Chapter 4 Preface My Tennis Life

My name is Li Na, and I was born in Wuhan—a city with four distinct seasons, where there is a stove in summer and an ice cellar in winter. The name Li Na is so common that it cannot be more common. The only convenience is that it is easy to find when the lottery list comes out, because the name with only four letters is the shortest.From birth to now, I have always felt that I am a dispensable person. If it were not for everything that the French Open champion brought me, I believe that I will continue to think so until I die. I am a professional tennis player.Of course, it was after the famous "tennis system reform" at the end of 2008 that he really started his professional career. He should have been a professional athlete before.Professional athletes and professional athletes, everyone will definitely think that there is no difference between these two names, but for me, it is a completely different life and experience.

I have conflicting feelings about tennis. It took me fifteen years (if you don’t count the two years in school) to start practicing tennis because of my parents’ wishes until I really fell in love with it.In my tennis career for so many years, I did not experience the fun of tennis in the first ten years. It was only in recent years that my perception of tennis became more and more profound, and I really enjoyed it. I really fell in love with the sport of tennis because of the fun it brought me. Tennis is a lonely sport.When you play alone, you start a one-person battle. You need to face all the problems and resolve all the difficulties alone. Your team can only sit in the player box (Player Box) to applaud and cheer for you.At the same time, tennis is a sport full of challenges, and every day is a new and exciting challenge.A player has to make hundreds of decisions in a tennis match. On the court, you not only have to act as a player, but also as a referee and coach; Challenge yourself at any time; no matter whether you lose or win, you can’t find any reason to complain, no matter whether the outcome is good or bad, you have to bear it alone, because you have done it independently on the court; you must experience success every day The joy of losing and the pain of losing, maybe three days after losing today, I will face the same opponent again.

What tennis brings me is not only a reputation, but more importantly, a feeling.The joy of winning the WTA championship for the first time, the nervousness of playing in the four major open championships for the first time, the nervousness of walking unnaturally under the watchful eyes of more than 10,000 spectators on the center court for the first time, the first time using I was not used to being interviewed in English, when I was sad alone when I saw false reports for the first time, the joy of being affirmed when I first heard the coach say that I could reach the top 20 in the world, the first time I beat the top 20 in the world Ten silently applauded himself in his heart, the panic during the first surgery, the difficulty of recovering for the first time and doubts about whether he could still engage in tennis career, the sense of steadfastness when he no longer worried about not being able to afford the team fee for the first time , the pride of entering the top ten in the world ranking for the first time, the regret when passing the Grand Slam trophy for the first time and the desire for the Grand Slam championship, the excitement when winning the Grand Slam trophy for the first time In an instant, the first Grand Slam champion was able to witness the moving with everyone when the national anthem was played on the center court of the French Open, and the helplessness when he was almost crushed by the pressure and felt unbearable for the first time...

These are the important wealth that tennis has brought to my life.