Chinese Taipei's "left-handed heavy artillery" Lin Junyi in the early morning of the 13th at the Super 1000 Series 2025 All England Open Badminton Championships, 21:19, 13:21, 21:11 to defeat the two-time Olympic gold medalist, former Danish king Viktor Axelsen, reached the men's singles round of 16.

Chinese Taipei's "left-handed heavy artillery" Lin Junyi

World No. 12 Lin Junyi finished runner-up at the Orleans Masters last week, his best performance of the season for Chinese Taipei, but he is yet to win against Viktor Axelsen in his career, having lost all three previous meetings.

World No. 4 Viktor Axelsen, a two-time Olympian, World Champion and All England Champion in 2020 and 2022, is a natural standout and he won the German Open earlier this month.

Axelsen, ranked No. 4 in the world

Lin Junyi and Axelsen came and went in the first game, and the two sides came to 19:19, because of Axelsen's mistake, Lin Junyi, who won the game point, did not miss the opportunity to successfully go down first, but Axelsen suppressed Lin Junyi in the second game and also pulled back a city.

Lin Junyi led 7:5 in the tiebreaker, scored 5 points in a row to lay the advantage, and then 13:8 was a wave of 6:0 offensive, and finally took a large lead and completed the task of overthrowing the "Dragon King" in one fell swoop. Lin Junyi will face Japan's Kenta Nishimoto in the round of 16.