On paper, so the resistance is scary, but on the field was Anders Antonsen quite superior in his first meeting with the chinese badmintonlegende Lin Dan on Thursday at noon.
At the Hong Kong Open did the dane map process, the fivefold world champion, who never really got into a fight, as Antonsen won with 21-14, 21-11.
judging from the current world rankings, there should also be a nice difference in the dane’s favor on the two players, although Lin Dance career cv is tremendously impressive.
Where the 36-year-old chinaman, is currently number 17, is Anders Antonsen ranked as the world’s third best player, and the dane took too fast the initiative.
Lin Dan followed, in fact, only with to 8-8 in the first set, and when the first Antonsen had created the hole, was a head start gradually larger.
Even more pronounced was the difference in the second set, where the dane after midtvejsopholdet went from 11-8 to 17-9.
Shortly after tilspillede he ten matchbolde by the post 20-10 and exercised its second of its kind.
In the quarter-finals awaits a meeting with the world number six, indoneseren Jonathan Christie. The two players have faced each other four times in 2019 and have won two times each.
The syvendeseedede the men’s Victor Axelsen is also into the quarter-finals after a convincing victory over the malaysian Daren Liew.
the Match was decided after two sets, where the Abreu won with 21-14 and 21-16.
In the quarter-finals must Axelsen meeting Lee Cheuk Yiu.
Later Thursday, Jan Island. Jorgensen in action in the men’s singles at the Hong Kong Open, which ranks at level 4 in turneringshierarkiet.
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