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Unseeded Old-Timer's Upset Win in Australian Open

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发表于 1-25-2017 17:46:48 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
本帖最后由 choi 于 1-25-2017 17:48 编辑

Christopher Clarey, Unseeded Former Prodigy Joins a Resurgent Wave; Lucic-Baroni gains berth in semifinals with three-set Win over a fifth-seed. New York Times, Jan 25, 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/ ... ustralian-open.html
(the 34-year-old Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia beat 24-year-old Karolina Pliskova of Czech Republic to reach semifinal in Australian Open)

Note:
(a) This is about a sport report that an aging underdog had an upset win.
(b) "Before Lucic-Baron [sic] came out to serve for the match, she reached into her bag on the changeover and took out a rosary to wear on the court."
(i) changeover (n): "a pause in a tennis match during which the players change sides of the court"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/changeover
(ii) "Before Lucic-Baron came out to serve for the match, she reached into her bag on the changeover and took out a rosary to wear on the court."
(i) changeover (n): "a pause in a tennis match during which the players change sides of the court"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/changeover
(ii) "took out a rosary to wear on the court"

You can see the rosary on her neck in the photo of her.
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