The two Koreas are fielding joint teams at an international table tennis competition in Daejeon that kicks off Tuesday, and the players start practicing together today, the Korea Table Tennis Association said. “The North Korean players and South Korean players will begin practicing together at Hanbat Gym in Daejeon from Monday,” an official of the Korea Table Tennis Association told reporters Sunday upon the arrival of 16 North Korean Ping-Pong players at Incheon International Airport. The association announced Sunday the decision to field inter-Korean teams at the Seamaster 2018 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Tour Platinum Korea Open, which is slated to kick off Tuesday in Daejeon and run through July 22. The two Koreas will field joint teams in men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles. South Korea’s Lee Sang-su and North Korea’s Pak Sin-hyok will play as a joint men’s doubles team; the South’s Suh Hyo-won and the North’s Kim Song-i will play as a joint women’s doubles team; the South’s Jang Woo-jin and the North’s Cha Hyo-sim will play as a joint mixed doubles team; and the South’s Yoo Eun-chong and the North’s Choe Il will play as another joint mixed doubles team, according to the International Table Tennis Federation.