Women’s singles and doubles, top-class skills confirmed… Evaluating that men do not live up to expectations
National team coach Kim Chung-hoe “I will improve performance through internal competition”
Korean badminton won three gold medals at the Korea Open Badminton Championships held for the first time in three years, brightening the prospects for the Hangzhou Asian Games to be held in September.
In the finals of each event at the Korea Open held on the 10th, Korea won the women’s singles Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), women’s doubles Jeong Na-eun (Hwasun-gun Office)-Kim Hye-jeong (Samsung Life Insurance), and men’s doubles Kang Min-hyeok (Samsung Life Insurance)-Seo Seung-jae (Army Sports Corps) won the championship. did.
In mixed doubles, Ko Seong-hyeon and Eom Hye-won (Gimcheon City Hall) took the runners-up, and Korea literally took over the Korea Open.
Although he was on the brink of sweeping three gold medals in five events, the national badminton team coach Kim Choong-Hye was ahead of his worries.
In an interview after the tournament ended, coach Kim said, “I expected to win the women’s singles and doubles to some extent, but I didn’t think of winning the men’s doubles.” is not
The men’s singles are also sagging overall,” he said.
As coach Kim said, the badminton team won the Korea Open women’s singles and doubles championship with great strength, but it is evaluated that the men’s singles and doubles and mixed doubles did not perform as expected.
A world-class athlete named Se-Young Ahn is developing her skills day by day in women’s singles, and in women’s doubles, as well as rookies Na-Eun Jeong and Hye-Jeong Kim, as well as veterans So-Young Kim (Incheon International Airport)- Hee-Yong Gong (Jeonbuk Bank) and So-Hee Lee-Seung-Chan Lee (Above Incheon International Airport) this is alive
The problem is that the men’s national team doesn’t show as much performance as expected.
In the men’s doubles, Kang Min-hyuk and Seo Seung-jae, who appeared like a comet, took a surprise victory, but Choi Sol-gyu (Army National Army)-Kim Won-ho (Samsung Life Insurance), who had high expectations, placed 2nd in the world in the quarterfinals 0- to Indonesia’s Mohammed Asan-Hendra Setiawan was defeated by 2.
Kim Jae-hwan (Incheon Airport)-Kim Young-hyeok (Army Athletic Corps) and Jinyong (Yonex)-Na Seong-seung (Army Athletic Corps) also failed to advance to the quarterfinals. did.
In the mixed doubles match, Ko Seong-hyeon and Eom Hye-won, who retired from the national team in 2016, were also successful by taking runners-up, but the active national team players Seo Seung-jae-Chae Yoo-jeong (Incheon Airport) and Kim Young-hyeok (Army Sports Unit)-Kim Hye-jeong, Kang Min-hyeok-Baek Hana (MG) Saemaul Geumgo) were eliminated in the quarterfinals.
It was comforting to see Kim Won-ho and Jeong Na-eun, along with Ko Seong-hyeon and Yeom Hye-won, advanced to the semifinals.
The situation in men’s singles is even more serious.
Heo Kwang-hee (Samsung Life Insurance), a strong contender for the championship, threw cold water in the round of 32, losing 0-2 to Weng Hongyang (China), which was ranked only 156.
Kim Dong-hoon (Miryang City Hall) and Lee Dong-geun (Dangjin City Hall) also failed to advance to the quarterfinals, so they were the only ones who did not win a medal among the five events.
The national team, with the Asian Games on the brink, plans to enhance the players’ performance as much as possible by further encouraging internal competition based on their achievements at the Korea Open.
Coach Kim said, “We need to create conditions so that the competition between the representative players can be tighter.” “If there is competitiveness, we can get a synergy effect of leveling up together.”
/yunhap news
