Zheng Jie: generous to a fault

Networking usually means, to business people anyway, the chance to meet and talk to potentially useful contacts. However to a particular young Chinese woman, it means driving a ball hard enough to stop her opponent hitting it back over the net. Zheng Jie is a professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world number 18, making her China and Asia’s highest-ranked women’s singles player.  At Wimbledon in 2008 Zheng became greatly admired not just because she became the first Chinese player ever to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam singles, but because she donated her winnings to the victims of the 2008 earthquake in her native Sichuan province.

ChinaOne Call wishes Zheng continued success in 2009.