That changed with Rong Guotuan. In 1959, Rong won the Table Tennis World Championships, becoming the People’s Republic of China’s first world champion in any sport. A man from a humble ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- China has begun its search for the next ... Her father, Xu Yang, sold the small tennis club he owned in Guangdong province and moved the family to Florida for nearly ...

and media rights at the All England Club, has said: “We are delighted to be working with Tencent to showcase all the thrilling action from Wimbledon to tennis fans in China. “Whether it is ...

China's table tennis team heads to the Paris Olympics on a mission to re-establish their complete dominance of the sport with a clean sweep of the gold medals on offer after their shock defeat by ...

A month later, he beat six-time Olympic champion Ma Long in the China Smash final, before clinching another title in Frankfurt. Despite being touted as one of the next generation of table tennis ...