South Korean women’s table tennis ace doubles pair Shin Yoo-bin (Korean Air) and Jeon Jeon-hee (Mirae Asset Securities), the first Korean pair to win a women’s doubles silver medal in 36 years at the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships last month, have advanced to the second round of the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender Lagos ($75,000 prize pool).

Shin and Jeon swept the home team of Esther Obamise-Ajoke Ozomu (unranked) 3-0 (11-1 11-3 11-3) in the first round of the Women’s Doubles on the fifth day of competition in Lagos, Nigeria on Friday.

The pair, who won silver in the women’s doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships 2023, earned a narrow victory in their first international tournament since the World Championships.

They will face the Korean pair in the quarterfinals.

They will face the winner of the first-round match between Kim Yoo-na and Kim Na-young (POSCO International) and Kim Seoyoon and Yoon Hyo-bin (Mirae Asset Securities).

Earlier in the day, Shin cruised to a 3-0 (12-10 11-5 11-9) victory over 30th-ranked Dimitrije Levayak-Izabela Lupulescu (Serbia) in the first round of mixed doubles (Round of 16), paired with Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange).

The seventh-ranked pair of Lim Jong-hoon-Shin Yubin will face China’s Liu Yebo-Pan Tsuqi (unranked) in the semifinals.

The 17th-ranked pair of Jang Woo-jin (Mirae Asset Securities)-Jun Jeon-hee also reached the quarterfinals with a 3-1 (9-11 11-2 11-6 11-8) victory over Liao Zhengding-Liu Xingyin (unranked) in the first round of the mixed doubles.

The Chinese pair of Zhang Wujin-Jeon Hee will also face a Chinese pair in the quarterfinals. They will face He Jiujia-Jiu Kai (unranked).

The Chinese pairs that the Koreans will face in the quarterfinals are unranked because they have not played together consistently. They are composed of young players and second-tier players 메이저사이트.