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Badminton News: The 2023 Canada Open has started with great excitement, catching the attention of badminton fans across North America. However, Denmark’s highest-ranked men’s singles player, Viktor Axelsen, has made the decision to retire from competition, citing the need for high-quality recovery and training after his recent appearance at the Open. Indonesia and the 2023 European Games.

Viktor Axelsen expressed his regrets to Canadian badminton fans but assured them of his future return.

Below are Viktor Axelsen’s social media posts regarding his withdrawal from the Canada Open:

“Hi friend. Unfortunately I will not be going to Calgary for the Canada Open as originally planned.

I’ve been pushing my body over the past 4 weeks to prepare for and perform at the Indonesia Open and European Games and my body is telling me that recovery followed by high quality training is what it needs over the next few weeks.

Sorry Canadian badminton fans – can’t wait to move on and can’t wait to compete in Calgary! But see you next time and I’ll be back in Canada soon.

In Axelsen’s absence, the men’s singles category now presents an open field for other talented players to take advantage of this opportunity. Competitors such as second seed Kunlavut Vitidsarn from Thailand, third and fourth seeds Kodai Naraoka and Kenta Nishimoto from Japan, fifth seed Li Shifeng from China, even non-seeded Kenta Momota from Japan, all aiming for the men’s singles title. .

On the opening day of the tournament, only a few matches took place, mainly in men’s and women’s doubles. Main seed Takuro Hoki/ugo Kobayashi looked impressive beating Chen Boyang/Liu Yi, ranked 55th in the world 21-14, 21-13 in just 31 minutes.

They are now looking forward to taking on twin duo Lee Fang-Chih and Lee Fang-Jen from Chinese Taipei.

Several highly ranked men’s doubles pairs also qualified for the tournament, including second seeds Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan, third seeds Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen of Denmark, fifth seeds Lee Yang and Chinese Taipei’s Wang Chi-Lin, sixth seed Lee Jhe. -huei and Yang Po-hsuan, as well as seventh seeds Akira Koga and Taichi Saito of Japan.

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