UEFA Europa League play-offs first leg football match: Crvena Zvezda vs. Viktoria Plzen

Friendly basketball match: Serbia vs. France

Chinese player Li Shifeng lost a hard-fought three-game match against Japan's Kodai Naraoka in round of 16 of the men's singles event at the badminton World Championships on Thursday.

Chinese table tennis star Fan Zhendong was officially unveiled by his new club Borussia Dusseldorf at a press conference here on Thursday, as the Olympic champion prepares for his second season in the German Table Tennis Bundesliga and another campaign in European competition.

Highlights of BWF World Championships

A 65-year-old grandmother, her 43-year-old son and his 14-year-old child cruise and carve together at an indoor skate park in Weihai, Shandong Province. Nothing beats the joy of a family shredding together over one shared passion. (Produced by Xie Runjia and intern Zhao Wenchang)

Lee Kang-in made an immediate impact as Atletico Madrid opened its La Liga season with a 2-0 home win over Malaga on Wednesday in a match postponed from the opening weekend to give Atletico's World Cup players additional recovery time.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government illuminated for 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios said on Wednesday he had made "a huge mistake" after he was provisionally suspended for testing positive for cocaine.

Japan are aiming to win more medals than ever before at their home Asian Games next month in Nagoya, chef de mission Kosei Inoue said Wednesday after the team's inauguration ceremony.

Former US Open women's singles champions Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens were among the players to receive US Open main-draw wild cards from the US Tennis Association on Tuesday.

Aryna Sabalenka unleashed her big game with devastating effect on Tuesday, hammering China's Wang Xinyu 6-1, 6-3 to reach the fourth round of the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters.

The Chinese Football Association said Wednesday it has launched an investigation into allegations that three of its officials received "improper hospitality" from the Korea Football Association during a refereeing exchange in South Korea in 2012.

China's Chen Yufei recovered from a one-game deficit to reach the women's singles round of 32 at the BWF World Championships in New Delhi on Tuesday, while two Chinese women's doubles pairs also went through in straight games.The fourth-seeded Chen was tested by Lo Sin Yan (Happy Lo) from China's

Flame lighting ceremony held in Tokyo for 20th Asian Games

China's defending champion Shi Yuqi suffered a shock exit in the first round of the BWF World Championships in New Delhi on Monday, losing a three-game battle against India's Ayush Shetty.