Tags: Tennis Player.
Hu Na (Chinese: 胡娜; pinyin: Hú Nà; born April 16 1963) is a former professional tennis player best known for defecting from the People’s Republic of China to the United States in 1982 thereby sparking a Cold War-era diplomatic incident. Diplomatic relations between the two countries had been established in 1979 and the Hu Na incident was among the first major tests of those newly established relations.