Suh Hyo-won
Suh Hyo-won | |
Other spellings: | Suh Hyowon, Seo Hyowon, 서효원 |
Nation: | South Korea |
Date of birth: | May 10, 1987 |
Size: | 160 cm |
Weight: | 55 kg |
Playing hand: | right |
How to play: | Defender |
Current world rankings : | 15 (March 2018) |
Best world ranking : | 8 (Apr. 2014) |
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Suh Hyo-won (other spellings: Seo Hyo-won or Suh Hyowon ; Korean 서효원 ; born May 10, 1987 in Gyeongju ) is a South Korean table tennis player .
Career
Suh's role model in table tennis is Hyun Jung-hwa .
At the 2013 World Cup , she achieved her best individual World Cup result: She made it to the round of 16, but had to admit defeat to the later Vice World Champion Liu Shiwen .
She also performed relatively well with the team at the 2016 Olympic Games . There she reached the quarter-finals, where the Korean team China had to admit defeat. At the Asian Cup she reached fourth place (2008) and second place (2015).
At the World Team Cup she reached 5th place with the team in 2013, where she again had to admit defeat with the China team. In 2018 she finished second for the first time at the German Open , where she defeated the strong Feng Tianwei in the semifinals and failed in the final against Kasumi Ishikawa .
In May there was a composition between their nation South Korea and North Korea , together the team won bronze at the World Cup .
useful information
Suh had a herniated disc when he was 20 years old .
Web links
- Suh Hyo-won in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed October 23, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c player - detail - LIEBHERR table tennis world championship 2017. Accessed on March 29, 2018 .
- ^ German Open: All results and votes of the Germans on the 6th day - German Open 2018. Retrieved on March 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Player - Detail - German Open 2018. Retrieved on March 29, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Suh, Hyo-won |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seo Hyo-won; 서효원 (Korean); Suh Hyowon |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Korean table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gyeongju |