Another strong table tennis player : Fan Zhendong.

This season’s Chinese Super League ended its preliminary stage and the top players who played well individually are Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Xu Xin. With his impressive winning streak this season, Fan Zhendong gets to be the strongest contender for this season. Meanwhile, the Grand Slam champion Zhang Jike is in his lowest rank. 

The Chinese Super League is about to enter the second stage of the competition and the individual rankings are already finalised. Who can be this year’s MVP? 

With an undefeated record for the first 15 rounds in the preliminary stage of the league, Fan Zhendong gets the top spot in the individual rankings. As soon as the stage was over, he recorded an impressive 31-win-1-loss record. 

With this, he gets to be a strong contender for this season’s Most Valuable Player. Fan Zhendong’s team, Bayi is also in the playoffs. So if they get to win the title, his chances will definitely increase as well. Prior awardees were Zhang Jike and Ma Long. 

Second on the rankings is Ma Long of the Ningbo Haitian Team. He completed the preliminary stage with 29 wins and 2 losses. Those two losses were from Fan Zhendong. The third player in the list is Xu Xin with 27 wins and 5 losses. Unfortunately for him, such result didn’t lead the Shanghai Team into the playoffs. 

The fourth player is Liang Jingkun of the Shandong Weiqiao Team. He was able to post 23 wins and 9 losses. Weiqiao also sealed a spot in the playoffs. Fifth player is Hao Shuai of the Shandong Team. 

As for the Grand Slam champion, Zhang Jike, he sits in the 17th place with 7 wins and 3 losses. This is probably the lowest he has been in the rankings. The reason behind this is his long absence due to injury and his dispute with his team. Fortunately, things got much better recently and he is expected to contribute well in the playoffs for the Shandong Luneng Team.

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World swimming championships: China's Sun Yang

Chinese famous swimmer

Sun Yang is widey known as the most successful Chinese swimmer and the country's most famous athlete in history with world Asian, Olymic and National Records tied to his name. He began swimming at a young age, and first real breakout was at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when he was just 16 years old. He was the first Chinese man to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming. Sun even anchored the bronze-medal winning 800m freestyle relay, which was one of China's first relay medals in swimming. 

China's Sun Yang with his 400m freestyle gold medal

Australia outs Sun after violation. Swimming Australian made the decision to cut ties with sun, and tighten up regulations regarding foreign athletes that are training in Australia's excellence training centers. Under Cotterell's tutelage Yang won gold in both the 400m and 1500m freestyle at the London Olympics in 2012, smashing the world 1500m record in the process. Sun also won the 400m freestyle world title with the aid of a banned Australian coach, Brian King. He dominated the 400m final to win by more than a second in 3min42.5sec, the fastest time of the year. 

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Rafel Nadal -------------------one of the "big four" of men tennis

       Rafel Nadal's  young professional

Rafel Nadal is a Spanish tennis player who is the one start to play tennis when he was 3.

At the age of 8, Nadal won an under-12 regional tennis championship, giving Uncle Toni the incentive to step up his training. Toni noticed at the time that Rafael played his forehand shots with two hands, so he encouraged him to play left-handed, thinking it could give Rafael an edge on the court.When Nadal was just 12 years old, he won the Spanish and European tennis titles in his age group. He turned professional at age 15.

At the age of 16, Nadal made it to the semifinals of the Boys' Singles tournament at Wimbledon. At 17, he became the youngest male to reach the third round at Wimbledon since Boris Becker.

At the age of 19, in 2005, Nadal won the French Open the first time he competed in the tournament, and his world ranking shot to No. 3. Nadal won 11 singles titles that year, eight of which were on clay, and he was soon dubbed the "King of Clay."

With his powerful topspin-heavy shots, speed and mental toughness, Nadal reigned as one of the "Big Four" of men's tennis (along with Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray),Nadal has been ranked no.1 of the world  and have a lot of fans all over the world.

The key to the success for Nadal mix up his talent, hardwork and attitude.

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Another legend in badminton careers

Another legend in badminton careers

In his early years, Lee favoured basketball, however his mother soon banned him from the game due to the searing heat of the outdoor basketball court. Lee began to learn badminton at the age of 11, when his father, who liked to play the game, brought him to the badminton hall. Attracting the attention of a local coach, the coach asked Lee's father if he could take him as a student. After receiving his father's consent, the coach began to train Lee after school.Discovered by Misbun Sidek, he was drafted into the national squad when he was seventeen years old.

On 3 November 2006, Lee was involved in a car accident. On his way to Bukit Jalil after dinner, he was hit from behind by a vehicle which had lost control after a tire blow out. He was then sent to the Sunway Medical Centre and treated with six stitches for his head injury.

Lee received RM300,000 on 21 August 2008, as a reward for his silver medal effort in the 2008 Olympic Games. Also, he received RM3,000 a month as a lifetime pension beginning in August 2008. For the same achievement, he was conferred with a Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (DSPN), which carried the title Dato' by Governor of Penang, Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas on 30 August 2008.

He was appointed as UNICEF Malaysia's National Ambassador in February 2009.

On 6 June 2009, Lee received the Darjah Bakti (DB) award, from Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, in conjunction with the Birthday of Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong, for his achievements in the 2008 Olympics. He was in a relationship with Wong Mew Choo, his teammate. In 2009, Lee and Wong announced they are no longer together during the 2009 World Championships in Hyderabad, India. However, Lee announced his reconciliation with Mew Choo after winning a silver medal in 2012 Summer Olympics. They were married on 9 November 2012, and had two children, Kingston and Terrance, which were born in April 2013 and July 2015 respectively.

On 16 March 2011, Lee received Permodalan Nasional Berhad shares worth RM100,000 from Najib Tun Razak soon after his triumph in the All England Open. He was appointed as KDU University College ambassador on 31 July 2011.

Lee's autobiography Dare to be a Champion was officially published on 18 January 2012.

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Zhang Jike' next goal.

Zhang Jike prepared for Rio Olympics.

Being the Grand Slam champion, Zhang Jike is one of the main players of the men’s table tennis. After his defeat in this year’s World Championships, a lot may have thought if he is still motivated for the Rio Olympics. Well, in an interview, he said he still is. In fact, his next goal is to do better in the World Team Championships next year so that he can have a better chance for the Olympic Games. 

After losing in the World Championships, Zhang Jike said that he is still motivated for the Rio Olympics. 
After winning the world competitions since 2011, Zhang Jike became the strongest table tennis player in the men’s division. Being able to complete his Grand Slam in a continuous manner was such a feat. 
Therefore, he was considered as a superhuman. However, with his defeat in this year’s World Championships, he became just any regular player once again. It just shows that he cannot win all the titles even if he wants to. 

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Chairman Yao (2)

                         Chairman Yao (2)

Yao Ming was the first pick of overall in 2002 NBA draft. He began his new career with new teammates in Houston, under too much pressure. Yao was not considered to be eligible to stand in NBA at the beginning. Especially the TNT reporter, which is previous NBA super star, Charles Barkley, said in public, that Yao Ming could never score 20 points in one NBA game, if Yao did, he was willing to kiss the ass of neddy. Then the funniest event happened in TNT studio.

Yao became the core of Rockets very quickly and famous among basketball fans internationally. At 2005 NBA All Star voting, Yao relied on 2,558,278 votes which is the best of all to be the most popular player.

I was moved by Yao in the game against Los Angeles Lakers in playoffs. He got injured on the 4^th quarter. But he come back court and made a clutch shoot within severe pain.

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China news in table tennis

Sports player in social media

Social media has become a main player when it comes to promotion and influence. A lot of people all over the world have become popular because of social media. Let us see who among the Chinese players are doing well in this aspect. Well, of course, Zhang Jike is on top despite the controversies he has been recently. 

Sohu Sports. After six months this year, Chinese players are also ranked in their influence in social media. As expected, Zhang Jike ranks first. 

Information starting from January 1 to June 30 this year from the Weibo accounts (QQ & Sina) of Chinese table tennis players were gathered recently, and this information produced the list of the most influential players in China.

As expected, first on the list is the Grand Slam champion Zhang Jike. He has the highest number of followers and the highest number of commenters. This just means that the social influence of Zhang Jike is very high. 

This year, Zhang Jike didn’t achieve very impressive performances in competitions and he was also in a controversy with his Shandong Luneng Team recently. Despite that, he still has maintained his relevance to the Chinese people.  

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