Shin Young-won, who is trying to win the PBA for the second consecutive time, will face wild card Cho Byung-wook in the 128th round

Nov 02, 2025

'Shin Sung'Kim Young-won is trying to win his second consecutive PBA Tour victory. Photo courtesy =PBA

Kim Young-won (Harim), who is trying to win his second consecutive PBA Tour title, will play his first match of the tournament against wild card Cho Byung-wook in the round of 128 PBA.

On the 2nd, the Pro Danggu Association (PBA, President Youngsoo Kim) announced the match table for the 7th Tour of the 2025-26 season of Pro Danggu 'Happiness Shelter High1 Resort PBA-LPBA Championship'. The High1 Resort Championship will be held at the High1 Resort Grand Hotel Convention Tower in Jeongseon-gun, Gangwon-do from the 3rd to the 11th.

According to the announced match table, Kim Young-won, the winner of the 6th Tour (Huons Championship), will face Cho Byung-wook, who will participate in the tournament as a wild card in the round of 128 PBA at 10 p.m. on the 6th. Kim Young-won won his first championship of the season by beating his best opponents on the last tour, and will try to win for the second consecutive time.

Kim Young-won's opponent, Cho Byung-wook, has no experience in the first part of the tour and has traveled between the Dream Tour (Part 2) and the Challenge Tour (Part 3), and his best record is the quarterfinals recorded in Game 5 of the Dream Tour last season. In the second round of this season's Dream Tour, he advanced to the round of 16.

The opening game (Woori Financial Capital Championship) and Daniel Sanchez (Spain, Welcome Savings Bank), the runner-up of the 6th tour, will face wild card Kim Won-jae at 10 p.m. on the 6th.

Korean strongmen Cho Jae-ho (NH Nonghyup Card) and Kang Dong-gung (SK Rent-a-Car) will face Nam Sang-min and Yoon Soon-jae in the round of 128 PBA at 11 p.m. on the 5th, respectively. Choi Sung-won (Huons) will face Kim Sung-min 2 at 12 p.m. on the 6th. Choi Sung-won also faced Kim Sung-min 2 in the round of 128 on the last tour, which won the set score 3-0.

Eddie Leffens (SK Rent-a-Car, Belgium), who lifted this season's trophy, will face Choi Woo-jin at 11 p.m. on the 5th, while Lee Seung-jin and Yusuke Mori (Japan, SY) will face Yoon Kyun-ho and Kim Do-kyun, respectively, at 6 p.m. on the 5th. David Martinez (Spain, Crown Haitai) will face Kim Kyung-min at 1 p.m. on the 5th, and Murat Najee Choklu (Türkiye, Hana Card) will face off against Jeon Jae-hyung, a promising Dream Tour player, at 5 p.m. on the 6th.

In addition, Lee Chung-bok (High1 Resort) will face off against Gu Min-su at 1 p.m. on the 5th, while "Mr. Magic" Semi-Signer (Turkey, Welcome Savings Bank) will face Moon Sung-won at 6 p.m. on the 5th. At the same time 'Turkiye powerhouse'Lutfi Chenet (High1 Resort) faces Choi Han-sol in the round of 128 PBA.

The opening ceremony of the High1 Resort PBA-LPBA Championship, which will be held from the 3rd, will be held at 12:30 p.m. on the 5th. The LPBA final will be held at 10 p.m. on the 10th and the PBA final at 9 p.m. on the 11th.