South Korean women's table tennis ace Shin Yoo-bin (copyright) won the runner-up prize in the first adult competition in partnership with her new doubles partner Yuhan (Posco International).
After Jeon Ji-hee's retirement, he gave up the possibility of a "golden combination" with Yoo Han-na on the test table after passing through his teammate Lee Eun-hye.
Shin Yu-bin and Yoo Han-na lost 2-3 (11-99-111 11-13 14-125-11) to Harimoto Miwa-Kihara Miyu (Japan) in the final of the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Chennai 2025 Women's Doubles held at Jawaharl Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai, India on the 29th (Korea Standard Time).
We got off to a good start. We won the first game 11-9.
He lost two or three games. The score was 2-8 at the beginning of the second game.
After that, he chased 9-10, but he dedicated the game point and allowed a set score tie of 9-11.
In the three games, Shin Yu-bin lost 11-13 due to serve mistakes after two deuces.
It was a fierce battle in four games as well. The deuce continued to win 12-12. In the end, he induced the opponent to make mistakes and won four games 14-12.
However, no turnaround was made in the end. He struggled due to unstable reception from the beginning of the fifth game.
In the end, he knelt 5-11. He couldn't get over the top threshold.
Shin Yu-bin welcomed her new partner when Jeon Ji-hee, a "close friend" who collaborated for the gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games and the bronze medal in the women's team event at the Paris Olympics, returned the national flag due to her retirement from active duty.
The Chennai competition was a test. Yuhan is left-handed like Jeon Ji-hee.
Shin Yu-bin and Yoo Han-na showed off their perfect match for this tournament with a right-handed and left-handed combination.
The two swept past India in their first match and made it through the qualifying rounds.
They beat Lee Eun-hye (copyright) and Kim Na-young (Posco International) in the round of 16, Joo Chung-joo and Wing-ram (Hong Kong) in the round of 8, and Joo Chun-hee (Samsung Life Insurance) and Miyu Nagasaki in the round of 4.
The long-awaited final was a match between Korea and Japan.
It was as expected. A large number of top Chinese rankers did not participate in the Chennai competition.
China skipped the Chennai tournament focusing on the Macau Men's and Women's World Cup, which opens on the 14th of next month.
As a result, the women's team was more likely to compete with Japan for the championship.
He swallowed his regret by losing the game against Harimoto-Kihara, the third seed and strong favorite to win the tournament.
Shin will try again to win the championship with Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange), who collaborated to win the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. He is in the final of mixed doubles.
The men's doubles team soothed the disappointment in the women's doubles.
Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun (Korea Exchange) group defeated Japan to win the men's doubles at the tournament.
Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun defeated Matsushima Sora-Harimoto Tomokazu (Japan) 3-1 (11-4 11-13 11-2 11-3) in the men's doubles final of the tournament on the 30th to reach the top of the podium.
He easily won one game 11 to 4. He lost two games 11 to 13 after a close game of deuce, but won three to four games later.
In the last two games, there were only five runs. Lim Jong-hoon's backhand and Ahn Jae-hyun's forehand attacks were sharply inserted into the Japanese court based on stable receiving.
After winning the Astana Asian Table Tennis Championships in October last year, the two won the international competition for the first time in five months.
Korean table tennis has not been able to use its strength on the international stage this year.
Starting with Star Contender Doha in Qatar in January, he has been sluggish in Contender Muscat, Singapore Smash, Asian Cup, and Champions Chongqing in succession.
He made a small rebound by winning the men's doubles at the Chennai tournament. 바카라사이트
Im Jong-hoon will challenge to win two gold medals in the championship. He will play with Shin Yu-bin in the final round of mixed doubles on Thursday afternoon, and face the Yoshimura Maharu and Odo Satsuki (Japan).