'Double home venues' for HK tennis as KTSP set to attract more international tournaments
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
South China Morning Post
3 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
Passion, pride and live pigs: inside China's booming local basketball league
In China's hottest new basketball league, the players are all amateurs, the mascots are a pair of live chickens riding a remote control Jeep, and the winning teams are presented with plastic bags full of live fish. Welcome to the 'ZheBA' – an intercity competition in China's eastern Zhejiang province that has become a national sensation by tapping into the region's fierce local pride and diverse culture. The contest, officially named the Zhejiang Provincial City Basketball League, features dozens of local teams from across the region of more than 66 million people, which compete in a series of divisions leading to a final playoff to crown the eventual champion. It is a world away from the polished world of the CBA, China's answer to the NBA. The standard of play is uneven. Matches often take place in small local gymnasiums. On one occasion, a game was interrupted by a defecating goat. But for its legions of fans, that is all part of its charm. 'The ZheBA might not understand basketball, but it understands Zhejiang', one user wrote on the social platform RedNote, in a post that received thousands of likes. The ZheBA is part of a broader movement in China towards embracing grass roots amateur sports, after years of growing frustration with the dysfunctional state of the nation's professional leagues.
South China Morning Post
7 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
Pan Zhanle can't repeat Olympic relay victory over US – but Yu Zidi, 12, has medal chance
Pan Zhanle suffered more disappointment at the World Aquatics Championships on Sunday, when China failed to reach the men's 4x100 metres medley relay final – the event in which he shocked the world at the Olympics. But on Sunday morning in Singapore, a repeat proved beyond a team that included Pan and China's other leading light, Qin Haiyang, who was also in that Paris quartet and had collected two gold medals and one bronze in his breaststroke events at this meet. Pan, Qin, Wang Shun and Xu Fang were only ninth fastest in the heats, from which eight qualified, as they clocked three minutes, 32.69 seconds – behind South Korea and more than five seconds slower than their Paris time. China's quartet look downcast after their 4x100m medley relay heat on Sunday. Photo: AP Australia, who were 11th, missed out too, while the United States quartet qualified fastest for the final in 3:29.65.
South China Morning Post
a day ago
- South China Morning Post
Ledecky wins 800m freestyle, US set relay world record, more gold for China's divers
American Katie Ledecky secured a seventh 800m freestyle world title in a thrilling race, the US set a world record in storming to 4x100m freestyle gold in the mixed relay, and China continued their diving dominance on Saturday. Ledecky had to give her all to secure a 23rd career world title as she was pushed to the limit by Australian Lani Pallister and Canadian star Summer McIntosh from start to finish. Ledecky edged Pallister by a mere 0.32 of a second as she clocked a championship record of eight minutes 5.62 seconds, missing her world record by just 1.5 seconds. McIntosh, who briefly led with 100m to go, earned bronze in her first major 800m duel with Ledecky, 1.67 seconds back. McIntosh had won the 400m freestyle, 200m medley and 200m butterfly gold in Singapore. 'It was incredibly fast; they pushed me all the way,' nine-time Olympic champion Ledecky said. China's Chen Yiwen after the 3m springboard final in Singapore on Saturday. Photo: Xinhua China's Li Bingjie was fifth with a time of 8:15.59 on a day when the country's swimmers finished empty-handed.
