Li Na (tennis)
This is a Chine name; the family name is Li.
Li Na 稗官野史(Chine: 李娜; pinyin: Lǐ Nà麻婆豆腐的由来; born February 26, 1982) is aChine professional tennis player. As of September 2013, Li has won 7WTA and 19 ITF singles titles. Li ro to prominence after she won the2011 French Open singles title, making her the first and only Grand Slam singles champion from an Asian country. Prior to this Li had already become the first player reprenting an Asian country to appear in a Grand Slam singles final, a milestone she achieved at the2011 Australian Open. She was also the runner-up at the 2013 Australian Open孩子不听话怎么办, three times a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon and a mi-finalist at the 2013 US Open. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 3 (achieved on October 28, 2013) and is currently the World No. 3 and Chine No. 1 (out of 4 in the top-100).利福平胶囊[1]
Personal life[edit]
Li Na was born on February 26, 1982, in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Her father Li Shengpeng (李盛鹏) was a professional badminton player and later worked as a sales rep for a Wuhan bad company. He died from a rare cardiovascular dia when Li Na was 14.[2]
At age six, Li Na started playing badminton, following her father's footsteps. Just before she turned eight, Li made the transition from badminton to tennis when she and her parents were convinced by coach Xia Xiyao of the Wuhan youth tennis club that this would be the right career move for her.[3] Li joined China's National Tennis Team in 1997. In the following year, Li, sponsored by Nike, went to John Newcombe Academy in Texas to study tennis.[4] She studied there for 10 months and returned to China. Li turned professional in 1999 at age sixteen.
At the end of 2002, Li left the national tennis team to study part-time at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where she completed her bachelor's degree in journalism in 2009. The Chine media cited various reasons for this. Some reported that
the relationship between her and her teammate, future husband Jiang Shan (姜山), was oppod by the national team's management,[5] some reported that her coach Yu Liqiao (余丽桥) was too strict and demanding,[6]while other reports claimed that her request for a personal coach did not go through.[7]
However, Li returned to the national team in 2004. Jiang Shan married Li on January 27, 2006 and became her personal coach. Li quit the national team[8] as well as the state-run sports system in 2008 under an experimental reform policy for tennis players. This change was called "Fly Alone" (单飞) by Chine media.[9]血珀怎么辨别真假 As a result, Li had the freedom to pick her own coaching staff but she would be responsible for the cost of travel, training and coaching. She could keep more of her winnings,[10] with only 8 to 12 percent of her winnings go to the Chine Tennis Association as oppod to 65 percent previously.[11]
Li Na has a tattoo on her chest, and hid it for many years since tattoos are not widely accepted in China, especially on women.[12][13]
Career summary[edit]
1999–2002: Dominance on the ITF Circuit[edit]
Li turned professional in 1999, and that year won three of the very first four singles tournaments she entered on the ITF Circuit, two at Shenzhen and one at Westende, Belgium. She also won all of her first ven ITF doubles tournaments she entered.
In 2000, she won a total of 52 singles matches on the ITF circuit, more than any other player, notching another eight tournament titles including one at $50,000 level, two at $25,000, and an unbroken run of four successive $10,000 tournament wins in March and April.
Notable individual victories in the cour of the year included wins over Flavia Pennetta, Emmanuelle Gagliardi, Maria Elena Camerin, Tamarine Tanasugarn and Yayuk Basuki.
In June, after Li's world ranking had rin to no. 136 on the strength of her ITF performan
总结标题ces alone, she gained direct entry into her first WTA Tour event at Tashkent. Despite winning the first t, Li lost her first WTA singles match to Anna Zaporozhanova in three ts, but she captured the women's doubles title at Tashkent with 简单的漫画Li Ting against Zaporozhanova and Iroda Tulyaganova.
By the end of 2000, Li had won four WTA singles matches, this brought her cumulative ITF singles title count up to 11. That year, she also won ven more ITF doubles events, 6 of them with Li Ting.
Li was mostly abnt from the tour in 2001. She won two further $25,000 ITF singles tournaments, defeatingRoberta Vinci in the final at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Liu Nan-Nan in the final at Guangzhou in July, but then played only one further match for the rest of the year, leading her ranking to fall to no. 303 by the year's clo.
