South Korea's men's and women's table tennis, which are trying to win the Asian Games gold medal for the first time in 21 years, won both group matches on the first day of the tournament and confirmed their advance to the quarterfinals as No. 1 in each group.
As of the 19th, the Korean women's table tennis team, which was formed by Shin Yu-bin 19, Korean Air, No. 8 Jeon Ji-hee 31, Mirae Asset, and No. 60 Seo Hyo-won 36, Korea Racing Authority, beat dark horse Thailand 3-0 in the second Group D match of the women's table tennis team tournament at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games at the Hangzhou Archer Canal Sports Park Gymnasium GSP Gymnasium on the 22nd. The women's national team, which beat Pakistan 3-0 in the morning of the same day, secured the top spot in Group D with two wins and settled for the quarterfinals.
In addition, the men's table tennis team, which includes world ranking 17th Jang Woo-jin 26, 38th Ahn Jae-hyun 27, KRX, and 97th Oh Joon-sung 17, Mirae Asset, also won the match score 3-0 in the second Group C match against Thailand. The men's national team also won both the Macau match and the Thailand match, ending the group stage with two wins and reaching the quarterfinals.
The women's national team recently had painful memories in Thailand, so it was expected to be a difficult game, but all three did not give up a single game and won the game 3-0. Earlier this month, Shin Yu-bin had a painful memory of being shocked by Thailand's second ace Orawan Paranang, who is ranked 67th in the world, after a close game in the round of 16 singles at the PyeongChang Asian Championship. Sutasini Sawetabur, ranked 39th in the world, was also selected as a warning target.
But Thai players were no match in the Asian Games. South Korea, which succeeded in winning the game score 3-0 11-3 11-9 11-5 in 26 minutes by ace Shin Yu-bin against Saweetabu, secured the victory by beating Paranang 3-0 11-4 11-2 11-8 in 25 minutes by Chinese naturalized player Jeon Ji-hee in the second singles. Seo Hyo-won also beat Tamolwan Ketkuan 3-0 11-9 11-8 11-9 in the final singles, confirming the top spot in Group D.
South Korea went straight to the quarterfinals without going through the playoffs, delaying its showdown with strong players such as host China and Japan, which are expected to compete for the gold medal, until at least the semifinals.
The men's national team also beat Thailand with a 3-0 match score and confirmed the top spot in Group C, advancing directly to the quarterfinals like the women's national team.
Lim Jong-hoon gave up two games to Sarayut Tancharoen in the first singles, but South Korea, which beat the game score 3-1 11-77-11 11-4 12-10, secured its victory by beating Park Pum Sangguacin 3-0 11-5 13-11 11-8 in the second singles. Oh Joon-sung, who played in the final singles, also beat Citisak Nutzczart 3-0 11-8 11-1 11-7, confirming the highest ranking in Group C.
The men's and women's national teams will play in the quarterfinals from 5 p.m. on the 24th, the day after the opening. The opponent team will be determined by the result of the round of 16.
North Korea's table tennis, which returned to the international stage after a three-year hiatus, showed off its formidable power by defeating Taiwan, which the women's national team has been seeded in Group D, in a neck-and-neck race.
North Korea, where players without world rankings such as Kim Geum-young, Pyeon Song-kyung, and Cha Soo-young came out, succeeded in winning the first round by beating Kim Geum-young with a game score of 3-2 11-85-11 11-97-11 11-6 over 48th place Chen Tsui. Cha Soo-young, who played in the third singles, then crushed 57th-ranked Li Yu-jun 3-0 11-3 11-8 11-8, and in the final singles held at the match score 2-2, Cho Jung-kyung beat Chen Tsui 3-1 11-8 9-11 11-8 11-4 to end the blood fight for nearly three hours with a victory. 토토사이트
If the North Korean women's team beats the underdog Maldives on Sunday, it will rank No. 1 in Group D and advance directly to the quarterfinals like South Korea.
On the other hand, the North Korean men's team lost to Japan, which won the bronze medal in the men's team event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with a match score of 0-3. Still, Yoo Sung-sung and Ahn Ji-sung, who are well known in Korea, won two games each, and they were strong in terms of content. If they beat Nepal on the 23rd, they will advance to the round of 16.