Li Ting (tennis, born 1980) Li Ting (tennis, born 1980) Li Ting (; born 5 January 1980) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. She won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles alongside Sun Tiantian. 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
Spanish naming customs surnames, with an example being tennis player Arantxa Sánchez Vicario – whereas her older brothers Emilio and Javier, also professional tennis players, are mainly known only by the paternal surname of Sánchez in everyday life, although they also would "formally" be addressed as "Sánchez Vicario". Where Basque and Romance cultures have linguistically long coexisted, the surnames denote the father's name and the (family) house or town/village. Thus the Romance patronymic and the place-name are conjoined with the prepositional particle "de" ("from"+"provenance"). For example, in the name "José Ignacio López de Arriortúa", the composite surname "López de Arriortúa" is a single