Lee Sang-su

Lee Sang-su
Lee at World Cup 2013
Other spellings:	이상수, 李尚秀
Nation:	South Korea
Date of birth:	August 13, 1990
Size:	178 cm
Weight:	65 kg
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	8th
Best world ranking :	7 (July, Sep., Oct. 2018)

Korean spelling
Hangeul	이상수
Hanja	李尚秀
See also : Korean name

Lee Sang-su (born August 13, 1990 ) is a South Korean table tennis player . He plays for Samsung Life Insurance. At world championships he won bronze once in singles, twice bronze in doubles and twice in teams and once silver in mixed .

Career

Lee Sang-su achieved several successes in international youth tournaments. At the Asian Youth Championships in 2006 he was first with the Korean team and in 2008 in the individual. He also won three silver medals at the World Youth Championships, namely in 2007 and 2008 in the team competition and in 2008 in doubles with Seo Hyun-deok . He won his first medals on the World Tour - gold in singles and bronze in doubles - at the Slovenia Open in 2010, in which he also made it into the top 100 of the world rankings . In doubles with Seo Hyun-deok, he also won bronze at the Grand Finals. After the Korea Open 2011, where he won silver, he reached 22nd place in the world rankings, a new record that he was only able to improve four years later.

In 2013 he was nominated for a World Cup for adults for the first time. Here he reached the final in mixed with Park Young-sook . In 2015 he won bronze in doubles with Seo Hyun-deok . Since August 2015 he is represented in the top 20 of the world rankings. At his first team world championship in 2016 , he reached the semifinals with South Korea.

He qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games , but was eliminated in singles after a 3: 4 defeat against Adrian Crișan . With the team he reached fourth place after a semi-final defeat against China and a defeat against Germany. In October he took part in the World Cup for the first time and reached the quarter-finals. Together with Jung Young-sik , with whom he has competed in doubles since 2016, he won gold at the 2016 Grand Finals and bronze at the 2017 World Championships . There he reached after victories among others over Zhang Jike , Vladimir Samsonov and Wong Chun Ting also as the only non-Chinese player the semi-finals in the individual, where he was eliminated against Fan Zhendong . This made him the best-placed South Korean player in the world for the first time. At the German Open in November he advanced to the semi-finals after victories over the top 10 players Jun Mizutani and Xu Xin, among others . In December, he was among the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time. Place at the Asian Cup in April 2018, he qualified again for the World Cup . With the team he reached the semi-finals at the World Cup , which were lost to Germany .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Cup	2019	Yokohama	JPN	7th place
COR	Asian Cup	2018	Yokohama	JPN	3rd place
COR	Asian Cup	2017	Ahmedabad	IND	3rd place
COR	Asian Cup	2016	Dubai	UAE	Quarter finals
COR	Asian Championship	2019	Yogyakarta	IDN	Quarter finals	last 32	Semifinals	silver
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	2008	Singapore	SIN	gold
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	2006	Kitakyushu	JPN				1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	2005	New Delhi	IND	Semifinals
COR	Asian Games	2018	Jakarta	IDN	Semifinals		last 16	silver
COR	Olympic games	2016	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 32			4th
COR	ITTF Challenge Series	2018	Spała	POLE	last 32	gold
COR	World Tour	2020	Magdeburg	GER	last 32	Semifinals	last 16
COR	World Tour	2019	Linz	AUT	Agony	silver	Quarter finals
COR	World Tour	2019	Olomouc	CZE	Quarter finals	gold	last 16
COR	World Tour	2019	Panagyurishte	BUL	last 32	gold	last 16
COR	World Tour	2019	Geelong	OUT	last 16	gold	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2019	Busan	COR	last 32	silver	last 16
COR	World Tour	2019	Hong Kong	HKG	last 32		silver
COR	World Tour	2019	Shenzhen	CHN	last 32	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2019	Doha	QAT	last 32	Semifinals	Quarter finals
COR	World Tour	2018	Linz	AUT	last 32	silver
COR	World Tour	2018	Geelong	OUT	last 32	gold	gold
COR	World Tour	2018	Daejeon	COR	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Quarter finals
COR	World Tour	2018	Kitakyushu	JPN	Semifinals	gold	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2018	Shenzhen	CHN	Quarter finals	last 16	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2018	Bremen	GER	last 16	silver
COR	World Tour	2018	Doha	QAT	last 16	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2017	Magdeburg	GER	Semifinals	gold
COR	World Tour	2016	Incheon	COR	last 16	silver
COR	World Tour	2016	Otocec	SLO	Quarter finals	silver
COR	World Tour	2016	Zagreb	CRO	last 16	silver
COR	World Tour	2016	Warsaw	POLE	last 64	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2016	Doha	QAT	last 32	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2016	Kuwait City	KUW	last 16	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2013	Berlin	GER	last 64	last 16
COR	World Tour	2013	Spała	POLE	last 64	gold
COR	World Tour	2013	Suzhou	CHN	last 32
COR	World Tour	2013	Incheon City	COR	last 32	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2013	Doha	QAT	last 64
COR	World Tour	2013	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
COR	World Tour	2012	Olomouc	CZE	last 16	gold
COR	World Tour	2012	Suzhou	CHN	last 32	last 16
COR	World Tour	2012	Kobe	JPN	last 32
COR	World Tour	2012	Shanghai	CHN	last 64
COR	World Tour	2012	Incheon City	COR	Quarter finals	last 16
COR	World Tour	2012	Budapest	HUN	last 64	Quarter finals
COR	Pro tour	2011	Suzhou	CHN	last 64
COR	Pro tour	2011	Incheon	COR	silver	Quarter finals
COR	Pro tour	2011	Shenzen	CHN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
COR	Pro tour	2011	Almeria	ESP	last 32	silver
COR	Pro tour	2011	Władysławowo	POLE	gold
COR	Pro tour	2011	Sheffield	CLOSELY	last 32
COR	Pro tour	2011	Velenje	SLO	last 32
COR	Pro tour	2010	Incheon	COR	last 16	last 16
COR	Pro tour	2010	Kobe	JPN	last 32	last 16
COR	Pro tour	2010	New Delhi	IND	Quarter finals	gold
COR	Pro tour	2010	Berlin	GER	last 32
COR	Pro tour	2010	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
COR	Pro tour	2010	Velenje	SVN	gold	Semifinals
COR	Pro tour	2009	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
COR	Pro tour	2009	Tianjin	CHN	last 32	last 16
COR	Pro tour	2009	Wakayama	JPN	last 16
COR	Pro tour	2009	Su Zhou	CHN	last 32
COR	Pro tour	2008	Shanghai	CHN	last 32	last 16
COR	Pro tour	2008	Singapore	SIN	last 64	last 16
COR	Pro tour	2008	Santiago	CHI	last 16
COR	Pro tour	2008	Belo Horizonte	BRA	last 16
COR	World Tour Grand Finals	2019	Zhengzhou	CHN		Quarter finals
COR	World Tour Grand Finals	2018	Incheon	COR	last 16	Semifinals	Quarter finals
COR	World Tour Grand Finals	2016	Doha	QAT		gold
COR	World Tour Grand Finals	2015	Lisbon	POR	last 16	Quarter finals
COR	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2011	London	CLOSELY	last 16
COR	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2010	Seoul	COR	last 16	Semifinals
COR	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 16	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
COR	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				Semifinals
COR	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	Semifinals	Semifinals	Quarter finals
COR	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				Semifinals
COR	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 16	Semifinals	last 16
COR	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 64	last 16	silver
COR	World cup	2019	Cheng you	CHN	last 16
COR	World cup	2018	Paris	FRA	Quarter finals
COR	World cup	2017	Liege	BEL	last 16
COR	World cup	2016	Saarbrücken	GER	Quarter finals
COR	WTC World Team Cup	2019	Tokyo	JPN				silver
COR	WTC World Team Cup	2018	London	CLOSELY				Semifinals
COR	WTC World Team Cup	2013	Guangzhou	CHN				5th place
COR	Youth World Championship	2008	Madrid	ESP	Semifinals	silver	Quarter finals	2
COR	Youth World Championship	2007	Palo Alto	United States	Semifinals	Quarter finals		2
COR	Youth World Championship	2006	Cairo	EGY		Quarter finals
COR	World Junior Circuit	2007	North Habour	NZL	gold
COR	World Junior Circuit	2006	Taiyuan	CHN	Quarter finals

Web links

• Lee Sang-su Article about Lee Sang-su on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed June 27, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Short profile  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Samsung Sports. (Korean)  
2. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
3. ↑ Testing times for Xu Xin, quarter-finals spot secured. ittf.com, November 11, 2017, accessed April 8, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Major shock in Magdeburg as Lee Sangsu forces Xu Xin quarter-finals exit. ittf.com, November 11, 2017, accessed April 8, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Lee Sang-su Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 27, 2014)

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