Badosa’s US Open disaster, China swimmers dominate, what happened overnight in world of sport
Paula Badosa manages to throw away winning position in New York, and there is a clean sweep for China in the pool in Paris
A Russian Olympic athlete being banned for taking drugs is not necessarily news, nor is the fact that China are utterly dominating the medal table at the Paralympics, but at least the latter takes the nasty taste away.
And before Zheng Qinwen began her bid to reach the semi-finals of the US Open, China’s tennis players made some history in the French capital.
That, plus a managerial change in English football, is just some of what’s been happening, while you were sleeping.
There can be only one
Four Chinese tennis players began on Tuesday in Paris in the quarter-finals of the women’s wheelchair singles, a historic achievement in itself. By the end, Wang Ziying was the only one still fighting for a medal.
