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"Ppiyak" Shin Yoo-bin (22, Korean Air) will participate in the women's team event at the men's and women's all-around table tennis championships nationwide.
The Korea Table Tennis Association announced on the 19th that "the 79th Korean Air Men's and Women's Comprehensive Table Tennis Championships will be held at Jecheon Gymnasium in Chungcheongbuk-do for eight days from January 21 to 27."
The All-round Table Tennis Championships are the best traditional table tennis competition in Korea. In addition to the authority that has been in line with the history of the Korea Table Tennis Association, the meaning of summing up Korean table tennis for a year is contained in the trophy.
The 79th competition was sponsored by Korean Air. Starting with support for the operation of the competition in the host city of Jecheon, Seah Group, BNK Financial Group, IRONGREY, Exyom, Hanjin, Flex, and Table Tennis Dotcom will add power as sponsors.
As in previous years, the individual competition will also be held in a way that separates the preliminary and final rounds. The singles will directly advance 16 top-ranked players (eight quarterfinals last year and eight top-ranked players) to the finals.
The remaining players will qualify to determine the 16 finalists and then rank them as the round of 32 finals tournaments. In doubles, eight groups will go straight to the finals, eight groups will be determined through qualifying, and then a round of 16 tournaments will be held.
The opponents of the top rankers, whose positions are determined on the match table by seed allocation, will be decided through a lottery immediately after the preliminary round of each event. After the group stage, the team tournament, which will be played in the finals, will also be held unchanged.
The winner of the individual singles at the general championship has the benefit of automatic selection for the national team. Immediately after the general competition, the Korea Table Tennis Association set up a schedule to continue the selection match at the same place.
Attention is focusing on what variables the players' willingness to finish the selection early will create. For men, the defending champion disappeared when last year's winner Lee Sang-soo (then Samsung Life Insurance) retired.
Jang Woo-jin (Sea), the runner-up at the WTT Champions for the first time this season, Oh Joon-sung (Korea Exchange), Cho Dae-sung (Hwaseong City Corporation), and professional league star Park Kyu-hyun (Mirae Asset Securities) will compete.
In the women's singles, Lee Eun-hye (Korean Air), who recently showed off her prowess in the professional league, is aiming to win consecutive championships. However, it is expected that the battle between Baek Joong-se, who no one can guarantee to win, will continue.
There are many candidates to win, including Joo Chun-hee (Samsung Life Insurance), Kim Na-young (Posco International), Choi Hyo-joo (Korean Air), Park Ga-hyun (Korean Air), Yang Ha-eun (Hwaseong City Corporation), and Lee Da-eun 1 and 2 (Korea Racing Authority/Mirae Asset Securities).
In last year's team event in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, the men's Samsung Life Insurance Co. and the women's Korean Horse Association won. Both teams are prestigious in tradition, but it was a result of recent turmoil in their power.
It is also noteworthy that Lee Sang-soo of Samsung Life Insurance and Seo Hyo-won of the Korea Racing Authority, who led the championship at the time, commemorate their retirement at the site of this competition. In particular, the women's team event involving top star Shin Yu-bin is expected to attract a lot of attention.
The competition, which starts on the morning of the 21st, will complete the preliminary round until the 23rd and begin full-fledged ranking competition for each event from the 24th. The finals of each event are concentrated on the last two days.
Men's and women's doubles, mixed doubles, men's singles and women's team finals will be held on the 26th. And on the 27th, the last day, it ends with the women's singles final and the men's team final. MBC SPORTS+ will broadcast the major games of this competition. You can also watch the game in real time through the official YouTube channel (KTA TV) of the Korea Table Tennis Association.
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