Tien Minh lost to Antonsen after two sets

• Tien Minh lost after two sets

  Tien Minh could not create a surprise in the opening match. England lost to Antonsen 13-21, 13-21.

  

  Tien Minh lost after two sets

• In the second half of the second set, Tien Minh played better. The Vietnamese tennis player shortened the score to 11-18.

• Antonsen replied

  After losing three points straight, Antonsen regained the game. The Dane won four straight points with a 15-6 lead, mostly from easy smashes on the net.

• Tien Minh scored three points in a row

  A series of three consecutive points helped Tien Minh shorten the score to 6-11.

  

• Antonsen has the upper hand

  The ability to control the ball as well as attack well helps Antonsen squeeze a lot of Tien Minh’s strength. The Danish player led 11-3 in the second set.

• Tien Minh has a good attack

  The hit along the rope helped Tien Minh shorten the score to 3-8. The best ball of the Vietnamese player from the beginning of the match.

  

  Tien Minh shortened the score to 3-8

• Tien Minh won the point

  Tien Minh’s points in the second set came from the opponent’s broken attacks. Antonsen is leading 8-2.

• Tien Minh started the second set unfavorably

  The Vietnamese tennis player could not neutralize the opponent’s smashes. Antonsen led 5-0 in the second set.

• Tien Minh lost the first set 13-21

  Scored three points to shorten the score to 13-20, but Tien Minh could not escape losing the first set. He lost 13-21 in the first set.

  

  Tien Minh lost the first set 13-21

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Nguyen Tien Minh, 38 years old, represents Vietnam’s men’s badminton at the 2021 Olympics as the oldest tennis player. Tien Minh ranked 32nd on the Road to Tokyo rankings, having just qualified to win tickets to the Olympics and for the fourth time in a row.

The Tokyo Olympic badminton men’s singles event has 42 players, divided into 14 groups. Only the group winners will advance to the knockout round. Tien Minh is in the same group with L with Azerbaijani-Indonesian tennis player Ade Resky Dwicahyo, and world number three Anders Antonsen.

Tien Minh has never passed the first round in the Olympics. In 2008, he lost to Taiwan’s number one Hsieh Yu-hsing (Ta Du Hung) with a score of 1-2 in the round of 32, and soon left Beijing. Four years later in London, Tien Minh attended the tournament as the seed of the group. He won against Belgian player Yuhan Tan, but lost to Indian opponent Parupalli Kashyap two blank games and left the tournament. In the 2016 Rio group stage, Tien Minh won two matches, but lost to Lin Dan who was superior in terms of level.

Anders Antonsen is currently ranked third in the world, but this Olympics is the first time the Danish tennis player has participated in the Olympics. Before competing against Nguyen Tien Minh, the 24-year-old star once defeated the current number one and number two in the world, Kento Momota and Viktor Axelsen.

In two finals this year, Antonsen defeated compatriot Axelsen to win the World Tour Finals, before winning Europe for the first time in May.

Antonsen is forecasted to not be difficult to top Group L. If he passes the group stage, Antonsen is also not afraid to meet the most likely player of Group K, Kantaphon Wangcharoen (Thailand), to recreate the semi-finals of the World Championship 2019.

The two tennis players have met once, at the 2018 world championships in Nanjing. The Vietnamese representative lost after two sets with the score 18-21, 16-21. Antonsen has improved a lot since then, rising from 16th place to world number three. And Tien Minh attended two international tournaments in 2020 including the Australian Open and the Thailand Masters, both eliminated in the first match.

The last time Tien Minh met a top 10 player was in the 2019 Asian semi-finals, before world number one Kento Momota. Tien Minh lost 18-21, 8-21.

Nhan Dat – Quang Dung