I believe that when most fans talk about Chinese tennis, they will first think of Li Na's two classic pictures of reaching the top of the French Open in 2011 and the Australian Open in 2014.
As the first Grand Slam singles champion in China and even In Asia, Li Na, born in 1982, has a rather brilliant career, in addition to holding two Grand Slam championship trophies, her no.2 highest singles ranking has also been ranked first in Asia for a long time.
However, before Li Na, the first to bring a breakthrough to Chinese tennis should also have the name of Sun Tiantian, who is a year older than Li Na, who joined forces with Li Ting in 2004 to win gold in the Women's Doubles event of tennis at the Athens Olympic Games.
This is also the first (and so far only) Olympic gold medal in Chinese tennis, let's take a look at Sun Tiantian's magical career.
#从业余到职业, the two champions have the heaviest weight
When She was eight years old, She entered the local amateur tennis team to train, and she quickly joined the professional team and began to focus on professional competitions in 2000.
Before retiring in 2009, sun Tiantian's two most important career champions were born in doubles events, one of which was the women's doubles Olympic gold medal with Li Ting.
The second is that his partner Zemundzic won the Australian Open mixed doubles title, which was also the first Grand Slam championship trophy of Sun Tiantian's career.
Singles highest 77th, doubles highest 16th, Sun Tiantian's results in the country at that time was already quite good, she also won the 2006 WTA Tashkent women's singles championship, doubles is 11 WTA champions in the account.
#高端交手记录让她成为人生赢家
Fans familiar with Sun Tiantian should know that she also has an interesting nickname - "life winner", which is inseparable from the record of her career against top players.
1) 1-0 Serena Williams
In the 2005 China Open, the 24-year-old Sun Tiantian defeated the defending champion of the tournament at the time, Xiao Wei, to know that the American celebrity at that time was in good shape, and finally was eliminated by Sun Tiantian in two straight sets, breaking out of the big cold.
2) 2-0 Elani
Former French Open women's singles runner-up Elani's first career opponent is Sun Tiantian, which was an ITF clay event that occurred in 2002, and in the end, Sun Tiantian won 6-1, 6-0 without accident, and the two also met in 2007, and Sun Tiantian also won the opponent.
3) 1-0 Zvonareva
Sun Tiantian and Zvonareva also maintained a "total victory", and the only time the two met was in the 2006 season, when China Jinhua, who was ranked 111th in the world, defeated Zvonareva in 29th place.
4) 1-1 Azarenka
Grand Slam champion Azarenka also fell to Sun Tiantian when Chinese Jinhua won the WTA women's singles title for the first time in Tashkent.
So what is your deepest memory of Sun Tiantian? (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)
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