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1、-李娜的英文介绍-第 7 页Li Na (tennis)This is a; theis.Li Na(:李娜;:L N; born February 26, 1982) is aprofessionalplayer. As of September 2013, Li has won 7and 19singles titles. Li rose to prominence after she won thesingles title, making her the first and onlysingles champion from an Asian country. Prior to thi
2、s 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 atand a semi-finalist at the. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 3 (achieved on
3、 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 professionalplayer and later worked as a sales rep for a Wuhan based company. He died from a rare ca
4、rdiovascular disease when Li Na was 14.At 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
5、 be the right career move for her.Li joined Chinas 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
6、 left the national tennis team to study part-time at, 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
7、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 qui
8、t the national teamas 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, trainin
9、g and coaching. She could keep more of her winnings,with only 8 to 12 percent of her winnings go to theas opposed to 65 percent previously.Li Na has aon her chest, and hid it for many years since tattoos are not widely accepted in China, especially on women.Career summary19992002: Dominance on the I
10、TF CircuitLi turned professional in 1999, and that year won three of the very first four singles tournaments she entered on the ITF Circuit, two atand 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 ci
11、rcuit, 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 L
12、is world ranking had risen to no. 136 on the strength of her ITF performances alone, she gained direct entry into her firstevent at. Despite winning the first set, Li lost her first WTA singles match toin three sets, but she captured the womens doubles title at Tashkent withagainst Zaporozhanova and
13、.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, defeatingin t
14、he final at, Vietnam, andin 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 f
15、irst $75,000 singles tournament at Midland, USA in February, defeating, anden route to the title, the 14th of her career. But she then played only one more match (a loss toin the $50,000 event at Dinan, France that April), followed by a lengthy absence from the circuit for the next 25 months.Sources
16、 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.Some claimed that she just wanted a break from professional tennis so she could concentrate on her studies at university.2004: Succes
17、sful 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 t
18、o have her winning streak finally snapped byin 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, befo
19、re returning to the WTA circuit, thanks to a wildcard entry into qualifying at the. There, she defeated, andbefore 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
20、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, andin the main d
21、raw to reach the final, where she overcameto 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 mos
22、t 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 resu
23、lts 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 c
24、ompete at thein, Australia. In the first round, she narrowly defeated seventh seed. After a comfortable second round victory over, she was drawn to meet the top seedin the quarterfinals. Li won their encounter in straight sets, advancing to the semifinals, where she edged past.In the final, she narr
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