Ultimate Confidence: "You Won't Beat Me Just by Doing One Thing Well"

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An Se-young, the world's top badminton player who is on a historic winning streak, has declared her ambition to reach the top at the Asian Games as well. She showed overwhelming confidence, stating that opponents cannot defeat her simply by excelling in just one aspect.

Reporter Jeon Yeongmin has the story.

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With a recent 33-match winning streak and a phenomenal 98% season win rate rewriting badminton history, An Se-young also plays the role of the "cute younger sister" within the national badminton team as they sweat it out ahead of the Asian Games.

[Baek Ha-na / National Badminton Player: (Kim) Ga-eun, I, and (Jung) Na-eun clearly have solid thighs, so we formed a group among ourselves to eat together and things like that. Suddenly, (An) Se-young said she wanted to join. But we told her, 'You're too thin like a thorn, so we can't let you in.']

[An Se-young / National Badminton Player: I still think my thighs are better than the older sisters'.]

For An Se-young, who has conquered numerous international competitions including the Olympics and World Championships, the Asian Games hold special significance.

Three years ago at the Hangzhou Games, she opened her era wide by winning two gold medals in the women's singles and team events, and at this upcoming competition, she aims to become the first South Korean woman to achieve consecutive singles titles.

[An Se-young / National Badminton Player: I will do my best so that I can hear the national anthem, and how I can make more people enjoy watching the matches provides an even bigger motivation for me.]

Having undergone high-intensity training every day as if it were a real match, her confidence in her own skills is through the roof.

[An Se-young / National Badminton Player: (My competitors) will likely try to dig into my weaknesses, but I think that simply doing just one thing well won't be enough to beat me.]

The national team, targeting three gold medals with An Se-young and men's doubles pair Seo Seung-jae and Kim Won-ho, will depart for the battleground of Nagoya on the 17th.

(Video by Yang Doo-won | Video editing by Hwang Ji-young | Design by Han Heung-soo)
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