Swintayla Marie "Swin" Cash Canal is an American former professional basketball player who played professionally for 15 seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She currently serves as vice president of basketball operations and team development for the New Orleans Pelicans. A prolific scorer and rebounder,as well as a capable ball handler and defender,she helped lead the University of Connecticut women's basketball team to national titles in 2000 and 2002. In her second WNBA season,she led the Detroit Shock to their first ever WNBA title. In 2015,she was named a studio analyst for MSG Networks covering the New York Knicks pre-games and post-games as well as the weekly coaches show. In 2017,Cash was named the Director of franchise development for the New York Liberty. Cash was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 9,2022.
Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster,four-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Shenzhen University. She is the second highest rated female player of all time. A chess prodigy,she was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its inception in 1927,unlike the absolute World Chess Championship,which only came under FIDE's control in 1948.
Han Xinyun,also known as Monica Han,is a Chinese professional tennis player.
Zhu Yifan is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a midfielder.
Xu Yifan,nicknamed Julie,is a Chinese professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 7 in doubles,on 13 January 2020. On 13 July 2015,she peaked at No. 148 in the singles rankings.
The Gibraltar International Chess Festival is a chess tournament held annually at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar. Its eleven days of competition usually run from late January to early February. The inaugural edition,then known as the Gibtelecom Gibraltar Chess Festival,took place in 2003,when fifty-nine competitors took part,of whom 24 held the FIDE Grandmaster title. In 2011 the festival was renamed to the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival when Tradewise Insurance Company Ltd became the new primary sponsor. Beginning in 2019 Tradewise no longer sponsored the tournament and the name was changed to the Gibraltar International Chess Festival.
Dangerous Liaisons is a 2012 Chinese period romance drama film by Hur Jin-ho loosely based on the 1782 novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The novel has been adapted numerous times,including Les Liaisons dangereuses,an adaptation by Roger Vadim (1959),the eponymous Hollywood film (1988),Valmont (1989),Cruel Intentions (1999),and Untold Scandal from South Korea (2003).
Hou is a Chinese surname,listed the 80th in the Hundred Family Surnames. It is romanized Hau in Cantonese. It originated from a Chinese nobility title,often translated as "marquis."
Yang Zhaoxuan is an inactive Chinese tennis player. She reached her best WTA doubles ranking of world No. 9 on 30 January 2023.
Wu Yi Fan,known professionally as Kris Wu,is a Chinese Canadian rapper and convicted serial rapist. He is a former member of South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its subgroup Exo-M under SM Entertainment,before leaving the group in 2014. Wu was active as a solo artist and actor in Mainland China,and had starred in several number-one box office hits including Mr. Six and Journey to the West:The Demons Strike Back,which are among the highest-grossing Chinese films of all time in China. He made his Hollywood debut in XXX:Return of Xander Cage.
Chen Qingchen is a Chinese badminton player who specializes in doubles. She is four-time World Champions,two-time Asian Games gold medalists,and two-time Asian Champions. Besides that,Chen also won silver medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's doubles,and at the 2017 World Championships in the mixed doubles. She was ranked first in two category,reached the world number 1 in the mixed doubles with Zheng Siwei in December 2016,and in the women's doubles with Jia Yifan in November 2017.
Jia Yifan is a Chinese badminton player. She captured four gold medals at the World Championships in 2017,2021,2022,and 2023 World Championships. She also won two gold medals at the Asian Games in 2018 and 2022,as well as at the 2019 and 2022 Asian Championships. Jia was part of China winning team in the 2019,2021,and 2023 Sudirman Cup,and also at the 2020 Uber Cup. Additionally,she also won silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She reached a career high of world number 1 in the women's doubles with Chen Qingchen in November 2017.
The 2016 Tianjin Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was 3rd edition of the tournament,and part of the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place in Tianjin,China between 10 and 16 October 2016.
The 2016 Suzhou Ladies Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit,offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Suzhou,China,on 17–23 October 2016.
The 2016 Bank of Liuzhou Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit,offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Liuzhou,China,on 24–30 October 2016.
Zhù is a Chinese surname.,meaning ‘wizard’,‘prayers’,or ‘to pray’in ancient Chinese. The origin of the name is either from Zhu (祝),an official post in ancient China in charge of chanting prayers during religious worship,or (ii) from Zhu (祝),the name of a fief located in modern-day Shandong province during the reign of King Wu of Zhou. According to a 2013 study,it was the 138th-most common surname in China,shared by 1,20,000 people or 0.090% of the population,with the province with the most being Zhejiang.
Zhang Yifan is a Chinese swimmer. She won the gold medal in the women's 4 ×200 metre freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics as a swimmer in the preliminary series.
The Zhemao hoaxes were over 200 interconnected Wikipedia articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history written from 2012 to 2022 by Zhemao,a pseudonymous editor of the Chinese Wikipedia. Combining research and fantasy,the articles were fictive embellishments on real entities,as Zhemao used machine translation to understand Russian-language sources and invented elaborate detail to fill gaps in the translation. It is one of Wikipedia's largest hoaxes.
