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如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流李娜的英文介绍【精品文档】第 7 页Li Na (tennis)This is a  the  is .Li Na (: 李娜; : L Nà born February 26, 1982) is a professional  player. As of September 2013, Li has won 7 and 19  singles titles. Li rose to prominence after she won the singles title, making her the first and only  singles 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 the. She was also the runner-up at the , three times a quarter-finalist at  and a semi-finalist at the . 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).Personal lifeLi Na was born on February 26, 1982, in , Hubei, China. Her father Li Shengpeng (李盛鹏) was a professional  player and later worked as a sales rep for a Wuhan based company. He died from a rare cardiovascular disease when Li Na was 14.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. Li joined China's National Tennis Team in 1997. In the following year, Li, sponsored by , went to John Newcombe Academy in Texas to study tennis. 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 , where she completed her bachelor's 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 team's management, some reported that her coach Yu Liqiao (余丽桥) was too strict and demanding,while other reports claimed that her request for a personal coach did not go through.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 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 Chinese media. 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, with only 8 to 12 percent of her winnings go to the  as opposed to 65 percent previously.Li Na has a  on her chest, and hid it for many years since tattoos are not widely accepted in China, especially on women.Career summary19992002: Dominance on the ITF CircuitLi turned professional in 1999, and that year won three of the very first four singles tournaments she entered on the ITF Circuit, two at  and one at , 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 over , , ,  and .In June, after Li's world ranking had risen to no. 136 on the strength of her ITF performances alone, she gained direct entry into her first  event at . Despite winning the first set, Li lost her first WTA singles match to  in three sets, but she captured the women's doubles title at Tashkent with  against Zaporozhanova and .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 with .Li was mostly absent from the tour in 2001. She won two further $25,000 ITF singles tournaments, defeating in the final at , Vietnam, and  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 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, defeating , , and  en route to the title, the 14th of her career. But she then played only one more match (a loss to  in 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 China's National Tennis Team's administration and coaching staff. Some claimed that she just wanted a break from professional tennis so she could concentrate on her studies at university.2004: Successful return to professional tennisIn 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 by  in 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 compatriot , before returning to the WTA circuit, thanks to a wildcard entry into qualifying at the . There, she defeated , , and  before losing in the deciding-set tie-break after a very close second-round main-draw tussle against newly crowned US Open Champion , 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 at  (a Tier IV event at the time, though since has been upgraded to Tier III), then beat , , , and  in the main draw to reach the final, where she overcame  to 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-woman . 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.2008Li 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 the  in , Australia. In the first round, she narrowly defeated seventh seed . After a comfortable second round victory over  , she was drawn to meet the top seed  in the quarterfinals. Li won their encounter in straight sets, advancing to the semifinals, where she edged past. In the final, she narrowly prevailed against , 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 year's 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 with  in the first round, before surpassing  in straight sets in round two. A revitalised  remained 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 at  in early February, she nonetheless progressed to the semifinals with back-to-back-to-back straight-sets wins over Russian veteran , Slovak world no. 45 , and on-form Swedish world no. 66. However, she withered in the semifinals against world no. 47 , 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 I , 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. 6  (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. 17 , recovering from a 13 deficit in the second set. In the quarterfinals, she met her old rival and friend world no. 4 , 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 played , 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 at  in early March and the Tier I tournament at  in the middle of the month. She returned to action at the  in Eastbourne, winning one round before losing to . She then contested Wimbledon, defeating  before losing to .At the , following early-round victories against world no. 3 , , and , she went on to defeat one of the favourites, , 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 seed  and was then defeated in the bronze final by . At the following US Open, Li was defeated by the Beijing Olympics gold medalist  in the fourth round.In the 2008 , the unseeded Li defeated no. 1 ranked  in the second round in three sets. Li thus became only the second Chinese player to defeat a world no. 1 player, following 's victory over  at  in 2008.2011: Historic victory at Roland Garros followed by inconsistent resultsLi played in the  as the eighth seed, making fast work of Australian wildcard  and winning a tough three-set match against  in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals she met two-time Grand Slam winner  and came through with a win. She defeated surprise qualifier in the semifinals to advance to her eighth  final. Li faced world no. 3  in 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 the , 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 seed  in straight sets. She defeated world no. 1  in the semifinals to reach the final, after saving a match point in the second set. She faced no. 3 seed  (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, Li's 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 against  at the , lucky loser  at the  and countrywoman  at . Despite this, after Indian Wells she peaked at a career-high ranking of world no. 6 due to 's failures to defend her points.Li's losing streak continued, when she was upset in the  by . With this loss, and's loss at Miami, both  finalists had yet to win a match since their first major final. Despite Li's successive losses, her no. 6 ranking was ensured due to 's 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 against  in Stuttgart. However, she lost to  in 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 Dane .She entered the  as sixth seed. In the first two rounds, she defeated and  without much difficulty. In the third round she got the better of  coming back from a set deficit. She then defeated  after recovering from a break down in the deciding set. This victory marked her the first semifinals appearance in Madrid, where she lost to eventual champion.Li's resurgence continued into the . Seeded fourth, she received a bye in the first round. She won her opening match against  and defeated  and  in the next two rounds en route to back-to-back semifinals on clay. However, she lost to  in two sets.Li won her first  title at the  on 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 defeated , , , ninth seed , fourth seed , seventh seed , and fifth seed and defending champion  in the final, a match that was watched by 330 million viewers worldwide. After the match, Li Na was praised by the Chinese media, and her popularity throughout China was expected to grow significantly in the coming months, as she became the first Chinese singles player, male or female, ever to win a tennis Grand Slam title, ensuring her place in the sport's history. Following the French Open, Li rose to a career high ranking of World No. 4.As the second seed at the , Li fell in the second round to .Due to the withdrawal of , Li was the third seed at , her highest seeding at a Grand Slam. She beat  in the first round but lost in the second round to eventual semifinalist of Germany even though she had two match points at 53 and serv