Women’s professional billiards (LPBA) ‘original queen’ Lim Jung-suk (Crown Haetae) lifted her 5th professional championship trophy.
In the LPBA final of the ‘Welcome Savings Bank Wellbang PBA-LPBA Championship’ held at the Bitmaru Broadcasting Center in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 23rd, Lim Jeong-sook defeated Kim Ye-eun with a set score of 4-1 (4-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-5). , 11-1) and won the championship.
With this, Lim Jung-suk lifted her 5th professional career trophy, tying Kim Ga-young (Hana Card) with the ‘most LPBA wins’ set during the previous tour (NH Nonghyup Card Championship). In particular, Lim Jeong-sook showed a strong appearance in her unique competition, winning four of her five victories at the ‘Welcome Savings Bank Well Bang Championship’.
In addition, Lim Jeong-sook, who received 20 million won in prize money and 20,000 ranking points with this win, broke her cumulative winning prize money of 100 million won (109.5 million won) and rose to third place in the cumulative prize money ranking. On the other hand, Kim Ye-eun, who was aiming for her third trophy in her career by reaching the second consecutive final following her previous tour, swallowed regret as she was close to winning this tournament as well.
The ‘Well-Bang Top Ranking’, given to the player with the highest average in a game, was awarded to Kim Bo-mi (NH Nonghyup Card), who recorded an average of 2.200 against Lim Gyeong-jin in the round of 16, and received 2 million won in prize money. 안전놀이터
Im Jeong-sook’s early game was difficult. In her first set, she scored only 4 runs in 14 innings, and Kim Ye-eun took advantage of this to give up her first set with 11 points. She immediately regained her concentration. The two players faced off tightly in the second inning, scoring 5 runs side by side, but Lim Jung-sook scored 2 runs in 8 innings, 9-8 ahead, balancing the score at 11-8.
From the 3rd set, Lim Jung-sook started to bring the flow of the game. After scoring 2 runs in the first inning of the 3rd set, it seemed to be sluggish with 4 consecutive empty hits, but from the 6th inning, 3-2-3-1 scored in a row and won 11-6, and the 4th set also ended 11-5 after a close match of 10 innings. won the victory with
Lim Jung-suk, who left the last set, seemed to have more time. Lim Jung-suk, who took a 6-1 lead with 2 runs in 2 innings and 4 runs in 3 innings, further widened the gap to 10-1 with 4 runs in 7 innings, and scored 1 point in 8 innings to seal a 11-1 win. . Set score 4-1 Lim Jung-suk won.
After the game, Lim Jeong-suk said, “The match went well after I decided to think of my opponent as a ‘person who gave me problems’ rather than thinking of my opponent as an ‘enemy’.” Unknowingly, I think about the difference between my opponent and my skills, or my desire to beat the opponent grows stronger. Then, it seemed that my mind control was not going well, so I changed my attitude in life.”
With the LPBA winner eclipsed, on the 24th, the last day of the tournament, the first PBA semi-final match between Ngo Din Nai (Vietnam/SK Rent-A-Car) and Kang Seong-ho started at 11:00 a.m., followed by Cho Jae-ho (NH Nonghyup Card) and Kang Min-goo (Blue One) at 2:00 p.m. Resort) will play the second semi-final match. Then, at 8:00 p.m., the final with a prize of 100 million won will be held.
Meanwhile, PBA plans to hold a 15-minute celebratory performance right before the finals. The congratulatory performance will start with the stage of singer Lee Ah-yoon, who was a runner-up in the audition program ‘Superstar K’, and will perform a traditional Korean music fusion performance by the PBA cheerleader ‘Puba Girls’, to which cheerleader An Ji-hyun belongs.