Li Ting (tennis, born 1980)
| Country (sports) |
 China
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| Residence | Hubei, China |
| Born |
5 January 1980 Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Turned pro | 1996 |
| Retired | 2007 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $383,259 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 139–103 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA 3 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 136 (28 February 2005) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2005, 2006) |
| French Open | Q2 (2006) |
| Wimbledon | Q1 (2004, 2006) |
| US Open | Q1 (2005, 2006) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 274–109 |
| Career titles | 10 WTA, 26 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 19 (4 October 2004) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 3R (2004, 2005, 2006) |
| French Open | QF (2005) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2004, 2006) |
| US Open | 3R (2005) |
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Li Ting (Chinese: 李婷; pinyin: Lǐ Tíng; born 5 January 1980) is a Chinese former female tennis player.
She graduated from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2002.
As a doubles player, Li has enjoyed great success, winning twenty-six ITF titles and a further seven WTA titles by March 2006.
Li competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, defeating Spain to win a gold medal in the women's tennis doubles along with her partner Sun Tiantian.
As a singles player, Li enjoyed limited success in ITF events until June 2000, when she qualified for a WTA tournament at Tashkent, then defeated Alina Jidkova of Russia in the first round of the main draw, before bowing out in Round Two. As a wildcard entrant to the WTA event at Shanghai that September, she lost in three sets to Tara Snyder in the first round. Without further success for the rest of the year, she ended world-ranked 325, beating her previous personal best of 347 at the end of 1998.
A year of indifferent results at lowly ITF level followed in 2001, but in September she came through qualifying with three straight wins to reach Shanghai again, beating countrywoman Liu Nannan in the final round, only to lose to Frenchwoman Nathalie Dechy in the main draw. But this achievement was not enough to prevent her world ranking from dropping to 536 by the year's end.
2002 was a poorer year still for Li Ting in singles, as she failed to qualify for Shanghai and won only one match in just four ITF tournaments entered, leading her year-end ranking to slump to 837.
In 2003, she audaciously attempted to buck this trend by boldly entering qualifying for several WTA Tour events while shunning the ITF circuit altogether, and managed to win her first round qualifying ties at Hyderabad, Bali and Shanghai, but failed to progress further until the Japan Open in late September, for which she qualified with wins over Ivana Abramović and Yan Zi, before being easily beaten by Shinobu Asagoe of Japan in the main draw first round. Frustrated with her lack of progress at WTA level, she retreated into ITF territory, and met with some success at the $50,000 Paducah tournament in October, where she gained main draw entry as a lucky loser in qualifying, then reached the quarter-final before losing to Zheng Jie in three sets. Following this result, she was awarded wild-cards into two further $50,000 tournaments, but won just one match at the second. Still, she had pulled her world ranking back up inside the Top 500, to #436.
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