On the evening of March 13, Beijing time, with the departure of the beautiful woman Xu Xiaoyuan, the 5 participants of the South Korean women's team have been wiped out in the singles event, and the other 4 are Tian Zhixi, Liang Xiayin, Cui Xiaozhu and Lee Shiwen.
Prior to this, the Korean women's table tennis has experienced many coaching staff changes, the internal is very unstable, the results are deteriorating, coupled with their youngest rising star Shin Yubin because of injury and vacation, so now the whole team has entered a big low, it seems difficult to rise again in the short term, it is really miserable!
Speaking of the South Korean women's table tennis team, they were also a powerful team, they won the women's doubles gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, the 1991 Chiba World Table Tennis Championships and the North Korean team to win the team championship, and the 1993 Gothenburg World Table Tennis Championships won the women's singles gold medal, and among them there is Hyun Jinghe's figure, Gu I Nooya.
However, since the mid-to-late 1990s, the strength of Korean women's table tennis has deteriorated, although it can occasionally create good results in Asian competitions, it is difficult to threaten the Chinese team, and in recent years, it has become worse and worse, and the team is also full of Chinese players, and the best result is only Liang Xiayin and Xu Xin to win the mixed doubles gold medal in the World Table Tennis Championships together.
In this Grand Slam, the Korean women's team sent Tian Zhixi, Xu Xiaoyuan, Liang Xiayin, Choi Hyo-joo, and Lee Shi-win to compete, and as a result, all 5 of them fell before the second round of the main tournament, including:
Lee Eun-hye qualified for "one round" and was eliminated by India's Akula; Tian Zhixi, Liang Xiayin and Choi Hyo-joo were out of the first round of the tournament, losing to Liu Shiwen (China), Bruna (Brazil) and Shan Xiaona (Germany), respectively; Xu Xiaoyuan lost to Hong Kong's Li Haoqing - at this point, the South Korean women's singles team officially announced that it was "finished".
In general, the decline of Korean women's table tennis is also inevitable. On the one hand, local athletes do not want to forge ahead, and their achievements are more and more supported by Chinese players, which will naturally consume the enthusiasm of internal training of new talents over time; on the other hand, the coaching team has become a pot of porridge, and recently almost every year has to change the coach, there is no rule on the top, and the following is naturally chaotic.
The main attraction of the next Korean women's table tennis is still on the 17-year-old young player Shin Yubin, I don't know when she will be able to return to the field after injury? Let's wait and see what happens!