BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) — Here are the most recent Chinese sports activities headlines over the previous week:
1. China claims fifth straight ladies’s title at desk tennis staff worlds
China received its fifth consecutive ladies’s groups title after sweeping Japan 3-0 on the World Team Table Tennis Championships on Saturday.
It was additionally a record-extending twenty second time for China to have lifted the Corbillon Cup in historical past.
2. China has likelihood of qualifying for final eight at ladies’s volleyball worlds
China’s ladies’s volleyball staff prevailed in opposition to Pool E opponent Puerto Rico on the FIVB World Championship on Wednesday in straight units 25-15, 25-19, 25-21 to kick off Phase 2 of the match. The staff later edged the Netherlands in a panoramic five-set conflict on Thursday to assert their second win.
China misplaced to the Nations League champions Italy 26-24, 25-16, 25-20 on Saturday. Sitting fourth within the pool, China might additionally advance to the final eight in the event that they beat Belgium of their final group match on Sunday.
3. China’s desk tennis legend Liu Guoliang to chair WTT board
The Chinese Table Tennis Association president Liu Guoliang has been appointed chairman of the World Table Tennis (WTT) board, the group introduced on the ongoing World Team Table Tennis Championships on Thursday. The 46-year-old former Olympic champion can also be the present WTT Council chair and government vp of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
4. Candidates revealed for 2022 China Basketball Hall of Fame
A 16-strong candidate record has been handed over to the 2022 China Basketball Hall of Fame after the choice by a 500-member nomination committee.
The 16 candidates from 30 nominees picked up by 100 basketball-related events shall be reviewed by the China Basketball Hall of Fame Final Review Committee to determine the ultimate ten members, which is able to embrace 4 male gamers, three feminine gamers and three coaches.
5. Yao Ming has referred to as for calm regardless of China’s success on the FIBA Women’s World Cup
