Serena Williams withdrew on Saturday prior to the Rome Masters semi-final with China's Li Na, with the American admitting she just had been feeling small twinges and will be fine for the French Open.

China has chosen Wang Hao and Zhang Jike to play table tennis singles with Ma Long joining them in the men's team competition at the London Olympics.

Chinese athletes training hard to take part in London Olympics virtually turned vegetarian, giving up meat products due to fears of disqualification by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

China's badminton superstar Lin Dan withdrew from his men's singles semi-final at the Asian Championships on Saturday, in a surprise move blamed on a recurring waist injury, state media said.

China's national marathon team reared their own chickens till recently out of concern over the possibility of illegal food additives impacting their drug tests as well as food safety.

Top Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal suffered a straight-game defeat to Xuerui LI of China in the women's singles quarterfinals to crash out of the All England Championship at Birmingham, on Friday.

This cricket scorecard read more like a telephone number written vertically. A Chinese U-16 team was bowled out for all of 9 runs against Afghanistan, losing the match by 349 runs.

Midfielder Hao Junmin scored the opening two goals to set up China's 3-1 consolation win over Jordan in Wednesday's World Cup qualifier.

Straight sets wins for Lleyton Hewitt and Bernard Tomic on Friday gave Australia a 2-0 lead over China in their best-of-five Davis Cup tie.

Former U.S. Open and Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt has been selected to play singles and doubles against China in his record-equaling 32nd Davis Cup appearance for Australia this weekend.