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韓탁구하네 table tennis power is amazing! Overcoming the Great Wall of China and advancing to the WTT semifinals, 'I'll meet China again'... Shin Yu-bin and Jang Woo-jin are cruising in singles

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Park Kang-hyun (Mirae Asset Securities) - Kim Na-young (Posco International) Group. /Photo = Courtesy of WTT
Park Kang-hyun (Mirae Asset Securities) - Kim Na-young (Posco International) Group. /Photo = Courtesy of WTT

The Korean table tennis mixed doubles succeeded in advancing to the semifinals.

Park Kang-hyun (Mirae Asset Securities) and Kim Na-young (Posco International) won the game score 3-1 (11-7 11-67-11 11-8) in the quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis (WTT) mixed doubles with Chen Jun-song-Chin Yu-Shuan (China) at Lusail Sports Arena in Doha, Qatar.

After crossing the Great Wall, South Korea once again meets China in the semifinals and seeks to advance to the finals. The opponent of Park Kang-hyun and Kim Na-young will face China's Chen Yuanyuan-Kwai Man-jo in a match of fate.

Park Kang-hyun and Kim Na-young succeeded in gaining the upper hand by catching one game and two games in a row. In the first game, he won the game by scoring four points after a 7-7 close game. In the second game, he won without losing a single lead, making the game score 2-0.

He seemed to give the flow for a while by losing three games, but he won four games and eventually became the main character of the final victory.

On the other hand, another Korean mixed doubles team, Im Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange) and Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air), was defeated by a game score of 0-3 (8-11 10-129-11) in the quarterfinals against Chen Yuanyuan-Kwaiman. He entered the deuce in the second game, but lost unfortunately, and eventually lost in the third game and bowed his head.

With this elimination, Shin Yu-bin suffered in both women's doubles and mixed doubles. But it's not over yet. The women's singles are left. Earlier, Shin Yu-bin defeated Annette Kaufmann of Germany 3-1 (12-107-111 14-12 11-8) in the round of 32 of the women's singles to advance to the round of 16.

In addition, Jang Woo-jin (Sea) of the men's singles also reached the round of 16 by defeating Joao Geraldo (Portugal) 3-1 (4-1 11-8 11-6 11-9) in the round of 32.

Im Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange) - Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) Cho. /Photo = Courtesy of WTT
Im Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange) - Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) Cho. /Photo = Courtesy of WTT

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