Tennis player Wang Fa, 14, said the sport opened a way out of his hometown in the mountains of Yunnan province and changed his life.

Wang won the championship in men's singles under 14 years old at the ASICS Tennis Junior Tour in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in late August. As one of the first to play professional tennis in Cangyuan Wa autonomous county, Wang was selected by Zhang Xiaohong, chief coach of the Yunnan Wild Elephants Tennis Club when he was eight. At that time, the boy didn't even know what tennis was.