李娜的英文介绍.doc

_Li Na (tennis)This is aChinese name; thefamily nameisLi.Li 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).1Personal 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.2008editLi 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 2008 to compete at the2008 Mondial Australian Womens HardcourtsinGold Coast, Australia. In the first round, she narrowly defeated seventh seedSybille Bammer. After a comfortable second round victory overwildcardMonique Adamczak, she was drawn to meet the top seedNicole Vaidiovin the quarterfinals. Li won their encounter in straight sets, advancing to the semifinals, where she edged pastPatty Schnyder.14In the final, she narrowly prevailed againstVictoria Azarenka, not only ending her 3-year title drought (since Guangzhou 2004) but scoring her second WTA singles title of her career.Despite rising back up to world no. 24 following this victory, she then withdrew from the 2008 Medibank International in Sydney, after suffering a right knee injury. Her failure to defend her previous years semifinal performance at this event cost her 125 ranking points, which dipped her ranking back down to no. 30 for the week beginning 14 January.Going into the 2008 Australian Open, she had a further 140 ranking points to defend from her fourth-round performance in 2007. Faced with a relatively lenient draw in the early rounds, she survived a close three-set tussle withSverine Brmondin the first round, before surpassingMaria Elena Camerinin straight sets in round two. A revitalisedMarta Domachowskaremained between her and the defence of her ranking points, and although Li Na won the first set convincingly, she faltered thereafter and finally ceded the match to her Polish opponent by a single break of serve in the closely fought deciding set.Having slipped three places to world no. 33 by the time she entered the Tier II tournament atAntwerpin early February, she nonetheless progressed to the semifinals with back-to-back-to-back straight-sets wins over Russian veteranElena Likhovtseva, Slovak world no. 45Dominika Cibulkov, and on-form Swedish world no. 66Sofia Arvidsson. However, she withered in the semifinals against world no. 47Karin Knapp, despite having taken an early lead with a break of service in the first set, ultimately ceding the match to her Italian opponent in two sets. This tournament brought her back up within the top 30 at world no. 29.The next week in the Tier I2008 Qatar Total Open, Li met Likhovtseva again in the first round. This time, after taking the first set comfortably, she was challenged to a much tougher battle, but eventually won in three sets. In round 2, she scored her second straight-sets victory in four career head-to-heads against Russian world no. 6Anna Chakvetadze(whom she had last beaten at the French Open in 2005), saving a set point in the first set tie-break, before recovering to win. In the third round, she enjoyed a more comfortable victory over Israeli world no. 17Shahar Peer, recovering from a 13 deficit in the second set. In the quarterfinals, she met her old rival and friend world no. 4Jelena Jankovi, coming into the match with a winning 31 head-to-head record to her credit against the Serbian player. By defeating Jankovi she extended this record to 4:1 and moved into the semifinals, where she playedVera Zvonareva, against whom she had won both of her previous encounters. Despite taking the first set, Li lost the second by the same scoreline; and although she was 32 up in the final set, she then ceded four successive games to her opponent to lose the match.Her ranking having risen back to no. 23 on the strength of this performance, she was prevented from consolidating on this recovery by suffering a right knee injury, which forced her to pull out of her scheduled entries into both the Tier II event atBangalorein early March and the Tier I tournament atIndian Wellsin the middle of the month. She returned to action at theInternational Womens Openin Eastbourne, winning one round before losing toNadia Petrova. She then contested Wimbledon, defeatingAnastasia Rodionovabefore losing toAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova.At theBeijing Olympics, following early-round victories against world no. 3Svetlana Kuznetsova,Ayumi Morita, andKaia Kanepi, she went on to defeat one of the favourites,Venus Williams, in the quarterfinals. Li was trailing 14 in the first set, but managed to strengthen her game to win in straight sets. Li lost her semifinal match to sixth seedDinara Safinaand was then defeated in the bronze final byVera Zvonareva. At the following US Open, Li was defeated by the Beijing Olympics gold medalistElena Dementievain the fourth round.In the 2008Porsche Grand Prix, the unseeded Li defeated no. 1 rankedSerena Williamsin the second round in three sets. Li thus became only the second Chinese player to defeat a world no. 1 player, followingZheng Jies victory overAna IvanovicatWimbledonin 2008.2011: Historic victory at Roland Garros followed by inconsistent resultseditLi played in theMedibank International Sydneyas the eighth seed, making fast work of Australian wildcardAnastasia Rodionovaand winning a tough three-set match againstVirginie Razzanoin the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals she met two-time Grand Slam winnerSvetlana Kuznetsovaand came through with a win. She defeated surprise qualifierBojana Jovanovskiin the semifinals to advance to her eighthWTAfinal.15Li faced world no. 3Kim Clijstersin the final, and despite trailing 50 in the first set, Li went on to defeat Clijsters, capturing the fourth WTA title of her career.Li was the ninth seed at theAustralian Open, where she reached her first Grand Slam singles final, the first tennis player representing an Asian country to achieve that feat. On the way she ousted eighth seedVictoria Azarenkain straight sets. She defeated world no. 1Caroline Wozniackiin the semifinals to reach the final, after saving a match point in the second set. She faced no. 3 seedKim Clijsters(whom she had defeated at the Medibank International). Although Li claimed the first set, Clijsters was able to rally back and claim the championship. Despite the loss, Lis ranking rose to a career high of world no. 7.Despite a good early start to the season, Li then had a five-match losing streak. After receiving byes into the second rounds, she lost in a hardly fought match againstYanina Wickmayerat theDubai Tennis Championships, lucky loserKlra Zakopalovat theQatar Ladies Openand countrywomanPeng ShuaiatIndian Wells. Despite this, after Indian Wells she peaked at a career-high ranking of world no. 6 due toJelena Jankovis failures to defend her points.Lis losing streak continued, when she was upset in theMiami MastersbyJohanna Larsson. With this loss, andAndy Murrays loss at Miami, bothAustralian Openfinalists had yet to win a match since their first major final. Despite Lis successive losses, her no. 6 ranking was ensured due toSamantha Stosurs inability to defend her clay-season points. After a week, she fell back to no. 7. Li then broke her losing streak by winning her first-round match againstAnastasija Sevastovain Stuttgart. However, she lost toSabine Lisickiin the second round. Even though she was not able to defend all her Stuttgart ranking points, she rose back to no. 6. However, due to her disappointing results, Li Na sacked her husband as coach and hired DaneMichael Mortensen.citation neededShe entered theMadrid Openas sixth seed. In the first two rounds, she defeatedMara Jos Martnez SnchezandIveta Beneovwithout much difficulty. In the third round she got the better ofRoberta Vincicoming back from a set deficit. She then defeatedBethanie Mattek-Sandsafter recovering from a break down in the deciding set. This victory marked her the first semifinals appearance in Madrid, where she lost to eventual championPetra Kvitov.Lis resurgence continued into theInternazionali dItalia. Seeded fourth, she received a bye in the first round. She won her opening match againstLourdes Domnguez Linoand defeatedJarmila GajdoovandGrta Arnin the next two rounds en route to back-to-back semifinals on clay. However, she lost toSamantha Stosurin two sets.Li won her firstMajortitle at theFrench Openon June 4, by doing so she made history and became the first tennis player from an Asian country to win Grand Slam singles champion. Seeded sixth, she defeatedBarbora Zhlavov-Strcov,Silvia Soler Espinosa,Sorana Crstea, ninth seedPetra Kvitov, fourth seedVictoria Azarenka, seventh seedMaria Sharapova, and fifth seed and defending championFrancesca Schiavonein the final, a match that was watched by 330 million viewers worldwide.16After the match, Li Na was praised by the Chinese media,17and her popularity througho