After his 82 minute 21-23, 21-18, 21-14 win overJapan's Koki Watanabe in the men's singles second round of the Malaysia Open on Jan 9, Danish star shuttler Anders Antonsen told the media that he had learnt to treat all players the same even though he is now ranked No. 2 in the world.
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00:00The playing conditions are a little different. Last year the drift was a bit stronger. But
00:16it's good. It's good to be back. The arena is nice. I enjoy playing here for sure. The
00:20crowd was very good today as well. So yeah, first of all, super happy to get the second
00:25round win here. Kogi is a phenomenal player. I really needed to play my absolute best.
00:30And even though he could have won today. But I'm proud that I found my way through.
00:35A little bit about tomorrow's match. You might meet the Thai player, someone like that.
00:41And we have played a handful of times now. And it's always good battles. So yeah, hopefully
00:49I can get the win again tomorrow. I expect it to be a physical one.
00:52Moving into this edition of the tournament. Any different things you have done? Any different
00:59things you are trying to do?
01:01Not really, no. Obviously I'm in a different place now. I'm ranked high in the world and
01:10I feel people are doing their absolute best to analyse me and bring something new when
01:14they play against me. So that's fun. Try to be one step ahead all the time. But there
01:19are so many good players. I respect all of them. And I know everyone in this field can
01:23give me a very hard time.
01:24When you leave the pack, like you said, you expect people to chase you up. But being on
01:31the top, how different is the mindset?
01:35It's not very different. Because I really believe that everyone in the tournament can
01:41beat everyone. So that's my mindset. I don't go into the matches with additional pressure
01:45because people expect something from me. I know the truth is that everyone can beat everyone.
01:51So I don't let anything else disturb my mind.
01:56Being the defending champion doesn't matter? It's not in your mind?
01:58It doesn't matter anything. It's the past. This is a new tournament. Everyone can beat
02:01everyone. Every match is a 50-50 match. And let's go.