And when the racquet maker that you endorse calls you that. But in the wild, verbally unbridled world of Li Na, it's probably par for the course. Witness this Babolat 2012 ad touting the brand's ...

BEIJING (AP) -- Relying on fitness and a strong baseline game, Li Na reached the pinnacle of tennis and lifted the level of the sport in Asia to unprecedented heights. A sense of humor along the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- China has begun its search for the next Li Na, and one of the juniors ... Her father, Xu Yang, sold the small tennis club he owned in Guangdong province and moved ...

Roger Federer, Serena Williams, and more tennis stars have appeared on this list to date, for the record. And in truth, it seems this coverage of Li Na would have made more sense for the 2012 TIME ...

Madison Keys’ Australian Open triumph fulfilled a prediction made a decade ago by Li Na – and she even managed it on a special anniversary for the Chinese tennis legend. American Keys ...

a prospect no crazier than the standard of tennis on display throughout. Keeping Kvitova to a total of two winners for a set is impressive enough, but Li Na was impenetrable as the Czech started ...

Li Na will soon have the same number of children as she does major singles titles. Just ahead of the French Open, an event she won in 2011, Li announced via Facebook that she is pregnant with her ...

September will be a big month for not just Grand Slam finales but for tennis-adjacent happenings ... release date for Maria Sharapova's first autobiography. If it's anything like her hubbub ...