High school junior representative Da-eun Lee defeated the adult national team member Si-on Lee to advance to the women's singles semifinals of the National Men's and Women's Comprehensive Table Tennis Championships.



Da-eun Lee defeated Lee Si-on 3-2 in the women's singles quarterfinals held on the morning of the 22nd.



Da-eun Lee, who will be a sophomore in high school this year, is a promising prospect who rated the junior division last year.



He has won national championships and national championships.



In this competition, in the round of 32, Yoo Ye-rin, a middle school student who is famous as the daughter of Samsung Life coach Yoo Nam-gyu, and the national team's 'eldest sister' Hyo-won Seo in the round of 16 were defeated one after another and made it to the quarter-finals.



In the recent 2022 national team selection match held in 2022, Lee Shi-on has good momentum, so there were many predictions that Lee Da-eun would struggle.



However, even after giving up the first game, Da-eun Lee followed up one step at a time and eventually won a comeback.



In the last game, Ishion showed his brute force to outrun Ishion by a double score.



It is the first time in 28 years since a high school student made it to the semifinals of the women's division at the National Championships, the most prestigious competition in Korea, since Eun-sil Lee (then a sophomore at Gyeongil Girls' High School) in 1994.



Da-eun Lee said, "It's a little burdensome because I didn't know I would win in the quarter-finals, but I'm going to release everything I practiced in the quarter-finals and come out on the court."



Da-eun Lee's opponent in the quarterfinals is Korean Air's naturalized ace Eun-hye Lee.



Lee Eun-hye defeated Choi Hyo-joo, who participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics last year, 3-0 in the quarterfinals.



On the other side of the draw, Yang Ha-eun and Kim Ji-ho compete to advance to the final.



In the men's singles, the quarterfinals of Woo-Jin Jang and Jae-Hyeon Ahn and Dae-Sung Cho and Kang-Hyeon Park were completed.



(Photo = provided by the Korea Table Tennis Association, Yonhap News)