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| Lee Tae-sung, president of the Korea Table Tennis Association, is encouraging male and female national team players to advance to the Doha World Table Tennis Championships. Photo courtesy = Korea Table Tennis Association |
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| Park Ga-hyun and Lee Na-young |
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The Korean national table tennis team left Incheon International Airport on the 14th to participate in the Doha World Table Tennis Championships.
The 2025 Doha World Table Tennis Championships will be held at Lusail Sports Arena in Doha, Qatar from the 17th to the 25th in the men's and women's singles, doubles, and mixed doubles individual competitions. The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) alternates the World Championships into biennial team and individual competitions. The individual world championships are the 2023 Durban Games in South Africa, where Jang Woo-jin, Lim Jong-hoon, Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin went side by side in the men's and women's doubles finals, winning silver medals together, and Lee Sang-soo and Cho Dae-sung won bronze medals. Jang Woo-jin, Lim Jong-hoon, Seo Hyo-won and Shin Yoo-bin each advanced to the round of 16 in the men's and women's singles, while the mixed doubles Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yoo-bin group advanced to the quarterfinals.
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| Courtesy of Shin Yubin Photo = Korea Table Tennis Association |
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| photo courtesy of Lim Jong-hoon = Korea Table Tennis Association |
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Five men and six women, including men's representative Jang Woo-jin (Se-ah), Lim Jong-hoon, and Ahn Jae-hyun (Korea Exchange), Cho Dae-sung (Samsung Life Insurance), Oh Joon-sung (men's), women's representative Seo Hyo-won (Korea Racing Authority), Lee Eun-hye, Shin Yoo-bin, Park Ga-hyun (Korean Air), Yoo Han-na, and Kim Na-young (Posco International, women's) will participate in the Doha competition for the first time in two years. Men's doubles Jang Woo-jin, Cho Dae-sung, Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun, women's doubles Shin Yoo-bin, Yoo Han-na, Kim Na-young and Lee Eun-hye, mixed doubles Lim Jong-hoon, Shin Yoo-bin, Oh Jun-sung and Kim Na-young-jo were composed. Seo Hyo-won, the oldest member of the women's team, and Park Ga-hyun, the youngest member of the women's team, compete only in singles and Yoo Han-na only in doubles.
At the airport opening ceremony to celebrate the players' march, Lee Tae-sung, the new chairman of the Korea Table Tennis Association, and Yoo Nam-kyu, vice chairman of the working group, came out to encourage the team. Oh Sang-eun and Seok Eun-mi, the male and female coaches, said "I will do my best with the players with a sense of responsibility for the revival of Korean table tennis." delivered his pledge. Chairman Lee Tae-sung, who is scheduled to cheer for the local team, told the players "Don't feel too much pressure, but play your game with ease and enjoyment." reported the request.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
