Official media and video collections
Oriental Sports Daily (Aug 31, 2026) Page A10 Special Feature: Reviewing key moments in the German Cup Round of 16 and Fan Zhendong's sophomore season abroad; cinema live broadcasts across 36 theaters make him a summer box office dark horse.
In the 2026-2027 German Cup Round of 16 in Nuremberg, Fan Zhendong represented Borussia Düsseldorf with a 1-1 record (win vs Movileanu, loss vs Togami) as Düsseldorf fell 1-3 to Ochsenhausen.
German public broadcaster Sportschau / Radio Bremen reports: Sold-out crowd awaits Fan Zhendong as Bremen coach calls him 'perhaps the greatest player of all time'.
Front page & Page A9 special report by Oriental Sports Daily (Aug 24, 2026): Fan Zhendong scores 2 points in his Düsseldorf debut, receives special city honor and signs the 'Golden Book' (Goldenes Buch).
Berliner Morgenpost reported on November 17, 2013, that 16-year-old Chinese prodigy Fan Zhendong amazed the German media by defeating Ovtcharov to win the German Open.
