The BoardTennis
Alex Eala leaves Nagoya with bronze — and no regrets
She skipped the China Open for a shot at gold, took the first set from Wang Xiyu, then lost 6-3, 3-6, 2-6. Same bronze as Hangzhou. Same answer afterward: she would do it again.
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The BoardTennis
Alex Eala has her Asian Games medal. Gold is still two wins away.
She beat Joanna Garland 7-5, 6-0, locked at least bronze, and plays China’s Wang Xiyu for a final — after skipping the China Open and ending her WTA Finals chase.
The BoardAthletics
Victoria Bossong ends a 32-year wait for a Filipina athletics medal
The Harvard graduate and New Balance pro took Asian Games 800m bronze in Nagoya — the first Filipina athletics Asiad podium since Elma Muros in 1994.
The BoardBadminton
An Se-young becomes the first woman to defend Asian Games singles gold
She beat Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi 21-17, 21-9 in Ichinomiya — no games dropped in singles — and still called back-to-back gold “part of the process.”
The BoardMulti-sport
Women's elite sports are on track for $3 billion in 2026
Deloitte says the market will clear $3 billion this year, up from $2.4 billion in 2025. Sponsors are still writing the biggest checks.
The BoardHandball
South Korea beat Japan for its first handball gold since 2018
27–23 in the last round-robin game at Entrio. Both teams came in 5–0. Japan had won the Hangzhou final 29–19.
The BoardAthletics
Yan Ziyi threw once and won the Asian Games javelin
70.46 metres in the rain at Paloma Mizuho, a Games record. Haruka Kitaguchi, the Olympic champion, took silver at 62.70.
The BoardGolf
Yuna Nishimura answered a Sunday charge and won her first LPGA title
She shot 63-63-66 at Pinnacle for 21-under 192. Aki Iwai closed with a 62 and still finished five back.
The BoardAthletics
Shanti Pereira kept the Asian Games 200m. No woman had done that.
She ran 22.78 in the rain in Nagoya, 0.15 ahead of Chen Yujie. The 100m gold went the other way on Friday.
The BoardBasketball
Kaitlyn Chen's fourth quarter got Golden State the 2-seed
She scored 14 of her 18 in the last period of a 76–75 win in Los Angeles. Dallas is at Chase on Sunday.
The BoardMulti-sport
They graduate. They don't go pro.
Division I AANHPI women finish college at 97 percent, up from 79 percent since 2002.
The BoardLacrosse
Lacrosse is the fastest-growing college sport for AANHPI women
AANHPI women in college lacrosse went from 140 to 272 in ten years, up 94 percent. That is the fastest percentage jump on the NCAA sheet.
The BoardMulti-sport
The college sports Asian American women actually play
AANHPI women are 28 percent of NCAA fencing and about 2 percent of NCAA soccer. Soccer still has 650 of them. Swimming has 645.
The BoardBasketball
The Valkyries have a playoff week — and a 1-seed still to chase
Natalie Nakase's Golden State is 31–11, a game behind Minnesota, with Portland tonight and the Sparks on Thursday. Kaitlyn Chen is a real bench piece now. The first round opens Sunday.
The BoardModern pentathlon
Seong Seung-min wins South Korea's first gold of the Asian Games
The Paris bronze medalist and 2024 world champion scored 1,492 points in women's modern pentathlon at Anjo — and snapped China's four-Games individual streak.
The BoardMulti-sport
Why a one-third Asian city doesn't mint more athletes
San Francisco is 35% Asian. Santa Clara County runs hotter. The Bay Area ships kids to Stanford and Berkeley by the busload — and still treats a varsity letter like optional noise.
The BoardMulti-sport
Calling all Asian women athletes
Asian Americans are about 7% of the country. AANHPI athletes are about 2.5% of the NCAA. The women who break through keep getting treated like exceptions instead of evidence.
The BoardTennis
Alex Eala is skipping the China Open to play the Asian Games
World No. 18 will miss a mandatory WTA 1000 in Beijing for Nagoya. Her federation asked for an exemption. She is going either way.
The BoardGolf
Allisen Corpuz and Nelly Korda win a fifth straight Solheim Cup match
The Americans beat Charley Hull and Lottie Woad 4&3 in opening foursomes at Bernardus Golf — the first pairing in Solheim history to win five in a row. The morning session finished United States 2, Europe 2.
The BoardTennis
Learner Tien’s US Open ends in a five-set loss to Karen Khachanov
The No. 14 seed from Irvine reached the fourth round for the first time after four straight first-round exits in New York. Khachanov won 7-5, 4-6, 6-7(6), 6-1, 6-4 in nearly four hours on Armstrong.
The BoardMulti-sport
The Asian Games are about to start deciding who gets to Los Angeles
Basketball tips Thursday in Nagoya, nine days before the opening ceremony. Across the Games, continental results in squash, hockey, archery, and more will start filling the LA28 Olympic map.
The BoardTennis
Zheng Qinwen just made the elbow rebuild look real at the US Open
From qualifying at No. 121 to beating Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek out of consecutive 5-0 holes, China’s Olympic champion is back in the Flushing Meadows quarterfinals — with Elena Rybakina next.
The BoardSoccer
China’s hottest football league is amateur — and named after a province
Jiangsu’s city league drew 2.43 million fans in its first season and put 62,000 in Nanjing for a final decided on penalties. Adidas arrived for year two. Hubei, Guangdong, and Shandong are already building their own versions.
The BoardPickleball
Why pickleball’s next boom is happening in Asia
DUPR’s fastest-growing markets are all Asian. Mall courts in Manila, converted badminton halls in Guangxi, and a $1.1 million slam in Hong Kong explain why growth rates look different from America’s player count.
The BoardTennis
The US Open’s $1 million mixed doubles bet starts today
Eight teams play qualifying at Grandstand for the last two spots in a sixteen-team Fan Week championship. The USTA moved mixed doubles out of the singles fortnight, raised the winner’s cheque fivefold, and is running it again.
The BoardMulti-sport
The post-medal scramble: why athlete agencies are signing champions now
Seven Indian Commonwealth Games athletes signed with IOS Sports seventeen days after the closing ceremony. In a market where cricket takes 87 percent of the money, the timing is the strategy.
The BoardMulti-sport
Japan targets a record medal haul at its home Asian Games
Chef de mission Kosei Inoue named Hiroshima’s 218-medal record as the target. That is thirty more than Japan won in Hangzhou, and only some sports can supply the difference.
The BoardMulti-sport
Asian American and Asian Canadian athletes to watch this fall
Ten names worth following from US Open Fan Week through the October league openers — who they are, what they just did, and where to find them next.
The BoardBasketball
The WNBA is bringing All-Star Weekend to the Bay Area in 2027
Chase Center hosts the showcase on July 30–31 — All-Star Weekend in only the Valkyries’ third season, after two years of sellouts and playoff basketball.
The BoardBadminton
Why badminton is huge in Asia but still feels niche in North America
Packed arenas and school pathways made badminton a mass sport across Asia. In the U.S. and Canada, the bottleneck is still courts, clubs, and screens.
The BoardBadminton
The Badminton World Championships open in New Delhi
India hosts Worlds for the first time since Hyderabad 2009. Tickets, Star Sports, JioHotstar, and home stars will decide whether Delhi feels like a one-week festival — or a week sponsors want again.
The BoardBeach volleyball
Netherlands and Sweden secure Europe’s first LA28 beach volleyball spots
The Dutch women and Swedish men won EuroBeachVolley in Poland. Because Olympic places belong to countries rather than pairs, Sweden still has a selection decision to make.
The BoardCricket
Eight days after 54 all out, Bangladesh beat Australia in Darwin
Bangladesh’s first Test win in Australia came after a disastrous warm-up. Hasan Mahmud and a fast-bowling program built for overseas conditions drove the turnaround.
The BoardCricket
Olympic cricket has its dates — and women will play first
Women’s T20 runs July 12–20, 2028 in Pomona; men follow July 22–29. Six teams, one continental berth each, and a field small enough to leave heavyweights outside.
The BoardVolleyball
The Asian Women’s Volleyball Championship will award an Olympic berth
Tianjin hosts Aug. 21–30. The winner walks into LA28; the top three lock 2027 World Championship places. China, Japan, and defending champion Thailand set the stakes.
The BoardMulti-sport
LA28’s second ticket drop is open — here’s what still matters
Drop 2 runs through Aug. 20 after more than 4 million tickets sold in April. Price bands, purchase limits, and the sessions already gone.
The BoardFlag football
Flag football’s world championship is now an LA28 audition
Düsseldorf opens Thursday with 16 men’s and 16 women’s teams. The United States defends both titles while the first Olympic berths outside the host get decided.
The BoardBadminton
Ashmita Chaliha wins Korea Masters two years after leaving the country on crutches
The 26-year-old from Guwahati came from a game down to beat China’s Han Qian Xi for her first BWF World Tour title — in the same country that tore her knee in 2024.
The BoardTennis
Manas Dhamne gets his first Davis Cup call-up as India head to Seoul
The 18-year-old from Satara joins Nagal and Suresh for the second qualifying round against Korea, with a Final 8 place in Bologna on the line.
The BoardHockey
Women’s hockey has an Asian talent pipeline—and a visibility problem
India named its Junior Asia Cup squad this week. Captain Khaidem Shileima Chanu is one more excellent Asian hockey player most sports fans have never heard of.
The BoardTaekwondo
What is virtual taekwondo—and is it really a sport?
Motion sensors turn real kicks into a digital bout. The Asian Games just made that format a medal event — and the answer to the sport question is more sweaty than it sounds.
The BoardSnooker
The China Open returns—and China’s new snooker generation is ready for the spotlight
After a pandemic-era disappearance, snooker’s old Beijing flagship opens in Taiyuan with a world champion from Lanzhou, another from China’s first Crucible wave, and a record home draw.
The BoardNetball
Sydney’s Giants Netball has a new owner — and will lose the Giants name
Sports Entertainment Group takes the Super Netball licence on October 1. Western Sydney keeps a franchise. The orange-and-charcoal AFL brand does not come with it.
The BoardMulti-sport
The Asian Games athletes most likely to become global stars this fall
Aichi–Nagoya opens in six weeks. These are the names who can turn a continental medal into an LA28 résumé — or a bigger pro market.
The BoardTennis
Alex Eala’s historic title is creating a tennis boom in the Philippines
Washington supplied the trophy and the flags. The harder job is turning packed courts into an affordable pipeline beyond Manila.
The BoardMulti-sport
Beyond the “technical” athlete: the new generation of Asian American sports stars
Milano Cortina put Alysa Liu and Chloe Kim back in the spotlight. Why does coverage still reach for discipline before power, charisma, or cultural weight?
The BoardGolf
Shiho Kuwaki came for Q-School. She left with the Women’s Open.
A playoff par at Royal Lytham made the 23-year-old Okayama pro Japan’s second straight AIG Women’s Open champion — and wiped a fall qualifying trip off the calendar.
The BoardBaseball
Carlos Carrasco threw seven perfect innings in his KBO debut. LG still took the ball.
The 39-year-old MLB veteran retired 21 straight Doosan batters on 74 pitches at Jamsil — then left on a pre-set pitch count as the bullpen tied the game.
The BoardBaseball
The Dodgers bought Tarik Skubal as October insurance.
Detroit’s back-to-back AL Cy Young is headed to Los Angeles for Hope, Ryan, and Smith — a rental ace for a rotation that still has Yamamoto healthy and Ohtani’s mound on pause.
The BoardMulti-sport
Glasgow closed with a flag for Ahmedabad. The countdown is the story now.
Chopra, PT Usha, and Gujarat’s Harsh Sanghavi took the Commonwealth Games flag at the Hydro — India leaves with 39 medals on a stripped programme and four years to host the centenary.
The BoardCricket
Nepal didn’t just qualify for Asian Games cricket. They won the road in.
A rain-cut Singapore final over Hong Kong sealed the title. Kushal Bhurtel’s six-hitting summer is what Nagoya Group A — Afghanistan, Japan, and a quarterfinal berth — has to answer.
The BoardBaseball
Ohtani’s 24th homer bought a lead. The Dodgers bullpen sold it back.
A 112 mph two-run shot against Boston briefly made it 4–3 at Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles still lost 9–4 — and the mound half of Ohtani’s season remains paused on a sore knee and biceps.
The BoardBasketball
Jeremy Lin retired. Now he’s building the AAPI basketball room he never had.
A four-day college camp in Atherton just wrapped. ARC World returns to Markham in September. The pioneer’s second act is infrastructure, not nostalgia.
The BoardFootball
Korea loaded the Asian Games with World Cup wildcards. Japan brought a U-21 team.
Same U-23 tournament, opposite squad philosophies — military-gold urgency meets an LA28 development window on home soil in Aichi–Nagoya.
The BoardAthletics
Chopra, Nadeem, and Pathirage share a javelin final that qualification could not settle
Three Indians, a Paris Olympic champion, and Sri Lanka’s world-lead thrower meet at Scotstoun after a windy qualifier where nobody cleared 84 metres.
The BoardLacrosse
An unranked debutant just beat world No. 7 — and earned a first Worlds win
The Philippines’ women’s lacrosse team closed Pool D in Tokyo with an 11–5 win over Czechia — a diaspora programme’s first World Championship victory, one year after its first senior medal.
The BoardBoxing
India’s boxing factory went 10-for-10. Gold is the only argument left.
Every Indian semifinalist won on Friday — Lamboria by RSC, Lovlina 5–0, Arundhati over the defending champion — so Saturday’s SEC Hall 5 card is ten gold bouts, not ten medal hopes.
The BoardFootball
Asia already had Zidane. France just put him on the biggest shirt.
The French Football Federation hired Qi Zu through 2030 — the Adidas campus ambassador Chinese fans already claimed, not the Super League coach they never got.
The BoardTennis
Eala opens Washington against the Olympic champion — as the higher seed
At the Mubadala DC Open, world No. 29 Alexandra Eala meets wild-card Zheng Qinwen in a first-round that flips their Hangzhou story — and starts the hard-court road to the U.S. Open.
The BoardAthletics
India’s first CWG para athletics gold arrived from a circle that started at 34
Sharmila Dhankar’s 9.81 m F57 shot put in Glasgow ended a 20-year wait — and proved a Rewari seated-throws pathway can rewrite India’s Games medal sheet.
The BoardBaseball
Park Chan-ho just bought the door he opened
Team61’s $70 million stake makes the first Korean MLB player the first Korean MLB owner — minority, Vegas-bound, and built as an Asia strategy, not a vanity jersey.
The BoardBaseball
The Samurai Japan dugout finally has an MLB résumé in it
Tadahito Iguchi — World Series second baseman, Lotte skipper, Roki Sasaki’s early steward — inherits the job through LA28, with Ohtani’s Olympics file already open.
The BoardCricket
Asian Games cricket drew India against Japan — and saved India–Pakistan for later
Men’s quarterfinal byes put the rivals on opposite halves in Aichi–Nagoya; India’s women open their title defence against the hosts. The bracket math is the story.
The BoardBasketball
LeBron is a Sixer now, on the cheapest contract of his career
After calling it his “last decision,” the NBA’s all-time leading scorer takes a veteran-minimum deal to Philadelphia for a record 24th season beside Embiid, Maxey, and Jaylen Brown.
The BoardBaseball
The White House needed Japanese stars to explain the Dodgers
A second straight Rose Garden visit turned on Ohtani and Yamamoto — proof that MLB’s reigning dynasty is narrated through Tokyo’s exports, not around them.
The BoardCricket
India didn’t find a prodigy. The IPL finished one.
After an Orange Cap season that already crowned him, a 15-year-old’s record T20I fifty in Harare wasn’t a coming-out party — it was the national team matching a market that moved first.
The BoardFootball
Korea didn’t lose Group A. It lost the decade Japan used.
A must-not-lose game against South Africa, a captain on the bench, and another early exit under Hong Myung-bo showed how far Korean football has drifted from a system that can survive without a perfect week.
The BoardGolf
Asia’s men’s tour just changed ladders
The Asian Tour’s new PGA Tour–DP World alliance rebuilds a path toward Europe and the U.S. — and pulls elite Asia golf away from LIV’s International Series ladder.
The BoardFootball
Spain’s second World Cup arrives the way the first one did
Ferran Torres’ 106th-minute finish beat Argentina 1–0 in extra time, sealed a Euro–World Cup double, and left Messi’s likely last final without a reply.
The BoardBaseball
Ohtani stays in the lineup while the Dodgers pause the mound
Left-knee irritation has ended his near-term starts after an Orthovisc injection. Hitting is fine; the rotation will wait.
The BoardCricket
LA Knight Riders win MLC title by one run on the final ball
Sunil Narine broke Washington’s top order; Shadley van Schalkwyk survived a 12-run final over to deliver Los Angeles its first championship.
The BoardBadminton
Sindhu turns a comeback season into a Japan Open title
Her 21–17, 21–17 win over Akane Yamaguchi delivered a first Super 750 crown — and stronger evidence than the uneven route that brought her to Sunday.
The BoardBusiness
Sixth Street looking at sports deals in Japan and India
The firm’s Asia-Pacific lead says the platform is exploring sports as part of a wider regional push.
The BoardBaseball
Roberts sees 500 home runs ahead for Ohtani after No. 300
The Dodgers star reached 300 career homers quickly. Knee management is now shaping the second half.
The BoardBaseball
Jung Hoo Lee moves up to fifth as Giants close first half
San Francisco listed the outfielder fifth against Colorado after he batted seventh the night before.
The BoardFootball
Man City’s Asia tour is Maresca’s first real look — with half a World Cup squad still away
Hong Kong vs Inter on August 1, then Seoul against a K League All-Stars side and Atletico Madrid — a three-match tour built around staggered World Cup returns.
The BoardFootball
CBS takes U.S. rights to Asian Cup and U23 Olympic path
Paramount+ will stream both competitions, with select matches on CBS Sports Network and Golazo.