The name Li Na is an ordinary name. The only convenience is that it is easy to be found when the lottery table is drawn, because only a four-letter name is the shortest. From birth to now, I have always felt that I am a dispensable person. If the French Open champion hadn't brought me everything, I believe I would think so until I die.
I am a professional tennis player. Of course, it was not until the famous "tennis system reform" at the end of 2008 that I really began to enter my career. I used to be a professional athlete. Professional athlete and professional athlete, you will definitely think that there is no difference between these two names, but they are completely different lives and experiences for me.
I have ambivalent feelings about tennis. When I was a child, I began to practice because of my parents' wishes, and I really fell in love. It took fifteen years (if not counting the two years of school). In my tennis career for so many years, I didn't realize the fun of tennis in the first ten years. It's just that in recent years, my understanding of tennis has become more and more profound, and I have really enjoyed the fun brought by tennis and really fell in love with tennis.
Tennis is a lonely sport. If you play alone, you start fighting alone. You need to face all the problems and solve all the difficulties alone. Your team can only sit in the players' box and applaud you. At the same time, tennis is a challenging sport, and every day is full of new challenges. A player has to make hundreds of decisions in a tennis match. You should play not only the player, but also the referee and coach. Not only do you have to face the influence of opponents, spectators and the outside world, but more importantly, you have to challenge yourself at any time; Win or lose, there is no reason to complain. No matter the result is good or bad, you have to bear it yourself, because you finished it on the court independently. I have to experience the joy of success and the pain of failure every day, and I may face the same opponent after losing three days today.
Tennis brings me not only fame, but also feelings. The joy of winning the WTA (women's professional tennis) championship for the first time, the nervousness of playing the four major open tournaments for the first time, the nervousness of walking under the gaze of more than 10,000 spectators in the central court for the first time, the inadaptability of being interviewed in English for the first time, the sadness of seeing false reports for the first time, the affirmative joy of hearing the coach say that I can score in the top 20 of the world for the first time, and silently applauding myself for beating the top 20 of the world for the first time. The panic during the first operation, the difficulty in recovering for the first time and the doubt about whether I can still play tennis, the pride of being ranked in the top ten in the world for the first time, the regret of missing the grand slam trophy for the first time and the desire for the grand slam champion, the excitement of winning the grand slam trophy for the first time, and the feeling of witnessing with everyone when playing the national anthem at the French Open center for the first time.
These are all important wealth that tennis has brought to my life.