BEIJING—How did I end up in Beijing’s historic building, home to Qing Dynasty royalty, warlords and the occupying Japanese army in the 1930s, watching a legendary Russian band, Mumiy Troll, with a bunch of Russian tennis-player fans who lost earlier in the tournament?
Li Na looked underwhelmed Monday as she was awarded a giant red check for 800,000 yuan ($132,214) by a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official.
She is Asia’s best tennis player ever; yet many are calling her acceptance the funniest Australian Open victory speech ever.
BEIJING—How did I end up in Beijing’s historic building, home to Qing Dynasty royalty, warlords and the occupying Japanese army in the 1930s, watching a legendary Russian band, Mumiy Troll, with a bunch of Russian tennis-player fans who lost earlier in the tournament?
Li Na looked underwhelmed Monday as she was awarded a giant red check for 800,000 yuan ($132,214) by a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official.
She is Asia’s best tennis player ever; yet many are calling her acceptance the funniest Australian Open victory speech ever.