Li Ting (tennis player, 1980)

Li Ting
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Birthday:	5th January 1980
Size:	180 cm
1st professional season:	2000
Resignation:	2007
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 383,259
singles
Career record:	139: 103
Career title:	0 WTA , 10 ITF
Highest ranking:	136 (February 28, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	274: 109
Career title:	9 WTA, 26 ITF
Highest ranking:	19 (October 4, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Li Ting ( Chinese  李婷 , Pinyin Lǐ Tíng ; born January 5, 1980 in Wuhan , Hubei ) is a former Chinese tennis player .

Career

Li started playing tennis at the age of seven. From 2000 to 2007 she competed on the WTA Tour , on which she won a total of nine double titles, eight of them alongside Sun Tiantian .

However, she celebrated the greatest triumph of her career by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. With doubles partner Sun Tiantian, she defeated the Spanish pairing Conchita Martínez / Virginia Ruano Pascual 6: 3 and 6: 3 in the final .

Tournament victories

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	June 18, 2000	Tashkent	WTA Tier IVa	Hard court	Li Na	Iroda Tulyaganova Hanna Zaporozhanova	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
2.	June 14, 2003	Vienna	WTA Tier III	sand	Sun Tiantian	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	November 2, 2003	Quebec	WTA Tier III	Carpet (hall)	Sun Tiantian	Els Callen Miles Tu	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	November 9, 2003	Pattaya	WTA Tier V	Hard court	Sun Tiantian	Wynne Prakusya Angelique Widjaja	6: 4, 6: 3
5.	August 22, 2004	Athens	Olympic games	Hard court	Sun Tiantian	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual	6: 3, 6: 3
6th	October 3, 2004	Guangzhou	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Sun Tiantian	Yang Shujing Yu Ying	6: 4, 6: 1
7th	May 1, 2005	Oeiras	WTA Tier IV	sand	Sun Tiantian	Michaëlla Krajicek Henrieta Nagyová	6: 3, 6: 1
8th.	February 12, 2006	Pattaya	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Sun Tiantian	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	3: 6, 6: 1, 7: 6 5
9.	May 7, 2006	Oeiras	WTA Tier IV	sand	Sun Tiantian	Gisela Dulko Maria Sánchez Lorenzo	6: 2, 6: 2
10.	October 1, 2006	Guangzhou	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Sun Tiantian	Vania King Jelena Kostanić	6: 4, 2: 6, 7: 5

Web links

• WTA-profile Li Ting (English)
• ITF-profile Li Ting (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Li Ting (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 40 LOVE Moments: Li & Sun In Athens

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Li is the family name here, Ting is the first name.