Guatemalan Kevin Cordón fell to Danish world number three Viktor Axelsen on Sunday 2-0 (18-21 and 11-21) in the badminton semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics, and will fight to try to hang the bronze.
Cordón quickly blocked Axelsen’s spikes and surprised him with several knockdowns that he could not respond to, but when he was leading 16-14, the service judge penalized him with a point for responding to the Dane’s serve closer to the regulation distance. and the first game was complicated.
