↑ Lee So-hee and Baek Ha-na won the Best Player Award (MVP) in June at the 2023 MBN Women’s Sports Awards./Photo = MBN
Lee So-hee (29, Incheon International Airport) and Baek Ha-na (22, MG Saemaul Geumgo), the Korean badminton women’s doubles signs, won the 2023 MBN Women’s Sports Awards June Best Player Award (MVP).
Lee So-hee and Baek Ha-na, second in the badminton women’s doubles world ranking, won the women’s doubles final at the 2023 Indonesia Open Badminton Championships held in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 18th of last month.
With this, the two achieved their third win this year alone, following the German Open in March and the Malaysian Masters in May.
Lee So-hee and Baek Ha-na, who started working together in October of last year, have participated in 15 competitions and advanced to the finals 10 times, and have also advanced to the semifinals 14 times in 15 competitions. He showed off his perfect breath with steady performance, including being runner-up four times, and recently raised his world ranking to second place.
Immediately after the awards ceremony held at the Jincheon National Training Center in North Chungcheong Province, the two expressed their impressions of the award, saying, “It is a great honor to receive such a good award.”
In addition, Lee So-hee said, “Hangzhou Asian Games and Paris Olympics gold medal is my goal. I will prepare well so as not to get hurt as much as possible in the process of going there.” He added his future plan, “I will prepare harder.”
The judging committee for the MBN Women’s Sports Awards said, “The Indonesia Open is even more meaningful as it is a special event in the BWF Super 1000 series that will settle the first half of this year. We highly appreciated the fact that we lifted our 3rd trophy of the season and climbed to 2nd place in the world rankings 8 months after the partnership was formed,” he said, revealing the reason for the two MVP selections.
Meanwhile, MBN Women’s
The Sports Grand Prize was established in 2012 to promote female sports and encourage Korean female athletes. Every month, players who have made Korean women’s sports shine are selected as monthly MVPs and awarded, and at the end of the year, players who have contributed to raising the status of Korean women’s sports for a year are invited and a comprehensive awards ceremony is held in December.
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