[Asian Games] Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee, North and South Face-Off for the First Time in 33 Years for the First Gold Medal in 21 Years
Defeat Japan and advance to the finals... North Korea's Cha Soo-young and Park Soo-kyung and Jang Woo-jin in this evening's final lost to world No. 1 Pan Zhendong in the men's singles semifinals and won bronze.
The pair of Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) and Jeon Ji-hee (Mirae Asset Securities) (1st place) will compete between North and South Korea for the first Asian Games gold medal in 21 years. 카지노사이트위키
Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee defeated Japan's Harimoto Miwa and Kihara Miyu (33rd) in the table tennis women's doubles semifinals at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held at the Archer Canal Sports Park Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China, 4-1 (9-11 11-8) on the 2nd. Won 11-8 11-7 11-7).
In the subsequent semifinals, North Korea's Cha Soo-young and Park Soo-kyung (no ranking) defeated Sutirtha Mukherjee and Aihika Mukherjee (16th place, India) 4-3 (7-11 11-8 7-11 11-8).
They won 11-9 5-11 11-2) and the final match was held between North and South Korea.
This is the first time in all sports that South and North Korea face each other in the finals at this tournament.
In addition, it has been 33 years since the men's team event at the 1990 Beijing Games that South and North Korea face each other in the finals of table tennis at the Asian Games.
At that time, South Korea defeated North Korea and won the gold medal.
The finals begin at 7:30 PM Korean time.
The pair of Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee succeeded in advancing to the finals of the women's individual event at the Asian Games for the first time in 21 years as a Korean player since the 2002 Busan Games, when the pair of Seok Eun-mi and Lee Eun-sil won the doubles gold medal.
Shin Yu-bin, who had previously had to be satisfied with bronze medals in the team event, mixed doubles, and singles, took the opportunity to challenge for the gold medal in 'four periods of three matches'.
With one more hurdle to overcome, Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee will give Korean table tennis its first Asian Games women's doubles gold medal in 21 years.
In addition, the two won their second major tournament gold medal in their lives, following the doubles gold medal at the 2021 Doha Asian Championships.
Since the 'strongest table tennis' Chinese teams were all eliminated in the quarterfinals, this is a golden opportunity for Korean women's table tennis to win a gold medal.
The Harimoto-Kihara pair is a combination that has not often worked together before.
This is a doubles team that Japan has newly introduced as a ‘top 10 combination’ for this tournament.
The Harimoto-Kihara group, who caused a stir by beating the group Sun Ying-sha and Wang Man-yu 3-1 in the quarterfinals, seemed to continue their upward trend in the semifinals by winning one game.
However, from the second game onwards, the team of Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee, who had adapted to the opponent's tempo, took the lead in the game and the flow did not change.
In the last five games, the Harimoto-Kihara group took a 7-3 lead, but the team of Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin, who persistently chased after them, came back to win 8-7, foreshadowing victory.
In the men's singles, Jang Woo-jin (13th) lost to China's world number one Pan Zhendong 1-4 (4-11 14-12 7-11 5-11 7-11) and failed to advance to the finals.
Korea's ace Jang Woo-jin won prizes in all categories of this competition.
He finished the competition by winning one silver medal each in the men's team event and men's doubles event, and one bronze medal each in the mixed doubles event and men's singles event.
Pan Zhendong will compete for the gold medal with the winner of the match between Wang Chuqin (2nd place, China) and Wong Chunting (49th place, Hong Kong).