Malaysia Open: Antonsen clears first hurdle but tough battle awaits

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After clearing the first hurdle with a 21-17, 21-10 win over Taiwan's Wang Tzu-wei in the Malaysia Open on Wednesday, favourite and defending champion Anders Antonsen of Denmark told the press that he would be facing a tough battle against Japan's Koki Watanabe in the next round.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Next round you're playing Koki, a tricky player, a good stroke player, how do you see that

00:20match against him?

00:21I see it's going to be a difficult match for sure, Koki is a player who always fights hard,

00:29it's kind of like rooted deeply in the Japanese players, so he's giving a fight, that's for

00:34sure, so I'll need to play my absolute best in order to get the win, but I'm looking forward

00:39to it, it's always fun to play against Koki, it's never easy but it's always a fun challenge,

00:44so yeah, it'll be fun.

00:45When was your last?

00:48Denmark Open final, we played against each other, but we also played against each other

00:53here in Malaysia Open second round last year, so yeah, it'll be another one of those.

00:59So it's a repeat at the same round, there have been some upsets in the draw, Excelson

01:08is out, Christie is out, so are you very upset?

01:16I'm watching the other matches for sure, but just because I want to learn from them and

01:21see how they handle the conditions, but I focus on myself, that's all I can do, it doesn't

01:26matter what happens in the other matches, you need to focus on yourself, so that's what

01:31I'm doing.

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