On April 20, Beijing time, the first stage of the Korean table tennis team world table tennis championships, Asian Games selection tournament ended, the men's team famous Player Zhang Yuzhen, the women's team young player Jin Naying with the first place results successfully shortlisted, got the qualification of the two major competitions, of which Jin Naying is only 16 years old, ranked 493 in the world, last year only graduated from junior high school, this time is really a super cold door, even she herself did not expect it!
According to the rules, the player with the highest number of points in the first round will directly qualify for the World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Games, and in the second round, 4 men and 3 women will be determined - the reason why the women's team will have one less place is because the Chinese star Tian Zhixi has been shortlisted in advance with the world ranking.
On the evening of April 19, the first stage of the South Korean men's team actually ended ahead of schedule, because Jang Woo-jin had already crushed opponents such as Lee Sang-so and Ahn Jae-hyun with an absolute advantage, and successfully won the first place. For this result, Zhang Yuzhen expressed great satisfaction and bluntly defended his honor.
Relatively speaking, the results of women's table tennis came out a little later: on April 20, Kim Na-young came out on top with a good result of 7 wins and 1 loss, becoming the third athlete of the South Korean team to be selected for the World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Games, for which Kim Na-young himself also felt incredible, bluntly saying that he never expected to be able to take the first place, originally just with a learning mentality, it was really a surprise!
As a young player born in 2005, Kim Na-young is 1 year younger than the number one rising star of the South Korean women's team, Shin Yu-bin, and recently Shin Yu-bin withdrew from the selection of the World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Games due to injury, so Kim Na-young's ascension effectively filled the gap left by Shin Yu-bin, and it can also be regarded as a unique contribution to the rejuvenation of Korean women's table tennis.
At this point, the roster of the two major competitions of the South Korean team is already three out of ten, and in addition to Shin Yubin, another national table tennis rival, Jeong Young-sik, has not participated this time, and it is said that he is no longer in the South Korean national team, so everyone will not see him appear in the chengdu and Hangzhou arenas - so which other athletes can get tickets for the second stage? Let's wait and see!