Hyun Jeong-hwa
Women’s table tennis legend Hyun Jeong-hwa (55), who won gold medals at the Olympics, World Championships, and Asian Games, urged the women’s table tennis team, which only won no medals at the World Championships, to work harder.
Hyun Jeong-hwa, chairman of the competition executive committee, evaluated the performance of the men’s and women’s national teams at the final press conference for the ‘BNK Busan Bank 2024 Busan World Table Tennis Championships’ (team event) held at BEXCO in Busan on the afternoon of the 24th.
On the same day, the men’s national team lost to China in the semifinals with a match score of 2-3. Jang Woo-jin and Lee Sang-soo won and the match score was 2-1, and they needed just one more win to defeat China, but Korea suffered a come-from-behind loss by losing two games in a row.
Chairman Hyun highly praised the men’s national team game. He said, “Across all games around the world, no country has played a game like this against China for over ten years. The performance of the Korean men’s players was that good,” and “When they were ahead 2-1, it was such a good game that you thought they would write history again.” “It was the content,” he said.
At the same time, Chairman Hyeon made a bitter comment towards the women’s national team. He advised, “Today’s men’s team match was very close to China’s in terms of skill. They played like this because they had the ability to score,” and added, “Compared to that, the women’s team is far behind in terms of scorers and technical skills. We need to work harder to narrow it down.” did.
In fact, the women’s national team suffered a complete defeat against China in the quarterfinals of this tournament.
In the match held on the 22nd, Lee Si-on, Jeon Ji-hee, and Shin Yu-bin played one after another, but were defeated by the world’s best Chinese players one after another and bowed with a match score of 0-3. While the men’s national team won two out of five games and pushed China to the brink of defeat, the women’s team failed to win a single game.
The content of the game was also one-sided. Si-ion Lee gave up 11 points in games 1 and 3 against world No. 1 Sun Yingsha, while scoring only 1 point, causing a sigh of relief.
Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin also failed to show their spirit against Chen Meng and Wang Yi-di, respectively, and suffered a complete loss without winning a single game. Some spectators, disappointed by the lethargic performance, left the stadium even before the game ended.
Voices are growing that Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee, who are likely to compete for the national team at the Paris Olympics, should work harder. This means that we need to come up with a secret plan to defeat China through rigorous training and more detailed operational preparations.
Chairman Hyun advised that in order to beat China, we must go through a more difficult training process. He said, “In China, behind every good player, there are other good players,” and “If you want to beat China, you have to put your heart and soul into it.”
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2024-02-25 02:22:00
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