Doubles Korea! Lim Jong-hoon X Oh Jun-sung, Kim Na-young X Yoo Han-najo, and Jong-hoon X Kim Na-young, who are both in the men's and women's doubles finals.

Jun 15, 2025

Doubles Korea! Lim Jong-hoon X Oh Jun-sung, Kim Na-young X Yoo Han-najo, and Jong-hoon X Kim Na-young, who are both in the men's and women's doubles finals.
Photo source=WTT



Doubles Korea! Lim Jong-hoon X Oh Jun-sung, Kim Na-young X Yoo Han-najo, and Jong-hoon X Kim Na-young, who are both in the men's and women's doubles finals.
Photo source=WTT
Korean table tennis men's and women's doubles teams continue to do well on the first World Table Tennis (WTT) stage right after the World Championship.

The men's and women's doubles group consisting of Lim Jong-hoon and Oh Jun-sung (Korea Exchange) and Kim Na-young and Yoo Han-na (Posco International) reached the final on the 15th (Korea time) by defeating the Chinese rookie group side by side at the WTT Condenser Skopye Jane Sandanski Sports Center in North Macedonia. In the final, they will play a match between Japan and Japan with Sakurazo Odo and Yokoi.

Lim Jong-hoon and Oh Joon-sung reached the final in the men's doubles semifinals on the 14th, beating Li Hechen and Wenlui Bojo 3-0. He will compete for the title with the demanding Indian duo, Manav Dakar, and Manoush Siazo, who beat Darko Djordic and Denny Kozulzo 3-1 to win.




Yoo Han-na, who collaborated with Shin Yu-bin for the women's doubles bronze medal at the Doha World Championships, teamed up with Kim Na-young for this time. As it is a WTT tournament that is not a national team but a member of its team, it defeated Japan's Akae Kaho-Takeya Misugejo 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-5) in the quarterfinals and then beat China's Zong Ke-man-Xi Sun-Yaojo 3-1 (11-5, 11-13, 12-10, 11-6) in the semifinals after a close game of deuce.

Doubles Korea! Lim Jong-hoon X Oh Jun-sung, Kim Na-young X Yoo Han-najo, and Jong-hoon X Kim Na-young, who are both in the men's and women's doubles finals.
Photo source=WTT
She also won the bronze medal in the mixed doubles as well as the semifinals. Lim Jong-hoon, who won the mixed doubles bronze medal in collaboration with Shin Yu-bin at the Paris Olympics and Doha World Championships, changed partners and joined Kim Na-young in this competition. In the round of 16, China shut down Wenluibo-Yan Distribution Group and Japan's Sakai Yuhi-Omoda Godomizo in the quarterfinals with a 3-0 shutout to reach the semifinals, but after a close game of full games against China's Zeng Beishun-Pengishuan Group, they lost 2-3 to secure the bronze medal. At the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana (Slovenia), which starts on the 17th, Shin will play again.

South Korean table tennis aces continued to strengthen their doubles by making the men's and women's doubles finals and the mixed doubles semifinals. In the table tennis events of the 2028 LA Olympics, men's and women's singles, men's and women's singles, and mixed doubles, and mixed doubles, were newly established in the men's and women's doubles and mixed team events. Since the number of doubles gold medals has increased to three instead of the existing men's and women's team events, and there is a high possibility of introducing mixed doubles in mixed team events, it is time to select and prepare players considering the importance of doubles events.




Meanwhile, Shin Yu-bin, who returned from the Chinese professional table tennis league, boarded a flight to Slovenia on the 14th after a short break. She will participate in the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana (women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles), WTT Contender Zagreb (women's doubles, mixed doubles) in June, and the WTT smash (women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles) in Las Vegas in July. He will work with Im Jong-hoon in the mixed doubles, Choi Hyo-joo in the women's doubles, and Duhoichem (WTT Smash).



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.