'Top 10 sensations' Oh Jun-seong (17, Mirae Asset Securities) and naturalized player Kim Ha-young (25, Korean Air) won the men's and women's singles for the first time at the National Men's and Women's Table Tennis Championships, the most prestigious table tennis competition in Korea.
Oh Jun-seong defeated teammate Park Gyu-hyeon (18) 3-2 (8-11 4-11 11-6 13-11 11- 3) We achieved a come-from-behind victory.
Oh Jun-seong, who dropped out of high school and joined Mirae Asset Securities in the second half of last year, won his first overall championship singles title just a year after entering the workforce.
Oh Jun-seong, who was born in 2006 and is only 17 years old, also broke the record as the youngest person to win the men's singles title at this tournament.
Oh Jun-seong's father, Oh Sang-eun, manager of Mirae Asset Securities, won his first singles title in an all-around competition in 1999 when he was 22 years old.
Oh Jun-seong also won the men's doubles title with Park Gyu-hyun the day before, so he won two individual gold medals.
In the singles final held as a 'teenage match', Park Kyu-hyun used his power to win two games first, but Oh Jun-seong made a timely counterattack based on his calm defense and turned the game around.
After Oh Jun-seong won the 4-game deuce match, the pendulum tilted sharply.
In the women's singles final, Hayoung Kim defeated Lee Daeun 3-2 (11-4 12-10 7-11 11-13 11-6) and climbed to the top of the podium.
Hayoung Kim, born in 1998, was born in Tianjin, China. She is a naturalized athlete who acquired Korean nationality in 2016.
He began participating in domestic and international competitions in 2019 and raised a lot of expectations in the table tennis world, but did not grow as quickly as expected.
Kim Ha-young, who always maintained her place in the top four but was unable to finish her championship, finally smiled brightly as she achieved her first win on the domestic stage at the all-around championship, the most prestigious competition.
