Viktor Axelsen announced that he would not be competing in the remaining 2025 BWF World Tour tournaments to focus on preparing for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
The two-time Olympic champion shared the news on Friday via his official X account.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t be able to compete [at the Japan Masters] and [Australian Open] as originally planned,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am doing everything I can to get my body ready for 2026 [and I am] blessed to have good people around me who [are] supporting me in the best way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo stone left unturned. Your support is highly appreciated. See you soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to the two events, Axelsen was also on the preliminary entry list for the 2025 Syed Modi International Badminton Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Danish star sat out for several tournaments following his back surgery earlier in the season before making his comeback at the Hong Kong Open in September.<\/p>\n He also featured in the second edition of BDMNTN-XL in Jakarta<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prior to the announcement, his most recent competitive action was at the French Open, where he lost to national compatriot Anders Antonsen in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Viktor Axelsen announced that he would not be competing in the remaining 2025 BWF World Tour tournaments to focus on preparing for the 2026 season. The two-time Olympic champion shared the news on Friday via his official X account. \u201cI won\u2019t be able to compete [at the Japan Masters] and [Australian Open] as originally planned,\u201d … Continue reading Axelsen withdraws from 2025 BWF World Tour season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[299,225,77],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-top-stories","tag-badminton-en","tag-bwf-world-tour","tag-viktor-axelsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}