![]() ![]() Korea made a grand debut on the big stage, winning two of the four gold medals, one silver and one bronze on home ground. Four events were played at the Games, the men’s and women’s singles and doubles. Mixed doubles pair Jeon Ji-hee, left, and Lee Sang-su Table tennis debuted as an Olympic sport in Korea at the 1988 Seoul Games, making the Seoul National University Gymnasium the first Olympic table tennis court in history. 22 Lee Sang-su joining the two for the men’s team event. Jeon and Lee will play the mixed doubles event. 13 Jeong Young-sik will play the men’s singles with No. 14 Jeon Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin will play the women’s singles, with Choi Hyo-joo joining the two for the women’s team event. There will be four singles matches followed by a doubles match, so one player from each team will play two games while the other two will play one. For team matches, there are three players per team. In each game, the first player to reach 11 points with a margin over two points wins the game. Singles matches will be played as a best of seven. Table tennis is divided into men's and women’s singles and team matches, with the Tokyo Games adding a mixed doubles event to the roster. Team Korea will send six table tennis players to smash their way through all five medal events at the Tokyo Olympics. Shin and Cho Dae-seong were defeated in their mixed doubles match by Bernadette Szocs and Ovidiu Ionescu of Romania in the round of 32 as were Jang and Jeon against Chien-An Chen and Szu-Yu Chen of Taiwan.Table tennis players practice at the Jincheon National Training Center in Jincheon, North Chungcheong on April 14, a hundred days ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Shin and Jeon Ji-hee lost to Natalia Malinina and Elizabet Abraamian of Russia in the women's doubles round of 32 while Choi Hyo-joo and Lee Zion advanced to the quarterfinals but lost their quarterfinal match against Chinese duo Tianyi Quian and Meng Chen. 23 but dropped out in the next round losing 4-3 to Sarah De Nutte of Luxembourg. Alongside Suh in the women's singles, Shin Yu-bin beat 2020 Tokyo team bronze medalist Wai Yam Minnie Soo from Hong Kong in four straight sets in the first round on Nov. ![]() It is also the first time in 12 years that a Korean player has reached the singles' quarterfinals. This is Suh's best result at the World Table Tennis Championships as she has only reached the round of 16 twice in 20. Suh Hyo-won missed out on a medal on Saturday, losing the quarterfinals in straight sets against Yingsha Sun of China. Now the weeklong World Table Tennis Championships are finished and Korea go home with just one silver medal after other Korean athletes missed out on the podium. Brown Convention Center on Monday in Houston, Texas. Korean fans cheer from the stands during the men's doubles final between Lim Jong-hoon and Jang Woo-jin and Kristian Karlsson and Mattias Falck of Sweden during the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships Finals at George R. The fourth set went to a 10-10 tie and Korea were unable to add any more points while Sweden added two more to take the win. Korea were able to take a win in the third set after a deuce. Jang and Im put up a good fight against the strong Swedish team but conceded the first two sets 11-8 and 15-13. China won gold at the men’s and women’s singles, the women’s doubles and the mixed doubles. The Swedish pair had won against China in the quarterfinals and the semifinals to reach the final stage, taking the only gold medal that China missed out on at the Championships. ![]() Jang and Im missed out on the gold medal, losing the men's doubles final match 3-1 to Sweden's Kristian Karlsson and Mattias Falck. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, on Monday. Jang Woo-jin and Im Jong-hoon won Korea's first-ever men's doubles silver medal at the 2021 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals at George R. ![]() Lim Jong-hoon, left, and Jang Woo-jin compete during the men's doubles final match against Sweden's Kristian Karlsson and Mattias Falck at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships Finals in Houston, Texas, on Monday. ![]()
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