Football is the world's first sport, this is undisputed, and tennis in many countries, even higher status than basketball, but the level of Chinese men's tennis is too poor, so there are not too many domestic attention to tennis.
In tennis, China is also yin and yang, because of the women's tennis we have produced Li Na, Li Na won the 2011 French Open women's singles championship, and the 2014 Australian Open women's singles title, as Asia's first Grand Slam women's singles champion, prestigious.
And one of Li Na's predecessors, even stronger talent than Li Na when she was young, the two have similar names, her name is Hu Na, but because she took a wrong step, in the end Hu Na did not achieve any dazzling results in tennis, and was notorious in China. However, China is a tolerant country, and this has not stopped Hu Na from returning to China frequently and trying to "make money".
Hu Na, born in 1963 in Sichuan in a tennis family, since childhood, Hu Na has shown strong tennis talent, won the national championship at the age of 16, won the White House Cup junior championship at the age of 17, won the Virginia Cup championship at the age of 18, at a young age, became the first sister in Asia and became the biggest hope in China's tennis world.
In 1982, 4 members of the Chinese women's tennis team and head coach Shen Jianqiu and team leader Jin Shu went to the United States to participate in the Confederations Cup, on the eve of the second round of the game, Hu Na mysteriously disappeared, the head coach and the team leader tried their best to find him for a long time, but never found, the two held a worried heart, returned to China sadly.
In 1983, Hu Na suddenly appeared in the US media, according to her, she wanted to participate in the US professional tennis league, applied for political asylum, and finally successfully stayed in the United States. Of course, any brain can guess that Hu Na's participation in the professional league is false, and the real reason is that the flower world in the United States attracts him.
Because of this matter, head coach Shen Jianqiu lost his job, and the relationship between the two countries, which was still in the "Sino-US honeymoon period", also experienced a little fluctuation, and Sino-US cultural and sports exchanges were interrupted for a period of time, setting off a lot of diplomatic turmoil.
But this does not seem to stop Hu Na, because she has settled in the United States, but due to injury, Hu Na has not participated in many competitions in 8 years in the United States, and her results are also very average. In 1992, Hu Na retired due to injury, and in 1996 she went to Taiwan to settle down and became a sought after figure on the island.
For years since, Hu Na never took Chinese mainland a step back, even when her family died. However, with the increasingly relaxed domestic public opinion environment, on November 16, 2014, Hu Na finally returned, she held a solo exhibition in Beijing, the exhibition was very successful, when the media interviewed her, I couldn't believe that this soft-spoken and whispering woman was actually an athlete.
After returning to China, Hu Na said that because she was busy, she had not visited former coach Shen Jianqiu, although Shen Jianqiu lost her job because of her departure, but looking back on those years, Hu Na felt that she did not regret it, and if she came again, she would still be like this. As for China's development, Hu Na also praised it, she said that she would return to China more often in the later stage and hold a good art exhibition, which is already obvious, China has become her key place to make money.