Li Fang (, born 1 January 1973) is a retired female

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player from China. She is widely regarded as the first professional tennis player from China. Li turned professional in 1990, and won two WTA doubles titles in her career. In singles, Li Fang reached three finals on the WTA tour (Hobart 1995, Makarska and Pattaya in 1998), losing all of them. She represented her country at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

. Li played seven years on the

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. She retired in 2001.

Personal

Li Fang was born in

Hengyang Hengyang (; ) is the second largest city of Hunan Province, China. It straddles the Xiang River about south of the provincial capital of Changsha. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Its total population was 6,645,243 inhabitants, whom 1,290,715 l ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

province to father Li Jianmin and mother Zhou Shanglian. As of 2014, Li Fangs runs a tennis academy in Frisco, Texas.

WTA Tour career finals

Singles: 3 runner-up

Doubles: 2 titles

ITF finals

Singles (18–6)

Doubles (8–5)

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* * * 1973 births Living people Chinese female tennis players Olympic tennis players of China Tennis players from Hunan Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 1990 Asian Games Tennis players at the 1994 Asian Games Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Asian Games bronze medalists for China {{PRChina-tennis-bio-stub