Li Na says she’s playing better tennis than breakthrough 2011 season

China’s Li Na said that she feels that she’s playing better tennis this season than her breakthrough 2011 season, where she won her maiden Grand Slam singles title at the French Open.

“I would like to say yes. I feel like I’ve been able to control myself this year – not like before. This year I feel like I have stayed at the same level from the beginning until now. Maybe in 2011 I won a Grand Slam title, but in the other tournaments I didn’t have good results that year. So this year it doesn’t matter if it was a Grand Slam or an International tournament, I always played well,” Li Na said ahead of the WTA Tour Championships that’s taking place this week.

The Chinese tennis superstar is scheduled to play her first round robin match at the elite year-end event on Wednesday, October 23.