North Korean and South Korean table tennis doubles to become a simple team ceremony … Northern players in Chungnam Daejeon

The North Korean team will participate in the International Tournament of the International Table Tennis League (ITTF) Platinum, 2018 The Korea Korea Open of Shinhan Financial will take a flight to South Korea in On the afternoon of the 15th.

Sixteen North Korean athletes, each consisting of eight men and two women, will arrive at Incheon International Airport via Beijing, China. They attend a brief welcome event organized by the Korean Table Tennis Association and go directly to the hostel, Daejeon.

The Korea Open will be held at Daejeon Chungmu Gymnasium and Hanbat Gymnasium from 17-22. 235 athletes from 27 countries compete in seven categories: men and women, doubles, mixed doubles, and men. women under 21 years old.

This is the first time that North Korea has participated in the Korea Open.

The female athletes consisted of Kim Sun-hyun, Choi Hyun-hwa, Kim Nam-hae, Lee Hyun-shim, Jeong Eun-joo, Kim Sung-shon and Song Kyung from the bronze medals of the single Olympic women to Rio de Janeiro. In May 2018 world championship table tennis (group show) ending in Halmstad, Sweden, he meets with Seo Hyo Won, Yang Hae Eun and Jeon Hee who form a surprise team north and south at the l & # 39; exhibition of women's group.

In the men's division, Park Shin-hyuk, Choi Il, Roh Gwangjin, Ahn Ji-sung, Kim Hyung Jin,

It is natural that there is a possibility that athletes South and North Korea cooperate together. The Korea Open, which is not a national competition, can be played by any number of players from other countries. It is very likely that a team will be formed in both men's and women's doubles. 2018 Jakarta · Palembang Asian Games game Mixed Doubles are hard to muster in a single team by increasing the players' sense of reality.

Park Chang-ik, general manager of the Korean ping pong badociation, said: "If only one team is concluded, it will be held in private attire, not in Asian games. One way or another until the eve of the North's departure to South Korea. "

This tournament is the largest ever organized. The prize money is $ 266,000 (about 300 million won).

Best world rankings such as Dmitry Obarov (Germany third place in the world), Lin Gao Yuan (fifth place in the world), Shushin (China sixth place in the world) In the women's division, the highest ranked athletes such as Chennu (world number 1), Jiulyeol Ring (world number 2), King Man-yu (China, world number 3) and Kasumi Ishikawa (Japan, world number 4)

In Korea, Lee Sang Soo, Jung Young Sik Jeon Woo Hee and Seo Hyo Won prepare for the Asian Games. After qualifying on the 17th and 18th, the finals will be held on the 19th. On 21st, the mixed doubles and the men's doubles final of the 22nd will be contested.

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