{"id":780026,"date":"2026-09-23T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:00:16","slug":"s-korea-wraps-up-soft-tennis-competition-with-2-bronzes-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780026\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea wraps up soft tennis competition with 2 bronzes at Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South Korea’s players pose with the bronze medal during the awarding ceremony of the soft tennis men’s team event at the Asian Games, Sept. 20, in Nagoya, Japan. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n

NAGOYA \u2014 South Korea’s soft tennis team wrapped up its medal competition at the ongoing Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with three bronze medals after failing to earn a medal in the singles events Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In the men’s singles quarterfinals at Nagoya City Higashiyama Park Tennis Center in Nagoya, central Japan, Lee Ha-neul lost 4-2 to Che Po-yi of Chinese Taipei.<\/p>\n

Lee battled to a 2-2 tie through the first four games but then lost two straight games to miss out on a place in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Soft tennis singles matches are played in a best-of-seven format, with the first player to win four games taking the match.<\/p>\n

In the women’s singles quarterfinals, Lee Su-jin fell 4-2 to Rena Temma of Japan, while Hwang Jeong-mi lost 4-2 to North Korea’s Ri Jin-mi.<\/p>\n

Lee Su-jin lost three straight games against the Japanese opponent and earned two games but was unable to complete the comeback.<\/p>\n

In an all-Korean match, Hwang leveled the match at 2-2 after losing the first two games, but Ri then won the next two games to advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Ri’s semifinal berth secured North Korea a bronze medal. Soft tennis does not have a bronze-medal match, with both semifinal losers receiving bronze medals.<\/p>\n

Her compatriot Ri So-hyang also reached the women’s singles semifinals with a 4-2 quarterfinal victory over Alisha Ziegler of Thailand.<\/p>\n

The two bronze medals secured by Ri Jin-mi and Ri So-hyang will be North Korea’s first medals at the Asian Games in Japan.<\/p>\n

With the men’s and women’s singles events, the soft tennis medal competition concluded Wednesday.<\/p>\n

South Korea collected three bronze medals in soft tennis \u2014 one each from the men’s and women’s team events and one from the mixed doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea’s players pose with the bronze medal during the awarding ceremony of the soft tennis men’s team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}