"Ppiyak's struggle continues" Shin Yu-bin team match against Brazil'Top Ranker'Revenge match

Aug 05, 2024

The women's singles bronze medal match between South Korea's Shin Yu-bin and Japan's Hina Hayata was held at South Paris Arena 4 in Paris, France on the 3rd (Korea time). Shin Yu-bin is playing. Paris (France) = Reporter Chung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2024.8.3/

Lee Eun-hye-Ji Eun-hee-Shin Yu-bin. Photograph = Reporter Ahn Sung-ho in Monthly Tablets

South Korea's women's table tennis will try to win a medal once again in the team event of the last event of the Paris Olympics.

The women's table tennis team consisting of Shin Yoo-bin (20, world No. 8), Lee Eun-hye (29, Korean Air, world No. 42), and Jeon Ji-hee (32, Mirae Asset Securities, world No. 14) will face Brazil in the round of 16 of the women's team event at the Paris Arena at 3 a.m. on the 6th (Korea time).

Brazil is made up of three players: 「Takahashi sisters」Bruna Takahashi (20th in the world), Ezlia Takahashi (90th in the world) and"Hanpal table tennis players"Bruna Alexander (182nd in the world). South Korea has the upper hand in objective power. South Korea beat Brazil 3-1 in the round of 16 in the women's table tennis team at the Busan World Championships last February. After Shin Yu-bin, who played in the first singles match at the time, was beaten 2-3 by Bruna Takahashi, Jeon Ji-hee and Lee Si-on won the game with a 3-0 score. Before the Paris Olympics, Shin Yu-bin confessed that he had gained the enlightenment he gained through this defeat. I thought "'It's not my ping pong." Rather than losing, I was angry that my ping pong wasn't there. No matter what anyone says, I realized that I had to play my table tennis that I wanted to play. I learned that I have no regrets when I come out of my table tennis."

Photo by Ahn Sung-ho, a monthly tabloid reporter

In the women's singles, Shin Yu-bin, who has recorded his first semifinal history in 20 years, will now challenge the team event of the 'Last Mission' after winning a medal in mixed doubles bronze by playing his ping pong without regret at the second Paris Olympics. Shin Yu-bin is a team player who has been more energetic in team events since he was young. The chemistry with Chinese naturalized ace Jeon Ji-hee and Lee Eun-hye could not be better. Lee Eun-hye, a fantastic partner who collaborated with Jeon Ji-hee for a long time to win a gold medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games and a silver medal at the Durban World Championships, is a colleague and senior who has been with her in many games, sharing the same with her team, Korean Air. Colleagues who cheered in the stands at every single match of Shin Yu-bin will now challenge for the Korean women's table tennis medal together. It is a medal that is desperately needed for Jeon Ji-hee, who naturalized in Korea at 16 and entered the Olympics for the third time, and for Lee Eun-hye, who has been running tirelessly toward one of her Olympic dreams since coming to Korea in 2011.

The Olympic team event will be held in the order of 'Double-Singles-Singles'. In South Korea, Oh Kwang-heon, head coach of the women's national team, said, `I am confident that I will not lose to any other team in the world"There is a "World's Strongest Double Group" Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee group. If Shin and Jeon take the lead and take one point, the ensuing singles match is easier and more advantageous. If South Korea beats Brazil, it will compete with the winner of the Hong Kong-Sweden match in the quarterfinals.

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"Ppiyak's struggle continues" Shin Yu-bin team match against Brazil'Top Ranker'Revenge match

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