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...purpose we came was to meet people and have fun.” The event featured guest performances by Harvard’s Asian a cappella group C-Sharp and University of Pennsylvania’s Chinese a cappella group PennYo, a play on the word “peng you,” Chinese for “friend.” Erkin Y. Uyghur ’08 performed traditional music of his native Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. He said he is the “first and only” ethnic Uyghur at Harvard...
...come to dominate the tour in recent years, knew little about Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. Today, they have been joined by another pair, Zheng and her fellow Sichuan native Yan Zi, who captured three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year-old named Peng Shuai last year reached China's highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing top-10 players such as Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva. Peng even made the semi-finals in a warm-up tournament to last year's Australian Open, and Chinese fans hope she can match that effort when...
...Chinese tennis federation has taken halting steps toward opening up. In order to match the women's talents with equally top-notch training, the federation has brought in foreign coaches for short-term stints. In 2003, the sports authority also allowed wunderkind Peng to attend the prestigious Evert Tennis Academy in Florida. "She excelled very quickly," recalls John Cappo, managing director of IMG China, who has acted as Peng's agent. "In China, coaches focus on punishment and point out players' faults. We convinced her that she's a winner, and she started acting like one." Peng transformed from...
...Peng has intimated that she would like to leave the national team after the Australian Open and find her own coach instead of sharing one with several other Chinese women. Her style of play, a powerful baseline game anchored by double-handed ground strokes on both sides, contrasts with that of the other Chinese who tend to rely on doggedness and consistency. The one-size-fits-all coaching method is likely holding her back. "She could be a top-10 player, easy," says a European coach who trained with Peng in China. "But the Chinese have to be willing...
...Peng's teammates, though, her previous stint in America is a source of envy. "I wish I could train with the world's best, but I'm too old now," says Yan, 21. "Maybe the next generation of Chinese tennis players can do that." Teammate Zheng, who jokes that she prefers singles tennis to doubles competition because it's more lucrative, is more practical. "In the U.S. you can buy so many nice clothes," she says. "There's just a lot more choice there." Even after all these years, sometimes it's still about the clothes...