The South Korean women’s table tennis team has been handed a tough draw at the BNK Busan Bank 2024 World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea, where they will face China in the semifinals. The draw for the women’s tournament was held on Tuesday at the tournament venue, Busan BEXCO. With the top-ranked team in each group advancing directly to the round of 16, while the second- and third-ranked teams must play a round of 24 to reach the round of 16, South Korea will face the winner of the Brazil (14th)-Hungary (16th) match in the round of 16. Next door, China will play the winner of the Austria (#23) – Thailand (#18) matchup.
If Korea and China win their round of 16 matches, they will face off in the quarterfinals .The South Korean women’s team, led by Oh Kwang-heon, will be led by the “one-two punch” of Shin Yoo-bin (No. 8-Korean Air) and Jeon Jeon-hee (No. 21-Mirae Asset Securities), who won the women’s doubles gold medal at last year’s Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, but the gap between them and the No. 3-5 options – Lee Eun-hye (No. 66-Korean Air), Lee Sion (No. 46-Samsung Life) and Yoon Hyo-bin (No. 159-Mirae Asset Securities) – is not small, making their strength uneven.
China, on the other hand, comes into the tournament with one of the strongest lineups in the world, with Sun Yingxia, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and No. 7 Chen Tianyi, who are ranked 1-4 in singles. On paper, this is a very difficult opponent for South Korea to beat.I t’s been 12 years since the 2012 Dortmund Games, and it’s been difficult for South Korea to reach the podium. China, who have not lost a gold medal since Dortmund, will be looking to win their sixth 온라인카지노 consecutive title.