Shin Yu-bin's Shingong X Lim Jong-hoon's Chikita, there is no match! The team won 3-0 in 26 minutes! WTT Mixed Clothing 2 consecutive wins!

Jun 29, 2025

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'Korea's ace mixed duo' Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) and Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange) have won the World Table Tennis (WTT) tournament for the second consecutive time, surpassing China's Great Wall'.

Shin Yu-bin and Lim Jong-hoon won the WTT Contender Zagreb Mixed Doubles Final held in Arena Zagreb, Croatia on the 29th (Korea time) by beating the game score of 3-0 Hwang Yoo-jeong and Chen.

It was a rare, overwhelming game against China that did not lose a single game. Lim Jong-hoon of the left hand and Shin Yoo-bin of the right hand, an all-round ace with everything in table tennis, including foredrive, back drive, short game, rally, speed, and brain fight, were strong when together. The 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2025 Doha World Championships bronze medal group, which have been working together for four years since 2022, also showed their absolute skills on the final stage against China.

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In the early stages of the first game, Lim Jong-hoon's foredrive, Shin Yoo-bin's serve score, and 3 pitches were hit, giving him a 7-5 advantage. However, the Chinese government also fought back strongly. From 7-7, 8-8, and 9-9, it was a first-out seesaw game. Since then, Lim Jong-hoon's strong drive attack has succeeded to grab a 10-9 game point, and in deuce games, he took the lead by winning 12-10 and one game with a sharp drive that cut the center of Shin Yu-bin.

In the second game, Shin Yoo-bin and Lim Jong-hoon's hands and feet matched better. At 4-4 at one point, mistakes continued and pushed to 4-6, but Shin Yu-bin's drive attack quickly caught up with 6-6, 7-7. Shin Yu-bin's clever short game matched, and he scored three points and grabbed 10-7, game points, and in the subsequent rally, Shin Yu-bin's body-throwing reception failed to fail and gave up one point, but Lim Jong-hoon played 11-8, two games with his long-term back drive.

toss and turn at the beginning of three games 4-6, gave up the lead, but Shin Yu-bin and Lim Jong-hoon alternately scored to balance the game again, and led 8-7 as Hwang Yoo-jung failed to get Shin Yu-bin's foredrive at 7-7. Lim Jong-hoon's fore drive set a 10-8 match point, 10-9 that gave up a point due to a receiving error, and Hwang Yoo-jung's receiving far away from the table due to Shin Yu-bin's bold fore attack at the match point, securing an 11-9, game score of 3-0.

The powerful back drive, which is Lim Jong-hoon's specialty, and Shin Yu-bin's powerful 'Shingong', which was unstoppably hit by the male ace's ball in the Chiquita attack, were once again fierce. After beating Hugo Calderano-Bruna Takehashijo 3-0 at WTT Star Contender Ryublanya, he won his second consecutive championship, his third this season after WTT Star Contender Chennai of India in March, and his eighth WTT title.

The new and new team in this tournament has become stronger. He boasted a perfect performance from the round of 16 to the final, not giving up a single game, and showed an impeccable performance in terms of content. In the quarterfinals, they beat China's Yuan Li Chen-Xuizu 3-0 and Japan's proud Tomokazu-Mi and Harimoto brothers and sisters again 3-0 following a 3-1 victory in the quarterfinals of the previous tournament, and in the final, they broke the Great Wall again in just 26 minutes and 46 seconds, reaffirming that they are the world's strongest mixed doubles group at this point.

Shin Yu-bin, who has lost eight games against Chinese aces in singles, boosted his confidence by beating the Chinese group in the mixed doubles with a stronger offense after entering the Chinese league.

Reporter Jeon Young-ji sky4us@sportschosun.com

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