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...surprise win leaves it looking likely that the Chinese women may garner an Olympic medal from tennis, either from women's singles player Li or women's pair Yan Zi and Zheng Jie. Li, hardly a household name overseas, survived a treacherous draw that pitted her against both world No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova and Williams, who won Wimbledon this year. Certainly, the support of a raucous home crowd helped buoy the 25-year-old Chinese athlete, who is ranked No. 42 in the world. "Wow, I don't think you could see that in another country," said...
Crowd support was also crucial for the Chinese women's pair, who started their quarter-final match at 1:00AM on Aug. 16. The late match, punctuated by swirls of flying nocturnal insects, pitted Yan and Zheng against Russia's Dinara Safina and Kuznetsova in a nearly three-hour battle (6-3, 5-7, 10-8). Safina must have been exhausted: Less than four hours earlier, the Russian had dispensed with Serbia's Jelena Jankovic in an epic women's single's quarter-final...
...women's tennis schedule continues in an unrelenting fashion. Safina plays Li again in a women's singles semi-finals on Aug. 16 at 4:00PM, just 12 hours after she and her Russian partner lost to the Chinese pair. Zheng and Yan meet Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual later in the evening in a doubles semi-final match...
...settled in Africa long before the 17th century arrival of settlers from Europe. The first known map of southern Africa was drawn by Chinese cartographer Chu Ssu-pen in 1320. Sung dynasty porcelain (960-1279 AD) has been found at archaeological digs in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Chinese admiral Zheng He explored Africa's east coast between 1405-1433. Most compelling of all, until a few years ago, there lived, north of Cape Town, tribes with light colored skin, Mongolian features and a language tonally similar to Mandarin, who traced their origins to 13th century Chinese sailors and call themselves...
...embarking on a tour of the country that will take him to Shanghai and Beijing, where he'll be addressing students at high schools, universities and international schools in China's most important cities. He'll also be meeting with some of the country's more prominent greens, like Zheng Shigrong, the billionaire founder of the solar panel manufacturer Suntech. It's all being arranged by members of China's Minister of Environmental Protection (Francis's teacher in San Francisco has impressive contacts...