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  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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