Changwon National University Table Tennis Team's Park Ji-eun to Participate in International Tournament

Korea University Table Tennis Championship Women's Division 1st Place, National Team Selection

Park Ji-eun, a first-year student of the National Changwon University Table Tennis Team, has been selected as a national representative to compete for medals at the 2023 Poland International Tournament.

According to the university on the 15th, Park Ji-eun won the women's college individual singles championship at the 2nd Korea University Table Tennis Championship held at Gimcheon Indoor Gymnasium from the 10th, ranking first in the women's college division and becoming a national representative for the international tournament.

This championship is a champion tournament held without team events, consisting of individual and doubles matches to determine the strongest player based on individual skills.

The players were divided into 16 groups and competed in a league format where all participants faced each other. The top two players from each group were decided, and then a knockout tournament was held where only the winners advanced to the next round according to the match bracket.

Park Ji-eun, a player from Changwon National University Table Tennis Team, is holding up the championship medal. [Photo by Changwon National University]

Park Ji-eun, who advanced to the knockout stage as the second place in the preliminary group, defeated Lee Ga-yeon from Kongju National University in the round of 32, Nam Yoon-jung from Andong National University in the round of 16, Jung Ji-eun from Yongin University in the quarterfinals, and Baek Soo-jin from Kongju National University in the semifinals to reach the finals.

In the final, she defeated Kim Yeon-hee from Yongin University to claim the championship.

In the women's doubles event, Park Ji-eun paired with senior Park Heon-min. They defeated the pair of Jung Ji-eun and Park I-re from Yongin University in the semifinals but narrowly lost 3-2 to Lee Soo-yeon and Ong Chae-yeon from Incheon National University in the final, finishing as runners-up.

In the men's doubles event, the pair of second-year Kim Jin-taek and first-year Shin Seok-hyun reached the final but lost 3-1 to Nam Geon-woo and Kwon Kang-min from Kunsan National University, finishing as runners-up.

The University Table Tennis Federation decided that after the University Championship, the two players with the highest ranking points from a total of five tournaments held throughout the year will be dispatched as national representatives to the 2023 Poland International Tournament, scheduled from November 1 to 8.

Accordingly, Park Ji-eun, who took the throne in the women's college division, will participate in the tournament wearing the Taeguk mark along with Lee Eun-joo from Hannam University, who placed second.

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