Tennis: China’s crushed ‘Golden Flowers’ to bloom againChina's hopes of a first grand slam finalist were crushed by two of the greats of the women's game on Thursday but Li Na and Zheng Jie's brilliant Australian Open run marked another step in the country's inevitable rise.
Dubbed China's "Golden Flowers" by an appreciative media at home, Li and Zheng's record-shattering path to the semi-finals at Melbourne Park ignited the draw and offered the astonishing possibility of an all-Chinese final.
That notion was snuffed out when a rampant Justine Henin thumped 35th-ranked Zheng 6-1, 6-0 following Serena Williams's 7-6, 7-6 win over the 16th-seeded Li.
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