Vietnam’s top tennis player, Ly Hoang Nam, jumped six slotsthis week to 877th place in the world rankings.

VietNamNet Bridge – Because of the severe heat in the last few days, hundreds of football fans in Hanoi and HCM City watched Euro 2016 on the sidewalks.

 Vietnamese athlete Do Ngan Son won the Phu Quoc International Marathon on June 11.

V.League 1’s Quang Nam have decided to part ways with their two foreign strikers because of their bad performance at recent matches.

 Vietnamese football fans are anxiously waiting for the 2016 European Football Championship, which will open in France on June 10.

 Vietnam topped the medal table of the Jiu-Jitsu Regional Championships for South East and East Asia which was recently concluded in the My Dinh Indoor Athletics Gymnasium in Hanoi.

 Vietnam’s U14 Boys National Football Team will gather for training from June 12 to prepare for the AFC Under-14 Regional Festival of Football for the Southeast Asia which is scheduled in July in Brunei.

 Three Vietnamese athletes have qualified to compete in the 2016 World U20 Championships in Athletics slated for Poland in July.

 Vietnam cruised to an overwhelming victory at the 17th ASEAN + Age Group Chess Championships 2016 in Pattaya, Thailand on June 6, racking up a total of 29 individual gold medals after eight days of competition. 

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh entered the second round of the Xiamenair Australian Badminton Open in Sydney on June 8.

 Japan’s U-16 team cruised to a 4-1 win over U-16 Hoàng Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) in a friendly match at HCM City’s Thong Nhat Stadium yesterday.

In an interview with Myanmar Times several days ago, striker Le Cong Vinh – captain of the Vietnam national football team - announced that he would retire next year and the AFF Cup 2016 would be his last AFF.

 Japan topped the medal table of the Asian Junior Athletics Championships, which concluded on June 6 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 The Vietnam national men’s football team beat Singapore 3-0 in the final of the 2016 AYA Bank Cup in Myanmar to take the trophy in the first time it attends.

Vietnam yesterday came from behind to beat Singapore to win the bronze medal at the Nations Cup in the U21 competition in Malaysia.

 Bui Huy Thong of Vietnam and his teammate, Azhar Mohd Noor from Singapore, triumphed in the first round of the Asia Road Racing Championship’s Asia Dream Cup, yesterday in Japan.

 Vietnam Women’s Grandmaster Nguyen Thi Mai Hung won a gold medal at the Asian Individual Blitz Women Chess Championship, which closed in Uzbekistan on Saturday.

 Nguyen Tien Minh and Vu Thi Trang brought their gold medals home after winning in the finals of the Yonex Sunrise Vietnam International Challenge yesterday in Hanoi.

 Vietnamese Grandmaster (GM) Le Quang Liem is close to winning the men’s title of the ongoing  Asian Individual Chess Championship in Uzbekistan.

 Japan’s Yokohama FC wants to renew a loan contract with midfielder Nguyen Tuan Anh of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) for another 5-10 years.