IN May of 1998, at the Italian Open Tennis Championship, Chinese player Li Fang won in straight sets over Martina Hingis, the top seeded player in the world. With this win, Li re-entered the world top fifty. No Chines...IN May of 1998, at the Italian Open Tennis Championship, Chinese player Li Fang won in straight sets over Martina Hingis, the top seeded player in the world. With this win, Li re-entered the world top fifty. No Chinese tennis player had ever cracked the world top 100 before. Seventeen years earlier, during the summer of 1981, eight-year-old Li Fang had been admitted by the part-time sports training school of Xiangtan Steelworks of Hunan Province to play tennis. The展开更多
文摘IN May of 1998, at the Italian Open Tennis Championship, Chinese player Li Fang won in straight sets over Martina Hingis, the top seeded player in the world. With this win, Li re-entered the world top fifty. No Chinese tennis player had ever cracked the world top 100 before. Seventeen years earlier, during the summer of 1981, eight-year-old Li Fang had been admitted by the part-time sports training school of Xiangtan Steelworks of Hunan Province to play tennis. The