Morten Forst Hansen

Jayce September 6, 2024 2 0

Character Introduction

Frost is a Danish player who is more familiar to our fans, and he is also a famous athlete in the world of badminton.

Frost was born in 1958 and graduated from the Department of History of the University of Copenhagen in 1980. He originally loved soccer, but eventually chose badminton.

Frost started playing badminton at the age of 8 and played his first international tournament at the age of 17. From 1980 onwards, he began the most brilliant period of his badminton career, in 1980 and 1981, he successively defeated Liang Hai-liang, Lin Shuijing, Prakash and other world famous players, and established his position in the world badminton world.

Frost, 1.90 meters tall, the basic technology is comprehensive, flexible footwork, physical strength, power, landing point diao, usually train hard, on the field style tenacious, good at pulling the bottom line to control the other side, specializing in straight line and the middle of the kill.

Frost had maintained an undefeated record of more than 200 matches, and in 1984 alone, he won eight international tournaments, including the All England Badminton Championships and the men’s singles title of the World Badminton Grand Prix Finals. However, what he regretted for the rest of his life was that he had reached the final of the men’s singles of the World Badminton Championships three times and the final of the World Cup Badminton Tournament twice, but he failed to do so once, losing to Sugiarto, Han Jian and Yang Yang respectively.

Among them, the most regrettable one was the fourth World Badminton Championships in 1985. Frost’s “nemesis”, China’s Zhao Jianhua, withdrew from the tournament due to illness, which was a godsend. He made his way to the top four, and then beat Chinese rookie Yang Yang in the semifinals in two sets, 2:0, to meet Chinese veteran Han Jian in the final.

Frost and Han Jian have met many times, more wins than losses, so he is confident of winning. After the two sides tied at one, Frost in the decisive game had 8:3 lead to exchange the field, see high victory is only one step away. Surprisingly, Han Jian fell behind without any weakness, on the contrary, abandoned defense for attack, a breath of 12 points, the audience and Frost dazzled, and finally won the deciding game with 15:8. Frost even after the game still do not believe that he has failed, he told reporters, “I do not know what happened.”

In May 1987, Frost lost to Yang Yang in the men’s singles final of the Fifth World Badminton Championships, and was again in tears. But he was strong enough to say, “Next tournament, I’m going to play again, and I’m going to fight for the title.”

Frost came from a local town in Denmark, never had a coaching staff, and relied entirely on his own will and efforts, and achieved success by watching others play and practicing hard. It is by this relentless pursuit that Frost has earned the respect of his opponents and fans alike.