Table Tennis Lim Jong-hoon-Ahn Jae-hyun, WTT US Smash Mixed Doubles Championship
Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun (Korea Exchange), a flagship union of Korean men’s table tennis, climbed to the top at the World Table Tennis (WTT) US Smash.
Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun scored a 3-1 (4-11 13-11 11-5 11-6) reversal in the Brothers of the French Felix Lebrung-Alexis LeBung in the WTT Smash Men’s Doubles Final in Las Vegas, USA on the 13th.
Three weeks ago, they overwhelmed the world’s No. 1 ‘LeBrunk Brother’ in the WTT star contender Lublana finals, and then roared again on the main stage.
Lim Jong-hoon and Lim Jae-hyun played their first games, but in the second game, they scored four points in the 6-10 situation and eventually reversed 13-11. The WTT Nuri House described it as “a great reversal.”
In the quarter-finals, the brothers of the LeBrunk, who overpowered China’s Wang Chu-chin-Liang Jing Kuhn Joe 3-0, was aiming for the finals, but Lim Jong-hoon and Ahn Jae-hyun were stronger.
Lim Jong-hoon won the rinse-Kwaman’s first-runner in the mixed doubles finals with Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air).
Kim Chang -geum, senior reporter kimck@hani.co.kr
