The Korean Table Tennis Association announced the selection time for Korean table tennis players to participate in the international competition in 2022, which is divided into two stages: January 4-7 and January 9-13, through the selection of 2 men and 3 places for women. According to the regulations of the Korean Table Tennis Association, the top 20 singles players in the world are directly guaranteed, namely Jang Woo-jin, Jung Young-sik and Lee Sang-so of the men's team, and Tian Ji-hee and Xu Hyo-won of the women's team, of which the 35-year-old veteran Xu Hyo-won became the oldest player in the Korean team. And Lin Zhongxun, who just won the runner-up of the men's doubles at the World Championships this year, can only compete for the final place in the competition through the selection competition because the world ranking is too low.
The Korean Table Tennis Association also has certain reservations for the selection competition, especially stipulating the direct guarantee of the top 20 places in the world singles ranking to participate in the team competition of the 2022 Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Games. The men's team of Jang Woo-jin, Jeong Young-sik and Lee Sang-so meet the rules of the Table Tennis Association, and all three are ranked 11-20th in the world. Jang Woo-jin reached the top 8 of the World Cup and the top 4 of the finals in 2020, and is also the highest ranking player in the world at present in South Korea's men's table tennis, Jung Young-sik and Lee Sang-so once ranked 1st in the men's doubles event, Jung Young-sik once withdrew from the national team after the Tokyo Olympic Games, but the recent WTT World Cup Finals still reached the top 8, the strength is still there, Lee Sang-so is competitive in the men's doubles and mixed doubles events, and the 2022 Asian Games are expected to win a doubles medal with Jung Young-sik and Tian Ji-hee respectively.
The women's team's Tian Zhixi and Xu Xiaoyuan are also the world's top 20 singles masters, Tian Zhixi is a naturalized player, once played in the Hebei team, to the Korean club, and then slowly joined the Korean nationality in the Korean national team to become a well-deserved sister, but in the international arena Tian Zhixi's singles results are average, there is no Olympic and World Championships to reach the women's singles top 8 record, Xu Xiaoyuan has a dark horse move in the just-concluded Houston World Table Tennis Championships, after defeating Du Kaixuan in Hong Kong, Xu Xiaoyuan scored into the women's singles top 8, This is also her best singles performance, 35-year-old Xu Xiaoyuan is the face value of Korean women's table tennis, the chipping technology is stable, and it is also the best performance of the Korean women's team.
Unlike the escort of several veterans, the young Lin Jong-hoon, Ahn Jae-hyun, Shin Yu-bin and others can only participate in the selection competition because of insufficient world rankings, and play a bloody road through real knives and guns. Lin Jong-hoon, who has just won the men's doubles runner-up at the World Table Tennis Championships, is the representative of the young members of the Korean men's table tennis team, he also beat the No. 4 seed Taipei star Lin Yunru in the singles competition, the strength is not bad, and the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles runner-up An Jae-hyun also has to participate in the selection competition, and the young team member Who is expected to succeed Lee Sang-so in the doubles event is also expected to get a place through the selection competition, when the fierce competition will have one person who will be out, because only 2 places are to be determined.
The 17-year-old Shen Yubin of the women's team will also participate in the competition of the selection competition, although it has the reputation of "talented girl", but compared with Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Ito Mimako in the same age, Shen Yubin's singles strength is still slightly inferior, she will participate in the competition for the last 3 places with her teammates such as Li Shiwen and Cui Xiaozhu, and it is more likely that Shen Yubin's strength will stand out from the selection competition.