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Overexuberance costs Zhang prize money
CHINA’S newly crowned World Cup winner Zhang Jike was fined his entire prize money of US$45,000 after destroying two advertising boards while celebrating victory in Sunday’s final in Germany.
Zhang, the Olympic champion, regained the World Cup title he won in Paris three years ago by beating compatriot and top seed Ma Long in Duesseldorf in seven games and celebrated the tense victory by putting his foot through two boards. The International Table Tennis Federation’s jury docked the champion all of his prize money, but the 26-year-old reigning world champion was quick to apologize.
“I am very sorry for what I did,” Zhang told the ITTF website. “It was not acceptable behavior and I am sorry. This was a perfect victory, I have been under a great deal of pressure, with people questioning my form.”
Earlier, Germany’s Timo Boll, who lost to Zhang in the semifinals, picked up bronze in the third-place play-off by beating Japan’s Jun Mizutani in six games.
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