Shin Yu-bin, Jeon Ji-hee, Jang Woo-jin and Lim Jong-hoon

Shin Yu-bin - Jeon Ji-hee, Jang Woo-jin, Lim Jong-hoon, Advance to the Asian Table Tennis Men's and Women's Doubles Semifinals

Ahn Jae-hyun and Park Kang-hyun also... Everyone competed against the Chinese group to advance to the finals, and the men's and women's singles were 'annihilated' in the round of 16... Shin Yu-bin, shocking loss to 92nd ranked Thai player 토토사이트

The Korean men's and women's doubles team advanced to the semifinals of the 2023 Pyeongchang Asian Table Tennis Championships and secured a bronze medal.

The world's No. 1 women's doubles team, Jeon Ji-hee (Mirae Asset Securities) and Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air), defeated Taiwan's Jeon Zhi-yu and Hwang Yi-hwa (17th) 3-0 in the women's doubles quarterfinals on the 6th day of the tournament held at the Pyeongchang Dome in Gangwon-do on the 8th. (11-9 16-14 11-5) and advanced to the semifinals.

The semifinal opponent for the Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin pair is China's Sun Ying-sha and Wang Yidi (no ranking).

Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi are not in the doubles rankings because they do not work together often, but as they are top-level players ranked 1st and 3rd in the singles rankings, respectively, a difficult match is expected for Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin.

The group of Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi defeated the group of Miu Hirano and Miwa Harimoto (131st place, Japan) 3-0 (11-5 12-10 11-5) in the quarterfinals.

If the team of Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin advance to the finals, they will face the winner of the match between Miyu Kihara and Miyu Nagasaki (8th place, Japan) and Man-yu Wang and Chen Meng (93rd place, China) for the title of champion.

The pair of Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin, who won the women's doubles title at the 2021 Doha Tournament in which China did not participate, will attempt to win the tournament for the second straight time.

The women's doubles semifinals and finals will be held on the 10th.

In men's doubles, the world's No. 1 pair, Woojin Jang and Jonghoon Lim (Korea Exchange), and Jaehyun Ahn (KRX) and Kanghyun Park (Korea Water Resources Corporation) (no ranking) advanced to the semifinals and secured two bronze medals.

Both groups will face Chinese players in the semifinals.

The Korean national men's doubles pair, Jang Woo-jin and Lim Jong-hoon, will compete to advance to the finals against Ma Rong and Wang Chu-qin (no ranking), and Ahn Jae-hyeon and Park Kang-hyeon will compete against Pan Zhendong and Lin Gao-yuan (no ranking).

The Chinese men's doubles team also does not have a doubles ranking, but they are all top-level players, ranking in the top 8 in the singles rankings, so winning a gold medal for the Korean team appears to be a very difficult goal to achieve.

The men's doubles semifinals and finals will both be held on the 9th.

The team of Woojin Jang and Jonghoon Lim achieved a dramatic comeback victory over the Iranian team of Nima Alamian and Noshad Alamian (24th place, Iran) in the quarterfinals on this day, 3-2 (10-12 6-11 11-8 11-8 11-4). and advanced to the semifinals.

Jang Woo-jin and Lim Jong-hoon were helpless for up to two games due to the Alamian brothers' irregular attack.

Although the loss was deep as they were down 3-7 in 3 games, they belatedly adapted to the opponent's pitch and showed a great performance.

The pair of Jaehyun Ahn and Kanghyun Park defeated Japan's Hiroto Shinozuka and Yuta Tanaka (no ranking) 3-1 (11-8 5-11 13-11 11-8) and advanced to the semifinals.

In singles, the most important event, Korean players were 'annihilated' in the round of 16, raising concerns ahead of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

Shin Yu-bin, who has the highest singles ranking among Korean female players at 9th, lost to 92nd-ranked Orawan Paranang (Thailand) 2-3 (9-11 12-10 6-11 11-3 9-11) in the round of 16 on this day. I was hit.

Early elimination is a shocking result for Shin Yu-bin, who was on the rise by winning the singles title twice on the World Table Tennis (WTT) stage this year.

Jeon Ji-hee (33rd), who leads the Korean women's table tennis team with Shin Yu-bin as a 'double horse', was defeated by Japanese powerhouse Mima Ito (8th) by a score of 0-3 (8-11 5-11 4-11) and failed to advance to the quarterfinals. did.

The situation was no different for male athletes.

Jang Woo-jin (9th) defeated Hong Kong veteran Wong Chun-ting (50th) 2-3 (11-9 19-17 2-11 9-11 10-12), and Lim Jong-hoon (17th) defeated Tanaka (73rd). We lost 1-3 (10-12 12-10 9-11 7-11).

Jaehyun Ahn (40th place) lost to Liang Jingkun (6th place) 0-3 (3-11 7-11 6-11).