SEOUL (Yonhap) By Jang Hyun-koo = Hyundai E&C advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2023 Gumi Dodram Cup professional volleyball tournament (Cup) with two straight wins .Hyundai E&C swept Pepper Savings Bank 3-0 (25-21 25-16 25-19) in straight sets in the second match of Group A of the Cup at the Park Jung-hee Gymnasium in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, on Nov. 31.Hyundai E&C, which defeated KGC Ginseng Corporation 3-0 two days earlier, became the first of the four teams in Group A to record two wins. Pepper Savings Bank suffered back-to-back losses to Korea Expressway Corporation and Hyundai E&C. The quarterfinals of the cup competition will feature the first and second place finishers in Group A and the first and second place finishers in Group B. Armed with effective serving and error-free play, Hyundai E&C played a seesaw game with Pepper Savings Bank in the first set 카지노사이트킹 before taking the lead after 20 points .At 21-20, Yang Hyo-jin’s fastball and Kim Joo-hyang’s service ace came in quick succession, and left side hitter Hwang Yeon-ju closed out the first set with an open goal on set point .HHI found its groove at the start of the second set, scoring six straight points on setter Kim Dae-in’s serve, including quick kills from Yang Hyo-jin and quick openers from Hwang Yeon-ju and Kim Joo-hyang to take an 11-5 lead. The three frontline attackers – outside hitter Hwang Yeon-ju (4 points), outside hitter Kim Joo-hyang (6 points) and middle blocker Yang Hyo-jin (4 points) – combined for 14 points in the second set alone .In the middle of the third set, two blocking blocks by Lee Da-hyun and Yang Hyo-jin gave HMC a 16-12 lead over Pepper Savings Bank’s Chang and ended the match with a straight-set victory. Yang Hyo-jin scored 18 points, Kim Joo-hyang 13, and Hwang Yeon-ju 12.Park “Clutch Park” Jung-ah, who Pepper Savings Bank signed for a total of $2.325 billion over three years, was rested against Roadworks and did not score on the day as a substitute .Pepper Savings Bank finished with a team offensive success rate of 31.4 percent, 15 percentage points lower than Hyundai E&C.

SEOUL (Yonhap) By Ahn Hong-seok = Jungang Girls’ Middle School and Jungang Girls’ High School won the 49th Presidential Tennis Tournament together.Jungang Girls’ Middle School defeated Wonju Girls’ Middle School 3-0 in the girls’ secondary school final at Yanggu Tennis Park in Gangwon Province on Nov. 31.Jungang Girls’ Middle School won all three singles matches in the final in less than an hour, reaffirming its position as the strongest team in the girls’ middle school division.In the girls’ final, Jungang Girls’ High School defeated Wonju Girls’ High School 3-0 to lift the trophy.Coach Kim Jong-myung, who co-leads both the Jungang Girls’ Middle School and Jungang Girls’ High School tennis teams, said, “I am grateful to the players for doing their best and achieving good results in the hot weather.” “It is not easy 온라인카지노 to continue the tradition of school sports, but there are always variables and difficulties in preparing for a match, but there are also many rewards,” he said.The winning team received a training and research grant of 2 million won.The runner-up team received 700,000 won and the third-place team received 400,000 won each.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – It’s a four-way tie in the women’s singles at the world badminton championships.Akane Yamaguchi (Japan), Chen Yuefei (China) and Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese Taipei) make up the ‘Big Four’, led by South Korean women’s badminton sensation Ahn Se-young.In a back-and-forth battle for the top spot, Ahn overtook 스포츠토토존 Yamaguchi on Nov. 31 to take the top spot in the world rankings.She has blossomed this year with seven wins, three runner-up finishes, and one bronze medal in 11 international competitions.Ahn’s physical strength and flexibility have allowed her to maximize her defense this year, while her offensive game has taken her hairpin and drop shot accuracy to the next level.Ahn got off to a strong start in 2023, winning the India Open and Indonesia Masters in the first month of the year and finishing runner-up at the Malaysia Open.In March, she dominated badminton’s most prestigious tournament, the All-England Open, becoming the first South Korean to win a women’s singles gold medal in 27 years, since Hwang Soo-hyun in 1996.After back-to-back runner-up finishes at the Asian Individual Championships in April and the Sudirman Cup in May, Ahn bounced back with back-to-back titles at the Thailand Open and Singapore Open in June.In the first tournament of the second half of the year, the Korea Open on July 23, she won back-to-back titles for the first time in her career, and the day before she won the Japan Open to become the world No. 1.It is especially encouraging to see that she has shown improvement against Yamaguchi, Chen Yufei and Tai Zhiying along the way.She still trails her ‘nemesis’ Yamaguchi 8-12 in their career head-to-head, but has won 3-2 this year.In terms of international tournament results this year, Ahn has a significant lead over Yamaguchi (four wins and two runner-up finishes).She has also taken 4 wins (2 losses) from Chen Yufei, who was stuck with only 1 win (8 losses) last year.Tai Ziying, who was originally the favorite, has won 5 games this year (1 loss) to improve his overall record to 8-2.It seems that her work on customizing her game plan against them has finally paid off.”You have to be able to play differently in each game because your opponents have different styles,” said Kim Hak-gyun, head coach of the Korean National Badminton Team, adding, “Ahn Se-young herself realized that she had only one play before, and she is in the process of changing it.”Ahn’s golden smashing now heads to the World Individual Badminton Championships in August and the Hangzhou Asian Games in September.If she maintains her momentum at these two events, she could shatter the traditional four-way tie and establish herself as the “absolute favorite. This is why Ahn did not participate in the Australian Open, which begins next month, but returned home immediately after the Japan Open.”Rather than participating in the Australian Open, she decided it would be more meaningful to manage her condition and do reinforcement training 스포츠토토 until the World Individual Championships, where the top points are at stake,” said an association official. The Asian Games are the de facto equivalent of the Olympics, as Yamaguchi, Chen Yufei and Tai Zhiying are all eligible to compete.