PareByoke Li Na | Women’s Tennis Blog http://www.womenstennisblog.com/category/players/li-na/ 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 expected to bloom, or at least to start blooming, and […]
Li Na makes history with French Open triumph – CNN.com Li Na makes history with French Open triumph http://www.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/tennis/06/04/tennis.li.na.schiavone.french/ CNN) — China’s Li Na became the first Asian tennis player to win a grand slam singles title as she defeated defending champion Francesca Schiavone in the final of the French Open on Saturday. The 29-year-old […]
Used to be: Asians were not held in high esteem. In fact, they were looked down upon, generally speaking. Indians, Burmese, and others were forced to address the Brits (Europeans included) and even the Japanese fascists as “Master” so and so… Chinese were labeled “the sick man of Asia.” Famine, poverty, […]