Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Li ya fara kakar 2012 a gasar cin kofin Hopman
tare da dan kasar Wu Di, wanda shi ma daga lardin Hubei ne, inda ta ci nasara a duka rubber guda uku da Marion Bartoli, Anabel Medina Garrigues da Jarmila Gajdošová. Wannan ita ce nasararta ta farko a kan Anabel Medina Garrigues a cikin gamuwa hudu. Ya kasance dawowa ne ga siffarta bayan da aka sha wahala daga asara da farkon zagaye na fita a kusan dukkanin wasanninta a lokacin rabin rabin shekara ta 2011 bayan nasarar da ta samu a Roland Garros. Bayan haka Li ta taka leda a Sydney don kare kambinta. Ta doke Ekaterina Makarova, Chanelle Scheepers da Lucie Šafářová don shiga wasan kusa da na karshe. A wasan kusa da na karshe, ta dawo daga saiti daya don cin nasara a kan duniya No. 2 Petra Kvitová, wanda aka fi so ya lashe gasar. A wasan karshe, Li ta kasa kare kambinta, inda ta yi rashin nasara a kan Victoria Azarenka a cikin wasanni uku.