Jeong Sang-eun

Jeong Sang-eun
Other spellings:	Jeong Sangeun
Nation:	South Korea
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	70 kg
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings :	17th
Best world ranking :	15 (August 2018)

Jeong Sang-eun (born April 2, 1990 ) is a South Korean table tennis player . He won the individual silver medal at the Asian Championships in 2017 . He is right-handed and uses the European shakehand style .

Career

The South Korean made his first international appearance among adults in 2013, when he reached the round of 16 at the Kuwait Open.

At the German Open he beat Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in qualification . He was also able to beat top player Simon Gauzy at the Brazilian Open and thus improved by over 150 places in the world rankings .

Further appearances followed in 2014 at the China Open, where he met world champion Zhang Jike in the round of 16 , but had to admit defeat 0-4. At the Qatar Open he was able to reach the round of 16 in the singles, Jeong was able to beat Michael Maze, among others .

At the Asian Games in the same year he was able to win the silver medal with the team, in the final they were defeated by China . He himself met Zhang Jike again in the singles, this time only losing 2-4.

In 2015 he took part in the doubles competition at the Korea Open with Lee Sang-su . Here they made it to the semi-finals, in the individual he lost in the round of 32. At the Qatar Open he surprisingly had to admit defeat to Andrej Gaćina , but with the team at the World Team Cup Taiwan he beat Taiwan and thus made it to the semi-finals. Here, however, the eventual runner-up ( Japan ) ended. At the Hungary Open he was able to move into a World Tour final for the first time, but had to admit defeat to Jiang Tianyi 5-11 in the decisive set .

In 2016 he took part only a little in other international tournaments, but was able to reach the quarter-finals with the team at the World Cup . Here they surprisingly lost to England with 2-3.

In 2017 Jeong had his international breakthrough: At the Asian Cup in Wuxi, east China, he met world and Olympic champion Ma Long in the third round , who had not lost to a foreigner for five and a half years. Jeong surprisingly beat Ma Long 3-1, in the semifinals he also put Kōki Niwa in their place, in the final Jeong lost to Fan Zhendong without a chance .

In 2018 he took part in the Korea Open, but had to admit defeat to Jang Woojin in the quarterfinals . In the second round of the World Cup he met shooting star Tomokazu Harimoto and lost.

Overview of titles and successes

• Silver at the Asian Championships 2017 in individual; third place with the team
• Silver at the Asian Games 2014 with the team
• Silver at the Hungary Open 2015 in singles
• Bronze at the Korea Open 2015 in doubles with Lee Sang-su
• Bronze at the World Team Cup 2015 with the team

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Championship	2017	Wuxi	CHN	silver			silver
COR	ITTF World Tour	2018	Incheon	COR	last 16	last 16
COR	ITTF World Tour	2017	Incheon	COR	Semifinals	gold
COR	ITTF World Tour	2015	Budapest	HUN	silver
COR	ITTF World Tour	2015	Incheon	COR	last 32	Semifinals
COR	ITTF World Tour	2015	Doha	QAT	last 32	last 16
COR	ITTF World Tour Grand Finals	2015	Lisbon	POR	last 16	Quarter finals
COR	World cup	2018	Paris	FRA	last 16
COR	World Team Cup	2015	Dubai	QAT				Semifinals
COR	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				Quarter finals
COR	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 32	last 16
COR	Youth World Championship	2010	Madrid	ESP	Semifinals	Quarter finals	gold	silver

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table tennis Asian championships ended_China.org.cn. Accessed November 4, 2018 . 
2. ↑ tabletennis.guide: Table tennis: video, photos, rankings, analytics. Retrieved November 4, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ASIEN-GAMES 2014: Both team titles again to China - TT-NEWS. Retrieved November 4, 2018 . 
4. ↑ TableTennisDaily - Ma Long Reflects On Losing First Match In 5 Years! In: TableTennisDaily . ( tabletennisdaily.com [accessed November 4, 2018]).
5. ↑ Fan Zhendong wins men's singles title at Asian Table Tennis Championships - Xinhua . ( xinhuanet.com [accessed November 4, 2018]).
6. ↑ Sangeun Jeong results, fixtures | FlashScore.com / Table tennis. Accessed November 4, 2018 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Jeong is the family name here, Sang-eun is the first name.