Table Tennis Team World Championships
Boll has to cancel participation in the World Cup: “I’m really disappointed”
Has to cancel his start at the World Cup: Timo Boll. photo
© Tom Weller/dpa
The German table tennis team has to make do without its best player at the World Cup in South Korea. Timo Boll finally canceled his participation after the first game.
His teammates had recently won their first World Cup game against the USA 3-0 and had hoped until the end that Boll would be able to travel to Busan at the weekend as planned.
“I’m really disappointed that I’ll miss the World Championships, especially because I felt really good physically and my form was good,” said Boll. “But I have had this type of inflammation of the iris before and the doctors advised me to treat it accordingly and cure it so that the optic nerve is not permanently damaged.”