Li Na

Li Na

Li Na, born in Wuhan, Hubei Province on February 26, 1982, graduated from Huazhong University of science and technology. She is a Chinese woman tennis player. She ranked fourth in the women's singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, won the women's singles at the 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam champion in Asia.

In 1989, six-year-old Li Na began to practice tennis. He became a professional in 1999. At the end of 2002, Li Na went to Huazhong University of science and technology to study journalism. In 2004, with the encouragement and support of her husband Jiang Shan, she chose to come back. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Li Na won the fourth place in women's singles. In 2011, Li Na won the second place in the Grand Slam singles final for the first time at the Australian Open; in the same year, she won the top of the women's singles at the French Open. In 2013, he won the second place in the year-end finals of WTA.

On January 25, 2014, she entered the final of Australian Open for the third time and finally won the women's singles. On July 31 of the same year, Li Na announced through her micro blog that she would withdraw from the North American season including the US Open. On September 18, Li Na's agency confirmed that she would withdraw from the competition between Wuhan and China open, and will officially retire. On September 19, Li Na, Asia's first Grand Slam Tennis winner, officially announced her retirement. On December 15, Li Na was selected by the financial times as the woman of the year in 2014. On December 23, Li Na was shortlisted as the best female athlete of the year in the 2014 CTV annual award.

In her 15 years of career, Li Na has entered the WTA women's singles finals for 21 times, won 9 WTA and 19 ITF singles titles, with a total career record of 503-188, and retired as the sixth in the world.

On July 21, 2019, Li Na became the first Asian player to be selected into the hall of fame, and the formal entrance ceremony will be held on the afternoon of July 20. On August 1, 2020, the shooting of China tennis tour starts, with Li Na as the image ambassador.

Early experience

Influenced by her father since childhood, Li Na began to practice badminton in 1988. In 1989, she began to practice tennis by Xia Xiyao, a tennis coach. Next to her coach Xia Xiyao, Li Na completed her primary school education. After graduating from primary school, Li Na entered the Hubei provincial team in 1996 and met Yu Liqiao, another "noble" coach in her career. Under the guidance of Yu Liqiao, Li Na worked harder on the court. In 1997, 15-year-old Li Na went to the United States to train for seven months. Li Na entered the national team in 1999.

Sports experience

Early career

In 1999, Li Na won her second, third and fourth titles in the ITF challenge and won seven consecutive doubles.

In 2000, Li Na won 52 games in ITF. In addition, she has won four WTA events, with a total of 56 wins tied for third place among all professional players. Together with her partner Li Ting, she won the women's Doubles Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the first time for a Chinese player to win the WTA tour.

In 2001, Li Na won the women's singles, women's doubles (with Li Ting) and mixed doubles (with Zhu benqiang) at the World University Games in Beijing, China.

In 2002, he won the 13th ITF women's singles champion in Midland ITF competition. At the end of the year, Li Na suddenly retired without the consent of the national team and went to Huazhong University of science and technology to study journalism.

Back on the court

In 2004, under the persuasion of sun JinFang, director of the national network management center, and relevant provincial authorities, coupled with Jiang Shan's encouragement and support, 22-year-old Li Na chose to return. They won the first place in ITF women's singles in Beijing, Tongliao and Ulanhot, and the second round of China Open women's singles. They won the Guangzhou International Women's open (cement hard earth) and became the first Chinese player to win the singles championship in WTA tour.

In 2005, Li Na reached the final of the Estoril match, becoming the first Chinese player to enter the final of the clay match. She also won two singles in the second group of the world cup in July, helping the Chinese team to enter the second group of the world cup for the first time.

In 2006, Li Na and Zheng Jie met in the final of WTA Portugal Estoril women's singles tournament. Li Na withdrew from the competition due to injury in the third set and won the second place. In the same year, in the final four competition of the German open, Li Na reversed and defeated Schneider, the Swiss. She won the top 10 for the first time in her career, and it was also her first time to enter the final four of WTA. In July, Li broke into the top 8 of China's first Grand Slam in Wimbledon. In the U.S. Open, Li Na also entered the top 16, which was the best record of Chinese players in the U.S. open at that time. At the end of the year, he once again became the top player in China.

At the beginning of 2007, Li Na was promoted to the top 16 of the Australian Open, creating her own best record in the Australian Open. In March, at the Miami open, Li Na knocked out Clijsters and made it into the top 8. The week before Wimbledon, he ended the season with a cracked rib, but still won the first place in China at the end of the year.

In January 2008, Li Na made her first appearance and finally won the second WTA championship in her career at the gold coast, the third level WTA competition. In February, Li Na made it to the top four in the Doha open. In August, at the Beijing Olympic Games, Li Na won the gold medal

Fourth place in women's singles, the best result of Chinese women's singles in the Olympic Games

. In September, Li Na entered the top 16 of the US Open. In October, Li Na beat world number one Williams in the WTA Porsche open to enter the top 8. In the same month, he was promoted to the top four in the Luxembourg Tennis Challenge and became the first player in Asia in 2008.

After solo flight

In January 2009, the network management center decided to allow Li Na to fly alone. In March, Li Na entered the fourth round of Indian Wells in the two crown events of the North American hard court season, and then entered the final eight in the Miami open in the following week. The 11-3 record for three consecutive weeks has brought Li Na back to the top 30 in the world. In June, Li Na made it to the top 16 of the French Open, lost 2-1 to Sharapova and missed the top eight, finished second in the Birmingham grass elite and made it to the top 32 of the Wimbledon open. In September, Li Na entered the top eight of the US Open for the first time, and then ranked in the top four of the Pan Pacific open. On October 27, Li Na ranked 15th in the WTA world rankings, and kept this ranking until the end of the year, which was the highest year-end world ranking for Chinese tennis players at that time.

In January 2010, Li Na entered the final four of the Australian Open, the first time in her career. In February, Li Na advanced to the fourth round in Dubai. But in the Indian game and the Miami game in the first game, was cold out, the world ranking before the Miami game fell to 11th, after the Miami game, even fell to 15th. In April, with the coming of clay season, Li Na reached the top 8 in two important competitions in Stuttgart and Madrid respectively, and reached the semi-final in Warsaw station, which promoted her ranking to No. 12 after four consecutive defeats. On May 28, Li Na lost 2-0 in the match against Italy's No.17 seed Schiavone, stopping in the third round of the French Open. On June 13, Li Na beat Sharapova in 2-0 straight sets to win her third WTA singles championship and the first grass championship in her career in the grass final of Birmingham open. Back in the top 10 after the game. In the subsequent WTA top tour Eastbourne, Li Na withdrew from the first round due to injury. On June 29, he stopped in the quarter finals at Wimbledon. In August, Li Na stopped in the semi-finals of the WTA international tour in Denmark and in the final 16 of the WTA top tour in Cincinnati. In October, at the China open, Li Na made it to the top four, the first time she made it to the top four of the crown jewel. In November, she won the women's team tennis champion in Guangzhou Asian Games. Australian Open 2010

Amazing French Open

On January 14, 2011, in Sydney, Australia, Li Na won the WTA top Tour Championship for the first time by beating the No. 3 seed and former world No. 1 Clijsters 2-0. In the same month, Li Na reached the final of the Australian Open with a record. But in the final, he lost 2-1 to Clijsters and won the second place. This is the best result of Asian women's singles players in the Grand Slam, which is the first time in the history of Asian players to reach the Grand Slam final. On February 16, in the second round of women's singles of the WTA Dubai tennis championship, Li Na lost to vikmayer in the first round; in March, in the North American hard court series, the first round of the season, the crown match, the Bank of Paris, women's singles competition, stopped in the second round. On April 19, after nearly a month's rest, Li Na beat Latvian 2-0 in the first round of her lucky place Stuttgart open

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