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University Tips
Tennis titans
By Ajarn Helen Jandamit, Photos courtesy of AP/ AFP/Reuters
University Tips is here
to help you prepare for the English exams that are coming your way. It gives
you practise answering questions similar to those you may have at school and
also on the university entrance examination.
Winning streak
Rafael Nadal reduced Roger Federer to tears when he won the Australian Open final recently. It was Nadal's first Grand Slam title win on a hard court.
Nadal, now the world No. 1, miraculously recovered from his five-hour semi-final to take the final match 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 3-6, 6-2 in four hours and 23 minutes.
Nadal now joins Andre Agassi as the only players in the past 24 years to have won Grand Slam titles on all three court surfaces — clay, grass and hard.
For Nadal, the victory was proof that he is a better player than Federer. Beating somebody as good as Federer five straight times is a huge achievement. Nadal is now more than 3,000 points ahead of Federer in the ATP world rankings.
RAFAEL
NADAL
Born: June 3, 1986
Birthplace: Manacor, Mallorca
Residence: Manacor, Mallorca
Height: 1.85 metres
Weight: 85 kilogrammes
Career titles: 31
Career win/loss record: 341/77
ROGER FEDERER
Born: August 8, 1981
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Residence: Oberwell, Switzerland
Height: 1.85 metres
Weight: 80 kilogrammes
Career titles: 57
Career win/loss record: 623/149
SECTION 1
Scan the charts on the lower left. Then, write the name of the correct tennis player in the spaces provided.
1. Who is younger?
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2. Who is heavier?
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3. Who has more career titles?
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4. Which player does not live in the city where he was born?
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5. Which player has won 341 times and lost 77 times?
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6. Which player is Swiss?
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SECTION 2
Read the story. Then, answer the following true or false questions.
7. Nadal's semi-final match went for four hours and 23 minutes.
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8. Nadal is the only player in history to win Grand Slam titles on three different tennis court surfaces.
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9. Nadal is the world No. 1 tennis player.
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10. Nadal took 24 years to beat Andre Agassi's record.
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SECTION 3
Rearrange the following words to form grammatically and factually correct sentences.
11. Federer He times has many beaten
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12. He an left-hander aggressive is
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13. 1981 in Federer born was Roger
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14. old is Nadal year 22
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15. 2008 the Open won in US He
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16. for The hour lasted semi-final five
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SECTION 4
Fill
in each blank in the text below with the correct word from the choices that
follow.
For Federer, losing to the same player ......... 17 ......... times in a row must have done ......... 18 ......... damage to his confidence. Nadal has now ......... 19 ......... him on all surfaces, and no matter ......... 20 ......... good you know you are, that must ......... 21 ......... some serious doubt in your mind.
17.
a. fifty
b.
five
c.
one
d.
twice
18.
a.
many
b.
must
c.
huge
d.
no
19.
a. beaten
b.
missed
c.
met
d.
seen
20.
a. who
b.
what
c.
when
d.
how
21.
a. put
b.
point
c.
record
d.
expect
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titan
(n): a
person who is very large, strong, intelligent or important streak (n): a series of successes or failures, especially in a sport or in gambling miraculously (adv): with extreme luck and unexpectedness confidence (n): a belief in your own ability to do things and be successful |
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