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2011 NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament Coverage

Behind the scenes highlights of the Men's Tennis team's trip to Lexington, Kentucky for the 2011 NCAA Tournament.

Olympics easy for Chinese, making team tougher

18.05.12

The Beijing Games.

True, but the sport invented in Victorian Britain bears no resemblance to China's game, which is a source of pride right up there with the Great Wall, pandas and the "pingpong diplomacy" matches with the United States in 1971.

Much of China's success is due to its systematic, Soviet-style approach of recruiting promising 5- or 6-year-olds to sports schools and then ruthlessly winnowing the field for the national team.

China's supremacy even prompted the ITTF to alter its rules for the London Games, hoping to give a few others a chance.

This time around, only two players from one nation can enter singles, eliminating the possibility of another 1-2-3 finish for men and women. China will still be favored to slice and serve its way to gold and silver, and win both team gold medals. The third qualifier for Chinese men's and women's team will be limited to playing to playing the team event.

"The (Olympic) tournament cannot be dominated as before by the Chinese,"

Source: San Jose Mercury News

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