South China Morning Post - Other Sports

Hong Kong head coach Li Ching has called on the younger players to continue to help shoulder the pressure after the city’s men’s and women’s teams both qualified for the knockout stages of the World Team Table Tennis Championships on Friday. The men’s team reached the knockout stage as group winners following a convincing 3-0 win over Saudi Arabia and earlier wins against South ...

World Table Tennis CEO Steve Dainton will step down from his role on Friday, just four months after taking on the job on a full-time basis and as financial results underlined the challenges facing the sport. Dainton, who has spent more than 20 years in the sport and led the creation and growth of the organisation in 2019, will also step away from his position on its board. He wi...

Chinese snooker rising star Wu Yize said he would need to do better both offensively and defensively after reaching the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championship on Wednesday. A 13-8 win over Hossein Vafaei propelled the 2022 rookie of the year to the last four at the Crucible Theatre for the first time, where he will face Mark Allen, after the Northern Irishman edged past B...

It took climber Ali Salimian five days to get from his home in Iran to China as he chased his dream of qualifying for the Asian Games – three weeks later, he is still on the mainland, preparing for this weekend’s World Cup and thankful for the kindness of strangers. As is the case with many elite athletes in Iran, Salimian’s participation in international competition is usually ...

China’s top anti-corruption body said on Wednesday it was investigating the head of the country’s badminton association for “serious violations of discipline and law”. Olympic gold medallist Zhang Jun, chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association (CBA) and vice-president of the Nanjing Sport Institute, has been placed “under disciplinary review”, it said on its website. Jun is ...