On the 17th local time, Danish star Viktor Axelsen defeated Singapore's first brother Loh Kian Yew in the top 8 of the Super 750 Series 2025 India Open Badminton Championships in the men's singles quarterfinals, 21:19, 13:21, 21:8, won 6 consecutive victories against each other, and also successfully advanced to the top 4.

Denmark's Viktor Axelsen

World No. 5 Viktor Axelsen crashed out of the Super 1000 Series Malaysia Open in the first round, but the Dragon King found his form when he arrived in India this week, beating Taiwan's Qi Youren and Singapore's Zheng Jiaheng in quick succession.

The 2021 World Championships champion Luo Jianyou first solved Taiwan's Li Jiahao, and defeated Japan's first brother Kodai Naraoka 21:17 and 21:15 in the round of 16. Axelsen and Luo Jianyou made the first 11 moves, and the Dragon King won 9 wins and 2 defeats, and won the last 5 meetings.

Axelsen was slow to warm up in the first game, once facing a 2:9 deficit, but he still had the strength to start chasing points, only 9:11 into the technical timeout, and then continued to chase closer, and at 14:16 scored 5 points in a row to lead for the first time, and successfully took the next city.

Luo Jianyou, who missed the lead of up to 7 points in the first game, scored 6 points in a row after falling behind 5:6 in the second game, and finally held the lead and pulled back a city, but the situation in the deciding game became one-sided, and Axelsen quickly opened the gap and finally took 64 minutes to win.

Axelsen is the 2017 and 2019 India champion, and if he succeeds in winning this year, he will tie Malaysia's "Dato" Lee Chong Wei's record of three titles, and tie for the most men's singles titles in tournament history.