After winning the championship in boys’ singles under 14 years old at the ASICS Tennis Junior Tour in Guangzhou in late August, Wang Fa quickly attracted attention on the Internet. Wang is known for carrying his tennis rackets(球拍) in a bamboo basket,     1    (earn) him the name of “basket tennis boy”.

Over the past six years, Wang, along with his peers(同伴) at the Yunnan Wild Elephants Tennis Club,     2    ( improve) his skills and physical    3    ( strong) through training that includes running 9 kilometers and swinging his racket more than 7 ,000 times a day. “If it were not for tennis, I would still be helping out my family with farm work back home,” he told China Daily.

Talking about his habit    4    carrying his tennis gear(装备) in a bamboo basket, Wang said he carried his rackets this way    5    (honor) his hometown, Cangyuan Va autonomous county(沧源佤族自治县), Yunnan Province.

    6    (initial), Wang’s parents did not want him to learn tennis because they thought it was too expensive, but the tennis club offered to teach him free of charge. Zhang Xiaohong, Wang’s head coach,    7    founded the club in 2014, selected around 20 local kids who were quite    8    ( talent) for tennis and trained    9    (they) for free. “I want to take children to the outside world through tennis,” Zhang said.

For Wang, winning the ASICS Tennis Junior Tour title was    10    beginning of a promising future. “I will head to the top spots on the professional stage,” Wang said.

After a final jump with the highest degree of difficulty for female athletes at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao won     1    gold medal in freestyle skiing women’s aerials (空中技巧). The 32-year-old waited a long time     2    this moment.

First     3    (practice) the sport at the age of 12, Xu fell in love with the feeling of skiing on snow. She said that her deep love for the sport is her first     4    (motivate). Winning an Olympic gold medal was her dream.

But it wasn’t easy to make     5    . Finishing sixth in her first Olympics at Vancouver 2010, Xu managed to take home silver at Sochi 2014. Xu aimed to win the Olympic gold at Pyeongchang 2018, but she finished ninth.

She was not sure     6    she could maintain her     7    (compete) state, but she always felt motivated with support from many people. With perseverance, Xu achieved her dream in 2022. Speaking of the reasons behind this, she said it is not only thanks to her hard work but more     8    (important), the era. Chinese winter sports now enjoy fantastic developments. “This great age       9    (enable) the young generation to achieve our dream and inspires them     10    (build) together a better future for Chinese sports,” said Xu.

In summer 2021 Su Bingtian    1     (establish) a new Asian record at 9.83 seconds in the men’s 100-meter dash during the Tokyo Olympics semifinals, making him the first Chinese athlete    2     (qualify) for the event’s final. Following his achievement, some people in China described Su as YYDS, acronym(首字母缩略词) for yongyuan di shen.

YYDS translates as eternal god and describes    3     outstanding person or thing, rather similar to the saying GOAT (greatest of all time) in English.

With the power of the Internet and    4     (they) talent for quick adoption and adaptation, Gen Z (Z 世代) quickly use it in daily conversation to praise their idols or    5     (simple) describe something they are fond of. They use YYDS on their chat tools and social media    6     (platform) like WeChat and Weibo. You can even see people commenting YYDS on Bilibili’s bullet screen--a commentary system unique    7     the Bilibili ecosystem,     8     viewers leave so-called bullet comments, or danmu, that scroll across on-screen content. Similar to YYDS, juejuezi or brilliant (with a capital B), too,     9     (use) to express admiration. Nevertheless, this buzzword(流行词) comes with an edge as it may bear some negative meanings,     10     (indicate) someone or something is exceedingly terrible, depending on the context.

Both YYDS and juejuezi were listed in the 2021 top 10 popular Chinese cyber slang phrases on December 6, 2021.

A long-time great in the world of tennis, Swiss star Roger Federer recently announced that the Laver Cup in London would be his last ATP tennis event before     1     (step) away from Grand Slam tournaments(大满贯赛事)entirely.

After facing several sports injuries and surgeries(手术)in the past few years,such as two knee surgeries in 2020 and another in 2021, 41-year-old Federer has felt the time is right     2     (draw) his career to a close,knowing his body’s limits. As Federer     3     (say)，“I know my body’s limits,and its message to me    4     (late) has been clear. ”

Of all his achievements, Federer is best-known as a 20-time grand slam    5     (win).

In spite of the hot competition at the top, Federer was    6     continues to be loved by friends,     7     (fan) and rivals(对手)alike.

Upon hearing news of Federer’s retirement(退役)his rival Nadal said on Twitter,“It’s been a pleasure but also     8     honour to share all these years with you, living so many     9    (amaze) moments on and off the court.”

After such a perfect sports journey, Federer’s influence     10     tennis will continue to be felt in the years and decades lo come.

Chinese teenage sensation(引起轰动的人) Quan Hongchan produced three perfect 10-point dives and won the Olympic women’s 10 meters platform gold medal on Thursday. Her performance illustrated China’s     1     (strong) in the sport.

China     2     (claim) gold in all of the women’s diving events since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Quan, 14 years old, is the     3     (young) Chinese athlete in Tokyo. She admitted that she didn’t expect to win, as the Tokyo Olympics is her first time to compete overseas.

Quan made     4     (limit) splashes(飞溅) when diving into the pool. As     5     result, she made three perfect 10-point dives. When asked how she managed to do it, she said the team director just asked her to sleep early before the test.   “My parents told me not to be nervous.     6     doesn’t matter whether I get a medal or not. Just be myself. Those words really helped me,” Quan added, saying she planned to eat latiao, a popular Chinese street snack, to celebrate the win.

Thursday’s result means Quan became the second youngest woman     7     (win) a gold medal in the women’s 10 meters platform. Her predecessor(前辈) Fu Mingxia gained success     8     the age of 13 at the Barcelona Games in 1992. Her performance was met with cheers from onlookers(观众),     9     (include) Shi Tingmao and Xie Siyi. They are athletes     10     won their own diving golds in Tokyo.

Tennis icon Federer announces retirement (退役，退休) after Laver Cup

Swiss tennis icon Roger Federer announced on Thursday that he will retire from Grand Slams and the ATP Tour after the Laver Cup next week.

In a video     1    (post) on social media, the 20-time Grand Slam winner said: “Injuries and surgeries over the past three years     2    (cause) me a lot of big challenges.”

“I’ve worked hard to return to full competitive form. But I also know my body’s capacities and limits, and     3    (it) message to me lately has been clear,” said the former player,     4     has not played since Wimbledon last year.

“I am 41 years old. I have played more than 1,500 matches in all. Tennis has treated me       5    (kind) than I ever would have dreamt,” he added.

Federer, widely viewed     6     one of the greatest tennis     7    (player) of all time, made his professional debut (首次登台，初次亮相) in 1998 at 16 years old, before winning his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2003. Then in 2009 he     8    (take) his 15^th Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, surpassing his idol Pete Sampras to become the most decorated major title winner until 2022. Only Spain's Rafael Nadal (22) and Novak Djokovic of Serbia (21) have more Grand Slams than him.

After     9    (thank) his family, team members and fans, Federer said that retirement only means he will leave the Grand Slams and the ATP events,       10     he will not leave tennis and he will “play more tennis in the future.” He added, “To the game of tennis: I love you and will never leave you.”

Famous for carrying his tennis rackets in a bamboo basket, Wang Fa, a 14-year-old dark horse,     1     won the U14 boys’ singles title in the Guangzhou stop of the 2022 ASICS Tennis Junior Tour, has become     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     3     (put) tremendous efforts into advancing their skills and acquiring knowledge. “     4     it were not for tennis, I would still be helping out my family with farm work back at home,” Wang said. “We always carry the bamboo basket when we work in the field. We all regard     5     as a symbolic farming tool of the Wa ethnic group. I carry my rackets in the basket     6     (primary) to honor my hometown,” he added.

Home for Wang is a mountainous area named Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County.     7     (locate) in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, the county, composed     8     67 villages with a population of more than 40,000, was lifted out of     9     (poor) in 2019. For Wang,     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.

On Friday, Eileen Gu, the 18-year-old freestyle skier, simply turned the halfpipe (U型池) course into her own     1     (person) playground in the final round of competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

She warmed up with a 93.25 on her first pass before going even     2     (high) and bigger 10 score a 95.25 on her second pass. She had such a big lead after two runs     3     she was able to stage a carefree celebratory run down the halfpipe. This was the sort of run Gu dreamed     4     : a playful picture-perfect run to draw a successful end to     5     contest.

“She’s really pushing the sport to a new level.” said British freestyler Zoe Atkin, who finished     6     (nine). “It’s really great to see and it’s so inspiring. It makes me     7     (want) to be a better skier. I think she’s     8     (amaze)for the sport.”

There’s been plenty of pressure and lots of attention on Gu and her Olympic     9     (perform). But it didn’t seem to bother her. Nothing has. She just went about her business of winning medals     10     enjoying the sport.