Who will be the main character of 'the new history no matter who wins' and 'the rival of the old age' and SK Rent-A-Hana Card's 'first two wins' [PBA Team League]

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The rival, who is destined to have a hard time predicting the superiority, will once again clash on the final stage. The team that will be ahead of the opponent will write the first history of the PBA team league.

Hana Card Hanapay advanced to the final by beating Welcome Savings Bank Welcome Phoenix 4-2 (11-9, 9-3, 6-15, 9-1, 9-4) in the fourth round of the postseason playoff of the "Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2025-2026" at Goyang Kintex PBA Stadium in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province on the 18th.

Hana Card, the third-ranked player in the regular league who made the series record 3-1, broke through the semi-playoff and the playoffs to reach the final stage. The main contributor to Hana Card's advance to the final was Nguyen Kuok Nguyen (Vietnam). Q. Nguyen is 6-2 (2 singles, 4 doubles) in 8 sets played in the playoffs, and has an average of 2.500.

Welcome Savings Bank, which went straight to the playoffs as the second overall in the regular league, ended its schedule this season without stopping Hana Card's momentum. In particular, Welcome Savings Bank acquired "Spanish legend" Daniel Sanchez (Spain) in a trade ahead of this season to build a powerful power and secured a postseason ticket early by winning the second round, but ended the season by being held back by third place.

Hana Card, who won the first set in all three previous playoff games, made the same picture in Game 4. 1 Set Murat Najee Choclu (Turkiye)-Q.Although Nguyen dedicated the tie, he overcame the strong chase of Semi-Signer (Turkiye) and Han Ji-seung and won 11-9 (8 innings) in the first set. In the second set, "the strongest women's doubles group" Kim Ga-young and Ayako Sakai of Japan beat Choi Hye-mi and Yong Hyun-ji 9-3 in three innings without a hit to make the set score 2-0.

Hana Card lost 6-15 (5 innings) against Signer in the third set, but Kim Byung-ho and Kim Jin-ah defeated Sanchez and Yong Hyun-ji 9-2 (6 innings) in the fourth set, leaving only one set to advance to the final. In particular, Kim Jin-ah scored seven points in the fourth set.

Welcome Savings Bank, which was on the defensive, saved the spark of hope by winning 11-3 (3 innings) against Shin Jung-joo in the fifth set, but Hana Card blocked the resistance of Welcome Savings Bank by "Queen" Kim Ga-young in the sixth set. Kim Ga-young scored four points to turn the game around 6-4 at a time when she was being dragged 2-4 by Choi Hye-mi, and she scored two points in the seventh inning to achieve an 8-4 match point. With only one run left, Kim Ga-young calmly scored a side turn in the eighth inning to finish the game 9-4. Set score 4-2 Hana Card wins.

This season's team league only has the final (best of seven games) left. In the final, SK Rent-A-Car and Hana Card, the top players in the regular league, will clash for the championship cup. SK Rent-A-Car and Hana Card, the rivals representing the PBA team league, are tied with 14 wins and 14 losses overall. This season, Hana Card has a slight advantage with 3 wins and 2 losses, and in the 2023-2024 season, when they faced each other on the final stage, Hana Card beat SK Rent-A-Car to lift the trophy for the first time since its foundation.

The final winner will also win the title of the first two-time winner of the PBA team league. Since the team league was launched, TS and JDX (2020-2021), Welcome Savings Bank (2021-2022), Blue One Resort (2022-2023), Hana Card (2023-2024), and SK Rent-A-Car (2024-2025) have won in turn. In addition, SK Rent-A-Car will challenge for another first time title of winning two consecutive championships with two wins.

The PBA postseason final will open with the first game at 3 p.m. on the 19th. Game 2 will be played at 9:30 p.m. on the same night. The third game will then be held at 3 p.m. on the 20th and the fourth game at 9:30 p.m. on the 20th. If the series continues, Game 5 will be held at 3 p.m. on the 21st, Game 6 at 9:30 p.m. on the 21st, and Game 7 at 9:30 p.m. on the 22nd.

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