His wife Natalia Rohde is a former player, while he is managed by his father and coached by his father-in-law.
Denmark's Viktor Axelsen won all three of his group matches at the Paris Olympics and have advanced to the quarter-finals.His wife Natalia Rohde is a former Denmark national player, while he is managed by his father and his coach is his father-in-law. Coincidentally, both men are named Henrik.
“I play for us as a family now, it is a huge motivation for me when I train and go for a match. I’m not the crazy optimisation freak I once was, I have taken the best of both worlds, which means that there is a balance.” Rohde, 28, said: “I know how it is to be a badminton player on tour. My role right now is making sure the kids are happy and everything is good at home especially when Viktor is travelling.”
“He has become way better at handling his mood swings after he became a father... Vega and Aya don’t care about his bad training and bad mood, so they make him happy again very quickly.” He said: “Soccer was most important for him as a five-year-old, then he started badminton and one day as an eight-year-old, he told me, ‘Dad if I have to choose only one sport, it will be badminton. I feel the other guys in soccer don’t want to win as much as I do. I want to be on my own on the court.’
“It usually takes a day or so. Then we are ready to take up the fight again, and then we have analysed it for ourselves, so we have something to offer.”
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