On January 4, 2022, the selection of the Korean table tennis team, the fierce rival of national table tennis, was postponed for one month, and the competition will be divided into two stages, 10 places will be born, and these 10 people are also expected to become the main force in the new season of this year's international competitions (such as the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games).
According to the rules formulated by the Korean Table Tennis Association, the world's top 20 athletes can be directly guaranteed, and as a result, 5 people meet the requirements, namely Jang Woo-jin, Jeong Young-sik, Lee Sang-so, Tian Ji-hee, Xu Hyo-won, while Olympian Shin Yu-bin, Choi Hyo-joo, and the World Table Tennis Championships men's singles runner-up Ahn Jae-hyun and men's doubles runner-up Lin Jong-hoon can only honestly play the selection competition, and the competition is really fierce!
The Korean table tennis team is a strong team in the Asian and even world table tennis, has won the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup gold medals, but also gave the national table tennis heavy blows, but in recent years, the performance is very general, especially the Tokyo Olympic Games did not win 1 medal in the 5 events is to make their table tennis association feel disgraced.
After the Tokyo Olympics, the main player of the South Korean men's team, Jung Young-sik, claimed to be ashamed of his poor performance, so he voluntarily withdrew from the competition of the Houston Single World Table Tennis Championships and missed an opportunity to participate in the World Series, but now he is back in the main lineup, and it is likely to participate in this year's Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games.
As for Zhang Yuzhen, Li Shangsu and Tian Zhixi, they were originally the main Olympic players, and their rankings were also very high, and it was normal to be escorted. After losing the Olympic Games this year, the news of her retirement was briefly reported, but it was quickly confirmed as a rumor. Although he did not go to Tokyo, Xu Xiaoyuan had a lot of world ranking points in the past, so he could still rank in the main ranks.
South Korean women's table tennis 3 Olympic main players 2 people have to play the audition this time, respectively Shen Yubin and Choi Hyo-joo, especially the former is only 17 years old, has been regarded as the no. 2 person of the team, but in the Olympic Games early out, in the World Table Tennis Championships there were serious injuries, halfway out of the game, and finally failed to achieve good results, urgently need to re-prove themselves.
The young players who are more optimistic about the South Korean men's team are Ahn Jae-hyun and Lin Jong-hoon, the former is the men's singles runner-up of the 2019 Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, and the latter is the men's doubles runner-up of the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, the men's singles dark horse (eliminated the No. 4 seed Lin Yunru), but because the world ranking is too low, so it also has to participate in the selection competition.
According to the arrangement, the men's competition in the first stage of the Korean table tennis selection competition will be held from January 4 to 6, the women's group competition will be held from 6 to 7, and the final selection of the second stage will last from January 9 to 13, so let's wait and see the final results!