JAKARTA -- South Korea's Kim Jin-woong won a gold medal in the men's soft tennis singles at the 18th Asian Games on Wednesday.
Kim beat Alexander Elbert Sie of Indonesia 4-2 (5-3, 8-6, 6-8, 4-1, 3-6, 4-2) in the final at the Jakabaring Sport City Tennis Court in Palembang, the co-host city of the Asian Games with Jakarta, to grab his first Asiad gold.
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(Yonhap) |
Kim, who topped the 2015 World Championships, stormed into the final by beating his South Korean compatriot Kim Dong-hoon, a bronze medalist at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. Before that, he edged North Korea's Ri Chung-il in the quarterfinals.
Meanwhile, Kim Ji-yeon failed to medal in the women's singles.
She lost to Noa Takahashi of Japan 4-3 in the quarterfinals.
South Korea is the dominant force in soft tennis at the Asian Games. Since it was introduced as a medal sport at the Asian Games in 1994, South Korea bagged 23 out of the 36 gold medals awarded prior to Jakarta-Palembang 2018. (Yonhap)
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