Shin Yu-bin (front) won both the women’s singles and mixed doubles on the first day of the 2021 International Table Tennis Federation World Championships Finals held in Houston, Texas, USA on the 24th (Korean time). [사진 제공 = 대한탁구협회]Shin Yu-bin (17, Korean Air), the next-generation ace of Korean women’s table tennis, raised momentum by defeating the bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on the first day of her world championship debut.
Shin Yubin defeated Suwai Yam Mini (34th, Hong Kong) 4-0 (11-8, in the first round of the women’s singles on the first day of the 2021 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Championships Finals held in Houston, Texas, USA on the 24th (Korean time)) 11-7, 11-6, 11-3) and advanced to the second round.
Suwai Yam, who is six years older than 17-year-old Shin Yu-bin, was a rather burdensome opponent to meet in the first round. Not only did he lead in the world rankings, but he also had the memory of losing to him. It was Suwai Yam who gave Shin Yu-bin a 0-3 defeat in the first singles match against Hong Kong at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Indonesia, where Shin Yu-bin made her national debut two years ago. Suwaiyam, who gave Shin Yubin a three-game losing streak, including as a junior, won bronze medals at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, the 2018 World Table Tennis Championships in Halmstad, and this year’s Tokyo Olympics. grew up
However, Shin Yubin showed a steeper growth than that. It could be said that Shin Yu-bin overwhelms the opponent in both offense and defense and won the game completely. It was a three-point win in the first game, but the score gap widened as the game progressed, and it took only 30 minutes to win by four games.
Now, Yubin Shin faces Sarah Denut (79th, Luxembourg) in the second round (round 64). At this rate, the confrontation with the current world’s strongest man Qianmeng (No. 1, China) will be the biggest turning point. At the Asian Championships in September, Shin Yu-bin, who won one gold and two silver medals, is interested in whether she can win medals in two major tournaments in a row.
Shin Yu-bin, who competes in three events, including women’s doubles and mixed doubles, in addition to women’s singles in this tournament, competed with Cho Dae-seong (19, Samsung Life Insurance), who is showing the power of young blood in the national team as a teenager in the first round of mixed doubles (round 64) held earlier. win together. They defeated Nikil Kumar and Amy Wang (USA) 3-0 (11-8, 11-3, 11-6). In the women’s doubles with Jeon Ji-hee (29, POSCO Energy), who jointly won the gold medal at the Asian Championships, the women’s doubles will pass the round of 64 by bye and start from the round of 32.
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