The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on Monday announced that Li Na and Peng Shuai have set new national records for China's tennis following their rise to career-high rankings in the latest WTA rankings.
BEIJING Comprar Hombre Air Max 97 Oro Amarillo Negras , Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on Monday announced that Li Na and Peng Shuai have set new national records for China's tennis following their rise to career-high rankings in the latest WTA rankings.


Two-time Grand Slam champion Li becomes the first Asian player to hold the WTA World No. 2 singles ranking, while Peng is the first Chinese player to ascend to the WTA World No. 1 doubles ranking.


"I'd like to congratulate Li Na and Peng Shuai on their achievements and rise up the WTA rankings to respective career-highs," said Stacey Allaster, WTA Chairman and CEO.


"As they have done throughout their careers, both players continue to set new milestones for Chinese tennis. Their accomplishments are truly inspirational and the WTA is fortunate to have such ambassadors representing the sport around the world. I'm also thrilled that with a record number of WTA events to be held in Asia-Pacific in 2014 Comprar Hombre Air Max 97 Premium Azul , culminating in the WTA Championships in Singapore, Asian fans will have a unique opportunity to see their heroines in action in the months and years ahead." "To be No. 1 was a goal of mine this year. We were very close at the end of last year. It is something I have worked very hard for," said Peng.


"With Li Na going to No. 2 in singles, and Hsieh Su-Wei taking the No. 2 doubles ranking, this is a big breakthrough for Asian tennis. We are looking forward to the rest of the year and hopefully the WTA Championships in Singapore."


"To go to No. 2 in the world is definitely a proud accomplishment for me and my team Comprar Hombre Air Max 97 Ultra Negras Blancas ," said Li. "We have worked very hard and look to improve every week. It is an exciting time for tennis in China...I'm confident that younger players will do better than what we've achieved."


Li has started the 2014 season in outstanding form, amassing a 13-1 record and winning the Australian Open and Shenzhen Open, taking her haul of WTA singles titles to nine. Having already held the record for highest ranked Asian player in history at No. 3, which she achieved following her runner-up finish at the 2013 TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships-Istanbul, the 31-year-old has now bettered that mark.


The 28-year-old Peng teamed up with Chinese Taipei's Hsieh Su-Wei for a breakthrough year in 2013. The pair won five doubles titles Comprar Hombre Air Max 97 Ultra Todos Negras , highlighted by their first major championship at Wimbledon.


The duo concluded the year by becoming the first team from Asia to win the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships-Istanbul. They also raised the champions' trophy at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia (Rome), Western & Southern Open (Cincinnati) and Guangzhou Open. Following their success at last week's Qatar Total Open (Doha), the pair now has a perfect 10-0 record in doubles finals. Additionally, Hsieh will move to a career-high doubles ranking of No. 2 in the world - the highest ranking ever for a player from Chinese Taipei.


THE HAGUE, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Almost 20 years after the end of the war in former Yugoslavia Comprar Hombre Air Max 97 Blancas Negras , the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Tuesday dismissed the claims of genocide committed by both Serbia and Croatia.


The ICJ, the highest United Nations court, ruled that indeed crimes have been committed during the war and these crimes had the characteristics of a genocide, but the evidence is lacking that the perpetrators also had a preconceived plan to exterminate a population.


The genocide, a deliberate attempt to destroy a group based on nationality Comprar Hombre Air Max 97 Plata Gris Rojas , race, religion or ethnicity, was allegedly committed in the war in former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995, but hard to prove.


Croatia was the first to file a case at the top UN court in 1999 against Yugoslavia, of which Serbia was a part at that time. Croatia contended that the Serbs were responsible for genocide committed in Croatia between 1991 and 1995.


The alleged Serbian ethnic cleansing against Croatian citizens was specifically committed during the siege of the Croatian border town of Vukovar Comprar Mujer Air Max 97 Shockproof Claro Rosa , which was ruined entirely by Yugoslav and Serb fighters in 1991. According to the claim Croats and other non-Serbs were "displaced, killed, tortured, or illegally detained".


Serbia responded in January 2010 with its own counter-claim over alleged genocide committed by Croats in 1995 in the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a self-proclaimed Serb entity within the territory of Croatia Comprar Hombre Air Max 97 OG GS Todos Negras , established in late 1991.


During the Operation Storm the Croatian army hit down the revolt of the Serb minority in the country, hundreds of Serbs were reportedly killed and persecuted from their homes resulting in a migration wave out of more than 200,000 Croatian Serbs from Croatia.


During the opening of the hearings on March 3 last year at the ICJ both sides already experienced the difficulty to prove genocidal intent of the opponent state leadership to destroy Croats or Serbs as an ethnic group.


The task was especially difficult because no Serb and no Croat has ever been respectively indicted for genocide in Croatia and Serbia by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), also based in The Hague.


On Tuesday Croatia's claim was rejected by 15 votes to two, while Serbia's claim was rejected unanimously.


The court noted a pattern of persecution during the war Comprar Hombre Air Max 97 Todos Negras , especially of Croats in the areas occupied by Serbs at the beginning of the war. But according to the judges Croatia did not demonstrate the Serbian intent to genocide. The ICJ further weighed that judges at the ICTY have never indicted individuals for genocide in Croatia. With similar reasoning the court rejected the Serbian complaint.


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