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Michael Mortensen, the Dane who guided Li Na to her first Grand Slam event title at the French Open in 2011, is the latest coach named to try and revive the game of former world no.1 Caroline Wozniacki.
Australian Open champion Li Na stepped off the plane in her home province of Hubei and found a delegation of provincial officials waiting for her with a check for $132,000. . . . . Serbia’s Davis Cup captain Bogdan Obradovic says he respects top player Novak Djokovic’s decision not to play his nations tie against Switzerland.
While four days of searing heat affected the 2014 Australian Open attendance a bit, a more than respectable total of 643,280 fans attended this years’ event. The all-time Australian Open attendance record of 686,006 was set in 2012
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With Li Na crowned the Australian Open champion, underlining the importance of Asia in women’s tennis, the WTA have chosen to make a formal announcement that the year ending Tour Championships will be moving to Singapore later this year.
When Li Na won the French Open, approaching four years ago, she admitted she wasn’t expecting her victory and things went too fast so she couldn't savor her celebrations. After finally adding the Australian Open after two disappointments in finals, she does not intend to be so wasteful.
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So is it Li Na, or Na Li, Na Li or Li Na, I can never get it right! Well after Saturday night in Melbourne you can just call her, The 2014 Australian Open Champion how about that? After reaching the final twice before losing tough matches to Victoria Azarenka and Kim Clijsters, she wasn't going to let another opportunity get away...
Australia Day, the nation’s annual celebration of the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships, coincides with the Australian Open men’s final this year.
Li Na will have 1.3 billion fellow Chinese behind her while Dominika Cibulkova can only number 5.4 million fellow Slovaks. Nevertheless the world no.24 still insists being the first ever player from her country to contest a Grand Slam final: “It’s massive.”
Perhaps Li Na appeared capable of winning her first Grand Slam title in 2011 when she reached the Australian Open final for the first time but she was not, as Kim Clijsters was a better player than she was then and Li was way too inconsistent.
Eugenie Bouchard’s Australian Open success story might have come to a close after she lost out to the superior experience of Li Na in the semifinal. However the future could not be brighter the 19 year-old Canadian with untold riches set to head her way because of her supreme marketability.
2014 BNP PARIBAS OPEN ENTRY LISTS HEADLINED BY 11 FORMER TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS AND 15 GRAND SLAM CHAMPIONS
Roger Federer went back to the future with a dominating vintage win over hammered Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 on Monday to start the second week with a fourth-round victory. The Swiss played plenty of serve-and volley the day after the birthday of new coach Stefan Edberg...
Victoria Azarenka may have looked fit and commanding as she took another step closer to a third successive Australian Open title but the world no.2 admitted she was exhausted and in need of new motivation for tennis at the end of last year.
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