Jeon Ji-hee (31, Mirae Asset Securities) and Shin Yu-bin (19, Korean Air), the ‘strongest team in Korea’s women’s doubles’, won the runner-up in the first international competition of the new year.
In the World Table Tennis (WTT) women’s doubles final held at Lusail Sports Arena in Doha, Qatar on the afternoon of the 21st, Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin’s pair lost a game score of 1 to 3 (11-5, 5-11) to ‘Chinese new group’ Kuaiman and Zhang Rui Joe. , 8-11, 9-11).
Jeon-Shinjo, the winning group of the 2021 Asian Table Tennis Championships, won this tournament in the quarterfinals. ‘Thai ambush’ Orawan Paranang – Sutashini Sawetavut group defeated and advanced to the semifinals, ‘European Union strong’ Sofia Polkanova (Austria) – Bernadette Soetz (Romania) group 3-1 (11-5, 11-5, 5-11, 11-8) and reached the final. Shin Yu-bin recently recovered from a wrist injury since the end of last year and raised the world ranking to 19th, and Jeon Ji-hee, a ‘veteran national team’, also joined Mirae Asset Securities, a new team, in the new year after parting ways with POSCO International, which she has never left since naturalization. got it back In the first competition in the new year, they advanced to the finals and showed off their strength.
In the finals of the day, Lee Si-on and Choi Hyo-joo were defeated in the semifinals, and Kuaiman-Jang-Louis Joe, who reached the final, faced. In the first game, Jeon Ji-hee’s left hand and Shin Yu-bin’s right hand matched each other lightly, bringing it to 11-5, but the Chinese rookie group was not easy. After giving away 2 games 5-11, they lost 3-4 games in a row by 8-11 and 9-11, respectively.
먹튀검증 On the other hand, in this tournament without top players from China and Japan, Korea succeeded in advancing to the finals in all events except women’s singles, including women’s doubles, men’s singles (Jang Woo-jin), men’s doubles (Cho Seung-min-Ahn Jae-hyeon), and mixed doubles (Lim Jong-hoon-Shin Yu-bin). Excited for the new year. However, in the four finals, it was regrettable that all of them ended up in runner-up, losing by a single margin to a new group from China and a top ranked player from Brazil.