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HS Prannoy guarantees himself a maiden World Championship medal outlasting World No.1 Viktor Axelsen, enters semis
HS Prannoy of India during his quarter final single match against Viktor Axelsen of Denmark at the BWF World Championship in Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark. (AP)
Central to HS Prannoy’s success in the quarterifnal against World No 1 Viktor Axelsen was his command at the net. There were fewer fancy strokes, just hard nosed tight dribbles and counter dribbles, and no amount of menace of Axelsen’s famed smashes made him back off from the net. Because he was unflappable at the net and stealing errors from there too, Axelsen was forced to go for the extravagant attack, and progressively tiring, the 29-year-old would smash into the net often or drift wide. (READ MORE)
