On September 18, Beijing time, the 2024 China Open Badminton Championships, today's game continues to be a big upset. World No. 1 Axelsen was eliminated by China's 26-year-old Lei Lanxi, and another Chinese player, Li Shifeng, was unfortunately out!
Lei Lanxi 2-1 Axelsen
Anselm is the world No. 1 in badminton, and his dominance can be compared to that of Lin Dan, who has won two singles gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics and the Paris Olympics, and also won the singles championship at the 2017 and 2022 World Championships. This time to participate in the China Open Badminton Championships, Anceron is the biggest favorite to win the championship, and after reaching the top 32, the opponent is China's 26-year-old Lei Lanxi, who is not the absolute core of the national badminton singles, Shi Yuqi and Li Shifeng are ranked in front of him. However, Lei Lanxi was very powerful, defeating Anceron 2-1 in three games, refusing to be reversed by his opponent and avenging his last loss.
In the first game, Lei Lanxi came up in a very good state, and hit 11-6 at the beginning, Anceron was caught off guard, and then Lei Lanxi stabilized the situation and won 21-19. In the second game, Anselon 21-17 Lei Lanxi chased the big score to 1-1. In the deciding game, Anceron was defeated, Lei Lanxi played 11-5 at the beginning and took a 6-point lead, Ansellon's mentality collapsed a little, and he kept complaining, and in the end, Lei Lanxi won 21-16 and advanced to the round of 16 with a big score of 2-1.
After Anceron was eliminated, the competition for the men's singles championship of the entire China Open Badminton Championships became complicated, and it seems that the players who entered the top 16 have a chance, after all, the gap between everyone's strength is not very large, Anselon has dominated various competitions in recent years, and this time he stopped in the top 32, which is indeed unexpected, he is 30 years old this year, and he may have fallen to the top since then.
Li Shifeng 0-2 Zhou Tiancheng
Li Shifeng is the No. 2 player in the national feather men's singles, second only to Shi Yuqi, and he is also expected to be high. Li Shifeng and Zhou Tiancheng of Taiwan, China, met, in fact, Li Shifeng won more, but did not expect that there would be an upset. In the first game, Li Shifeng 17-21 Zhou Tiancheng, the overall performance was not bad, but the details were not done, at the beginning of the second game, Li Shifeng's mentality may be affected, 2-11 behind at the beginning, although he has been chasing points later, and he also saw the opportunity to win, but it is really difficult to reverse so much behind, 18-21, Li Shifeng still lost the second game, and was eliminated with a big score of 0-2!
In other matches, Ren Xiangyu/He Jiting defeated Parker Kabo/Peracha 21-11, 21-12 to advance to the next round. Zhang Yimen 22-20, 21-11 Lin Lauren, the next round against Wang Zhiyi. Weng Hongyang 21-13, 21-19 Li Zhuoyao, next round against Zhou Tiancheng!