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‘Right score is right’… Sportsmanship Shining Song Min-gyu-Nam Ji-seong Jo

Admitted to “entering” the opponent’s serve-out decision during the 2nd set match

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Nam Ji-seong (left) and Song Min-gyu won the first round.

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-chan = Ji-seong Nam (Sejong City Hall) and Min-gyu Song (KDB Development Bank), who advanced in the second round of men’s doubles at the Australian Open tennis tournament for two years in a row, made their first round victory brighter with mature court manners.

Song Min-gyu and Nam Ji-sung won the first round of men’s doubles at the Australian Open Tennis Tournament held in Melbourne, Australia on the 10th, with a 2-0 (6-4 7-6) pair of Rohan Bophana (India)-Ben McLaclan (Japan).) Defeated.

Nam Ji-seong and Song Min-gyu, who made their debut in the major tournament through this tournament last year, have been named in the second round (final of 32) of the Australian Open for two consecutive years.

During the second set of the match, a rare sight came out.

The second serve was faulted during the serve game of McLaclan, whose father was New Zealander.

The score from 30-0 was reduced to 30-15, and there was room for chase as Song Min-gyu and Nam Ji-seong.

At this time, the game score was tight at 5-5, so every point was an important situation.

However, Bofana-McLaclan Jo protested this decision, saying,’It’s not a fault.’

This contest raised an objection that’the sub came inside the line’ even though there is not much possibility of a misjudgment because it reads electronically without a separate line judge.

If it is true that the serve came inside the line, then Nam Ji-sung’s return could not cross the net, so it would be 40-0 instead of 30-15.

At this time, Song Min-gyu-Nam Ji-seong Cho unexpectedly admitted that the opponent scored correct, saying, “The sub came inside the line”.

In this competition, due to electronic reading, he could not even apply for a’challenge’, so Nam Ji-sung and Song Min-gyu were able to pursue 30-15 just by standing still, but first voluntarily admitted that it is correct to be ’40-0′.

In response, the opponents raised their hands, saying’thank you’, and applause burst out from the stand.

In the end, the game, which was played at 40-0, was won 6-5 by Bofana-Mcclaren, but in the end, after a tie break, Nam Ji-sung and Song Min-gyu won the set score 2-0.

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Nam Ji-sung (left) and Song Min-gyu who participated in the Davis Cup in March 2020.
Nam Ji-sung (left) and Song Min-gyu who participated in the Davis Cup in March 2020.

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After the game, Song Min-gyu said, “I don’t know why the decision through the machine came out, but there were too many balls in the line at that time,” and said, “Of course we could not admit it and endure ( M) He and Ji-seong said,’If I don’t admit this, I’ll steam it too much’ and I decided to give the opponent points.”

Manager Park Seung-gyu praised “(Song) Min-gyu and Ji-sung both players with too good personality,” and explained that “It is a rare sight to recognize the opponent’s point first in an actual game.”

In the second round, Song Min-kyu and Nam Ji-seong will face Michael Venus (New Zealand) and John Pierce (Australia).

In the doubles world ranking, Nam Ji-seong is 119th and Song Min-gyu is 131th, compared to Venus’s 13th and Pierce’s 28th.

Song Min-gyu said through Park, “I will do my best by seeing the odds of the second round as 50-50 as I won the difficult game today.”

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