Top Indian shuttler HS Prannoy ended his BWF World Tour Finals marketing campaign on a memorable observe, beating world primary and Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in three video games, right here on Friday.
The tie was already unimportant for Prannoy, seeded third within the event as he had misplaced his earlier two Group A matches, however the Indian overcame the highest seeded Dane 14-21 21-17 21-18 in 51 minutes. Recorded victory. At least finish your marketing campaign on a excessive.
It was Prannoy’s second profession win over Axelsen, whom he had defeated throughout the Indonesia Masters final yr. However, the profession head-to-head file favors Axelsson at 5–2.
On Thursday, Prannoy was out of the semi-final race after dropping to Lu Guang Xu of China in his second Group A match. The 30-year-old from Kerala went down 21-23 21-17 19-21 in a hard-fought match that lasted 84 minutes.
The high two gamers from every group will advance to the knockout stage.
Prannoy is the one Indian to characteristic within the season-ending event.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
