there’s a lot of pressure but I’m very much looking forward to having the opportunity to compete in the World Championships in Copenhagen.Of course with two kids and then as a professional badminton player, balance is very important, but I’m very lucky that my wife is the best, so she helps me a lot. At the end, I think I’m in very good shape so I hope I can get a good result.” - VIKTOR AXELSEN DRINKING
- VIKTOR AXELSEN TRAINING
- SOUNDBITE (IN MANDARIN): VIKTOR AXELSEN, WORLD CHAMPION CONT.
“I hope I can play at my highest level, there are a lot of very good opponents so I’m going to put all my focus on my first tournament and then I hope I can play at my highest level when I play in the World Championships, it’s going to be hard for sure but I have confidence in myself.” - VIKTOR AXELSEN TRAINING
- SOUNDBITE (IN MANDARIN): VIKTOR AXELSEN, WORLD CHAMPION CONT.
“Li Shifeng played very well in the All England Open, but I think all the Chinese players are very good, but there is still a lot of badminton I have to play, so I don’t want to think too much about other athletes, I want to put all my attention on my own preparation.Then I hope I will have the opportunity to play against the Chinese men’s single.” - VIKTOR AXELSEN TRAINING
- SOUNDBITE (IN MANDARIN): VIKTOR AXELSEN, WORLD CHAMPION CONT.“Actually I want to study, recently I am a little busy with my two children, right? So I don’t have that much time to study, so I’m sorry if I have some little problems with my Chinese, but I hope I can speak more fluent Chinese, it’s a very important thing for me, so I’m going to keep trying.”
- VIKTOR AXELSEN TRAINING
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Link:
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