As it happened - BWF Badminton World Tour Finals 2022: Day 2 - Chia/Soh eliminated in MD, Viktor Axelsen romps, all to play for in MS Group B

Badminton's grand season finale, the BWF World Tour Finals 2022 are under way in Bangkok, Thailand.

Group action involving the tour's top eight players/pairs across the five events of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles continue at Nimibutr Arena on Thursday, 8 December 2022.

Our daily preview and order of play can be found here.

Olympics.com will provide live updates throughout the day from the Thai capital, which you can re-live below.

All times below are Thailand Standard Time (UTC/GMT +7 hours). Most recent updates at the top.

20:42 - Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik crash out

In the day's final affair, the men's doubles world champions from Malaysia suffered their second loss in as many days, 23-21, 22-24-22, 21-16 at the hands of Liu Yu Chen/Ou Xuan Yi.

And with that, Chia/Soh have been eliminated from these Tour Finals with one match to spare.

19:57 - He Bing Jao in last four

In women's singles Group B, the Chinese won her second in a row with a 21-17, 24-22 effort against local favourite Ratchanok Intanon after saving two game points in the second set.

The result won He a seat in the semi-finals ahead of her final round-robin match tomorrow against another Thai, Busanan Ongbamrungphan.

19:45 - Axelsen on reaching semi-finals

"I’m really, really happy about my performance against Kodai today. He’s shown that he’s a talented player this past year, real up-and-coming.

"I went into the match with a serious mindset because I knew that if I won in straight games, I would be seeded into the semi-finals. It was important for me to play at a high intensity, at a high pace and I believe I managed to do so.

"I don’t feel tired at all. I haven’t used much energy with all due respect. I feel absolutely fine, no injures which is the most important thing knock on wood. It’s great to be on the court again performing well".

19:17 - Viktor Axelsen overpowers Naraoka Kodai

The Dane was just too much even for the Tour's Most Promising Player award winner, defeating the Japanese 21-5, 21-15 in slightly more than half an hour to book a seat in the semi-finals.

Axelsen barely broke a sweat in winning the first game. In the second, Naraoka did well to save five match points but succumbed in the end as expected.

The defending champion will face Prannoy H. S. on Friday to close out the group phase.

18:11 - Zheng/Huang make quick work of Rivaldy/Mentari

The pair of the year defeated the Indonesian duo in 33 minutes (21-9, 22-20) for their second victory in Group A, all but punching their ticket to the semi-finals.

17:25 - Jonatan Christie on cliff-hanger win vs Loh Kean Yew

The Indonesian saved two match points in the second game to defeat the 2021 world champion 16-21, 22-20, 21-10, a result which has left everything to play for in Group B.

Tomorrow, Christie faces Chou who must win to have any shot of reaching the semi-final. Loh is up against Ginting, who already has two wins but cannot exhale just yet as if he loses and Christie wins, it will come down to tiebreaks.

"First of all, I want to say thank you God because I’m still alive, I’m still in this competition", Christie said. "I have to still fight tomorrow.

"Chou has already lost two matches but he will do his best. I want go to the semi-final, too. I think I still have 90 per cent in the tank. I must recover today and hopefully tomorrow I get a full tank".

Christie is now a perfect 6-0 against Loh for his career but denied he has any kind of mental stranglehold on the Singaporean.

"Loh played very, very well. I saw him against Chou yesterday and it’s very, very unbelievable", he said. "He has speed, power and defense also. He’s perfect.

"Every time I play against him it’s a very, very tough match. Last time I played him was Badminton Asia in Manila. The situation is a little bit the same; it’s hot, very windy and the shuttle is very fast. It’s not easy to play with him".

14:57 - Ginting after 2nd win

"I think we have the same problem on the court because of the drift. I am really happy with my performance today. I came back from the pressure in the second set; I couldn’t do many things in the second set, didn’t play well.

"I will try my best again tomorrow and enjoy every single game. Let’s see how it goes tomorrow".

13:57 - A S Ginting takes down CTC

The Indonesian just got the better of the steely veteran from Chinese Taipei, coming out ahead 21-14, 12-21, 21-19 from a tense affair in which neither side gave an inch.

It all came down to the third game. After trading point after point, Ginting went up 17-16 and from there never relinquished the lead.

The defeat, his second of Group B, put a huge dent in Chou's semi-final chances. He faces Jonatan Christie on Friday.

13:22 - Chen: "I just wanted to fight"

"Today I just wanted to fight. Just try to control and change my mindset.

"I’ll do my very best tomorrow, try to keep my emotions in check. Control the mood to control the field of play as well as I can".

Chen faces An in Friday's last round-robin match.

12:57 - It's Chen over Yamaguchi

In a rematch of this summer's world championships final, Chen got payback against Yamaguchi 21-19, 21-18.

Yamaguchi was up by six in the second game but Chen would not go away, levelling the score at 17 apiece before taking four of the next five points.

It was only Chen's ninth win over Yamaguchi in 24 career meetings and her first since the semi-finals of the Tour Finals.

12:20 - An Se Young grinds one out

The 20-year-old from the Republic of Korea is made to work by Tunjung, who stunned Chen Yu Fei on Day 1, needing three games to prevail 21-9, 11-21, 21-10.

An rebounded from defeat to Yamaguchi Akane yesterday.

12:01 - Chen/Jia cruise

After needing almost an hour to get past compatriots Zhang Shu Xian/Zheng Yu yesterday, the world champions were in control from stat to finish (21-13, 21-15) versus their Malaysian opponents who they remain unbeaten against in three meetings.

11:17 - Bringing to you live from Bangkok

We are up and running on Day 2 of the BWF World Tour Finlas at Nimibutr Arena, where An Se Young and Gregoria Mariska Tunjung are swinging away in the women's singles with Chen Qing Chen/Jia Yi Fan taking on Tan Pearly/Thinaah Muralitharan in the women's doubles.

Want to catch up on Day 1? It's all here.