The San Luis Potosi Challenger in April was Zhang’s first quarterfinal appearance at any level in 2022. Having lost early or in qualifying for many previous events on the 2022 ATP Challenger Tour, Zhang finally managed to progress beyond the second round at a tournament for the first time in almost a year. The following week in Florida, at the 2022 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Zhang made it to the last four, losing to Wu Tung-lin in two close sets. Zhang then made a Challenger quarterfinal for the third week in a row, losing to former top-ten player and 2017 Rolex Paris Masters champion Jack Sock in the final eight. A couple weeks later, and Zhang would again find himself in a Challenger semifinal, this time at the 2022 Tunis Open.
“So far I have not received any confirmation that Zhang Zhan has left the prison and is home with her family. We are all still waiting,” said Jane Wang, a UK-based advocate for the Free Zhang Zhan campaign.
9:22pm BST/5:22pm ET: Next up it’s the co-main event. Mikaela Mayer (17-1, 5 KOs) made plenty of friends over in the UK even if she lost her grudge match against Alycia Baumgardner on the undercard of Claressa Shields and Savanah Marshall’s blockbuster showdown at the O2 Arena last October. As such, the American is back on this side of the Atlantic to plot her next bid for world honours following that first career defeat. A bout with Christina Linardatou, the only fighter to defeat Baumgardner, was lined up with all the delicious narrative that entailed. However, Linardatou’s BBB of C medical came back with an anomaly on her eye exam and she was not cleared to fight. Sweden’s Lucy Wildheart (10-1, 4 KOs) is in as a late replacement.
Zhang speaks the Henan variety of Central Plains Mandarin in most of his post-match interviews and on his social media Douyin and Weibo, which has become a signature characteristic of his, as those born before the mid-1980s are the last generation to speak Central Plains Mandarin fluently. It and other languages of China have been gradually replaced by Beijing Mandarin in the younger generation in Henan and provinces all over China.
Außerdem gibt es noch den chinesischen Familiennamen Zhang, 章, der weit weniger häufig ist, aber auf Mandarin ebenfalls Zhāng ausgesprochen wird, Jèung auf Kantonesisch und Jang auf Koreanisch. Auf Minnan wird dieser Name allerdings anders ausgesprochen (Chiong) als Tiuⁿ (張). Auch auf Vietnamesisch wird dieser Name deutlich anders ausgesprochen: Chương im Gegensatz zu Trương (張).
There’s a cheeriness to Zhang. He has stability, both in his career and with the people around him. Li, who has been with Zhang since 2010. George, Zhang says, “is like a brother.” In ’18, with his career stalled, Zhang considered retirement. Now he believes he has several good years left in him. His next fight will likely come in March, on the undercard of Joshua’s heavyweight showdown with former UFC champion Francis Ngannou. A title shot of his own—Zhang holds an interim version of the WBO title—could come soon afterward.
COPPER BOX, LONDON — Zhilei Zhang shook up the heavyweight division with a huge upset victory over Joe Joyce, stopping the previously undefeated Briton in the sixth round before a stunned London crowd.
«Мы знали, где у русских блокпосты, то есть до какой границы можно доходить и куда дальше идти уже не стоит, — рассказывает Алла. — Но 17 марта появилась информация, что в помещении бучанского горсовета дают гуманитарную помощь и поэтому будет „зеленый коридор”. И что кроме продуктов питания там должны быть лекарства. И муж решил съездить, потому что ему нужно было что-то от давления — а еще бензин для генератора, от которого мы заряжали телефоны».
Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was one of the few independent Chinese journalists reporting in Wuhan after the metropolis of 11 million people went into a complete lockdown, offering a rare, unfiltered glimpse into the reality on the ground as Chinese authorities imposed tight censorship on media coverage.
Back when Mike Tyson first showed up in public in 2003 with his now-instantly recognizable tribal face tattoo, the first reaction of many folks was, “huh?” followed by, “why?” followed by, “seriously though, why?” But let’s be honest: was anyone going to make fun of him to his face and risk getting detonated by one of Iron Mike’s fists? No, sir. Not only was Tyson still the #1 dude who you did not want to get into a brawl with (and also the man with the most disproportionate “intimidating presence: intimidating voice” ratio), he had bitten off a bit of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a 147 boxing division match back in 1997. Tyson was considered volatile, as well as loose, cannon.