When it comes to the ancient sport of tennis, Li Na must be mentioned, and she has many tennis legends.
In 2011, Li Na won the French Open with a comeback victory, eventually lifting the trophy and becoming the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title.
Li Na has not only achieved legendary achievements in her career, but also shows a unique personality in life. After marriage, she never cooked, and even referred to her in-laws as aunt and uncle, and surprisingly they were not angry.
How did Li Na become a tennis legend?Why are my father-in-law and mother-in-law humble to this daughter-in-law?
I was 14 years old and learned to be strong.
Behind Li Na's infinite scenery in 2011, she has experienced too many hardships on the road to fame.
In 1982, the Li family welcomed a new member, and the arrival of a baby girl enriched the family. Despite being a girl, she is a precious presence in the hearts of her family, and her parents always try their best to satisfy her preferences.
However, Li Na's father was a badminton player himself, so he also wanted his daughter to carry on the tradition. Therefore, when she was very young, she began to get involved in badminton at a sports school.
However, fate seems to be playing a joke on Li Na's father, who was practicing badminton at the time when she was caught up in a tennis coach, who suggested that she learn a more suitable tennis program for her.
After careful consideration, Li Na's father finally agreed, perhaps he did not expect that his daughter would become a big star in the tennis world at that time.
No matter what kind of exercise you are, you need to be healthy. In order to exercise, Li Na's father took her to run 5 kilometers every day. In this process, Li Na gritted her teeth, persevered, and never said anything about giving up.
Li Na's future achievements were due to her father's personal guidance, so there is no doubt that in her mind, her father has a special status.
However, the arrival of 1996 brought Li Na an intertwined experience of joy and sorrow.
She won the favor of the provincial team for her outstanding skills that year, however, at the same time, her father was no longer able to accompany her to the top.
During that time, Li Na was very strict in training, she would never slack off in the slightest, and meticulously completed the tasks assigned by the coach. At the same time, her father's health was deteriorating.
Her father was worried that Li Na would be distracted by his illness and asked her family to keep it a secret, so she was kept in the dark for a long time.
Of course, he also hopes to accompany his daughter all the way to grow up, but the family's savings have been exhausted, and he is still burdened with many foreign debts, and he cannot turn the situation around. Eventually, he had to die.
When he was on the verge of death, he left a letter to Li Na, encouraging her to pursue a determined path towards tennis.
Since her father's death, Li Na has become the pillar of the family, and her mother always asks her for advice when she has problems. It wasn't until her mother asked when the bonus would be paid that Li Na realized the importance of money.
After unremitting efforts, Li Na finally got a chance to go abroad for exchange. However, due to the loss of an important **, she was unable to pass the customs clearance smoothly until she received the help of a well-wisher to successfully change the ticket.
When she returned home, she was surprised to find the figure of a strange man. The stepfather is very kind to Li Na, but the girl can't accept that her beloved father has been replaced, so she runs out.
When she felt discouraged, Jiang Shan offered her the opportunity to regain her innocence.
At that time, Jiang Shan was famous, maybe he didn't know it. Li Na regarded him as her idol, but as time passed, the emotion of "chasing stars" gradually evolved into admiration.
On Valentine's Day one year, Li Na pretended to be serious and gave Jiang Shan a box of chocolates. Even if he is sluggish, he can understand that this is a show of love. Since then, the two young people have started a sweet love journey.
Jiang Shan discovers that they have one thing in common - an obsession with food, so he decides to grab Li Na's stomach first, and every time he returns from a trip, he will bring back a lot of delicacies from other places to her.
Of course, they are a very close couple in private, but on the training ground, they don't give up. It is precisely because Jiang Shan has been silently supporting her that Li Na was able to become a member of the national team in 1999.
Although she retired between 2002 and 2004, that didn't stop Li from creating a legend in tennis.
She won the singles title nine times from 2004 until the end of 2014.
There are two Grand Slam women's singles titles here, seven of which were won on hard courts, one on clay and one on grass (Guangzhou 2004, Coast 2008, Birmingham 2010, Sydney 2011, French Open, Cincinnati 2012, Shenzhen 2013, Australian Open 2014, plus 12 runners-up).
When Li reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2006, more people began to realise that the Oriental woman had the courage and quality to compete with any top player. Her strong style of play has attracted more and more attention.
In 2008, she was finally freed from her shackles and, with her husband by her side, she began to compete on the tennis court, and after being honed by multiple coaches, she has become a tennis legend.
In 2011, Li Na became the first Asian player to reach a Grand Slam, and her name has been recorded in many tennis records. A few months later, she defeated a number of famous players in a row to reach the final of the French Open, which made countless Chinese people have high expectations.
CCTV even prepared a grand countdown program, and the moment Li Na defended her title, she became the first Asian Grand Slam singles champion, with a total of 11.6 billion viewers witnessed the birth of this legend.
Her victory has made tennis in China no longer an unpopular niche sport, and the WTA has begun to smell the potential for huge business opportunities in the Chinese market.
However, in 2014, Li Na made the decision to leave the competition after years of struggle, admitting that her injury had been bothering her and that she would need to be injected every week**.
So, what will this tennis legend choose to coach after retiring?Or will you choose to pursue another career?
He had a lot of money and decided to switch careers to the restaurant industry.
Li Na has accumulated a wealth of wealth over the years. Since 1999, she has won 9 singles titles, including Grand Slams, with a total prize fund of 1670$90,000, ranking 14th on the WTA prize money list.
In addition, it needs to be taken into account:"Celebrity effect"。Her total sponsorship over the years has exceeded $58 million, which is about $4 in RMB500 million yuan.
Not only does Li Na make money, but she is also very generous when it comes to spending money. In 2010, when Qinghai was the case, she donated all the 500,000 prize money she won at the Madrid Crown Tournament.
However, in the daily life of the family, Li Na is taken care of like a princess, and the task of cooking is entrusted to her husband. Actually, Li Na can't be blamed for this, because in those years she was busy going to competitions in various places, how could she have time to cook?
Her in-laws are also particularly understanding. They understood that Li Na missed her father, and the family did not want to touch this sad topic, so they allowed her to call them uncle and aunt, and the old couple had a loving heart for this daughter-in-law.
After Li Na retired, her free time became more. She not only invested her money in insurance, ** and other businesses, but also founded a restaurant named after herself.
During her pregnancy, Li Na was actually a "snack-lover" girl. Jiang Shan was worried that the chili pepper would not be good for the child and would not let her eat it, but Li Na said that her mother did not taboo it when she was pregnant with her. After Jiang Shan heard this, he joked that it was no wonder she had such a hot temper.
Since she opened her own restaurant, she has not changed her habit of "gluttony", and cooking has become her favorite thing. Whether it's a soup or a stir-fry, she can make a dish that is both beautiful and flavorful.
Whenever her family tastes Li Na's own food, she always feels extremely satisfied, as if she has won another great victory in her life.
Epilogue. In order to cement Li Na's development in tennis, her father has been accompanying her in her training and has watched her grow gradually. Sadly, when she was 14 years old, he left her forever due to illness. However, the letters left to her became the driving force for Li Na to move forward.
In those darkest years, she met Jiang Shan, a man who was willing to treat her as a little girl. With his help, Li Na has reached the top step by step and created countless miracles in the tennis world.
Li Na retired from competition due to injury after the peak of her career, and she was so moved by her husband's support over the years that she decided to take on the role of "gourmet housewife" and take care of her family wholeheartedly.
Her in-laws regard her as a daughter and know the importance of her father in Li Na's heart. They didn't force Li Na to call them Mom and Dad, and this openness and inclusiveness also won Li Na's respect.