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3 days ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
Chinese table tennis fans voiced despair about the country’s men’s performances on Monday after Lin Shidong’s shock loss at the ITTF World Cup in Macau, with many calling for the return of Ma Long and Fan Zhendong. World No 1 Lin’s 4-1 reverse against Brazil’s Hugo Calderano in Sunday’s final saw the hashtag “Chinese table tennis really needs to reflect” shoot to the top of Weibo’s trending list with more than 100 million views.
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3 days ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
Hong Kong has been chosen as the host of table tennis’ season-ending WTT Finals, the sport’s chiefs announced on Monday. The event, in which the highest-ranked players will compete for a prize pool of US$1.3million, will take place at Hong Kong Coliseum from December 10 to 14. More to follow...
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3 days ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
The ITTF Men’s and Women’s World Cup concluded on Sunday night after attracting thousands of Chinese table tennis fans to splash their cash in Macau, all for the love of superstars such as Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha. Olympic mixed doubles champions Wang and Sun have amassed a feverish following, particularly among young female spectators, who are willing spend large sums to watch their idols at a time when the country’s central government looks to capitalise on consumer spending on sport.
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4 days ago | 
msn.com | Lars Hamer
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4 days ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
Hong Kong has continued its build-up to November’s National Games, which it will co-host, by staging a test event for beach volleyball at Victoria Park this weekend. Lo Wai-yan, previously a member of the Hong Kong team who finished ninth at the Asian Games in Hangzhou two years ago, said the park was a good choice of venue, even if it involved transporting sand to the middle of a city that has an abundance of real beaches.
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5 days ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
Let us cut to the chase here: if you had followed my advice in the previous two FPL articles, you would have scored over 113 points from my tips alone. Building on the 63 points I scored in Gameweek 31, I bagged an additional 93 points in Double Gameweek 32, which concluded with Newcastle’s 5-0 demolishing of Crystal Palace on Wednesday night.
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6 days ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
China’s world No 2 table tennis player Wang Chuqin scraped into the semi-finals at the ITTF Men’s and Women’s World Cup in Macau on Friday, shading a tough battle with Benedikt Duda 4-3. Wang and world No 17 Duda shared the first four games before the German appeared to gain momentum in the fifth when he took a 7-3 lead at the Galaxy Convention Centre. But Wang, who won Olympic mixed doubles gold last year with Sun Yingsha, rallied to rescue the game, not dropping another point as he took it 11-7.
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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
China’s leading table tennis players wowed fans in Macau on Tuesday as several of them got their ITTF Men’s and Women’s World Cup off to a winning start. The tie of the evening saw women’s No 2 Wang Manyu rescue a win against Sweden’s Linda Bergstrom. Wang found herself 10-7 down in the fourth game before she came back to win it 12-10, taking the match 3-1. Earlier, men’s world No 2 Wang Chuqin recorded a more emphatic-looking winning scoreline in beating Aditya Sareen of Australia 4-0.
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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
Cameron Mofid’s 10km in Pyongyang race means 25-year-old has now visited every country in the world 02:01 North Korea holds first Pyongyang marathon since closing borders during Covid pandemic North Korea holds first Pyongyang marathon since closing borders during Covid pandemic Published: 1:42pm, 15 Apr 2025Updated: 1:44pm, 15 Apr 2025 When American Cameron Mofid stepped out of the airport in Pyongyang he became one of the first tourists to visit North Korea in more than five years – and...
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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Lars Hamer
Hong Kong’s four-time Olympic medallist Siobhan Haughey made a winning return to competitive swimming on Saturday, but said her journey back to the top was “gonna be very long”. The 27-year-old won the women’s 100 metres breaststroke final at Hong Kong’s Long Course Swimming Time Trial, coming home in one minute and 8.49 seconds. In second was 15-year-old Eunis Man Wui-kiu, with a personal best time of 1:09.38. Claire Cheung Wing-yi, 16, finished third in 1:11.31.
