Chinese Taipei's "Prince of Badminton" Wang Ziwei defeated the world's No. 3 Danish star Antonsen 21:10, 21:13 in the men's singles round of 16 of the 2025 All England Open Badminton Championships in the early morning of the 14th, and advanced to the top 8 of the men's singles, tying the best result of his career.

Chinese Taipei's "Prince of Badminton" Wang Ziwei

World No. 25 Wang Ziwei has had the best performance of the season in the quarterfinals of the Indonesia Masters, beating off China's Lu Guangzu in the first round of the All England Championships, and in the round of 16 against Antonsen, who won five single-season titles last year and was runner-up at this year's Malaysia Open. Wang Ziwei has won three of his previous seven meetings with Antonsen, but including the Malaysia Open at the beginning of the year, Wang Ziwei has lost three in a row.

In the face of world-class masters, Wang Ziwei scored 4 points in a row at the beginning of the game, and the small ball in front of the net made Antonsen fall into passivity, and the more he played, the more frustrated he became, Wang Ziwei also successfully took the lead. Wang Ziwei continued the momentum of the first game, chased after the victory in the second game, and held an 11:4 lead, but after the pause, he suddenly encountered turbulence and lost points continuously, but at 13:11, he stabilized his position and scored 5 points in a row.

Wang Ziwei reached the men's singles quarterfinals in 2020, but was eliminated in the first round in 2023 and 2024, and now after two consecutive hurdles, he will advance to the quarterfinals again, and his next opponent will be last week's Orleans Masters champion Alex Lanier of France.