Wimbledon women's tournament as the Williams sisters, Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki are full of household names, but there is no doubt that the planet Li Na and most popular women's tennis player can not take the form player.
She was watched by 116 million viewers when she won the French Open a fortnight ago to become the first Asian woman to secure a Grand Slam, from Hubei province in China.
Li Na and third-seeded Russian Alla Kudryavtseva in the first phase, she said faces: 'After Paris I stayed in Europe because I knew if I went back to China it would be crazy.
'I believe it will give Chinese children more confidence to try to be a professional tennis player. Tennis in China is getting bigger and bigger and improving all the time.'
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