Put the word or word phrase. Sport is probably as ……. as the humanity itself.
All over the world people of different ages are very ………. sports and games.
Sports help people to ……. good health.
Bending and stretching will add ………. and feeling of lightness.
LESSON 12. Theme :THE FAMOUS TENNIS PLAYER
Paris hotel bartender, who stole the expensive Richard Millewatch from the seven-time winner of the French Open Tennis Tournament Rafael Nadal, was sentenced to six months in prison. Swiss watch company Richard Mille gave to Nadal an accessory worth 500 thousand dollars in advertising. Under the contract, the tennis player was obliged to appear with the watch at every public appearance on the court.This year in June 11, with this watch on the hand the Spanish athlete won the Roland Garros tournament. And on June 13 in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday the watch was stolen, which almost ruined the joy of victory.The bartender, who stole the watch of the famous tennis player Rafael Nadal, was sentenced to sixmonths in prison As it turned out, the watch had been abducted by one of the hotel employees who had access to the number of tennis by means of the magnetic map. It is for it police officers have calculated attacker. Hotel employee immediately confessed to the crime and returned the missing to the owner. The motive for his crime, he explained as follows: "The watch had to change my life. I wanted it to bring me luck - because Nadal himself wore it."
Official website of Richard Mille watches.
Maria Sharapova Maria Sharapova was bom in Siberia, Russia, in 1987. She led a charge of Russian players who came to achieve great success in the women’s game. She has also brought her own brand of glamour to tennis by designing her own unique tennis outfits. At the 2007 US Open she wore a dress with over 600 crystals sewn into it.Sharapova got her first tennis racket when she was four from the father of Grand Slam winner Yevgeny Kafelnikov. At the age of six, Maria attended a tennis clinic in Moscow run by Martina Navratilova. Navratilova recognized her talent and recommended that she go to the US A to study at a famous tennis academy in Florida.
Maria moved to the USA with her father in 1994. Neither of them could speak English. They had very little money and went to the tennis academy by bicycle every day. She described it as being a tough time. She turned professional in 2001 and a year later became the youngest girl ever to reach the junior final at Wimbledon.Sharapova won her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, when she was 17. She is one of several top players who are known for loud on-court grunting. When reporters asked her about this in 2006, she told them to “put your grunt-o-meters down...and just watch the match”. Sharapova has been the world’s highest paid sportswoman and the women’s number one several times.