Life is more than music for American pop group – Backstreet Boys – they are also tennis fans.

Brian Thomas Littrell, the lead singer (second from left) and Howie Dwayne Dorough (right), took time from their short Beijing visit to China Open site to watch the China Open women's single match at the corporate box, sponsored by Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing, where they were welcomed by Betty Lau (second from right), the hotel's director of sales and marketing and Judy Wang, Shangri-La's China PR director.

Howie Dwayne Dorough was delighted to find that he has so many Chinese fans and more than happy to sign his autographs at a Shangri-La sponsored corporate suite for the China Open at the Beijing Tennis Centre. Howie came to Beijing together with the other members of the Backstreet Boys band for their first-ever China performance on 24 September at the Olympic Stadium.