The 2023 Korean Table Tennis Comprehensive Championships has ended, and all seven champions have been born, although the son of Olympic runner-up Wu Sang-yun won the men's team, men's singles, and men's doubles three golds and became the focus of attention, but the women's singles championship has also attracted the attention of many fans, that is, Kim Ha-young, a Chinese player who defeated Misei Ito on behalf of the Chinese team ten years ago but has long been naturalized in South Korea.
In this competition, Kim Ha Young performed bravely in the women's singles event, passed all the way to the final, and finally defeated Li Do-eun 3-2 to reach the top.
Jin Heying, formerly known as Li Yiran, was born in 1998, and is roughly the same age as the national table tennis world champions Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong (about 1 year younger), is an athlete from Tianjin, China, and has also achieved good results in domestic and foreign competitions.
In 2013, Kim Ha Young, who was only 15 years old at the time, reached the final of the World Table Tennis Junior Challenge, and the athlete standing opposite her was also a young player who was once unknown but later became the number one opponent of national table tennis, that is, Misei Ito from Japan: But in that encounter, Kim Ha Young had the last laugh and successfully won the championship.
What is embarrassing is that after many years, Kim Ha-young is no longer a Chinese athlete, but naturalized to South Korea, and won the championship of the Korean competition, which is indeed unpredictable.
But then again, there are many more table tennis masters in China than in South Korea, if Kim Ha Young did not make such a choice, then could she have competed with Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong, who were roughly the same batch as herself?
However, South Korea's table tennis level is actually not bad, so although Kim Ha-young won the women's singles championship of the comprehensive championship this time, the women's team final was a thousand miles away, and she lost 0-3 to Liang Xiayin/Yoo Hanna in the first set with Park Gyu-hyun, and lost to Liang Xiayin 1-3 in the third set, becoming the biggest "culprit" of the team's collapse, which is indeed impermanence.
At present, Tian Zhixi and Zhu Qianxi of South Korean women's table tennis are all Chinese players, and there is still a big gap between Kim Ha Young and them, plus the age is not small, maybe the current results are already their own ceiling: competition is everywhere, China and South Korea are no exception!
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