I. Achievements
Liu Xiang: one Olympic champion, one world champion, two world champion runners-up, one world champion third place, breaking the 13-year world record with 12.88 seconds.
Li Na: two Grand Slams and two Australian Open runners-up. Li Na's two Grand Slams are the only two in Asia. Li Na's value lies in the fact that she has done so well in a completely market-oriented operation, which shows that she can succeed beyond the system.
Two. Athletics and tennis background
Liu Xiang: Straight track and field is monopolized by blacks because of the quality of the nation. Occasionally, we can see a few whites, but the yellow ones are basically absent. Liu Xiang broke the monopoly. It shows that yellow people can still win titles and break world records in the straights.
Li Na: Tennis is an aristocratic sport, because the cost of learning is relatively high, so we can basically see that most of the white people in Europe and the United States, black families generally have low incomes, and initially can not afford to pay a high amount of training funds, I believe that I hope that in the future there will be more black players to enter the world of tennis, after all, black people's physical fitness is really good. Li Na has achieved great results, but the national system cannot be completely dismissed. If Li Na didn't have a national system in her early training, she couldn't afford the early training and wouldn't have been able to achieve the results she has so far. Li Na had a Japanese woman, Prince Ida, who was ranked fourth in the world but never won a Grand Slam. Another Chinese player, Zhang Depei, won the French Open, showing that quality can be properly compensated for in other ways. It can be compared as follows: behind Liu Xiang there is a six-person scientific research team, in addition to the coaching team's medical grounds and equipment maintenance and other regular personnel, he also specializes in the study of Liu Xiang and his main rivals and the technical situation of the Prius. ts to propose countermeasures. These people's salaries, benefits, bonuses, travel expenses, etc. all contracted by the state. Li Na spent between 1 and 15,000 dollars a day in Paris, including hiring her own coaching staff. In other words, Li Na didn't spend a penny of our taxpayers' money to achieve such an accomplishment, while Liu Xiang spent how much of our money, do you know? Therefore, I think Liu Xiang's Olympic titles and breaking world records are more difficult than Li Na's Canadian Grand Slams, and his place in history is relatively high. Tennis is still not popular in China. If it develops for another decade or two, I guess the next Li Na will appear. But bluntly, if it lasts another ten or twenty years, it will not reach the level of Liu Xiang.