The game was scheduled to start at 9:00 p.m. but the game kept getting extended because of the preceding game on the mens side between an American 20th seed vs the Australian 28th seed took very long to finish. I waited in anticipation to watch Zheng's match until I could not since it was getting late.
That has nothing to do with it I am afraid as much as I want to agree with you about the U.S. being or becoming a malfunctioning state. Zheng and Vevic are just not household names yet in America; whereas on the men side, there's an American playing and he's also Black which is still not a common sight in men's Tennis.
I am going to watch the replay match and see if what's been alleged here is true or the ultra-nationalist just wants to sensationalize to manufacture an outrage from the Chinese people.
That's a pretty far extrapolation from a delayed tennis match though there are plenty of other signs pointing to it. I think they only had 1 court so there was nothing they could do about it when one match drags on. It affected both players equally so I'm not complaining about that after seeing what they tried to do to our swim team.
Damn, it's just too expensive to train a tennis star. I wanna see us win those golds; I wanna see us sweep tennis like we sweep ping pong but the cost is just ridiculous and I'd be very inclined to just leave it alone. Maybe when China develops a whole bunch of tennis champions, we can change that culture (for us only) and have them become national coaches to batch-train Chinese talent bypassing the millions of dollars in fees per person that foreign money-oriented coaches charge but that's a long ways in the making in both time and money.
I think there should be a fundamental shift in Chinese sporting from government funding to more private sector led funding,
Yeah but tennis is not like that. Nobody spends 3 million USD (22 million RMB) smoking, drinking and going to karaoke. For costs that high, serious training in the sport can only be afforded by the super rich, but the vast majority of talent are not going to be born to super rich families and even those who are will rarely get trained to become tennis stars because the super rich prefer to afford lives of comfort rather than disciplined training for their children. If China is to make a breakthrough to dominate tennis, we have to get past that diconnect and bring elite level tennis training oppertunities to people who can't afford to pay to get trained.