Rain delays tennis events

BEIJING, Aug 10 (Xinhua): Beijing had moderate to heavy rain Sunday morning and afternoon, which cooled the city down to about 26 degrees Celsius, but the Olympic tennis competition was delayed in the afternoon for about an hour because of wet courts.

The city would have another round of moderate or heavy rain around Aug. 19, the second week of the Olympics, Wang Jianjie, deputy director of Beijing Meteorological Bureau (BMB), told reporters here on Sunday.