The Moment

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Li Na celebrates winning a point against Venus Williams en route to her quarterfinal victory at the Australian Open

The cliché that sport imitates life is a stretch. But sport does reveal what makes a winner. Above everything else — talent, training, luck — it's tenacity, like that shown at the Australian Open by tennis players Li Na and Zheng Jie. They made history by being the first Chinese, indeed the first Asians, to take half the semifinal places in a Grand Slam singles event. It was irrelevant whether the two would progress further in the tournament — their feat was already a huge achievement in a game long dominated by the West. Now the smart money is...

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