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Li Na's Grand Slam wins did miraculous things for tennis

" Li Na Men's Air Jordan 6 Retro Gatorade Green NRG G8RD Like Mike For Sale , China's retired two-time Grand Slam champion, instructs during a master class at the Wuhan Open in Wuhan, Hubei province. AFP
China's next generation of stars taking cue from career path of retired Grand Slam champion

Li Na's Grand Slam wins did miraculous things for tennis in China, but experts say a cultural shift away from central planning towards individual development is needed if the country is to emerge as a powerhouse in the sport.

Tangible evidence that China is embracing tennis comes in the form of the Wuhan Open's new, 15 Air Jordan 6 Gatorade Green Mens 2017 ,000-seat stadium, opened by Li last month, which has a capacity similar to Wimbledon's Center Court.

Steady crowds and the presence of 12 Chinese players in the women's top 200 - behind only Russia, the United States and the Czech Republic - also demonstrate the game's upward trajectory.

Much of the growth is directly attributable to Li, Asia's first Grand Slam singles champion who won two major titles before she retired on the eve of last year's inaugural Wuhan Open.

But many observers believe China might have an extended wait for its next Grand Slam winner.

Li Na's stand set new standard

Simon Chadwick Air Jordan 6 Gatorade Green Womens 2017 , professor of sport at Britain's Coventry University Business School, suggests China needs a cultural rethink.

""The factory-style government development of athletes might work in sports such as gymnastics. Tennis is different ... it requires a very clear and simple focus on individuals,"" Chadwick said.

""Unless China embraces this notion then one imagines that the country will find it difficult to enable the type of cultural change that is required to promote the sport's development.""

Li, who at a young age was ordered to abandon badminton for tennis against her will, famously took a stand to split from the state system in order to organize her own sponsorship and be coached by her husband.

It took years of difficulty and media sniping before she finally made it big late in her career Air Jordan 6 Gatorade Green Mens For Sale , becoming a superstar in her home country, complete with a bronze statue in her native Wuhan.

Jorge Salkeld, a Women's Tennis Association board member and senior vice-president at Octagon Tennis, the Wuhan Open's promoter, said the ""Li Na factor"" has seen the popularity of tennis in China surge.

Provincial governments have quickly come on board Air Jordan 6 Gatorade Green Womens For Sale , developing tennis academies and domestic championships - although regional rivalries are a difficult distraction for Chinese players.

""Sport is all state-funded and if a province is a winner in whatever national games then they are even more centrally funded,"" Salkeld said.

""The tricky part is that the provinces' main objective is to win the national games, which diverts attention away from the professional tennis tours.

""When a player needs to be training on clay to prepare for the qualifications for Roland Garros, or grass to prepare for Wimbledon, they have another schedule going on at the same time. So that has created problems.""

However Air Jordan 6 Gatorade Green Mens Shoes , it is clear that China has embraced the sport, and when that happens, things can move quickly - and in unexpected directions.

Yi Guoqing, tournament director and general manager of the Wuhan Sports Development Institute, said it took just two years from the start of negotiations for the Wuhan Open to become reality.

He compared tennis in China to the market reforms under Deng Xiaoping - dubbed ""socialism with Chinese characteristics"" - which allowed it to blossom into the world's second largest economy.

""The government means making the policies Air Jordan 6 Gatorade Green Womens Shoes , the hand of the market is the participation of the society,"" said Yi.

""Not only in tennis. The whole economy of China is taking the same road. It is changing and I believe it will be more open in the future.""

And this may allow the country to create an entirely new model of tennis - one with Chinese characteristics.

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NAIROBI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- ""Race"" has always been a very sensitive topic, even more so is ""race-genetics"".

The latter is virtually taboo to discuss or even to mention as it embodies the ideology that certain aspects of who we are and what we are capable of is determined by ""race""; the whole concept of nature versus nurture comes into play here.

""The concept of nature versus nurture has been tried and tested almost exhaustively when it comes to intelligence and still no definite conclusions have been drawn,"" Dr. Liz Odera Air Jordan 6 Retro Gatorade Green Mens , a Nairobi- based sports scientist, told Xinhua in Nairobi on Thursday.

""The concept of whether race has any part to play in determining which groups of people is to be good at what sports has not really been a focal point,"" Odera said.

This article is going to endeavor to explore whether race does indeed have anything to do with sporting prowess. The conclusions are however yours to draw.

Have you ever wanted to be the best in a certain sport? But no matter how hard you trained, or how focused you were to achieve your goal you couldn't quite make the cut.

Could this be that it was simply not ""written in your genes"" for you to succeed or be one of the best in the world at that specific sport?

Let's take a look at some examples. All Kenyan long-distance runners are from the Kalenjin tribe. Majority of all sprinters are of West African descent.

For example, all of the 32 finalists in the last four Olympic 100m races were of West Africa descent. Therefore the latter cannot be written as mere coincidence.

Then look at a country like the United States Air Jordan 6 Retro Gatorade Green Womens , which have people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, yet they cannot produce a reputable football team.

Majority of the swimmers are from Australia, the U.S. and South Africa. They are all white and with muscular build.

Yet Africans of a darker hue who are renowned swimmers in the continent are yet to make it as the top few in the world, despite.