BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) — Here are the most recent Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. Wang/Sun fall in combined doubles ultimate at WTT U.S. Smash
Chinese pair Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha misplaced 3-2 to South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin within the combined doubles ultimate on the World Table Tennis (WTT) United States Smash on July 3.
Lim and Shin gained the opening sport 11-9 earlier than Wang and Sun prevailed within the following two video games 11-6, 11-7. The top-seeded South Korean pair then confirmed resilience to return again with consecutive wins 11-7, 11-8 to seal the victory.
Earlier within the day, Sun swept Dina Meshref of Egypt 11-8, 11-3, 11-5 to succeed in the ladies’s singles quarterfinals, whereas China’s Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi additionally secured berths within the final eight.
In the boys’s doubles, China’s Wen Ruibo and Yuan Licen arrange a ultimate conflict with their compatriots Lin Shidong and Huang Youzheng, as each pairs seized straight-game wins within the semifinals.
2. Zhang, Wang undergo second-round exits at Wimbledon
China’s Zhang Shuai and Wang Xinyu suffered straight-set defeats within the girls’s singles second spherical at Wimbledon on July 1.
Zhang misplaced to tenth seed Karolina Muchova 6-3, 6-2, whereas Wang fell 7-5, 6-0 to eleventh seed Belinda Bencic. Their elimination meant that no Chinese participant stays within the singles draw.
Before them, Zheng Qinwen suffered one other first-round loss to the Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova, falling 6-4, 6-4. It marked the third time Siniakova has crushed Zheng within the opening spherical at Wimbledon after victories in 2023 and 2025.
In the boys’s draw, Wu Yibing pushed seven-time winner Novak Djokovic to 4 units, however nonetheless fell 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in three hours and 12 minutes.
3. China loses to Japan in key FIBA World Cup qualifier
China suffered a 92-73 defeat to Japan in a FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers Group B match on July 3 on the Liaoning Gymnasium, leaving the hosts in want of a victory over Chinese Taipei to advance to the subsequent stage.
Hu Jinqiu led China with 15 factors, whereas Liao Sanning and He Xining added 14 and 12, respectively.
Keisei Tominaga’s buzzer-beating three-pointer handed Japan a 22-21 lead on the finish of the primary interval. China’s offense unraveled within the second quarter, as a sequence of unforced turnovers fueled Japan’s transition assault and allowed the guests to construct a double-digit benefit. He Xining scored 5 straight factors to maintain China inside hanging distance, however Japan nonetheless led 50-40 at halftime.
China tried to rally after the break by feeding Hu within the paint, however Japan continued to capitalize in transition. Ryusei Sasaki hit two three-pointers, and Yuta Watanabe led the third-quarter scoring as Japan maintained a cushty lead.
Japan remained in management within the ultimate quarter with its up-tempo offense, whereas China struggled offensively and did not safe key rebounds, because the guests cruised to victory.
With the defeat, China slipped to fourth in Group B with a 2-3 file, organising a decisive showdown in opposition to Chinese Taipei, which additionally stands at 2-3, on July 6.
4. Chinese gymnastics workforce grabs two golds on final day of Asian championships
China grabbed two gold medals on the final day of the thirteenth Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships on the Zunyi Olympic Sports Center in Guizhou Province on June 28.
In the ladies’s equipment finals, Zhang Qingying claimed the ladies’s stability beam title and Zhang Yihan secured senior ground train gold for the hosts.
Zhang Qingying pocketed gold with a rating of 15.266 factors, whereas Ke Qinqin took silver with 15.100 factors. Hwang Seo-hyun of South Korea rounded out the rostrum with 14.733 factors for bronze.
Zhang Yihan gained in 14.066 factors. Sugihara Aiko of Japan earned silver with 13.900 factors, and Zhang Qingying picked up bronze with 13.366 factors.
5. China girls’s basketball captain Yang joins WNBL’s Flames
China girls’s nationwide basketball workforce captain Yang Shuyu has joined the Sydney Flames for the 2026-27 Women’s National Basketball League season, pending league approval, the membership introduced on June 30.
Yang is averaging 19.4 factors, 3.7 rebounds and 4.9 assists per sport for the Melbourne Tigers in NBL1 South.
She follows nationwide workforce teammates Han Xu and Wang Siyu in competing within the WNBL. Han performed with the Perth Lynx final season, whereas Wang joined the Southside Melbourne Flyers in May.