China's flourishing tennis scene has been a major boon to the country's sense of national pride. About 20 million people play the sport, putting China second on the global ranking for tennis ...

She typically shrugs and offers the same answer. Tennis is typically ignored in China, where table tennis and badminton reign supreme, she says. Winning the Australian Open, Li said Thursday ...

Chinese tennis is on the rise, with Olympic triumphs boosting Beijing's soft-power. But some recent incidents of alleged racism have made headlines during Chinese tournaments. China's flourishing ...

The advent of table tennis supposedly dates back to the late 1800s, when the wealthy Victorians in England created an indoor version of lawn tennis using items laying around the house ... Since the ...

However, the rapid growth of China's middle class in recent decades has brought profound economic and social changes to the country, and tennis has followed. In 2000, just four percent of urban ...

At least 44 table tennis players in Rio were Chinese-born, even though only 6 of them playing for China-as the New York Times reported this week. China went on to take gold in all four table ...