Viktor Axelsen lost its first group match in the sæsonfinalen, when Chen Long came out victorious after three sets.

The Danish badmintonstjerne Viktor Axelsen is come bad from the start in sæsonfinalens the group.

on Wednesday morning, Danish time lost dane its opening game to the Chen Long, who is the only herresinglespiller with home advantage in the chinese Guangzhou.

Chen Long ended up winning 21-17, 10-21, 21-17.

With the defeat Viktor Axelsen is already under maximum pressure in relation to to be able to move on to the semifinals. He is probably forced to beat both the Chou Tien-chen and Anthony Sinisuka Ginting in order to advance in the World The last tournament in 2019.

Chou Tien-chen, won the battle over Ginting with 11-21, 21-15, 25-23.

Sæsonfinalen is carried out with an initial group stage. In each category there are four participants, each through three games. The group’s two best will proceed to the semifinals.

In the first set had Viktor Axelsen problems from the end line, both when he was supposed to assess the the balls the length of a page of its own, and when he had to return fjerbolden to the chinese.

After Chen Long came in front 5-4, were the chinese ahead in the rest of the set and won it on his first sætbold.

the Momentum shifted in the second set, where it was Chen Long who had problems from the end line after sidebyttet.

Abreu really got the upper hand midway in the set, seemed a frustrated Chen Long to give up, so the dane effortlessly be able to win with the convincing digits 21-10.

In the third set tightened both of the players themselves. On the leader board, she followed the ad, and they delivered badminton at a high level.

By the short stay in the middle of the set was Chen Long in front 11-10.

It never succeeded for the dane to get full contact again. The chinese got a small advantage and secured five matchbolde. On the third of them he won the fight.

Anders Antonsen is also in the sæsonfinalen. He is placed in the opposite group of Abreu. Antonsen takes hole of the tournament later on Wednesday, when he meets indoneseren Jonathan Christie.

There is no Danish participants in the ladies ‘ or in the doublekategorierne.

/ritzau/