Li Na is Asia’s only grand slam singles champion and one of the most famous Chinese athletes of all time.
The 2014 Australian Open winner announced her retirement last September and, on Monday, revealed she is expecting her first child with her husband Dennis.
Two days earlier, Li sat down with CNN Open Court’s Pat Cash to answer questions from our followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Here’s what she had to say…
Football fan?
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Andre the giant
Eddy wanted to know who Li looked up to in her younger days:
Who is your role model? Eddy Okporudhu, Facebook
“Andre Agassi. When I was young in China they didn’t show much tennis. One day I turned on the television and I saw that tennis players can be like that. He had long hair, earring with jeans. That was pretty special for me, so I was like “tennis players are so cool.”
