Viktor Axelsen wins 2nd BWF World Championships crown, Akane Yamaguchi retains title at dwelling

Viktor Axelsen gained the lads’s singles title on the BWF World Championships with out dropping a recreation in Tokyo. He defeated 21-year-old Kunlavut Vitidsarn in a one-sided last.

Viktor Axelsen gained his 2nd title on the World Championships (AP Photo)

HIGHLIGHTSViktor Axelsen defeated Kunlavut Vitidsarn in straight video gamesAxelsen gained his 2nd World Championships title on SundayYamaguchi retained her world title in entrance of dwelling crowd

Reigning Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen on Sunday gained the world championships title for a second time in his profession, reigning supreme in Tokyo as soon as once more. Axelsen, the highest seed, made mild work of a problem from Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn within the males’s singles last.

Viktor Axelsen wanted solely 50 minutes to beat Kunlavut Vitidsarn 21-5, 21-16, and win his 2nd world championships title, the primary in 5 years after Glasgow 2017. Axelsen was too good for 21-year-old rising Thai shuttler Vitidsarn who had reached the ultimate after ousting final 12 months’s champion, Loh Kean Yew.

Vitidsarn was bidding to turn out to be the primary Thai shuttler to win the lads’s singles world championships title however he was blown away in a one-sided first recreation. The teen tried to push Axelsen within the second recreation but it surely was not sufficient because the Dane was in high gear from begin to end.

Axelsen gained the World Championships title with out dropping a recreation within the match. It is his third main title within the final 12 months as he gained the Tokyo Olympics crown within the Japanese capital and adopted it up with the All England title.

Kunlavut Vitidsarn battles the would possibly of @ViktorAxelsen for gold.#BWFWorldChampionships #Tokyo2022 pic.twitter.com/1xITJneGV1

— BWF (@bwfmedia) August 28, 2022

Axelsen has misplaced just one match within the ongoing season, stretching his envious report to 34/1.

YAMAGUCHI DELIGHTS HOME CROWD

Meanwhile, Akane Yamaguchi lived as much as the billing of high seed by retaining the world title in entrance of her dwelling crowd in Tokyo. She defeated China’s Olympic champion Chen Yufei 21-12, 10-21, 21-14.

The top-seeded Yamaguchi, who gained her first world title final 12 months within the Spanish metropolis of Huelva, needed to dig deep to see off the problem of Chen Yufei.

Chen was bidding to turn out to be the primary participant from badminton powerhouse China to win a ladies’s singles world title since 2011.

China has gained a complete of 15 ladies’s singles world titles — 5 instances greater than every other nation — however quantity 4 seed Chen was the nation’s first ladies’s world finalist since 2014.

However, the win gave Yamaguchi her second title of the 12 months, after lifting the trophy on the All England Open in March.

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