Table tennis Park Ga-hyun and Oh Jun-seong lost to China and won silver medal for mixed World Youth Championships
Table tennis Park Ga-hyun and Oh Jun-seong lost to China and won silver medal for mixed World Youth Championships
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Korean table tennis hopefuls missed their chance to win the 2024 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Youth Championships because they were blocked by the Great Wall.
The duo of Oh Joon-sung (Mirae Asset Securities) and Park Ga-hyun (copyright) had to settle for the silver medal after losing 1-3 (11-89-118-115-11) to China's Huang Yu-cheng-Jong Ke-man Cho in the Under-19 mixed doubles final in Helsingborg, Sweden. 토토사이트
The runner-up in mixed doubles is the second best performance South Korea has ever harvested in the mixed doubles since the 2005 tournament's victory in the Kang Dong-hoon-Sim Saerom group.
Oh Sang, the silver medalist in the men's team event at the 2012 London Olympics, was joined by Oh Joon-sung, the son of Mirae Asset Daewoo, and Park Ga-hyun, the daughter of Park Kyung-soo, a junior representative, from Hannam University, but it was not easy to cross the Chinese wall.
Oh Joon-sung and Park Ga-hyun, who won the semifinal Korea-Japan match and reached the final, got off to a good start by winning the first set 11-8 with a back drive attack against Hwang Yoo-cheong-Jong Ke-man.
However, after losing the second set 9-11, he lost the third set by losing two runs even after chasing 8-9 to allow a set score of 1-2.
The momentum-driven Chinese team secured the championship by taking the fourth set to 11-5.
Lee Seung-soo (Daejeon Dongsan Middle School) and Choi Seo-yeon (Hosu-don Girls' Middle School), who reached the mixed doubles final under-15 (U-15), also lost 1-3 to China's Li Heicheon-Yao Ruishian Cho and stayed in second place.
While Park Ga-hyun and Yoo Hae-rin (Hwaseong City Corporation Youth Team), who reached the U-19 women's doubles semifinals, were eliminated after being defeated 0-3 by the Japanese team, Kim Ga-on (Duhogo) won a ticket to the final in the men's doubles, which formed a "Korea-Japan duo" with Kazuki Yoshiyama of Japan.
In addition, Choi Seo-yeon and Heo Ye-rim (Hwaseong City Corporation Youth Team), who competed in the U-15 women's doubles, also won the semifinal match against the Chinese group with a 3-2 victory and reached the final.