Yubin! Yubin! Montpellier's Cheering! Shin Yu-bin, who crossed the Great Wall, beat the world's No. 8 Chen to advance to the semifinals of the WTT Champions (WTT Champions Montpellier)
Nov 02, 2025
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Shin Yu-bin clinched the first semifinal podium at the WTT Champions Montpellier women's singles quarterfinals at the Montpellier Schied-France Arena in France on the 1st (Korea time) by winning the game score 4-2 against the Chinese ace Chen Yi.
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Chen, who maintained the three-game battle line, led 3-0. Shin Yu-bin was pushed to 1-6. But it didn't shake. He overwhelmed his opponent in the forehand rally and chased down to five points and 6-7. Feeling a sense of crisis, the Chinese bench asked for a timeout. In the forehand rally that followed shortly after the timeout, Shin Yu-bin won to tie 7-7, and the three forehand attacks succeeded to turn the tables 8-7. "Yubin! Yubin!" shouts rang out in the arena. "It's salty!overwhelmed " Got the game point first with 10-8. However, Chen, who was on the edge of the cliff, was also not easy. When chasing 10-9, coach Hamsori asked for a timeout, and Chen took the point and entered the 10-10 deuce game. 10-11, the reverse, and the edge came out after giving up game points and lost 10-12, unfortunately. GameScore 1-2.3 Leading 4-1 early in the game. Chen's fierce chase continued, 6-5, but Shin Yu-bin opened the score 7-5, with a sensible push. The coach Hamsori on the bench cheered with his arms raised. Edge's luck and sub-scoring continued to lead 9-5.It won 11–5.
In the flow of five games, Shin Yu-bin's strong three-pitch forehand drive at 7-7 led 8-7. However, he gave up three runs, 8-10, and gave up game points. Shin Yu-bin, who had the serve right, scored two points down and entered the deuce game 10-10, again. However, they lost to Chen 10-12. Game Score 2-3.
In the 6th game, Chen took the flow and Shin Yu-bin fell to 1-4, but calmly overcame the forehand fight to make it 4-4, tie. It fell to 5-7 but tied the game again with a solid reception and a bold attack. Shaking the opponent in a forehand rally, he made an 8-7, turnaround, and scored consecutive points to lead 9-7. However, Chen's counterattack was strong. It's 9-9 again. At the end of the match, Shin Yu-bin was bold. After catching match points, he led a fierce rally to victory, winning 11-9, and the game score 4-2. Shin Yu-bin, who raised his arms and cheered hotly, responded to the enthusiastic support of French fans by waving a hand kiss to the camera.
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Shin replied in fluent English in an interview with WTT after the game. "I was able to do well because the French fans cheered for me a lot."I thanked my home fans. "I'm so happy. I'm really happy to reach the semifinals at Montpellier. I'm going to do it again tomorrow" vowed. The hall was filled with enthusiastic cheers at Shin Yu-bin's French greeting of "'Merci beaucoup!'.
At 7 p.m. on the 2nd, Shin Yu-bin will compete with Sabine Winter (26th in the world), who defeated Du Hoichem (Hong Kong) 4-3 in the quarterfinals. Joo Chun-hee will face the winner of the match between Wang Ei (China) and Harimoto Miwa (Japan) in the semifinals.
Meanwhile, in the men's singles quarterfinals, Jang Woo-jin (Se-ah) beat Lee Sang-soo (Samsung Life Insurance), a senior player, by a score of 4 to 1, and succeeded in advancing to the semifinals for the second consecutive time after WTT Champions Macau.
Reporter Jeon Young-ji sky4us@sportschosun.com
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After bringing one game to 11-7, they lost two games to 8-11, 5-11, pushing the game score to 1-2. However, he brought four games to 11-9 to revive the spark and gave up five games to 4-11, but he succeeded in bringing the game back to square one with six games, sharp attack and 11-3 to win the game score 3-3.
And the last seven games of fate, the first losing points in a row, fell to 1-3, but Joo Chun-hee remained calm. He overcame the rally game following the sub-point and succeeded in turning the tables 4-3, 5-3. However, Hashimoto also faced off with a deep cut and sharp attack. From 5-5 to 8-8, the battle between the spear and the shield continued. After an endless rally, Joo Chun-hee led 9-8, and Hashimoto's reception went off the table, 10-8, and Joo Chun-hee grabbed the match point. Hashimoto chased down the third pitch with a strong smash to 10-9, and the two players continued to rally without conceding in a desperate crisis. The winner of the crazy rally, which seemed unlikely to end, was Joo Chun-hee. He won 11-9 to achieve his thrilling dream of reaching the semifinals. I shared my joy by high-fiving with Samsung Life Insurance coach Chae Yoon-seok.
Born in 2002, naturalized ace Joo Chun-hee is from Shandong Province, China, and joined Samsung Life Insurance in 2018 and acquired Korean nationality in 2020. He reached the quarterfinals last month by beating Japanese ace Ito Mima (8th in the world) and Chinese Xu Xunyao (12th in the world) in Smash, China, and unfortunately missed the semifinals after a close match with Shin Yu-bin, but finished second with Japanese Hina Hayata in the doubles. He is an ace who has already been proven on the world stage, rising to 15th place in the world rankings in 2023. Although he has yet to appear on the world championship stage due to naturalized player regulations, he will be able to participate in next year's Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games and the 2028 LA Olympics. Expectations for next year's Asian Games are also rising as ace players in their early 20s, including top ranker Shin Yoo-bin, naturalized ace Joo Chun-hee and youngest ace Kim Na-young, continue to grow every game.
In an interview with WTT shortly after confirming his advance to the semifinals, Joo Chun-hee said, `I'm happy that both the opponent and I could win by showing good performance in front of a large audience.' `I made good use of the operation I made with coach Chae Yoon-seok before the game, and I'm happy to overcome it with more greed and will in 7 games.'
Joo Chun-hee won in the 1 hour, 17 minutes and 56 seconds of blood fight and mental battle. Asked how he would recover his condition in the semifinals, Joo Chun-hee said, `I'll rest well and eat well for now, and I'll try to play my game no matter who I'm against in the semifinals tomorrow" is a triumphant message of determination
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
