Maggie Rauch

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• Posted Zhang Shuai and the future of Chinese tennis to Shanghaiist
  Zhang Shuai awaits the serve at the China Tennis Grand Prix in Nanjing, November 2009 Last weekend, the finals of the China Tennis Grand Prix took place in Nanjing. It was the culmination of a week-long event, which was actually the culmination of several months of tennis played at multiple levels in cities across China. In its fourth year, and its second with Mercedes-Benz as title sponsor, this event is the training ground for...
• Posted Ding Hui: Still Chinese, still black, still playing volleyball to Shanghaiist
  The past couple of days, traffic to China Sports Today from people searching for "Ding Hui" has seen a little uptick. Could it be a coincidence that a recent story in The Guardian said that Ding Hui, the Chinese national volleyball team's first black player, was booted from the national team last year, implying that it was because Ding Hui is black? But If you came to find out about the volleyball player who...
• Posted Yi Jianlian: Off the hook for Chinese National Games, off the hook against the Knicks to Shanghaiist
  Yi Jianlian is so excited about not being forced to play in the Chinese National Games that the guy’s actually playing some good basketball. He scored 21 points and grabbed 11 boards in an exhibition game against the New York Knicks last Friday. In the Nets’ two previous games, against the Boston Celtics, Yi went for 20 and 8 in the first, but just 2 and 4 in the second. But someone in China...
• Posted Meet fixing scandal hits Chinese diving to Shanghaiist
  China's national games haven't even officially started yet, but they are already the backdrop for an ugly scandal in one of the country's most treasured sports. Don't worry--diving queen Guo Jingjing's piles of Olympic gold aren't in jeopardy. But the integrity of the sport's biggest domestic competition was shaken when a referee quit working the national games because, she says, the result are all fixed. The national games diving competition takes place before most...
• Posted The NBA's top-selling jerseys in China to Shanghaiist
  Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony The NBA is touching down in China this weekend, with the Indiana Pacers and Denver Nuggets playing a preseason game in Beijing. Ahead of the game, the league issued a press release that it decided to call "Bryant's jersey remains top seller in China." I wish I had 10 RMB for every time I heard an American say "They love Kobe in China!" It's true, but focus on Bryant and...