Li_Na_李娜的英文介绍.doc

Li Na (tennis)This is aChinese name; thefamily nameisLi.Li Na李娜Li Na at the2010 Porsche Tennis Grand PrixinStuttgart, GermanyCountryChinaResidenceWuhan,Hubei, ChinaBornFebruary 26, 1982(age31)Wuhan, Hubei, ChinaHeight1.72m (5ft712in)Turned pro1999PlaysRight handed (two-handed backhand)Prize money$13,299,189SinglesCareerrecord475181 (72.41%)Careertitles7 WTA, 19 ITFHighestrankingNo. 3 (October 28, 2013)CurrentrankingNo. 3 (October 28, 2013)Grand Slam Singles resultsAustralianOpenF (2011,2013)FrenchOpenW(2011)WimbledonQF (2006,2010,2013)US OpenSF (2013)Other tournamentsChampionshipsF (2013)OlympicGamesSF 4th (2008)DoublesCareerrecord12150Careertitles2 WTA, 16 ITFHighestrankingNo. 54 (August 28, 2006)Grand Slam Doubles resultsAustralianOpen2R (2006,2007)FrenchOpen2R (2006,2007)Wimbledon2R (2006)US Open3R (2005)Other Doubles tournamentsOlympicGames2R (2012)Medal recordshowLast updated on: June 17, 2013.Li NaChinese李娜showTranscriptionsLi Na(Chinese:李娜;pinyin:L N; born February 26, 1982) is aChineseprofessionaltennisplayer. As of September 2013, Li has won 7WTAand 19ITFsingles titles. Li rose to prominence after she won the2011 French Opensingles title, making her the first and onlyGrand Slamsingles champion from an Asian country. Prior to this Li had already become the first player representing 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 the2013 Australian Open, three times a quarter-finalist atWimbledonand a semi-finalist at the2013 US Open. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 3 (achieved on October 28, 2013) and is currently the World No. 3 and Chinese No. 1 (out of 4 in the top-100).1Contentshide 1Personal life 2Career summaryo 2.119992002: Dominance on the ITF Circuito 2.22004: Successful return to professional tenniso 2.32005o 2.42006: First Chinese Grand Slam quarterfinalisto 2.52007o 2.62008o 2.72009o 2.82010: First Grand Slam semifinal appearance and ascent to worlds top teno 2.92011: Historic victory at Roland Garros followed by inconsistent resultso 2.102012o 2.112013: Return to top form 3Rivalrieso 3.1Li vs. Sharapovao 3.2Li vs. Radwaskao 3.3Li vs. Clijsterso 3.4Li vs. Azarenka 4Playing Style 5Career statisticso 5.1Grand Slam finals 5.1.1Singles: 3 (12)o 5.2Olympic games 5.2.1Singles: 1 Bronze Medal matcho 5.3Grand Slam Singles performance timelineo 5.4Grand Slam Doubles performance timeline 6Popularity and endorsements 7See also 8References 9External linksPersonal lifeeditLi Na was born on February 26, 1982, inWuhan, Hubei, China. Her father Li Shengpeng (李盛鹏) was a professionalbadmintonplayer and later worked as a sales rep for a Wuhan based company. He died from a rare cardiovascular disease when Li Na was 14.2At age six, Li Na started playing badminton, following her fathers 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.3Li joined Chinas National Tennis Team in 1997. In the following year, Li, sponsored byNike, went to John Newcombe Academy in Texas to study tennis.4She 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 atHuazhong University of Science and Technology, where she completed her bachelors degree in journalism in 2009. The Chinese media cited various reasons for this. Some reported that the relationship between her and her teammate, future husband Jiang Shan (姜山), was opposed by the national teams management,5some reported that her coach Yu Liqiao (余丽桥) was too strict and demanding,6while other reports claimed that her request for a personal coach did not go through.7However, 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 team8as 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 Chinese media.9As 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,10with only 8 to 12 percent of her winnings go to theChinese Tennis Associationas opposed to 65 percent previously.11Li Na has atattooon her chest, and hid it for many years since tattoos are not widely accepted in China, especially on women.1213Career summaryedit19992002: Dominance on the ITF CircuiteditLi turned professional in 1999, and that year won three of the very first four singles tournaments she entered on the ITF Circuit, two atShenzhenand one atWestende, Belgium. She also won all of her first seven 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 course of the year included wins overFlavia Pennetta,Emmanuelle Gagliardi,Maria Elena Camerin,Tamarine TanasugarnandYayuk Basuki.In June, after Lis world ranking had risen to no. 136 on the strength of her ITF performances alone, she gained direct entry into her firstWTA Tourevent atTashkent. Despite winning the first set, Li lost her first WTA singles match toAnna Zaporozhanovain three sets, but she captured the womens doubles title at Tashkent withLi Tingagainst Zaporozhanova andIroda 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 seven more ITF doubles events, 6 of them withLi Ting.Li was mostly absent from the tour in 2001. She won two further $25,000 ITF singles tournaments, defeatingRoberta Vinciin the final atHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam, andLiu Nan-Nanin 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 years close.She won her 15th career ITF doubles tournament at Hangzhou in March.In 2002, she came through qualifying to win her first $75,000 singles tournament at Midland, USA in February, defeatingLaura Granville,Tatiana Perebiynis, andMashona Washingtonen route to the title, the 14th of her career. But she then played only one more match (a loss toZuzana Ondrkovin the $50,000 event at Dinan, France that April), followed by a lengthy absence from the circuit for the next 25 months.Sources vary as to the causes of this absence, the Chinese media mostly cited the conflict between her and the Chinas National Tennis Teams administration and coaching staff.567Some claimed that she just wanted a break from professional tennis so she could concentrate on her studies at university.2004: Successful return to professional tenniseditIn May 2004, Li returned to the competition after having not played since 2002. Although she was unranked, she won 26 successive matches to notch three further $25,000 tournament wins and another $50,000 title, increasing her career singles title count to 18, only to have her winning streak finally snapped byEvgenia Linetskayain the semifinal of the $50,000 Bronx tournament that August. However, she won her 16th ITF doubles tournament at the same event, the 17th overall doubles title of her career.That September, she lost in the final of a $25,000 tournament to compatriotZheng Jie, before returning to the WTA circuit, thanks to a wildcard entry into qualifying at theBeijing. There, she defeatedAntonella Serra Zanetti,Marta Domachowska, andNicole Prattbefore losing in the deciding-set tie-break after a very close second-round main-draw tussle against newly crowned US Open ChampionSvetlana Kuznetsova, during which she held match points against Kuznetsova. The Russian afterwards praised her Chinese opponent, stating that she had felt as though she was up against a top-5 player.The very next week, Li battled her way through qualifying into the WTA event atGuangzhou(a Tier IV event at the time, though since has been upgraded to Tier III), then beatVera Dushevina,Jelena Jankovi,Kristina Brandi, andLi Tingin the main draw to reach the final, where she overcameMartina Suchto win her first WTA Tour title. By doing so, Li became the first Chinese tennis player to win a WTA event.On the back of the ranking points accrued through this result, on October 4, 2004, she broke into the WTA top 100 for the first time.To cap off her most successful year as a singles player yet, she competed in two $50,000 ITF tournaments at Shenzhen, winning the first outright to bring her the 19th ITF singles title and 20th overall singles title of her career, but losing in the quarterfinals of the second to lower-ranked country-womanYan Zi. These results elevated Li Na to world no. 80 by the close of the year, a year in which she won 51 singles matches and lost just four.2005edit2005 saw Li finally abandoning the ITF circuit to focus solely on WTA-level events.She began the year with a second-round performance at Gold Coast and a semifinal showing at Hobart, but losing to fellow Chinese player and eventual tournament championZheng Jie. She then made her Grand Slam debut at the2005 Australian Open, advancing to the third round with wins overLaura GranvilleandShinobu Asagoebefore losing toMaria Sharapova.In early February, she reached the quarterfinals at Hyderabad and qualified for Doha where she was narrowly beaten byPatty Schnyderin the first round of the main draw. After a victory overAi Sugiyamain the first round at Dubai the following week, it was Schnyder once again who stopped her from reaching the later stages of the event.After taking a month off from competition, Li returned at Estoril in late April, defeatingStphanie Cohen-Aloro,Nicole Pratt,Dally Randriantefy, and then crushingDinara Safinato reach her second WTA Tour final. Li was denied the title by Czech qualifierLucie afov, who prevailed in a close three-set match.At Rabat in May, Li reached the semifinal stage, but further success ultimately proved elusive for her. With the score leveled at 33, she retired due to a right ankle sprain while clashing withZheng Jie. Reaching this semifinal propelled her to a career-high world ranking of no. 33, but the injury she had sustained was destined to keep her out of action for the next three months.On her return at Los Angeles in August, she fell in the first round toAnna Chakvetadzeof Russia. The following week, however, at the Canadian Open, she once more beatJelena JankoviandMara Vento-Kabchi, before losing toNadia Petrovain the third round.It wasLindsay Davenportwho proved her undoing in her next two tournaments, beating her in the first round of theUS Open, and at the semifinal stage in Bali in September, but not before Li Na had avenged her previous years defeat byYan Ziin the second round of the same tournament.The following week, another highly ranked American player,Jill Craybas, narrowly defeated Li Na in a close three-set first-round match at Beijing.On September 26, Li Na commenced her defence of her Guangzhou title; but she was prevented from completing it in the quarterfinals by eventual championYan Zi, who thereby edged out in front in their head-to-head record once again. This second loss in three head-to-heads against Yan proved to be Lis last match of 2005; and in her absence from the Shenzhen $50,000 tournaments where she had notched up some ranking points late the previous year, she found herself slipping further in the rankings from the high-point of no. 33 that she had reached in the spring before her injury break, to no. 56 at the years close.2006: First Chinese Grand Slam quarterfinalisteditWith nearly all her remaining ranking points to defend concentrated in a little over the first four months of the year, Li Na began the year faced with the challenge of equalling her strong results from the early part of 2005 in order to maintain her position in the middle reaches of the WTA top 100.Early-round draws against high-ranked players towards the beginning of 2006 took a heavy toll on Lis singles ranking, bringing it slipping down to no. 71 by the end of February.She returned with a career-best performance at Tier I events by reaching the semifinal at Berlin. On the way there, she achieved her first victory over a current top-10-ranked player as she oustedPatty Schnyderfor the first time at the quarterfinal stage. However, this match left her with a muscle sprain, and she lost toNadia Petrovain the semifinal. Nonetheless, her performance at this high-level tournament saw her ranked no. 39.Joining the WTA grass-court season for the first time at the DFS Classic tournament at Birmingham in June, she managed another third-round finish with wins overMashona Washingtonand grass-court specialistEleni Daniilidou, both in straight sets, then lost for the third time in three meetings toMaria Sharapova. Her ranking following this tournament was no. 30, which was at that time the highest ever ranking achieved by a Chinese woman.At the same event, partneringJelena Jankovi, she notched up her second career WTA doubles title, almost exactly six years from her first at Tashkent.An early retirement againstAlona Bondarenkoin the first round of the Ondina Open at s-Hertogenbosch the following week curtailed her final competitive preparations for her debut appearance atWimbledon. But with an entry ranking of 30th, she found herself seeded 27th after some withdrawals, and thus achieved another first for her country in becoming the first Chinese woman ever to be seeded for entry into a Grand Slam tournament.AtWimbledon, she reached the fourth round with comfortable straight-sets wins over respected grass-court playersVirginie Razzanoand recentBirminghamsemifinalistMeilen Tu, followed by victory against 10th seededSvetlana Kuznetsova, resulting in her being the first Chinese player ever to reach any Grand Slam quarterfinal. Li rose to a new career high WTA ranking of no. 20 following the tournament, even though she ultimately lost her quarterfinal match againstKim Clijstersin two close sets.She reached the quarterfinals at Stockholm, and the fourth round at theUS Open, where, as the 24th seed, she was beaten by eventual championMaria Sharapovain two sets. She then reached the quarterfinals at the China Open, where she was beaten bySvetlana Kuznetsova, and in Guangzhou.2007editLi Na at 2008 Fortis Championships LuxembourgLi Na started the year by participating a Tier III event inGold Coast, Australia, where she reached the second round. The next week, she competed in Sydney. She defeatedFrancesca Schiavonein the first round,Elena Dementievain the second, saving five match points, andKatarina Srebotnikin the quarterfinal. Then, she made it to the semifinals, losing a tough match toKim Clijsters, 57 in the third set. However, she rose to a career high of no.16 afterwards.Li Na followed her strong showing at the Medibank tournament with an equally strong showing at the2007 Australian Open, where she advanced to the fourth round. Seeded 19th, Li dispatchedElena BovinaandLourdes Domnguez Linoin straight sets through the first two rounds, leading to a matchup with no. 9Dinara Safina. The match was postponed due to rain, but Li handedly beat Safina to advance to the fourth round to playSwissstar, no. 6Martina Hingis. Due to a rain delay and the fact that Hingis played onRod Laver Arena, a roofed court, on the originally scheduled day, Hingis had an extra day of rest. The match the previous day seemed to have no effect, as Li took the first set from Hingis. However, Na faded as the match went on and lost while committing 69 unforced errors. Despite the loss, the tournament was a success for Na, as it marked the third straight time in a Grand Slam that she advanced at least to the fourth round.At the Tier IPan Pacific Openin Tokyo, Japan, Li advanced to the second round, defeatingLilia Osterlohbefore losing toSamantha Stosurin two sets, converting 0 of 11 break points.At the importantPacific Life Openin Indian Wells, California, Li made a strong showing, advancing to the semifinals. She lost toDaniela Hantuchovin the semifinal. She continued her good form at theMiami Masters, losing just three games in her first two matches againstTamira PaszekandKatarina Srebotnik, before stunning fourth-seededKim Clijstersin three sets. She then lost in the quarterfinals toAnna Chakvetadze.She then moved onto the green clay ofAmelia Island, where she suffered a shock second-round exit, after receiving a first round bye, to former top-20 playerKarolina premin straight sets. At theFamily Circle Cupheld inCharleston, South Carolina, she fell in the third round toAnabel Medina Garrigues.After losing in a grass tune-up event in Birmingham, Li pulled out of every tournament she was to play in the summer, including Wimbledon and the US Open, citing a rib injury.2008editLi Na at the2008 Wimbledon Championships.Li Na had not played a professional match in half a year and had resultantly slipped to no. 29 in the WTA rankings when she returned from her rib injury in January 2