In the past two weeks of the All England and Swiss Badminton Open, Denmark's Anselon was blocked from the final, which was a big upset in the international badminton world. In the past two years, Axelon has shown absolute dominance in the men's singles arena in the badminton arena, not only winning Olympic and world championship gold medals, but also winning the international open championship, and his "back-to-back" defeat in the last two weeks is the biggest setback he has encountered in the last 16 months.
If 2018 and 2019 are Kento Momota's "view of the mountains", then the international badminton men's singles competition since 2020 is definitely worthy of the world of Arcelon. During this period, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2022 World Championships were held, and Arcelong won gold medals, ranking first in the world rankings. Last season, for example, Axelon won eight singles titles throughout the year, with a whopping 108056 points, nearly 30,000 points higher than Malaysia's Lee Zijia, who ranked second. In the 2022 season, Axelon lost only 4 games, and against masters such as Ginting and Kunravut, they all scored a huge disparity.
In 2017, Axelon first tasted the singles world championship, his real dominance in the men's singles field was in 2020, the first three seasons he often set three consecutive titles and four consecutive titles in the international open, from February 2020 to January 2021, Axelon won four consecutive championships of the Spanish Masters, All England Open, Yonex Thailand Open, Toyota Thailand Open, and won two consecutive triples last season, once setting an astonishing record of 39 consecutive wins. Even if they lose, Axelon rarely fails to win two consecutive races.
In contrast, Axelon had a less than ideal start this season, and although he won the first Malaysia Open of the new season, he lost to Thailand's Kunravut in the final of the Indian Open. In the middle and late part of this month, he was excluded from the semi-finals in his back-to-back matches: first to Malaysia's Huang Zhiyong in the second round of the All England Open, and then to Chinese Taipei's Zhou Tiancheng in the semifinals of the Swiss Open. The "back-to-back" event both lost in the first time Axelon has encountered it since November 2021.
Lin Dan has not won the Olympic Games or World Championships since he turned 30, Chen Long was 28 years old when he won the Olympic Games or World Championships for the last time, and Kento Momota's record fell off a cliff after the age of 25. Now that Axelon is over 29 years old, he has suffered a series of setbacks since the new season, does it indicate that the era of international badminton men's singles Axelon is about to end? (Wang Quanli)