Famous for carrying his tennis rackets in a bamboo basket, Wang Fa, a 14-year-old dark horse, 【小题1】 won the U14 boys’ singles title in the Guangzhou stop of the 2022 ASICS Tennis Junior Tour, has become 【小题2】 internet sensation.

Wang, a Chinese Wa ethnic(佤族)boy, started to learn tennis after he was selected by Zhang Xiaohong, head coach of a tennis club in southwest China’s Yunnan Province in 2016. Over the years, Wang and his peers 【小题3】(put) tremendous efforts into advancing their skills and acquiring knowledge. “【小题4】 for tennis, I would still be helping out my family with farm work back at home, ” Wang said. “We always carry a bamboo basket when we work in the field. We all regard 【小题5】 as a typical farming tool of the Wa ethnic group. I carry my rackets in the basket 【小题6】(primary) to honor my hometown, ” he added.

Home for Wang is a mountainous area named Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County. 【小题7】(locate) in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, the county, composed 【小题8】 67 villages with a population of more than 40, 000, was lifted out of 【小题9】(poor) in 2019. For Wang, 【小题10】(win) this title is just the beginning of a promising future. The rising star said he would head to the top spots in the professional arena.

Learning Quickly from Mistakes

Mercy Cherono is one of many very successful young athletes from Kenya. She was born in 1991 in the village of Kipajit. She is 【小题1】 (old) of six children, and some of the other children in her family are also athletes. Her father, John Koech, runs a training camp in the village. During the school holidays, the camp【小题2】 attract over 50 trainees.

Cherono started running in primary school and continued when she went to secondary school in the nearby town of Sotik. At the age of 16, she participated in the 2007 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships, 【小题3】(hold) in Mombasa. Kenya. It was her first international event. Despite the fact 【小题4】 she finished 23rd in the junior race, she had launched herself into international athletics. In the same year, at the World Youth Championships at Ostrava in the Czech Republic, she won a gold medal in the 3,000-meter race, 【小题5】she ran in the championship record time of 8: 53:94.

In the coming years, she continued to win gold medals at famous international championships. She is a two-time World Junior Champion in the 3,000-meter race, 【小题6】(win) in Poland in 2008, and again in Canada in 2010. She also came in first in the 3,000-meter race at the 2009 Africa Junior Championships. However, Cherono is not just a middle-distance runner. At the 2009 World Cross Country Championships in Jordan, she won a silver medal in the junior race. She lost to the Ethiopian long-distance runner Genzebe Dibaba 【小题7】 she tried to jump too early to the finishing line. After the race, Cherono claimed, "I will not repeat that mistake again.”

The following year, at the same cross-country race, Cherono proved herself when she won a gold medal. Incredibly, 【小题8】 of the three runners-up were from Kenya, too. She and the Kenyan team came home to a hero's welcome. Her coach was excited and owed the success of the Kenyan team【小题9】 hard training and determination." And her father said, "our child is a disciplined girl who has always taken instructions." Perhaps one day Mercy Cherono 【小题10】 (instruct) future champions.

There were twenty-two children in Wilma Rudolph's family, and she was the【小题1】(twenty) child. As a little girl, Wilma had many illnesses.【小题2】fact, she spent most of her early childhood【小题3】(lie) in bed. When she was four years old, she was diagnosed (诊断) with a disease【小题4】can affect the muscles. Doctor said that Wilma would never walk. However, Wilma's large, caring family helped and encouraged her. Every week, her mother【小题5】(take) her on a long trip to a hospital for medical treatment. Suffering from the disease, Wilma herself was determined and never gave up. And【小题6】(final) one day she removed her wheelchair and started walking.

Wilma not only learned to walk, she also learned to run-and to run fast. She ran so fast that at the 1960 Rome Olympics Games, she became the【小题7】(fast) woman in the world and the first American woman【小题8】(win) three gold medals at one Olympics.

Wilma said that it was most important to be【小题9】(you) and believe in what you can do. And it is not what happens to you that matters,【小题10】how you respond to what happens.