Class 9 REACH THE TOP Important questions and answers (part 2- Maria Sharapova)

Short Answer Type Questions

1. What does Maria Sharapova love reading?
Answer: Maria Sharapova loves reading the novels of Arthur Conan Doyle.

2. What is something disarming about Maria Sharapova?
Answer: Maria Sharapova is a girl with a smiling face and glamorous attire. But she is a determined girl who worked excessively hard to win the world number one position in women’s tennis.

3. Why did Sharapova leave Siberia for the U.S.A.?
Answer: At the age of nine years, Maria Sharapova left Siberia for Florida in the U.S.A. She went there to attend a training camp for women’s tennis. She undertook hard training for two years. Her father Yuri also went with her.

4. At the age of nine years, what lesson had Sharapova learnt?
Answer: In the U.S.A. Maria Sharapova had to face a heart wrenching two-year separation from her mother. This separation made her learn an important lesson that tennis excellence would only come at a price.

5. How Was Sharapova treated by the seniors in the training camp?
Answer: Maria Sharapova was just nearly ten years old. The senior’s in the training camp treated her badly. They look her up. They asked Maria to tidy up the room and clean it.

Long Answer type Questions

1. Why does Maria call tennis business and a sport?
Answer: Tennis is a competitive sport like any other sport and requires stamina, nerve, training, planning and strategizing. It is all about winning or losing. It is also a business because it is played professionally for money. Its tournaments involve millions of pounds of money expenditures in sponsorship and prize money. Tennis generates a lot of business for media, drinks, clothes and sports companies.


2.How did adversity stand Maria in good stead in the long run?
Answer: Marie’s childhood was full of struggle and loneliness. She had to leave for the U.S. at the young age of nine years. Her mother could not accompany her to the U.S. due to some visa restrictions. She missed her mother terribly during the two years of their heart-wrenching separation. Though her father had accompanied her to the U.S., he too could not frequently visit her as he had to spend a lot of time to earn money to be paid for Maria’s tennis training. Apart from it, the other co-trainees used to bully, humiliate and insult her. They were inconsiderate to Maria who was much younger to them. To bully her, they would return to the room late at night, wake her up and make her tidy up the room. All these problems made her life during her training in U.S. miserable and desolate.

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