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THE BALL'S IN HER COURT

China’s most celebrated tennis star Li Na opens up about her career, influencing young athletes and her continuous learning journey
THE BALL'S IN HER COURT
Tennis chose Li Na. The 42-year-old from Wuhan is China’s most successful ever player of the sport, scaling its highest peaks with a brace of Grand Slam wins, first in France in 2011 and then Australia in 2014, that made her Asia’s first Grand Slam winner; and with a world ranking that went as high as 2—at that time, only the great Serena Williams stood ahead of her. But Li Na didn’t choose tennis. “I was forced into it,” she tells Tatler. “When I was young, I didn’t have a clear idea of what kind of person I wanted to become in the future. The choice of tennis was because my father thought I was a bit chubby and wanted me to engage in a sport. For people of our…
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