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Maria Sharapova is a world-famous tennis player. She was born in Russia in 1987. At the age of four, she started her first tennis lesson. From then on, she [57] that she’s one of the best tennis players ever. Tennis fans all over the world enjoy watching her play.
Although her family had little money, Sharapova moved to America with her father in 1994. Soon after they arrived, Sharapova’s father brought her to a famous tennis school in Florida. Back in Russia, her father [58] a great future ahead of little Sharapova. He wanted to do his best to help her, and an American tennis school would be a good start. Now the seven-year-old girl [59] at the school and would start to make her dream come true.
The little girl surprised the teachers when she knocked off the hat of one teacher with a strong serve. They told her father that she [60] a scholarship when she was old enough to enter the school in 1995.
That is where it all began. Sharapova has since caught the eye of the world with her excellent tennis skills.
serve 發球；scholarship 獎學金；skill 技巧