{"id":38479,"date":"2013-11-09T01:33:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T01:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38479"},"modified":"2014-02-01T00:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:22:31","slug":"38479","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38479","title":{"rendered":"Li Na"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 It\u2019s hard to understate coach Carlos Rodriguez\u2019s impact on not only Li\u2018s tennis but also her personal growth. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s different, Chinese and Western, because I think the Western people, they like to share how they\u2019re feeling now. For myself, if I\u2019m feeling something, I never try to talk to the team. I always block it. I\u2019m always feeling I\u2019m strong enough, I can fix everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think this is a weakness. I think the real strong person, if they feel something, for sure, they will speak out, because they find someone who can help them to make even stronger. So that\u2019s why I was feeling terrible every time I talked to Carlos. But now I am feeling much better, because I try to open my mind a little bit to share the feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tennis.si.com\/2013\/10\/28\/serena-williams-jelena-jankovic-li-na-wta-championships\/?xid=ob_blogs\">Deep Thoughts, by Li Na.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More psychoanalysis from Li: \u201cI think when I grew up, the [reason] I cannot show how good I am is because when I won a tournament, the coach was so tough. If I make a mistake [in training], for sure she would say, \u2018What? You just win one tournament. Are you thinking you can win another one? Why didn\u2019t you train harder?\u2019 I think she always punished me all the time. I didn\u2019t have [confidence] to show how good I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 It\u2019s hard to understate coach Carlos Rodriguez\u2019s impact on not only Li\u2018s tennis but also her personal growth. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s different, Chinese and Western, because I think the Western people, they like to share how they\u2019re feeling now. For myself, if I\u2019m feeling something, I never try to talk to the team. I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-38479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-li-na","tag-serena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}