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Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun (Korea Exchange) group defeated Japan's ace group to prove their qualification as the `Asian champion.'
Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun won the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Chennai 2025 Men's Doubles Final on the 30th (Korea time) by beating Japan's Harimoto Tomokazu-Matsushima Sora Group 3-1 to win.
After winning one game 11-4, they lost two games 11-13 after a close deuce match, but later won 3-4 games 11-2 and 11-3 to complete the overwhelming victory.
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Lim Jong-hoon of the left hand and Ahn Jae-hyun of the right hand know each other better than anyone else by working together for a long time as a junior at Dongsan High School in Daejeon. Ahn Jae-hyun, who played for Samsung Life Insurance after entering the job market, and Lim Jong-hoon, who played for KT&G, will eat together on the Korea Exchange starting in 2023, reuniting the `fantastic doubles team.' After winning the 2023 Industrial Table Tennis Championship, he won the WTT Contenders Antalya and Rio de Janeiro, and recaptured the men's doubles gold medal in 32 years at the Kazakh Asian Championship in October last year. He brightened his prospects for the podium at the Doha World Championships in May by winning his third 'Contender'.
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Meanwhile, Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) and Yoo Han-na (Posco International) narrowly missed the gold medal in the women's doubles final. After Jeon Ji-hee's retirement, the newly formed Shin-Yujo lost 2 to 3 (11-9, 9-11, 11-13, 14-12, 5-11) after a close game with Japan's Harimoto Miwa-Kihara Miyujo. Although she missed the championship, Shin Yu-bin and Yoo Han-na, the first team to finish the adult competition in the first runner-up in the international competition, inflating expectations. Shin Yu-bin and Yoo Han-na are already a duo who know each other well in their junior years. While Shin Yu-bin won the Asian Junior Championship in 2018 and the runner-up in 2019, she won the silver medal at the Durban World Championship with Jeon Ji-hee and the gold medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Yuhan won the overall championship consecutively with Yang Ha-eun and Kim Na-young. It is widely believed that the powerful and aggressive combination of 'Shin-Yu' is also competitive if the international stage experience is accumulated.
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The Taegeuk Warriors continue to do well in this competition, the first international competition under the leadership of new men's and women's national teams coach Oh Sang-eun and Seok Eun-mi. He has achieved results such as men's and women's second place in doubles, and is also doing well in men's and women's singles and mixed doubles. Oh Joon-sung (18, world No. 36), Shin Yoo-bin (20, Korean Air, world No. 10), and Kim Na-young (19, POSCO International, world No. 46) will advance to the semifinals of the singles and compete for medals on the 30th. Oh Jun-sung will compete in the semifinals against 「France XV」Flavien Coton (108th in the world). The semifinals of the women's singles are a match between Korea and Japan. In the semifinals, Shin Yu-bin will clash with "Japanese enemy" Harimoto Miwa and Kim Na-young with Hashimoto Honoka. The mixed doubles team of Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yoo-bin settled in the final. At 4:30 p.m. on the 30th, Japan's Maharu Yoshimura-Odo Satsukijo will play a match for the championship cup.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
