Li started out as a badminton player, adept at the national sport ... In the immediate future is the establishment of a Li Na Tennis Academy. In the not-too-distant future, she's hoping to ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- With Li Na in retirement and not defending ... So much so that when Peng Shuai, now China's top-ranked tennis player, was beating Magdalena Rybarikova in a second ...

Without me, at Potter's Wheel [academy], more and more player were hesitant to attend. ''I asked her to let me do these two Grand Slams with Li Na. Now, she has a little time to prepare for the ...

But in the wild, verbally unbridled world of Li Na, it's probably par for the course ... her mind—are made of moving forward. This is one player who does nothing in moderation, for better ...

Chinese star Li Na gets kinetic on one ... and here's the WTA's No. 5 player on the cover of the magazine. Roger Federer, Serena Williams, and more tennis stars have appeared on this list to ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- China has begun its search for the next Li Na, and one ... these homegrown players, 16-year-old Zheng Wushuang, who trains at the 1123 Junior Tennis Academy in Beijing ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Li Na made it third time lucky in the Australian ... The diminutive Cibulkova, one of the shortest players ever to reach a Grand Slam final at 1.61-meters (5-foot-3 ...

Former Wimbledon semifinalist Zheng Jie and Peng Shuai are the only other Chinese players ... said ``Li Na's win is huge, it will bring a big change.'' Peng added that ``I think tennis in China ...

When two players ... crazier than the standard of tennis on display throughout. Keeping Kvitova to a total of two winners for a set is impressive enough, but Li Na was impenetrable as the Czech ...