Li Na may be one of China’s most influential sports stars but at home she is just like most parents, regularly being brought back down to earth by one of her children. The now 37-year-old Li has ...

EASTBOURNE, England (AP) First came the Russians. Now, women's tennis is preparing for a Chinese boom after Li Na's historic win at the French Open. Anna Kournikova's success in the late 1990s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Li Na remembers first watching a tennis match on TV, drawn to the unforgettable style of one of the players. Andre Agassi had long hair, an earring and wore denim shorts, and made an ...

Naomi Osaka has been a wrecking ball ever since she burst onto the tennis scene in 2018. She's won four Grand Slam singles titles and achieved the highest ranking ever for an Asian tennis player, No.

Four years after retiring from tennis, two-time grand slam winner Li Na is back at Wimbledon playing in the 2018 edition’s legends tournament. “I did not really miss playing tennis, but I did miss the ...

PARIS (AP) If China's 1.3 billion people want to thank someone for their country's first Grand Slam singles title, they can say ``merci'' to Li Na's former badminton coach. The 29-year-old Li became ...

The tennis tournament, which starts Sunday in the hometown of Asia’s first major singles winner Li Na, is only in its third year. Yet it has spent 1.5 billion yuan ($225 million) on facilities that ...

BEIJING -- Li Na, a two-time Grand Slam champion from China who took tennis in Asia to a new level, has retired due to recurring knee injuries. Li, 32, posted a statement on social media sites Friday, ...

NEW YORK—Two-time Grand Slam champion Li Na kicked off her 2019 International Tennis Hall Of Fame induction tour on Thursday at the Sutton East Tennis Club in Manhattan, headlining a kids’ clinic in ...

On Saturday, she will be the first Asian-born player to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. By David Waldstein When Li Na was a girl, tennis was often an objectionable chore.