Yoon Yong-il as the full-time coach of the future national tennis team...I will help the candidates become tour players
Feb 26, 2025
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Yoon will contribute to the long-term development of Korean tennis by discovering, fostering, and managing promising players who will be selected for the future national team for four years from the 1st of next month to February 28, 2029.
The new coach Yoon will play a role in overseeing all national team candidates, youth representatives, and dream tree players except for the adult national team (director Jung Jong-sam).
As a player, Yoon became the second Korean player to reach the men's singles finals at the U.S. Open after Kim Bong-soo in 1998, and won two gold medals in men's singles and men's team events at the Bangkok Asian Games the same year.
Coach Yoon Yong-il, who began his leadership career with the Samsung tennis team after retirement, has coached numerous leading players, including Lee Hyung-taek for four years and Chung Nam-sung, Lee Deok-hee and Kwon Soon-woo.
The new coach Yoon "There was a three to four-year absence when he quit coaching the tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's refreshing to be able to come back and coach the players on the field. As I have been a tour coach for a long time, I will guide current candidates to grow into tour players and try to achieve my goal of discovering young prospects and fostering them into world-class players."
When his term begins in March, the new coach Yoon will visit the site of the domestic competition to check the conditions of the national team's candidates and begin to find promising players in earnest. As soon as the selection of youth representatives is completed, guidance and management will begin.
As the men's coach for the final preliminary round in Asia/Oceania at the World Junior Tennis Tournament under the age of 14 in Kuching, Malaysia in April, the new coach Yoon plans to also handle the international tournament schedule.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
