China Media Hail Li Na as Resurgent Champion at Australian Open
This article is for subscribers only.
Li Na, who became the first Chinese tennis player to win a Grand Slam singles title, was hailed by local media as a resurgent champion after she advanced to the final of the Australian Open yesterday.
“After 600 days of waiting, the victor has returned,” the official Xinhua News Agency said yesterday, referring to the time that’s passed since her 2011 French Open victory. “She’s back,” the China Daily declared of Li, whose picture also appeared on the front page of today’s People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party.