On January 18, Beijing time, the national championship of Korean table tennis will officially kick off, and the competition will last for 6 days until the end of January 23. At present, the two major opponents of national table tennis and the two main Olympic players of the South Korean women's team - Tian Zhixi and Shin Yubin have retired due to injury, but the men's team's famous players Zhang Yuzhen, Zheng Rongshi, Lee Sang-so, Ahn Jae-hyun, Lim Jong-hoon, Cho Dae-sung and others have signed up to participate.
It is worth mentioning that from January 19 to 23, the elite of the national table tennis will participate in the WTT Macau Competition; from January 24 to 30, the Japanese National Championship will also start: the three-country table tennis conference between China, Japan and South Korea will be held in January, and it will be so lively when 2022 arrives, and the fans and friends are really blessed!
Friends who pay attention to table tennis know that the South Korean team has always been a fierce rival of national table tennis, has won Olympic gold medals and world championships many times, has a deep foundation, and there is also a relatively mature league mechanism in China, so their internal competition is also very fierce, world champion Liang Xiayin, cutting famous player Xu Xiaoyuan and others lost last year's Tokyo Olympic Games.
However, just as the so-called feng shui takes turns, after the arrival of 2022, the olympic main players Tian Zhixi and Shen Yubin have been unwell, so they have no chance to participate in this championship, so this year's duel is relatively less to watch, Liang Xiayin and Xu Xiaoyuan immediately became the hot people who won the championship.
Compared with the women's team, the overall level of Korean men's table tennis is higher, Jang Yu-jin, Jeong Young-sik, Lee Sang-so are all the main players who have defeated the national table tennis (Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan and others have been recruited), Ahn Jae-hyun is the men's singles runner-up of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, and Lin Jong-hoon is the men's doubles runner-up of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships.
As for Cho Dacheng's words, the progress is also very fast, he reached the final in 2018, and later defeated Mizutani Hayabusa/Ito Mimachi with Shin Yubin in the Mixed Doubles event of the Open, is the hope star of the Korean team, and is generally expected to become the leader of the next generation of Korean men's table tennis, which is also worthy of attention.
So which Korean players will be crowned in this championship? The answer is about to be revealed, let's sit back and wait for the latest war report to come back!