I feel like this is more "even a broken clock it right twice a day" situation, but I'll be pleased to be proven wrong ( doubt it)

Number of players total does not prove anything? You are talking about the country which currently boasts the largest population, of course they are going to have a large presence in almost everything they do, welcome to statistics?

Again, if is sooooo popular, how come you can't even fill the WTA final of 10k people, hosted in one of the largest cities in the world by population? Surely you can find 10k people out of the "14m tennis enjoyers" to fill a stadium? Not counting the seats that's already filled by foreign fans?

Your Wikipedia page also mentions that it needs additional verification for support, from 2010 no less.

It also mentions a measly 14m people plays the sport with 30,000 courts, in a country with 1.4 billion people and city that can host entire country populations. Many of these courts are spread in rural areas that can barely even be considered courts. Also considering some of the so called courts are just roughly re netted badminton courts, this is a joke.

It also mentions that one of the major tournaments was held in a stadium in Beijing that host a laughable 10k. Sorry but my middle school stadium holds close to that much, and the stadium wasn't even filled for the final. In a city of 30m you cant even fill a 10k stadium, This is your popular sport lmfao. You really want to read your sources before you provided as "proof".

...this is ridiculous... Courts renovations of 30+ courts in cities like Beijing and Shanghai is like a drop in the bucket. You can fit the entire population of Canada in either cities. The amount of people that play tennis portionally is very much minimal.

Admittedly last time I spent significant time in China was right before COVID in Shanghai, we had no issues booking courts at all. In contrast all pools and basketball courts are full at all times.

Couple of things, there is a huge lack of suitable tennis court/gym that supports them, combined with the large Chinese population, ofc everything is booked out in advance. Is not that tennis is a popular sport, is a nich sport with even less facilities to support it.

Normal gyms, yoga, swimming, golf etc you can all place before tennis, combined with the fact that there are so many other entertainment options available, makes tennis not even close to a popular sport there. Just because you and some of your niche coworkers go does it make it a popular sport. Basketball alone sucks up close to 70% of the market. Older population can generally careless about tennis and prefers other forms of exercise like taichi etc, and you would be familiar with the dreaded "guang chang Wu" culture, less tennis with a tiny % population to begin with. It only seems large because of the huge population base.

Im born and have lived there, and I can tell you it definitely is not "one of the more popular sports".

Before you go saying that it is in the bigger cities, I lived in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Nanjing, and again, it definitely isn't one of the more popular sports.

Providing stable high speed internet at lower cost than bullshit telecommunications companies to those in rural areas is definitely something to be celebrated