The richest female athletes are tennis players

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Women's tennis players dominate the Forbes magazine Top 10 list of the highest-paid female athletes and Maria Sharapova is the leader for the seventh year in a row. Forbes included earnings from salaries, prize...

Sabine Lisicki upsets Li Na in the second round of Wimbledon

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For the previous Grand Slam I didn't include Li Na in my poll and she won the title, and now that I included her she lost in the second round! I know,...

Li Na and Maria Sharapova in the Annie Leibovitz Nike “Make Yourself” campaign

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Nike hired famed photographer Annie Leibovitz to shoot ads for their "Make Yourself" campaign and tennis players Li Na and Maria Sharapova are among the seven women’s athletes featured. Li looks like she’s just lost...

Chinese names: Why it’s Li Na and not Na Li?

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Now that China’s Li Na has won Roland Garros I decided to use the opportunity to make a language point about the proper usage of Chinese names, as I have noticed a lot of...

Superb Li Na storms to first singles Grand Slam title for China

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China's Li Na has just made a tennis revolution - the 29-year-old defeated last year's winner Francesca Schiavone in the final of Roland Garros and the sport not so popular in China is now...

Francesca Schiavone and Li Na are Roland Garros 2011 finalists

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Here we go again, two players pretty much no one was talking about in the lead-up to the French Open are now in the final of the claycourt Grand Slam - Francesca Schiavone and...

Clay avoiders progress into Roland Garros semifinals

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In two quarterfinals that took place today at Roland Garros, players that advanced are those that actually consider, or at least used to consider, clay their least preferable surface. Maria Sharapova is not a good...

Strength, beauty and women’s tennis players

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The WTA Tour unveiled a new ad campaign entitled "Strong is Beautiful", aimed at kindling greater engagement of fans around the world by showing all the beauty of women’s tennis players whilst also portraying...

Li Na happy with decision to drop her husband as coach

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World No.6 Li Na won Sydney and reached the final of the Australian Open in the beginning of the year, but then four straight losses followed, all the way to the Stuttgart tournament in...

Kim Clijsters beats Li Na to triumph at the 2011 Australian Open

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At the 2011 Australian Open, Li Na made a great step for Chinese tennis, even though her first Grand Slam final went to the hands of Kim Clijsters, who won her fourth major title...
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