One of my eighth-grade students has been absent three days this week. Back in August Eudice played in two tennis tournaments: one in the Philippines and one in Malaysia. While she came in 5th in Malaysia, she won the tournament in the Philippines.
Because Eudice is relatively new to the game of tennis, she is not ranked. But her victory in the Philippines was enough to get her a wild card invitation to a big international tournament here in Hong Kong this week. Because she was an unranked wildcard, she was paired against the number-two ranked player from Great Britain.
Eudice won in an upset victory.
It was the story to emerge from the tournament Monday. In fact, the Hong Kong Tennis Association has Eudice’s upset victory as their lead story on their web page: www.tennishk.org
If Eudice wins her next match against a player from Thailand, she will move into the quarter finals.
Congratulations Eudice!
By the way, your English project is still due on Friday.
-Jack
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