Chapter 28 Chapter 24 The third operation

After the second operation, I did not play the 2009 Australian Open. I went directly to Dubai and Doha in February, and my results were poor.Jiang Shan couldn't find me after the game, so I found a corner alone and cried a lot.Thomas said a lot of words of comfort and encouragement. He told me that he came out to play just after his second surgery and asked me to believe in myself. After playing in Dubai and Doha, I went back to Germany to train for a while, and then went to Indian Wells and Miami to play.This year I have been groping, getting back into this circle in a state of injury.

In late May 2009, I reached the Roland Garros round of 16 at the French Open.This is my first start after surgery. On June 5 of this year, Jiang Shan and I received the graduation certificate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.Jiang Shan completed all the courses in one course, but I taught myself the last two years of courses, and only went back to school to take exams or hand in papers at the end of the semester. As a result, I took four years to complete the two-year courses.To be honest, the teacher was kind enough to me, so I got my graduation certificate smoothly. Jiang Shan was supposed to graduate two years earlier than me, but before he graduated, he realized that he was short of one elective credit. this credit.It was a blip in our dull tennis career.

After getting my graduation certificate, good things happened again and again. On June 14, I defeated my old rival Maria Sharapova in the semi-finals of the Birmingham Grass Competition and entered the final. This was the first grass final for a Chinese player.In September of the same year, I reached the quarterfinals of the US Open.The world ranking has moved forward by 5 places. I'm relieved that I've improved, but this year of traveling has also brought back old injuries.When I played the US Open, I worked very hard, flying from Germany to China, and then from China to the United States. After the US Open, my knees could not hold up for a day.At this time, I went to the national team to discuss: Can I not play in the National Games?

In 2009, I missed the Australian Open due to injury. If I had surgery during the National Games and my recovery went well, I could just go to the Australian Open in 2010. I feel my excitement is getting higher and higher , is getting better and better, if I play well at the Australian Open this time, I will have the opportunity to enter the top ten in the world! But the team leader obviously didn't think it was a good idea.Unlike the Australian Open, the National Games is highly valued in our country's sports system because it directly involves many interests of all parties.At that time, a leader of the Hubei Provincial Sports Bureau came to talk to me, and he said something that shocked me: "Li Na, believe me! I'm an experienced person. The top ten in the world is not as important as the National Games champion."

After hearing this, I suddenly felt powerless, and I said to Jiang Shan, "I have no way to talk to them, I can't go on talking at all." The China Open is held in September, and after the China Open is the National Games.At that time, I was already preparing for my third knee operation. My idea was relatively simple. I thought: I will go back to China after the operation. Can do this. Jiang Shan disagreed. He said: We can't do this. Although what they say is unreasonable, we can't let others point out what we do. What Jiang Shan hates the most is that he is always right.

As a result, I had to release the doctor again.Originally, I had agreed with the doctor to have surgery the next day, but Jiang Shan called and told me not to be impulsive, but to go back to China and explain everything to the team before dealing with the matter.I had no choice but to apologize to the doctor and said that I had to go back to China to confirm the situation. Fortunately, the doctor was very understanding and didn't get angry because I disrupted his work plan. I hurried back to China. At that time, the national team was training in Jinan, Shandong. I flew to Jinan and explained my situation to the team: I had rested for two weeks, but the edema still persisted.

The leaders of our team expressed concern about my leg injury, but they also said: Anyway, we still hope that you can reach the top eight. I said: It's not that I don't want to fight, it's that I really can't fight.If I could fight, I wouldn't be talking to you about these things all the time. In the end, the other party compromised and said: Okay, then you can abstain. Due to the pressure from all sides, I can't just abstain directly, and I have to play a game on the court to make a formality.I remember that I met a girl from Guangdong. We played a game, but I didn't win a game.

I was finally able to go to Germany for my third operation, the date of which I remember well: October 22. Eric performed the three surgeries I had.The first operation was relatively large because of ligament release. I remember that the first operation cost about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, which was paid by the Hubei provincial team, and the national team did not pay any money.I paid for the last two times because I flew solo after the Olympics. The charging standard in foreign countries is like this: If a surgery should charge 5,000 yuan, then the doctor will take about 2,000 yuan, and the rest is the cost of the hospital and medicines.When I had the second operation, I just flew solo, and I was under a lot of financial pressure. Eric didn't ask for his own part of the operation fee. I only need to pay the hospital's money, injections, medicines, and anesthesiologist's salary.

Although we have known each other before, we have not been familiar with the point where we can have "righteousness to make money". Eric is a German, and this German is very righteous-but Eric should not know our "righteousness" What means. All he said was: "I want you back on the field. You belong there." After the third operation, Hanas helped me with rehabilitation training as usual.Speaking of which, I am also an old acquaintance of Hanas. Since the rib injury in 2007, I have to trouble him every few months, for two or three months.The place where Hanas works should be regarded as a community sports center. The sports center is public and open to the public. Many elderly people come here to do sports.Later, Eric also moved the studio here, on the fourth floor of the sports center. After I won the French Open in 2011, Hanas posted a big photo of me on the wall for everyone to see, and there was a message I wrote to him: Thank you for helping me become a champion!

Here in Hanas, I have also met a great predecessor: Boris Becker. In 2009, he was doing treatment at Hanas, and we met once.Becker had won six Grand Slams when she was young, and was known as a golden boy and girl together with Graf, and she was very prestigious in Germany.Even after retiring for many years, he is still respected and loved by people.When Becker started training, everyone spontaneously fell silent and focused on him. In 2011, after I won the French Open, Hanas hung up my photo in the studio. Becker found Hanas and said he wanted to say hello to me.I was training at the time, and I didn't know that the famous senior was outside. Becker didn't let Hanas spread the word, saying that he didn't want to affect my training, so I'll say hello next time.

I was a little surprised when Hanas told me. I didn't expect a young athlete from a foreign country to receive so much attention and love. In the past, we could only see the name "Becker" on TV or in newspapers. To us, he was like a peerless master in martial arts novels who retired from the rivers and lakes. I didn't expect that I would attract his attention. At the end of 2011, I saw Becker again on the field of Hanas, and I was playing on the sidelines.Becker said, "Hi, Li Na." I turned my head and recognized the legend immediately. He asked me, "What happened to your foot?" We talked for more than ten minutes. Although Becker looked majestic, he was very kind and kind. It felt like you were talking with an elder who cared about you.When he heard that Sampras, Moya and others participated in the game I participated in later, he said: "It's great that so many people went, please say hello to them for me." That felt so magical.After Becker left, I was still immersed in excitement for a long time.It was similar to how Navratilova came to talk to me after the French Open. In 2011 China Open, Sampras came to play an exhibition match. I was also in China Open. When Sampras walked out of the court, I happened to go in. We met in the aisle, and he shook hands very actively: "Hello! I’m Sampras, congratulations on winning the French Open!” At that moment, I trembled a little, Sampras is the king of the generation, but at this moment he is standing here, taking the initiative to say hello to me! Although I have a Grand Slam trophy in my hand, I clearly know that I cannot be compared with Navratilova, Becker, Sampras and other predecessors-they are gods standing in the tennis temple, He is the idol worshiped by tennis fans all over the world! But they are all so kind and warm. I guess the reason they care about me is largely because I am Asian and Chinese.They think it is very unusual for a Chinese woman to reach this level.As important seniors in this circle, their friendly and encouraging attitude towards newcomers makes me respect them more and love this circle even more. In addition to seeing "idols", I also made a group of "patients" in the Hanas Sports Center. Everyone trained together and everyone recognized them.There was a little girl who practiced football at Bayern and was a complete child.We train together, sometimes I play with her, it's a good relationship. I also met a Russian European figure skating champion here.He never recovered from the operation in Russia, and then he found Eric who did the operation for me.After seeing his film, Eric told him: If I did this operation in Germany, then I would have to go to jail. Maybe in Germany, the laws related to medical treatment are stricter. The operation of the figure skating champion was a failure, which was regarded as a medical malpractice. Later, he spent a long time in rehabilitation at Hanas. Thanks to the good rehabilitation training given to me by Hanas, my body finally stopped getting in the way. At the end of 2009, I entered the top 15 in the world for the first time and ended the season with this ranking.