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"World class?" You can't just do it once. It's just the beginning."
Shin Yoo-bin (21, Korean Air, 13th in the world) answered the question 'World Class' ahead of his departure for the Asian Table Tennis Championships on the 7th. He is Korea's top ranker who ranks 7th to 8th in the world, but he himself said "World Class only when he beats the Chinese and Japanese ace." Shin Yu-bin jumped the Great Wall at the World Table Tennis (WTT) China Smash, which was held during the Chuseok holiday, and became the first Korean female player to reach the semifinals of the singles. The Chinese ace of the round of 16 best teams, 'World No. 4'Kwaiman, beat the quarterfinals 'One-Pot-Bob Ace'Ju Chun-hee (Samsung Life Insurance) by a 4-2 come-from-behind victory. Although Wang lost 1-4 after a neck-and-neck race with Wang Man-yu (China), the winner of the semifinal 2nd in the world, he showed such a threatening performance that he said it was difficult to adjust to the speed of Shin Yu-bin after the game. In the Battle of the Stars, in which 16 Chinese players participated in the event, they proudly reached the semifinals of the singles. In addition to being the first Korean female athlete, Shin Yoo-bin, who won both Olympic and World Championship medals in women's doubles with Jeon Ji-hee and mixed doubles with Lim Jong-hoon, was a mountain and a desperate dream to climb. Last year's Singapore smash and this year's US smash were both blocked in the quarterfinals. Shin Yu-bin said "I wanted to go up just once as I kept falling in the quarterfinals. I was desperate for the semifinals. I was so happy that I achieved my goal," he said with a smile. The first singles semifinal over the Great Wall, she said "It's just the beginning". "Not once. Won't we have to continue to be in the semifinals and continue to beat the Chinese ace to become a world class then?"
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▶He attacks even if he loses 'Strong Heart' table tennis
As significant as the first singles semifinal is the change in the content of 'Shin Yu-bin Table Tennis'. Compared to the Paris Olympics a year ago, it has significantly changed. It became faster and stronger. The scene of boldly turning around from the backside and putting in a foredrive against the world's best top rankers such as Quaiman and Wang Man-yu is thrilling. It has evolved into ping pong that attacks even if it makes mistakes and loses, not ping pong that tries to protect and win.
It's not an incident that just happened overnight. Shin Yu-bin "I prepared for a change in table tennis a year ago. I kept trying and trying to change the style." In June, the Doha World Championship, which lost to Sun Ying-sha 2-4 in the quarterfinals after a close game of deuce, was a harbinger of events. Shin Yoo-bin said "The national team's coach Seok Eun-mi, coach Choi Hyun-jin, coach Joo Se-hyuk, and coach Ham So-ri all tell us to attack boldly during training or games. At the critical moment, you have to attack in the end to win." A year's struggle for a man's mother has finally paid off. The results of the bleeding training began to come out of my body.
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▶Shin Yu-bin-Joo Chun-hee, the two aces growing together
Another harvest of this competition is the shared growth of two aces, Shin Yu-bin, Joo Chun-hee, and the present and future of South Korea's women's table tennis. In regards to the quarterfinals between Shin Yu-bin and Zhu Chun-hui, the center of Chinese table tennis, who staged a hot fireworks rally in Beijing 'Not like Korean players, but like Chinese players.'In response to the evaluation, Shin Yu-bin smiled, saying, `The best compliment.' It was also the first time for a Korean player to reach the quarterfinals at the Grand Smash competition. Shin Yu-bin crossed Sophia Polkanova (Austria) and Kwaiman (China), and Zhu Chen-hui crossed '8th in the world'Ito Mima, '12th in the world'Shunyao. The two Korean aces, K-table tennis, who met beyond the Great Wall, had a rare match for the semifinals. Shin Yu-bin said, `I really wanted to play with Chun-hee in the quarterfinals, too. It was so nice to play with Korean players in the quarterfinals of singles" he said. "At first, I was pushed back. 'You're good at this. I need to learn itI thought '," he recalled.
When Shin Yu-bin and Joo Chun-hee are expected to have a bright future for the Korean women's table tennis team ahead of the Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games next year, Shin Yu-bin replied, `I also hope there will be a bright road for Korean women's table tennis.' Youth representatives of 'junior' accompanied the event. Youth and youth representatives will also train together at the Jincheon National Training Center. Seok Eun-mi, the coach of the women's table tennis team, said, `Yubin is the longest and hardest athlete. The atmosphere of training is naturally getting better. For juniors, just watching it is a great learning." Shin Yu-bin said, `I want to do better and produce better results for other players. In particular, I want to show good performance to junior players and young players."
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▶"Fear of China? There's no time for that."
Ahead of the semifinal match against Wang Manyu, some Chinese media mentioned Shin's `fear' toward China. Shin Yu-bin tilted his head. "Actually, I only focus on my play. There is no time for fear to dominate my thoughts. There is no room for fear to come in thinking about how to solve the game. When Shin Yu-bin said, "That's how much the opponent is stronger than me," when he regretted that he had been leading in the first game, but failed to overcome the crisis in the deuce match. I'm not good enough. So I have to add," he replied simply. I'm happy to have crossed China and reached the semifinals of the singles, but I have no intention of being satisfied now. Shin Yu-bin once said, "You can't do it right. As we continue to change, we must continue to find good ways with good directions. This direction may be right now, but there may be a better way. Then I'll try it again. It is my advantage not to be afraid of change."
When asked about the remaining goals in the future, Shin Yu-bin laughed, saying, `The goal at the front was 'Smash Singles semifinals', but I didn't know it would be this fast.' "I will try to win singles medals in major competitions such as the World Championships and the Olympics, or gold medals. I won two bronze medals at the Paris Olympics, and my goal is to change the color of my medal."
Shin will challenge for another podium at the 2025 Asian Championships (team event) in Bhubaneswar, India, from the 11th to the 15th. "It's an honor as much as playing for the national team. If I wear the Korean national flag on my chest and play as the main player in the team event, as always, I will do my best as a representative of the Republic of Korea. "My goal is to win and win a medal no matter which team I meet in the quarterfinals."
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| Women's table tennis team leaving for the Asian Table Tennis Championships. From left, Cho Min-young, medical trainer, Choi Hyun-jin, Shin Yoo-bin, Seo Hyo-won, and Seok Eun-mi. |
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| Korean Air Women's Table Tennis Team Director Joo Se-hyuk and national team member Shin Yoo-bin, Park Ga-hyun and Lee Eun-hye. |
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| Ham sound personal coach Shin Yu-bin. |
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▶ Happy table tennis player
The entire environment surrounding Shin Yu-bin deserves to be called 'Dream Team'. The national team includes veteran leader Seok Eun-mi, coach Choi Hyun-jin, coach Seo Hyo-won, coach Cho Min-young, and medical trainer Cho Min-young. Korean Air, a team that provides generous support after joining the team, has coaches Joo Se-hyuk and Kim Kyung-ah in the 'World Class Defensive Legend'. Coach Ham So-ri and trainer Kim Ga-rim, directly supported by GNS CEO Shin Soo-hyun, shadow accompany them to the site of each WTT competition. Shin Yu-bin, who called himself "Lucky Player", credited his first singles semifinalists to his dedicated teachers. "I'm just a player who runs the results of the training together on the field. I play, but I feel like everyone behind me is running just like me. "When I come to the national team, coach Seok Eun-mi and coach Choi Hyun-jin will technically stick together and coach Ham So-ri will study what to do continuously. Thanks to all these people's grateful efforts, good results have been made. I think I'm so lucky. How can there be such coaches and coaches, I think they're really amazing?" he thanked.
At the end of the interview, Jeon Ji-hee, who reunited in Beijing for the first time in a long time, did not miss the latest talk. Jeon Ji-hee, who announced her retirement after winning the bronze medal in the team event at the Paris Olympics last year, is expected to marry former national team coach Shooker and give birth in January next year. Living near Beijing, she enthusiastically cheered for Shin and the Korean national team in the first row of the stands throughout the tournament. Shin Yu-bin said, "Ji-hee bought me a Beijing duck as soon as I arrived in Beijing, so I think I cheered up and played well thanks to her"I thanked him. "I took a taxi for an hour every day and bought durian, milk tea and fruit for the team. I met my sister and she still looked like a player. 'Hey, don't you have to give birth to a baby next year and do doubles together? Don't you have to prepare for the Olympics again?' I did", he said, hinting at an unwavering friendship.
Jun Ji-hee also volunteered to coach Shin Yu-bin 'left hand' at this competition. "From the first game of a singles match, I kept on being left-handed, and my sister even showed me a posture demonstration like a playing coach on how to receive "left-handed" with a smile." 'The energy of the universe seems to help Shin Yu-binThe words ' 'positive peepers' nodded. "There are so many things I'm really grateful for. I think I'm lucky. Table tennis is fun, and I'm happy every day."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
