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Table tennis coach suspended after casino debt case
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CHINA Table Tennis Association (CTTA) announced today that it will suspend Kong Linghui, head coach of China’s women table tennis team, after Hong Kong media reported yesterday that he was involved in a casino debt case.
A casino in Singapore sued Kong at Hong Kong High Court claiming that he owed it 1 million Singapore Dollar (US$721,000), according to Takungpao.com.
The plaintiff, Marina Bay Sands, allegedly said that Kong borrowed the money at its casino in February 2015 with 900,000 Singapore Dollar worth of chips and the rest paid to become its premium customer.
Kong confirmed in a statement on his Sina Weibo account yesterday that he spent four days in February 2015 with his relatives and friends in Singapore, but claimed that he was only watching them play at the casino and fetching chips for them with his personal information.
“I called them immediately after the media report came and asked them what happened, and only then I got to know that someone haven’t yet settled the debt towards the casino,” he said.
Kong said he has already made the person who allegedly owed the money own up and could potentially defend himself with legal instruments.
In its statement, the CTTA said it has talked to Kong and concluded that he “seriously” violated stipulations regarding public servants of China and disciplinary rules.
Kong, who is in Dusseldorf, Germany, coaching the team for the coming World Table Tennis Championships to be held there, was asked to immediately return to China to face further investigation.
Kong was a prestigious Chinese table tennis player in China with multiple world champion titles and has been the head coach of China’s women’s table tennis team since 2013.
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