Li Na is hopeful that her renewed coaching relationship with her husband, Jiang Shan, works out well. She recently split with coach Michael Mortenson from Denmark, who led her to the Roland Garros crown. Her husband coached her to the Australian Open final. "Naturally Jiang knows me best and between us it seems no language is required," she told reporters at the China Open. "A sign, eye contact will tell the story. But it's harder to deal with the sort of relationship between me and my husband than the general coaching relationship, so I wish I can cooperate well with my husband like I did at the beginning of the year."
Incidentally, Carlos Rodriguez, the former coach of Justine Henin, who is running an academy in Beijing, says that he won't be coaching Li.