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Yogyakarta<\/strong>: A 17-year-old Chinese badminton player died after collapsing on the court during an international tournament in Indonesia.<\/p>\n Zhang Zhijie was suddenly taken ill during a match late Sunday against Japan\u2019s Kazuma Kawano at the Asia Junior Championships in Yogyakarta.<\/p>\n The score was 11-11 in the first game when Zhang fell to the floor. He received treatment at the venue and was taken to hospital by ambulance, but passed away after efforts to resuscitate him failed.<\/p>\n The cause of death was not immediately known.<\/p>\n \u201cChina\u2019s Zhang Zhijie, a singles player, collapsed on the court during a match in the evening,\u201d Badminton Asia and the Badminton Association of Indonesia (PBSI) said in a joint statement on Monday.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was sent to the hospital where he passed away at 23:20 local time yesterday. He was attended to by the tournament doctor and medical team. He was taken in the standby ambulance in less than two minutes and sent to hospital. The world of badminton has lost a talented player,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n Zhang started playing badminton in kindergarten and joined China\u2019s national youth team last year. Earlier this year he won the singles title at the Dutch Junior International, a prestigious youth tournament.<\/p>\n The team tournament in the city of Yogyakarta held a moment\u2019s silence on Monday and the Chinese team wore black armbands as a mark of respect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Yogyakarta: A 17-year-old Chinese badminton player died after collapsing on the court during an international tournament in Indonesia. Zhang Zhijie was suddenly taken ill during a match late Sunday against Japan\u2019s Kazuma Kawano at the Asia Junior Championships in Yogyakarta. The score was 11-11 in the first game when Zhang fell to the floor. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/download-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32362,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32360\/revisions\/32362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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