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French Open champion Li Na of China rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the opening set to beat Russian Maria Kirilenko 6-4, 7-6 (7/4)...

Reigning French Open champion Li Na and dual Grand Slam champion Lleyton Hewitt will play in the Hopman Cup in Perth in December, organisers...

Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and French Open winner Li Na both crashed out of the Toronto WTA tournament on Thursday as the top seeds...

Wimbledon finalist Maria Sharapova, French Open champion Li Na and world number one Caroline Wozniacki will headline this year’s Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo organisers...

Li Na, the first Chinese Grand Slam singles title winner after her success at the French Open, rejected an offer to take up a...

At least five militants belonging to the banned Lashkar-e-Islam were reportedly killed in a clash with volunteers of the Zakhakhel peace lashkar in Tirah...

French Open champion Li Na suffered the first major upset at this year’s Wimbledon when she lost 3-6 6-4 8-6 to big-serving German wildcard...

French Open champion Li Na insists she can cope with the extra pressure of being Asia’s first Grand Slam singles winner as the Chinese...

China’s Li Na beat last year’s champion Francesca Schiavone 6-4 7-6 in the French Open final on Saturday to become the first player from...

China’s Li Na shattered Maria Sharapova’s dream of completing a set of Grand Slam titles by defeating the double-fault prone Russian 6-4, 7-5 in...

Defending champion Francesca Schiavone shattered Marion Bartoli’s hopes of becoming just the second Frenchwoman in the Open era to reach the Roland Garros final...

Li Na is hopeful her run into the French Open final can inspire a new generation of tennis players back home in China. The...

Li Na said she had surprised herself after becoming the first Chinese player to reach the last four in singles at Roland Garros on...

Fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Chinese sixth seed Li Na set up a French Open quarter-final showdown on Monday, with both women...

Australian Samantha Stosur stormed into the Rome International final with a straight sets 7-6 (8/6), 6-0 victory over China’s Li Na on Saturday. It...

MELBOURNE - Li Na's memorable achievement in becoming Asia's first Grand Slam finalist put Chinese tennis firmly on the map at the Australian Open, and made her a big winner despite defeat to Kim Clijsters. Li led Saturday's final against the world number three, before Clijsters switched tactics to close out a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory for her fourth Grand Slam title, and her first outside the US Open.
Mother-of-one Clijsters, 27, had gone into the tournament as the firm favourite in

MELBOURNE - Li Na Saturday complained that excited Chinese fans distracted her during the Australian Open final, when she failed in her attempt to become Asia's first Grand Slam winner.
The frustrated Li was incensed after being broken in the second set, and asked the chair umpire to ask her vocal fans to keep quiet in the packed Rod Laver Arena. "The (Chinese) fans, they want me to win this match, but they coach me how to play tennis on the court," she said later. "They can