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I have worked as a chess coach on an international level for cadet events and played them many times myself when I was a kid, I have to say I have seen some pretty disgusting behaviours from parents (overwhelmingly it's the parents who do these things) and the occasional kid but not to this extent...I wonder if the lady he walks towards at the end of the clip is his parent/minder? They seemed fine with what he did (its obviously impossible to know for sure since the video finishes).
For me I would be curious to know what was going before this during the match? Controversial serve faults, edges, pre-existing hatred etc? I can't quite imagine what can possibly come even close to justifying this but still it's hard to judge otherwise. That was a sad moment for table tennis...sigh
This seems to be the case all around the world - with all kinds of cultural backgrounds.
The kids are either too spoiled, thus the parents have dug a sink hole for themselves on the discipline/educational part or the parents simply don't have time for the kids.
In South Africa, some community - will allow kids under 6 years old (maybe 4 years old) to run around on the streets.
Obviously - how do I know? because something horrible happened to these unsupervised children and it appeared on the national news.
Same time when these kids are out side, then they learn bad habits from older/naughty kids, or even badly influenced by gangsters.
On the other side of the world, with 1 child policy, 2 parents = 1 kid, 4 grand parent = 1 grand kid, 8 great grand parent = 1 great grand kid, so basically life earnings of the previous generation all goes to this 1 kid.
Result = very spoiled and they can just do what they want.
Obviously this Russian kid plays sports (normally sporting kids are not so problematic), but then, his behaviour clearly shows how he was educated.
He needs a good hiding and need a hard core coach like me, to punish him for playing so lousy and blaiming the lost on others.