There are still more than two months to go before the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in November 2021, but the importance of this event makes every association attach great importance to it, after the Olympic Games, every association is actively preparing, and The withdrawal of Jung Young-sik caught the South Korean team off guard, in order to quickly adjust the preparations, the Korean team announced the latest participation list.
For fans familiar with table tennis, Jung Young-sik's exit affects not only the singles event, But also Lee Sang-so's forced to split, but in turn, it seems that this will also be an opportunity for newcomers.
At the World Championships in Houston in November this year, the latest roster of the South Korean team is as follows:
Men's Singles: Lee Sang-so, Ahn Jae-hyun, Lin Joong-hoon, Jang Woo-jin, Hwang Myung-ho
Women's Singles: Xu Xiaoyuan, Shen Yubin, Li Shiwen, Cui Xiaozhu, Tian Zhixi
Men's Doubles: Zhang Yuzhen / Lin Zhongxun, Ahn Jae-hyun / Cho Dae-sung
Women's Doubles: Tian Zhixi / Shin Yubin, Choi Hyo Joo / Lee Shi-wen
Mixed doubles: Zhang Yuzhen / Tian Zhixi, Zhao Dacheng / Shen Yubin
Men's singles, Lee Sang-so and Jang Woo-jin are the main Olympic players, the other three are Ahn Jae-hyun, Lin Joong-hoon and Hwang Myung-ho, Ahn Jae-hyun made a splash at the last Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, defeated Jang Ben-chi-ho and broke into the final four of the World Table Tennis Championships, the performance is very outstanding, but recently Ahn Jae-hyun has few opportunities to participate in large-scale competitions, and Jung Young-sik's withdrawal may give Ahn Jae-hyun more opportunities.
Lin Zhongxun appeared more in the Open tournament. At the 2018 China Open, Xu Xin was in poor shape and suffered a round trip, which was lost at the hands of Lin Zhongxun. Huang Minghe rarely appears in matches, and national table tennis fans are not very familiar with him.
Women's singles, table tennis beauty Xu Xiaoyuan will also appear in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, although missed the Tokyo Olympic Games, but Xu Xiaoyuan will continue her career, Shin Yubin is a representative player of the new generation of forces, not only representing the Korean team on the stage of the Tokyo Olympic Games, but also the key training object of the Korean team, in the team's competition, Shin Yubin's performance is very strong, has become the main force of women's singles.
Choi Hyo-joo also participated in the Tokyo Olympics, Lee Shi-moon also has her place in the Korean women's team, Tian Ji-hee is a very good player in the current Korean team, the Tokyo Olympics are in the triathlon, and the Houston World Table Tennis Championships is still a triathlon, and has the opportunity to participate in the Paris Olympic Games three years later.
In the men's doubles, Lee Sang-so and Jeong Young-sik are right, so Lee Sang-so also lost the opportunity to compete in the men's doubles, after all, the doubles need to cooperate, Jang Woo-jin and Lim Joong-hoon will participate in the competition, and Ahn Jae-hyun and Cho Dae-sung are the future stars of the Korean doubles. It's worth looking forward to.
In terms of women's doubles, Tian Zhixi and Shin Yubin are paired, it can be seen that the South Korean team has reserved strength for the Next Three Years of the Paris Olympic Games, these two are the best candidates for the Women's Singles of the South Korean Team, and the partner of this campaign in women's doubles will also have a good play.
In terms of mixed doubles, as we all know, the mixed doubles of Tian Zhixi and Lee Sang-so can always create miracles, but Lee Sang-so may fade out of the stage, or even miss the Paris Olympic Games three years later, the strength and state decline rapidly, so the mixed doubles side of Tian Zhixi and Jang Yu-jin will become a key combination of the South Korean team.
Another mixed doubles group is Zhao Dacheng and Shen Yubin. In the 2019 Czech Open, Cho Dae-sung Shin Yubin defeated the Japanese table tennis combination Mizutani Hayabusa Ito Mishimasa 3-2 to win the championship, and became famous in one battle, although there have been few partners recently, but the excellent performance and considerable age of the two are the mixed doubles partners that the Korean team attaches great importance to.