32. Li Na’s legacy

This week, Li Na announced her retirement from women’s professional tennis. She has been called a trailblazer for female tennis players in China and rightly so. The chart below details not only the increase in the number of Chinese women players in the WTA rankings, but also shows how that increase gained speed through the success…

31. Lands of the Rising Sons

If “Africa Rising” is financial journalism’s phrase for 2014, then men’s tennis journalism is fast becoming accustomed to using the term “Asia Rising”. However, cast aside all thoughts of boom and bust: Asian men’s tennis does not rely solely on Kei Nishikori, the first Asian man to reach a grand slam final last week. Instead,…