Table tennis Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin lose to China and become runners-up in Singapore Smash mixed doubles
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Women's singles Shin Yu-bin faces Chen Meng in the quarterfinals after failing to avenge her loss at the Hangzhou Asian Games
The national table tennis team's team of Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange) and Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) won second place in mixed doubles at the 'World Table Tennis (WTT) Singapore Smash 2024'.
Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin, ranked 3rd in the world in mixed doubles, defeated the world number 1 pair of Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha (China) with a game score of 1-3 (7-11 8-11) in the mixed doubles final held at the Singapore Sports Hub on the 15th (Korean time). We lost 11-9 7-11).
After losing to Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha in the mixed doubles semifinals at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, Lim Jonghun and Shin Yubin failed to cross the Great Wall again today.
Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin, who were ahead 6-4 in game 1, allowed a comeback by contributing 4 points in a row. Then, Shin Yu-bin made a mistake, and the team was unable to break through Wang Chu-qin's defense, losing the lead.
They collapsed in the second half of game 2 as well. At 7-8, one point was exchanged and the momentum was tight, but Shin Yu-bin was unable to block China's ensuing attack. Even Lim Jong-hoon's defense faltered during the crisis, conceding two games.
Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin changed the flow in game 3. They scored 4 points in a row from 2-5 to turn the game around, and later came back to 7-9, but with Lim Jong-hoon's backhand attack and Shin Yu-bin's solid defense, they scored 4 points in a row and made up for it by one game.
However, the chase was halted in game 4. Shin Yu-bin's forehand attack and Wang Chu-qin's attack error resulted in a 1-point lead (6-7), but the team lost its head as the number of goals conceded increased in the second half. Joo Chun-hee (Samsung Life Insurance), who was paired with Japanese player Kihara Miyu, lost to the team of Cheng Yi-ching and Li Yujun (Taiwan) in the women's doubles semifinals with a score of 0-3 (9-11 7-11 7-11) and advanced to the finals. This was frustrating. The men's doubles pair of Woojin Jang and Jonghun Lim withdrew ahead of their semifinal match against the pair of Lin Gaoyuan and Ma Rong (China). Jang Woo-jin was unable to play the game due to a side muscle injury. Shin Yu-bin, ranked 7th in the world and the only Korean player to survive in the women's singles, will face world number 2 Chen Meng (China) in the quarterfinals at 10:05 pm on the 15th. Singapore Smash is the highest level major tournament in the international table tennis world organized by WTT. The singles winner will receive a prize of $60,000 (about 78.8 million won) and 2,000 ranking points. 스포츠토토