Loh Kean Yew stuns world no 1 Axelsen at Denmark Open quarters

SINGAPORE: World quantity 5 Loh Kean Yew shocked house favorite Viktor Axelsen on the Denmark Open quarterfinals in Odense, Denmark on Friday (Oct 21).

In an enthralling match the place Loh displayed supreme web play, the Singaporean beat his coaching associate and world no 1 21-17, 21-10.

That is Loh’s second profession win over the Olympic champion, after beating Axelsen within the first spherical of final 12 months’s Badminton World Championships en path to taking the title.

The Dane was on a 39-match unbeaten streak and had solely misplaced one match this 12 months previous to Loh’s win.

The win implies that event seventh seed Loh has but to drop a recreation within the event to this point after victories over Sitthikom Thammasin and Kidambi Srikanth.

The 25-year-old will subsequent face Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia within the semi-finals. Lee beat Indonesia’s Jonatan Christie earlier within the day to seal his spot.