Badminton Malaysia Open 2023: Viktor Axelsen books place in Malaysia Open closing as prime two girls’s seeds additionally win semis

Olympic champion and No. 1 seed Viktor Axelsen was a straight units winner within the semi-finals of badminton’s Malaysia Open on Saturday (14 January).

The Dane beat Tsuneyama Kanta of Japan 21-7, 21-15 to guide his spot within the males’s singles closing.

It is Axelsen’s ninth consecutive closing in BWF Tremendous 1000 degree tournaments, a brand new document.

He’ll face one other Japanese shuttler, Naraoka Kodai for the title in Kuala Lumpur. Naraoka beat Thailand’s Kunlavut Vitidsarn 21-17, 19-21, 21-17 within the different semi-final.

The Malaysia Open girls’s singles closing will characteristic the highest two seeded gamers

Number one ranked Yamaguchi Akane of Japan beat Tai Tzu Ying from Chinese language Taipei. 21-18, 21-16 was the rating.

Individuals’s Republic of Korea second seed An Se-Young received an exhilarating earlier semi-final, beating China’s fourth seed Chen Yu Fei 21-12, 19-21, 21-9.

The finals on the first BWF World Tour occasion of 2023 happen on Sunday.

For the total semi-final outcomes together with males’s doubles, girls’s doubles, and combined doubles, click here.