After a long international break, Beijing Guoan was back in action Saturday night at Worker’s Stadium as they faced off against Liaoning Whowin in an important late season match.  While Guoan no longer has a chance at the title, with only eight matches left in the season, they are fighting to keep hold of second place, giving them entry in next year’s Asian Champions League. 

Beijing Guoan’s unbeaten streak reached 13 games last night as Xu Liang’s pair of goals led the capital side to a 2-1 victory over Jiangsu Sainty. It was another night of quality football in front of a very passionate Workers' Stadium crowd. "Passionate" can be taken literally: Gongti has become a popular destination to propose, with at least three proposals in the stands last night.

China's best tennis player ever, Li Na, crashed out of Wimbledon at just the second round. The number three seed lost to Germany's Sabine Lisnicki - whose victory marked a remarkable comeback from a career-threatening ankle injury - after winning the first set and being 5-3 up in the third set.

That was not all that Li lost at the All England Club. She also managed to misplace her husband who stormed out of Centre Court during the middle of the second set. Li, as always, reacted to the inevitable questions in the post-match press conference with the quotes we have come to expect:

Journalist: "Have you found your husband yet?"
Li Na: "I don't know where he was going, so when I find him I will tell you"

The Beijing-Tianjin derby is always a hotly contested match that the players and fans all get up for, last night was no different.  Tickets were hard to score and security was tight, the largest crowd of the year at Gongti was in full voice, but Guoan could only manage another 1-1 draw, their third in a row.

Yu Dabao put the visitors up 1-0 at the 20 minute mark after his swerving shot took a weird bounce in front of Guoan keeper Yang Zhi.  For the first time since April, Guoan had to play catch up.  Even worse, Jamie Pacheco, the Guoan manager, was sent to the stands after a dispute with a Tianjin assistant.  For flipping the bird, Pacheco may be suspended for up to a whopping 6 games.

China’s men went out to hosts Canada in the quarters of the World Curling Championships. There is still no word on when and where the Chinese National Championships will be held in Beijing this month.

Sun Yang and Liu Zige got close to Asian records at the Chinese Spring National Championships. The swimmers will be heartened by their displays in the lead-up to Shanghai-held World Championships.