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 ...

The China Open in Beijing is where the elite compete on Olympic grounds. The tennis center was built for the 2008 Olympic Games, seating 15,000 tennis fans from around the world. This year ...

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 ...

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 ...

China, which has won this event every time since its introduction in 2008, didn't lose any of the individual matchups through the four-round event, winning 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 3-0. Timo Boll, the ...