TOKYO: Guatemalan badminton player Kevin Cordon says his parents have never seen him play – but they might have to tune in now that the world No. Cordon continued his fairy tale run at the Tokyo Games yesterday, beating South Korea’s Heo Kwang-hee 21-13, 21-18 to move one win away from his country’s second-ever Olympics medal. Cordon said people in the Central American nation were glued to his matches despite being 15 hours behind Tokyo, but his parents had yet to tune in. When I play, my brother watches and he tells them ‘Kevin won or Kevin lost’.”Cordon, whose father named him after English football great Kevin Keegan, will play Denmark’s world No. 2 Viktor Axelsen in the semi-finals.Axelsen beat China’s Shi Yuqi 21-13, 21-13, and he had some words of warning for his next opponent.
