The South Korean table tennis team will travel to Doha on the 14th to focus on winning the doubles medal at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships

In order to participate in the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships to be held in Doha, Qatar from the 17th to the 25th, the Korean table tennis team will embark on the journey on the 14th. The South Korean men's and women's teams led by Coach Oh Sang-yun and Coach Shi Eun-mi will go to Doha, Qatar, the decisive place in the early morning of the 14th local time.

Shin Yubin at the WTT Incheon Championships

This is the second time since the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban that the Korean table tennis team has participated in the World Table Tennis Championships after 2 years. In the last World Table Tennis Championships, the South Korean team won 3 medals in the doubles event (one silver medal in each of the men's and women's doubles, and a bronze medal in the men's doubles). At this year's World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, the South Korean men's team consisted of Jang Woo-jin, Lim Jong-hoon, Ahn Jae-hyun, Cho Dae-sung,Wu HuichengThe women's team includes Shin Yubin, Lee Eun-hye, Park Ga-hyun, Seo Hyo-won, Kim Na-young, and Yoo Han-na. The men's doubles will be played by Lim Jong-hoon/Ahn Jae-hyun and Jang Woo-jin/Cho Dae-sung, and the women's doubles will be played by Shin Yu-bin/Yoo Han-na, Kim Na-young/Lee Eun-hye. In the mixed doubles, Lim Jong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin,Wu Huicheng/ Kim Na-young will appear. Shin Yubin, Lim Jong-hoon, and Kim Na-young will participate in three events, including singles.

According to the strategy of concentrating superior forces, the Korean table tennis national team pays more attention to men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles than singles at this World Table Tennis Championships. Because at the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, the Korean team has the men's doubles pair Jang Woo-jin/Im Jong-hoon winning the silver medal, Cho Dae-sung/Lee Sang-so winning the bronze medal in men's doubles, and the women's doubles pair Shin Yubin/Tian Zhixi (retired) winning the silver medal.

World Table Tennis Championships 5 individual championship trophies

The Korean national table tennis team began on the 28th of last month, after the end of the 2025 Gangneung Championships, and spent nearly half a month in Jincheon Players' Village to train for men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles. That's because South Korea have a better chance of winning medals in the men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles than in the singles, and the team has high hopes for the Jong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin pair, who won bronze in the mixed doubles at last year's Paris Olympics.

The mixed doubles draw of this year's World Table Tennis Championships shows that the biggest imaginary opponent of Lin Zhongxun/Shin Yubin in the top 8 is Chinese Taipei pair Lin Yunru/Zheng Yijing. Lim Jong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin's first goal is to reach the top 8, and the second goal is to reach the final. In addition, in the men's doubles competition, Lim Jong-hoon/Ahn Jae-hyun won the men's doubles gold medal for Korean table tennis for the first time in 32 years at the Asian Championships in October last year, and in March this year, Lim Jong-hoon/Ahn Jae-hyun took advantage of the momentum to win the men's doubles title at the WTT Star Challenge Chennai.

Last year's Paris Olympics teamed up with the mixed doubles bronze medallist Lim Jong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin pair

Instead, women's doubles players Shin Yubin and Hanna Liu are undergoing new collaborative experiments. Because Tian Zhixi, who had won the silver medal in women's doubles at the World Championships in Durban with Shin Yubin, withdrew from the national team, Shin Yubin and his new partner Hannah Liu soon won the women's doubles runner-up at the 2025 WTT Star Challenge Chennai, showing the potential to deliver good results on the international stage.

Wu Shangyin, head coach of the Korean table tennis men's team, said: "The singles draw was unlucky and the ranking was low, so I mainly trained in doubles. Will be fully prepared by adapting to the local area and analyzing the opponent. The head coach of the women's team, Shi Enmei, explained: "I personally think that this World Championships is the biggest international competition I have participated in as a head coach. I focused on training in mixed doubles, where I was looking forward to medals. Coach Shi added: "In the singles match, I ask the players to be more aggressive when playing against strong teams in the round of 16. Shin Yubin is a person who does three things, so I will pay attention to her physical allocation. ”