(Asiad) S. Korean team reaches men's doubles final in tennis

NAGOYA, Japan - The South Korean men's doubles tennis team, comprising Nam Ji-sung and Park Ui-sung, has advanced to the final stage of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday. They secured a hard-fought 2-1 (7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 11-9) victory over their Chinese Taipei counterparts, Ho Chenjui and Hsu Yu-hsiou, in the semifinals held at Higashiyama Park Tennis Center, Nagoya, central Japan.

The South Korean duo now stands on the brink of clinching their first tennis title for the nation in a span of 12 years, should they emerge victorious in the upcoming final, scheduled for Friday. They will face off against either Jiang Fumin and Zhang Tianhui of China or Yusuke Kusuhara and Shunsuke Nakagawa of Japan in the decisive match.

South Korea's journey to this point in tennis at the Asian Games has been marked by a series of early exits. The country's single players were eliminated well before reaching the medal round, and the women's doubles and mixed doubles teams also suffered similar fates, failing to progress past the initial rounds.