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summary of chapter 8 reach for the top of class 9

Answer 1

Maria Sharapova was born in Siberia, Russia, in 1987. She led a charge of Russian players who came to achieve great success in the women’s game. She has also brought her own brand of glamour to tennis by designing her own unique tennis outfits.  At the 2007 US Open she wore a dress with over 600 crystals sewn into it. Sharapova got her first tennis racket when she was four from the father of Grand Slam winner Yevgeny Kafelnikov. At the age of six, Maria attended a tennis clinic in Moscow run by Martina Navratilova. Navratilova recognized her talent and recommended that she go to the USA to study at a famous tennis academy in Florida. Maria moved to the USA with her father in 1994. Neither of them could speak English. They had very little money and went to the tennis academy by bicycle every day. She described it as being a tough time. She turned professional in 2001 and a year later became the youngest girl ever to reach the junior final at Wimbledon. Sharapova won her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, when she was 17. She is one of several top players who are known for loud on-court grunting. When reporters asked her about this in 2006, she told them to “put your grunt-o-meters down…and just watch the match”. Sharapova has been the world’s highest paid sportswoman and the women’s number one several times.

Santosh Yadav is one of the few women in the world to have climbed Mount Everest twice. She first climbed the peak in May 1992 and then did it again in May 1993. She was born in 1969 in Rewari District of Haryana state in India and is an officer in Indo-Tibetan Border Police. She is an alumni of Maharani College, Jaipur. Living in Kasturba Hostel she joined Uttarkashi's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. In her own words The hostel was facing the Aravallis. I used to watch villagers from my room going up. But after a while they used to disappear. One day, I decided to check up myself. There was nobody but a few mountaineers. I asked them if I could join. Their surprising affirmative answer motivated me to take to climbing. I saved money and enrolled for a course at Uttarkashi's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering While studying she prepared herself to climb two greatest peak in life namely,mountaineering and Indian Civil Services and was successful in both. She prepared for her IAS exams in a hostel provided by Indian Mountaineering Federation at Connaught Place, New Delhi.Her brother is an officer in the Indian Army She was conferred Padma Shri award in 2000.

Answer 2

Santosh Yadav is the only woman who has considered the Mount Everest twice she was born in a society where the birth of son was regarded as a blessing and a daughter was not welcome when her mother was expectant a holy man gave her his blessing presuming that she want a son but the unborn child grandmother told him that they did not want a son the holy man was surprised notwithstanding this the holy man blessed har Santosh was born in Joniyawas village in Haryana in a Sikh family she has five brothers.
❇️hair she won't on and expedition every year she developed A remarkable resistance to cold and the higher altitude she had an iron will firm determination endurance and mental toughness.
❇️Santosh describe her feeling when she was on the top of the world it was the happiest moment in her life when she unfurled the India tricolour she Saw Indian flag flying on top of the world it was a spiritual movement of her she felt proud to be an Indian beside being a climber Santosh has also worked as an environment least she collected and brought down 500 kilogram of garbage from the Himalayas.
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