Shin Yu-bin & Lim Jong-hoon Win WTT Finals, Beat Harimoto & Jeong Jo-jun

(Export News Reporter Kim Yu-min) ‘Fantasy Combi’ Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange) and Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air), representing Korean table tennis, won the final match for two consecutive weeks.

Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin were finished in the ‘World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender Zagreb 2025’ mixed doubles semi-finals in Zagreb, Croatia, on the 28th.

Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin won the WTT Star Contender Ryublana in the quarter-finals of the WTT Star Contend, defeating Harimoto Onui Combi 3-1 and winning the championship. This time, we will be able to win the championship by passing the hump well.




Harimoto Combi in Japan, which was defeated by Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin in Korea and Japan, is attracting attention as a supernova that will be responsible for 10 years of Japanese table tennis. Both were born under a Chinese parent from a table tennis player and went to Japan when they were young.

Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin’s breathing breathing game was outstanding.

Shin Yu-bin’s stable receiving and Lim Jong-hoon’s sharp drive attack won 11-3 wins from the first game. He won 14-12 victories in the tight 2 game deuce. Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin, who had risen, confirmed the finals by defeating Harimoto Combi 11-3 in three games.

Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin, who came to the finals, competed with China’s Hwang Yu-jeong-Chun-yi.

Lim Jong-hoon won 3-1 (9-11 11-8 11-8 11-8) in Korea’s Park Kyu-hyun and Woo Hyung-kyu (Lee Mirae Asset Securities) in the men’s doubles quarterfinals who took a breath with the same team junior Ahn Jae-hyun. Hwang Yu-jeong-Schrey Joe in China will play the final ticket.

In the women’s doubles, Yuhanna-Kim Na-young joins the semi-finals and is about to confront Japan’s Yokoi Sakura-Sato Hitomi.

Cho Dae-sung (Samsung Life), who played the men’s singles round 16, failed to advance to the quarter-finals by losing 1-3 to Germany Andre Bertelsmeyer.

Photo = Yonhap News, World Table Tennis Official SNS

By Kim Yu -min, reporter k48944@xportsnews.com

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