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2011 Jun 29 Talking Balls: Li Na Loses, Fights at the Football & Olympic Scandal

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 players (and later the fans) lost their tempers at last weekend's Beijing Guoan vs. Tianjin Teda local derby. The enmity from the stands often manifests on the pitch and this match was no exception. Watch the melee below.

Not wanting to be outdone by their heroes, the supporters decided to get in on the act. Click here for scenes from the match and the stadium forecourt down at Gongti. For those interested in the score it was 1-1 and Guoan remain second in the CSL standings. Read our match report here.

China's Under-23 football team have lost their chance to compete at the London Olympics. This time Team China, and the "fans" that seem to spend all of their time passing comment on the internet, have a claim to feeling hard done by. China were playing Oman and needed to score to secure their passage with the scores tied at 1-1 on aggregate toward the end of the second leg. They scored in the 93rd minute but it was wrongly chalked off as being offside. The game went to extra time and Team China ended up on the wrong side of three late strikes to lose the tie 4-1 and kiss goodbye to London next summer. The controversial decision is below. Cheers, ref. See China Sports Review for a good article on what the Chinese Football Association should do next and China Daily's match report here.

Finally, Hao Junmin has lost the chance to play in the German Bundesliga. Hao has been sold by Schalke 04 to China's richest football club. Hangzhou Greentown fans will get chance to see the wing back strut his stuff for them from now on. It's a shame that China's only representative in the world's top leagues has returned home but good news for the CSL. For those who remember the April Fool's rumours of Hao joining Arsenal that was fake but this is real.

 Photo from Live Tennis Guide.

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