The latest competition schedule of the 2022 International Table Tennis Federation has been released, the WTT Fremont Challenge and the WTT Westchester Challenge will be held in the United States, the Chinese team has not been registered, and many masters from the foreign association have participated, and another 17-year-old young player has also attracted everyone's attention, that is, the South Korean rising star who has hit Olympic champion Ito Mimako 11-0 - Shin Yubin.
Prior to this, Shin Yubin had withdrawn from the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and other events for serious injury reasons, and now he finally wants to return to the field to participate in the WTT Challenge, but unfortunately he has missed the Asian Games and World Table Tennis Selection of the South Korean team, which is a pity.
Born in 2004, Shin Yu-bin is the star of hope for South Korean women's table tennis, 15-15 years old single set 11-0 critical hit Ito Mimako, 16-year-old was selected for the Tokyo Olympics roster, became the world's youngest table tennis team at that time, so everyone also regarded it as an important opponent of the Chinese team in the future.
But after the Tokyo Olympics, Shin Yubin soon fell into injury trouble, and as a result, Houston announced his retirement after half of the World Table Tennis Championships, and then did not return to the field until this month, when the news of his comeback finally came out.
According to previous reports, Shen Yubin has been recuperating for such a long time because of a stress fracture in the arm during training, although I don't know what the specific injury is, but it can make her give up two consecutive World Table Tennis Championships and one Asian Games competition and selection, which is definitely a big problem.
Just as the so-called "injury is as fierce as a tiger", for competitive sports athletes, the physical situation may have a decisive impact on their own competition results and even their careers, Liu Guozheng and others were examples at that time, and now Shen Yubin is no exception.
But the earth will not stop functioning without anyone, and the Korean table tennis team is no exception. Just this month, a year younger than Shen Yubin, a new star Jin Naying won consecutive victories in the team of various masters, upset to win the Hangzhou Asian Games and Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships qualification, which also shows that Shen Yubin has ushered in a competitor of the same age group.
So can this trip to the United States be a new starting point for Shen Yubin to reinvigorate himself? The answer is revealed next month, let's wait and see what happens!