Shin Yu-bin Changed Pair, Women's Doubles Bronze Medal at World Championships

Shin Yu-bin Changed Pair, Women's Doubles Bronze Medal at World Championships

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Korean women's table tennis "ace" Shin Yu-bin (21) won a bronze medal in women's doubles at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Championships with her new partner Yuhan (23). With her victory at the World Championships, the prospects for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games next year have also been brightened.

Shin Yu-bin and Yoo Han-na lost 2-3 (5-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-9, 9-11) to Polkanova Sofia (31, Austria) and Bernadette Schütz (30, Romania) in the women's doubles semifinal match held at Lusail Sports Arena in Doha, Qatar on the 25th (Korea time). They won the bronze medal according to the rules of the tournament, which does not play the third-place match.

Unlike the Olympics and Asian Games, the World Championships can also form doubles groups with athletes of other nationalities. The Sofia-Sötz group is a powerhouse in women's doubles, having worked together for a long time and won the European Championships. Unlike them, the Shin Yu-bin and Yoo Han-na groups played equally even though they had only been working together for three months. After exchanging one game at a time, the game continued to the last five games, and they lost unfortunately when Yuhan's receiving went off the table while trailing 9-10.

Shin Yu-bin has been in a doubles group with Jeon Ji-hee (33) for a long time. Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee's group peaked with a silver medal at the 2023 World Championship and a gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held in the same year. As Jeon Ji-hee retired from the national team in November last year, Shin Yu-bin, who is looking for a new partner, will work with Yuhan, who collaborated to win the women's doubles title at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship. Shin Yu-bin and Yoo Han-na's group predicted their possibility as runner-up World Table Tennis (WTT) star contenders in March, and their advance to the semifinals of the World Championship raised expectations for the future. 메이저사이트

Immediately after the match, Shin said, "Unlike the previous quarterfinal match, today's match was a bit frustrating. I think it's because we haven't been in sync for a long time," adding, "We've shown everything we can do technically. I think we can achieve better results if we make up for our shortcomings and gain experience going forward."

Shin also won a bronze medal in mixed doubles, where she worked with Lim Jong-hoon (28) of the Korea Exchange. Korea finished the World Championships with two bronze medals in women's doubles and mixed doubles. Shin Yu-bin, who won two bronze medals, was recorded as a female athlete who won two or more medals in the individual competition at the World Championships, following Hyun Jung-hwa (56), who won the gold medal in women's singles and mixed doubles silver medal at the 1993 Gothenburg World Championships.