BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) — Here are the most recent Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. Double glory for China at ITTF World Cup
Chinese desk tennis stars Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin capped a dramatic week on the ITTF World Cup with landmark victories at Galaxy Arena in Macao, China on April 5.
Sun turned the primary ladies’s participant to win three consecutive World Cup singles titles, whereas Wang battled by way of a seven-game thriller to assert his first males’s singles World Cup crown.
25-year-old prime seed Wang confronted a fierce problem from 18-year-old Japanese participant and world No. 8 Sora Matsushima within the ultimate. In a match that examined each his bodily and psychological limits, Wang secured a dramatic 4-3 victory (11th of September, 18-16, 11-8, 11-13, 8-11, 11-4, 11-8).
In the ladies’s ultimate, world No. 1 Sun defeated compatriot Wang Manyu 4-1 (11-9, 11-8, 13-11, 8-11, 11-7) to safe her third consecutive World Cup singles title.
2. Three Chinese referees chosen for 2026 FIFA World Cup
The Chinese Football Association confirmed on April 9 that referees Ma Ning, Fu Ming and Zhou Fei have been appointed as referees for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Ma will function a referee, Zhou as an assistant referee, and Fu as a video assistant referee.
It will mark the second time Ma has been included on the FIFA World Cup referee listing after serving as a fourth official on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and officiating in a number of matches. The 46-year-old is ready to develop into the primary Chinese referee to participate in two editions of the World Cup.
Fu and Zhou, in the meantime, will each make their FIFA World Cup debuts.
3. Sheng, Xiao add two golds for China at ISSF World Cup in Granada
Chinese shooters delivered a powerful efficiency on the third day of the ISSF World Cup in Granada, Spain, as Sheng Lihao and Xiao Jiaruixuan gained the boys’s 10-meter air rifle and ladies’s 25-meter pistol titles respectively on April 9.
Double Olympic champion Sheng, contemporary from successful blended crew gold on April 7, opened strongly with two 10.8 photographs and by no means regarded again, sealing victory with 253.9 factors. He completed 0.9 factors forward of Serbia’s Aleksa Rakonjac, who gained his first World Cup medal. Sweden’s Olympic silver medalist Victor Lindgren took bronze with 230.9 factors, incomes his first medal at a senior World Cup.
The victory marked Sheng’s fifteenth World Cup medal and tenth gold, and the 21-year-old mentioned he continues to benefit from the problem. “I really enjoy competing with the top shooters from the world and vying with them technically,” he mentioned.
Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Xiao gained her first World Cup title after edging teammate Kong Jieru by way of two rounds of shootoffs within the ladies’s 25-meter pistol ultimate.
Xiao, who topped qualification with 590 factors, took the lead after the second sequence and was not caught till the ultimate sequence, when 18-year-old Kong drew stage at 39 hits. Both shooters hit 5 out of 5 within the first shootoff, however Xiao prevailed 4-3 within the second. France’s Olympic silver medalist Camille Jedrzejewski took bronze.
4. Shi, Wang attain semis at Badminton Asia Championships
China’s Shi Yuqi and Wang Zhiyi superior to the boys’s and ladies’s singles semifinals of the 2026 Badminton Asia Championships on April 10, whereas their compatriot Gao Fangjie introduced her retirement following a hard-fought loss to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi.
Second seed Shi dispatched Japan’s Kodai Naraoka 21-18, 21-18 and can subsequent face Chou Tien-chen of Chinese Taipei, who outlasted Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew in three video games.
In ladies’s singles, Wang eased previous Japan’s Riko Gunji 21-13, 21-15. Top seed An Se-young of South Korea and teammate Sim Yu-jin arrange a semifinal conflict within the reverse half of the draw following respective victories.
The match marked the profession finale for 27-year-old Gao. After falling to Yamaguchi 23-21, 11-21, 13-21, Gao confirmed she was stepping away from the game, having missed choice for the upcoming Uber Cup.
In males’s doubles, He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu defeated compatriots Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang 21-19, 21-15 to arrange a semifinal towards prime seeds Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae of South Korea.
Top-seeded Chinese duo Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning in ladies’s doubles, together with blended doubles pair Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping, additionally secured their last-four berths.
5. Chinese basketball prospect Yang Shuyu joins Melbourne Tigers
The Melbourne Tigers of Australia’s second-tier basketball league introduced on April 7 the signing of China’s rising ladies’s star Yang Shuyu for the 2026 season.
The Tigers mentioned that the signing of Yang, 24, marks one of the vital thrilling worldwide additions within the membership’s latest historical past.
Head coach Kaleb Sclater mentioned in a press release that Yang, a bronze medalist for China in 3×3 basketball on the Tokyo Olympic Games, would make a big affect on and off the courtroom for the crew.
“She brings elite talent, international experience, and a fierce competitive edge, we’re excited to welcome her,” he mentioned.
The Melbourne Tigers play within the South Conference of the semi-professional National Basketball League 1 (NBL1) competitors.
The ladies’s crew gained 12 out of twenty-two common season video games in 2025, however didn’t qualify for the playoffs and is winless by way of two video games in 2026.