Yao Ming netting 27 points as his team beat Serbia and Montenegro 67-66 to knock the world champions out of the tournament.
Ukraine's Olena Kostevych outduelled Jasna Sekaric of Serbia and Montenegro in a shoot-off to win the gold.
Striker Didier Drogba scored on his debut as Chelsea won 3-0 in the Champions World Series.
The Portugal defender signed a three-year contract for around 30 million euros.
The 23-year-old Portugal midfielder is Chelsea's fourth recruit under new manager Jose Mourinho.
It is leant that Chelsea paid between 30 and 40 million euros (20 to 27 million pounds) for the Ivory Coast striker.\n\n
The Ivory Coast striker is set to become the third most expensive player bought by an English club.
The 25-year-old, who joined PSV from Partizan Belgrade in 2000, was top scorer with 31 goals in the Dutch first division last season.
The third seeds were shocked by 16th seeds Julian Knowle of Austria and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Montenegro in the men's doubles third round at Wimbledon.
The beat Serbia & Montenegro 3-0 in the final to win the title for a fifth time in the past seven tournaments.
India's Karan Rastogi and partner Yi Chu-Huan won the doubles title in the Grade I 40th Astrid Bowl Charleroi Belgian International Junior Championships.
The top seeds lost to seventh seeds Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriguez of Argentina in the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters.\n\n
Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba handed Olympique Marseille a slender 1-0 lead over Inter Milan in quarter-final, first leg match.
Seventh seed Conchita Martinez went down to German Anca Barna in the first round of the WTA Qatar Open.
The sixth seed was beaten in the first round of the Australian Open by Robin Soderling.
Dokic's father Damir told a newspaper that he had spoken to his daughter "10 or 15 days ago" and she had told him she would not play in Australia.
In the Global Corruption Index, a survey of 133 nations conducted by Transparency International (an anti-graft watchdog), India stood 83rd, recording a score of 2.8 out of 10.
The team, comprising Madhurika Patkar, Sushmita Roy, Mousumi Paul and Sangeetha Seshadri beat the United States 3-2 to finish in the top 10.
American-born Milorad Cavic hurtled to a world short-course record in the men's 100 metres butterfly final at the European championships on Friday.
India have been drawn in along with Japan, Oman and Singapore in the Asian qualifying group for the 2006 World Cup football finals.\n\n
The nine-times European Cup winners beat Partizan Belgrade and stayed on top of their group in the Champions League.
Disciplinary action is being started against the Wales FA for improper conduct of their fans in the match against Italy.
The defending champions will become the first team to qualify for next season's finals if they beat Cyprus and other results go their way on Saturday. \n\n\n\n
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