{"id":279364,"date":"2025-11-12T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279364\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:36:10","slug":"national-games-day-3-zheng-qinwen-withdraws-from-tennis-sevens-kicks-off-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279364\/","title":{"rendered":"National Games day 3: Zheng Qinwen withdraws from tennis, sevens kicks off in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP\u2019s journalism by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.scmp.com\/\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">subscribing<\/a>. Get faster notifications on the latest updates by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/scmp.onelink.me\/3586748601\/5z3qbkxi\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">downloading our app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Let\u2019s be honest, it wouldn\u2019t be a major sporting occasion without one of our live blogs, and after a sedate start the National Games kicks into high gear on Wednesday, so here we are.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There is more sport than you could shake a non-dolphin-like mascot at, and some of Hong Kong\u2019s best will enter the fray over the course of the next several hours.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In no particular order, the city\u2019s athletes are involved in badminton, baseball, swimming, dressage and there is also the small matter of the rugby sevens which gets started at Kai Tak this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Swimmers Adam Mak Sai-ting and Siobhan Haughey have already been in action in the heats for the men\u2019s 50m breaststroke and women\u2019s 200m freestyle respectively, and will race in their semi-finals tonight.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">We should also discover who Coleman Wong Chak-lam and other tennis stars play in their first-round matches this week \u2013 but not Zheng Qinwen, who has just withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">And our co-hosts Guangdong are involved in not one but two team finals \u2013 men\u2019s basketball and under-20 football \u2013 so strap in and follow us for live coverage of day three.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More from our coverage:<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Reporting by Paul McNamara, Tom Bell, Harvey Kong, Jiang Chuqin, Ada Li, Ambrose Li and Josh Ball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. 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