Sport - Tennis / Us Open - New York

4 settembre '13 / mercoledì       4th September / Wednesday                         visioni post - 3

Super Pennetta, è in semifinale: 
Roberta Vinci battuta 6-4  6-1
La tennista brindisina ha vinto il derby italiano ai 
quarti di finale in due set e ora affronterà la vincente
della sfida tra la slovacca Daniela Hantuchova e la
bielorussa Victoria Azarenka, n.2 del tabellone.
In semifinale  c'è la sfida 
Pennetta - Azarenka
Grande attesa a Brindisi! Tutta la città in fibrillazione
per la semifinale degli Us Open contro la bielorussa
numero 2 del mondo.
Sarà nientemeno che la numero 2 del tennis mondiale, la bielorussa Victoria Azarenka, l'avversaria che Flavia Pennetta affronterà domani in semifinale agli Us Open. La 24enne di Minsk, che l'anno scorso fu sconfitta in finale da Serena Williams, ha battuto la slovacca Daniela Hantuchova, numero 48, con il punteggio di 6-2 6-3. Stavolta non ha ceduto il primo set, come le era accaduto nei turni precedenti con la francese  Alize Cornet e3 la serba Ana ivanovic, ed ha rimontato da 0-2 nella seconda frazione, mostrandosi attenta e determinata. Uno a uno i precedenti tra Vika e Flavia, che ha raggiunto, a 31 anni, la sua prima semifinale in un torneo dello Slam superando - nel quarto derby azzurro degli Us Open 2013, il primo pugliese - Roberta Vinci 6-4 6-1. La Pennetta è attualmente numero 83 del mondo, ma, grazie alla straordinaria performance di quest'anno sui campi in cemento di Flushing Meadows - dove aveva raggiunto i quarti di finale nel 2008, 2009 e 2011 - salirà considerevolmente nella prossima classifica.
GIOIA FLAVIA - "Buongiorno ragazzi! Oggi per me giornata di allenamento e relax... sono contentissima per la bella vittoria di ieri": Flavia Pennetta ha affidato ad un tweet la sua gioia per la semifinale raggiunta agli Us Open. "Grazie a tutti per i tanti messaggi, siete grandiosi" ha twittato ancora la brindisina alla quale sono arrivati, tra gli altri, i tweet di complimenti della sua compagna di doppio Gisela Dulko e di Kim Clijsteers. Originale iniziativa poi di un fan della Pennetta, che ha postato la foto di un bus con la scritta 'Flavia Pennetta fammi sognare ancora'.

Flavia Pennetta esultante per la conquista della semifinale agli Us open

L'altra semifinale
Serena Williams in semifinale
con la cinese Li Na

Serena ha impiegato solo 52 minuti per liquidare, senza concederle un game, la Suarez Navarro, n. 20 del ranking.

Una inarrestabile Serena Williams,

regina del tennis mondiale, è la seconda semifinalista, dopo la cinese Li Na, negli Us Open, grazie al doppio 6-0 rifilato alla spagnola Carla Suarez Navarro; mentre la terza verrà decisa dal derby azzurro, il quarto quest'anno a Flushing Meadows, che opporrà nel pomeriggio Roberta Vinci e Flavia Pennetta. Serena ha impiegato solo 52 minuti per liquidare, senza concederle un game, la Suarez Navarro, n. 20 del ranking. Se la vedrà in semifinale con Li Na, n. 6, che ha superato la russa Ekaterina Makarova 6-4 

Errani-Vinci eliminate 
dalle sorelle Williams

Azzurre battute in due set ai quarti con il secco punteggio di 6-3 6-1
Finisce ai quarti di finale l'avventura di Sara Errani e Roberta Vinci nel torneo di doppio degli Us Open. Le azzurre, teste di serie n.1 e campionesse in carica, sono state battute dalle sorelle statunitensi Serena e Venus Williams con il secco punteggio di 6-3 6-1. A gennaio, nei quarti degli Australian Open, erano state le 'Cichis' ad imporsi per 3-6 7-6 (7-1)  7-5 mentre alle olimpiadi di Londra, sempre nei
quarti, avevano vinto le Williams con un doppio 6-1.

Le sorelle Williams con Errani-Vinci al termine vittorioso del match 

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Istruzione - Personaggi sportivi / Jennifer Capriati e Tiger Woods

4 settembre '13 - mercoledì      4th September / Wednesday                    visioni post - 24

Jennifer Capriati
was a winning athlete when she was young. She was born in New York
on March 29, 1976, and began to play tennis when she was three.
At fourteen, she became the youngest player to win a match at Wimbledon.
A year later, she beat the famous tennis champion Martina Navratilova.
In July 1992, at the age of sixteen, she won a gold medal for tennis at the
Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
But it isn'i always easy to be famous when you're young. Jennifer had a
lot of reporters outside her house every day, and she began  to eat  a lot 
and became very fat.      Then, one day, someone saw her taking things 
from a shop. Soon after that, they found drugs in her bag. 
These stories were on radio and television across the world, and Jennifer
felt very bad about them. In 1994 she stopped playing professional tennis.
But Jennifer survived these bad years. She wanted to get healthy and go
back to tennis. -  She stopped taking drugs and eating badly, and began 
training. In 2001, she won the Australian Open Championship, and in
June of that year xhe won the French Open. "Here I am again. This is
my second chance", she said happily to reporters this time.

Reading Check
Correggi gli errori in queste frasi:
a)  Jennifer Capriati began playing tennis when she was five.
b)  In 1984 she stopped playing professional tennis.
c)  In 2001 she came back, winning championships in New Zealand and France.

Tiger Woods
was only two when he played golf on American television for the first
time.  No one knew this young boy was to become one of golf's mosts
successful players.
Eldrick Tiger Woods was born on December 30, 1975, in Cypress,
California. His father, Earl, is a black American and his mother
is from Thailand. In the war in Vietnam, Earl Woods made friends
with a Vietnamese soldier called Tiger.   And so he gave the name 
Tiger to his son. - Earl loved golf, and often played it when Tiger
was a boy. Young Tiger went with him, watched his father playing
and learned a lot from him. When he was eight he became a young
world champion.  After that he won many golf championships for
young people.
Tiger Woods was very good at golf for his age. He went to Stanford
University in 1994 and he was very good at golf there, too. After 2
years at university, Tiger left to become a professional golf player.
In 1997, at the age of twenty-one, Tiger was  the youngest  player
to become an American golf champion. In 2000, he was the youn-
gest golfer to win the four most important golf championships in
the world in one year. 
These days Tiger is rich and famous, and he lives in Florida because
the weather there is always great for golf! He was the first black Ame-
rican to be successful at this 'white person's sport'. But when he was
younger, some white golfers said he could not play with them because
he was black. Perhaps his story can help today's young athletes to be
tomorrow's champions.

Reading Check
Correggi gli errori in queste frasi
a)  Tiger Woods' father is a black American and his mother is from Vietnam.
b)  Now he is rich and famous. Tiger lives in California because the weather
     there is very good.

Solutions
J. CAPRIATI
a)  Jennifer Capriati began playing tennis when she was three.
b)  In 1994 she stopped playing professional tennis.
c)  In 2001 she came back winning championships in Australia and France.
T. WOODS
a)  Tiger Woods' father is a black American and his mother is from Vietnam.
b)  Now he is rich and famous. Tiger lives in California because the weather
     there is very good.

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