Li Xinyi (born 14 June 1962) is a Chinese former professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player. She was a singles gold medalist at the
1986 Asian Games
The 1986 Asian Games ( ko, 1986ë…„ 아시아 경기대회/1986ë…„ 아시안 게임, Cheon gubaek palsip-yuk nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Cheon gubaek palsip-yuk nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 10th Asian Games and the X Asiad ( ko, ì œ10í ...
in Seoul.
Li was a regular member of China's
Federation Cup team during the 1980s, featuring in a total of 13 ties, for four singles and three doubles wins. Her four wins in singles included victories over Brazil's
Niege Dias
Niege Dias (born 5 December 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. She also competed for the Brazil Fed Cup team from 1985 to 1988.
In her career, she won two WTA Tour singles tournaments, the 1987 Brazil Open and 1988 Barc ...
and
Etsuko Inoue
is a retired tennis player from Japan.
Inoue twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1984 (Los Angeles, California) and 1988
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of Japan. In 1986 she played a Federation Cup rubber against
Martina Navratilova in Prague, which was the first time the adopted American had played in her birth country since defecting.
On the WTA Tour, Li played in the main draw of two tournaments, the
1987 Singapore Women's Open and
1988 Lipton International Players Championships in Florida. She reached a best singles ranking of 407 in the world.
ITF finals
Singles: 2 (2–0)
Doubles: 6 (2–4)
See also
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List of China Fed Cup team representatives
References
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1962 births
Living people
Chinese female tennis players
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 1986 Asian Games
20th-century Chinese women