Viktor Axelsen
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Country: | Denmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth: | 4th January 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Odense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Size: | 194 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1st professional season: | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing hand: | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Men's singles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career record: | 279: 107 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career title: | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 1 (September 28, 2017) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current placement: | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weeks as No. 1: | 33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career record: | 0: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of May 26, 2018 |
Viktor Axelsen (born January 4, 1994 in Odense ) is a Danish badminton player .
Career
As a youth player, Axelsen won four youth titles in his home country Denmark until 2008. On the international stage he was U-17 European Champion in 2009 , World Youth Champion in 2010 and European Youth Champion in 2011 . He celebrated his first international tournament success among adults at the Cyprus International 2010 . In the same year he was nominated for the first time for the Danish national team at the Thomas Cup . In the finals of this world championship for men's teams, he was not used. Tournament victories at the Spanish Open 2011 , the Dutch International 2013 and the Denmark International 2013 followed .
In 2013 , 2014 and 2015 he won the Copenhagen Masters . He won bronze medals in his two European championships in 2012 in Karlskrona and 2014 in Kazan , as well as in the 2014 World Cup in Copenhagen . He beat Henri Hurskainen , Erik Meijs , Tiến Minh Nguyễn and Chou Tien-Chen in two sets. In the semifinals he was clearly defeated by Lee Chong Wei in two sets. In the same year he won the Swiss Open . In 2016, the European championship followed in La Roche-sur-Yon .
His greatest success so far in men's singles is winning the 2017 World Cup in Glasgow against the five-time world champion Lin Dan . This was the first world title for a European in 20 years . For this title he was voted Denmark's Sportsman of the Year in the same year .
Achievements in tables
Men's singles
credentials
- Homepage viktoraxelsen.dk (English)
- Viktor Axelsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile bwfworldsuperseries.com (English)
- Profile yonex.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=F794939C-80B9-42B5-9BCB-97B1F842B8F1&draw=13
- ↑ http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=27A21F55-CAD5-4CF4-A60F-A7E06E0DEAAD&draw=3
- ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=CA160B94-64E2-4C8A-8E18-9E269E9A46EB&draw=10
- ↑ http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=BB4B9094-EBD8-4769-845C-DBA94B0B790B&player=30
- ↑ http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=8DE824AE-67AC-4B8D-A42C-1BABD4CE88B3&player=19
- ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=8209AD14-E0E9-4A86-B7A5-545F63DAEC31&draw=2
- ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=177622D8-C646-4BEE-8754-9A933DBA0736&draw=2
- ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=EAA3742E-966C-4E1B-A652-6BC693FD6720&draw=10
- ↑ http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=B0BE4A8A-DD7C-4C88-A745-42D3D22ADEE8&draw=2
- ↑ http://tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=FD6815D8-CF64-4A64-A8AD-6D7B72B54332&draw=2
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Axelsen, Viktor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish badminton player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1994 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Odense |