Behind this big win, there are many soul searching.
* Chinese training system will not do good for tennis and possibly for golf. Hitting a thousand balls a day is over-trained.
* Chinese do not have enough good coaches in tennis. Using badminton or table tennis training techniques most likely do not hold well. The next generation of coaches will be from the retired tennis players of today, so the future is bright.
* Chinese fans have a lot to learn and should not be the ‘amateur’ coaches that have a lot to do with the loss of Australia Open and some blame on the Olympics game for Li Na.
We depend on foreign training, system and coaching today. They’re constructive criticism. We’re in a learning stage and if we do not learn, we will never go to the next level.
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* She should have won it easily if she went to 4-1 instead of 3-2 in the second set.
* She should be in the top 3 world rank with two Grand Slam finals and one win.
* Her last losses since Australia Open indicates that tennis is more a mind game.
* The next win will not be easy: 1. she should have passed her prime for her age, and 2. currently most top rank players are either injured or just retired.
* It seems Chinese female players esp. in tennis and golf are better adapted than male counter
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China’s system in sports is no good for tennis and golf, but is good for other sports like gymnastics, diving… They need to be trained at an early age and most Chinese today do not have the money to develop promising kids.
ReplyDeleteLook at China’s soccer system and you’ll find so many problems. The love of money is the root of all their problems.
Chinese only have tennis in last decades. Tennis requires expensive courts for a few compared to table tennis. China today do not have a clay court and it makes Li’s win even better.
The strategy of deep return reducing her opponent’s spin works. I do not know it is her idea, her husband’s idea, or the coach’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVstViusa_w
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