Lee Seo-ah (16, Chuncheon SC), the No. 1 junior female player in Korea, will challenge for her fifth win of the season at the 2024 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Hong Jong-moon Cup International Junior Tennis Tour Tournament, where the finals begin on the 1st.
Seo-ah Lee, who swept the ITF Chuncheon and ITF Andong titles, is aiming for the title of the fifth international junior competition of the season and for the third consecutive week in this competition. Seo-Ah Lee is currently on a 15-game winning streak at the ITF International Junior Competition.
Seo-ah Lee has been actively participating in the ITF International Junior Competition since this year and is also raising her world junior ranking. This year’s ITF International Junior Competition record is 26 wins and 3 losses (89.7%). Lee Seo-ah, who started this year ranked 287th in the world junior ranks, is currently ranked 170th. He is the strongest candidate to win the ITF Hong Jong-moon Cup International Junior Tournament, having received the first seed.
Seo-ah Lee, who won the Andong competition on the 29th of last month and moved to Seoul Olympic Park where this competition was held, said after finishing official training on the 30th of last month, “I rested well yesterday and recovered my condition well. “My goal is to win this competition as well,” he said. Seo-ah Lee will face Korean-American Se-na Yoon (USA) in the first round (round of 32). In addition, Korean female players include Ye-seong Chu (15, Thinkron AC) as the 3rd seed, Yeri Hong (13, Seoul City Tennis Association) as the 6th seed, and Jeong Eui-su (16, JoongAng Girls’ High School) as the 7th seed in the tournament. It goes out.
In men’s singles, Seo Hyun-seok (17, Thinkron AC) receives the top seed. After finishing runner-up three times in this year’s ITF International Junior Competition, Seo Hyun-seok won his first title of the season at the Jakarta, Indonesia competition in July. Gaku Nayuki (Japan), who finished second in the previous Andong competition, and Meng Fanming (China), who advanced to the semifinals, will also participate in this competition. Kim Dong-min (14, Orion), who won and was runner-up twice in this year’s ITF International Junior Competition, is also a player to watch.
The Hong Jong-moon Cup International Junior Tennis Tour, newly established this year, will be held at the tennis court at Seoul Olympic Park from the 1st to the 6th. This competition is at the J100 level, and domestic junior players aiming for the top ranks in the world will participate.
This tournament is the first international junior tournament named after the late Jang Ho and Hong Jong-moon, former president of the Korea Tennis Association. Hong Soon-yong, executive chairman of the Jangho Tennis Foundation, will serve as tournament director for this event. Hosted by the ITF and the Korea Tennis Association, organized by the Jangho Tennis Foundation, and sponsored by Choheung Co., Ltd., Green Pharmaceutical, Songpa-gu Office, and Woori Bank.
Former Chairman Hong is a person who led the development of domestic tennis by hosting the Jang Ho-bae Junior Tennis Tournament in 1957. It is the oldest junior tennis tournament in Korea, celebrating its 68th anniversary this year. All of Korea’s top tennis players, including Korea’s first professional tennis player Deok-hee Lee, Lee Hyeong-taek, the first Korean male player to win a tour, and Jeong Hyeon, a legend in the Australian Open semifinals, have all gone through the Jang Ho Cup.
Even after former Chairman Hong passed away in 2019, the Jangho family continues to support tennis. In particular, Executive Chairman Hong Soon-yong has been pursuing projects with the goal of holding an international junior competition for a long time. We prepared for a new competition by touring domestic and international competitions and succeeded in attracting the Hong Jong-moon Cup competition.
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2024-10-03 01:38:33