As the night draws to a close at 19:30, CCTV5's live broadcast will welcome a hotly contested semi-final of the 2024 Chinese Football Association Cup. Shandong Taishan, the traditional powerhouse, will battle the upstart Chengdu Rongcheng on their own pitch. It's a battle of winners and losers, and once the scores are tied, the game will go into an exciting extra time, and possibly even a penalty shootout. Under coach Xu Zhengyuan's leadership, Chengdu Rongcheng is in third place in the Chinese Super League with 52 points, and a place in the second tier of the AFC Champions League is basically locked up, with a team full of stars, including Felipe, Zhou Dingyang and Wei Shihao. On the other hand, Shandong Taishan, under the guidance of Cui Kangxi, the team has strong foreign aiders such as Cressan, Wang Dalei, Gao Junyi and many international players, and is currently ranked fifth in the league with 38 points.
Meanwhile, CCTV5 will bring an exciting sports feast at 21:30, while CCTV5+ will record and broadcast a series of exciting events, including the China Badminton Open, the US Open tennis tournament, the World Association of Athletics Federations (WAAF) Diamond League, the English Premier League, the final of the U20 Women's World Cup, and the Bundesliga's Borussia Dortmund's away match against Stuttgart.
Moving to the following day, at 10:30am and 18:00pm, CCTV5+ will record and broadcast the 2024 WBSC Championships - Macau, China in separate time slots. The Liu Guoliang-coached national team won two titles, with Sun Yingsha topping teammate Wang Yidi in the women's singles final.
In the men's singles final, 2005-born junior Lin Shidong swept past Germany's Qiu Party 4-0. Japan's Misaki Ito, who has a unique style of serving, as well as Chinese-born players Tomokazu and Miwa Changmoto failed to advance to the final.
Central Video (CCTV Sports Client CCTV5APP) will also provide a full range of live streaming services, covering both the web and mobile, so that viewers will not miss any exciting moments.
And by 14:30 in the afternoon, the passion of Puyuan 2024 King's Glory Women's Open will also be brought by CCTV frequency to live broadcast in real time.
