40 reavinG A new direction Tan understand and react ta an article ahout radical life changes. 1 SUEUUNIE Workin pairs. Read the quotation from Raymond Chandler. Do you agree with it? Give reasons. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. 2 Lookat the photo and the first two lines ofthe article, Predict, what the text is about. Then skim-read it and check your ideas, 3. Read the text and choose the best answers. 1 Asa child Jaeger played tennis because a she wanted to be the best in the world b her parents put pressure on her to play € she wanted to escape from her overbearing father. 4 she wanted to develop a “ier instinct. 2 Jaeger gave up tennis when she a started a children's charity. b got fed up with the competitive atmosphere on the Match the adjectives (1-8) with the nouns (a-h) to make collocations from the text. tennis circuit. 1 enforced a teenager « suffered an injury. 2 uplifting b environment d realised that she wanted to help people. 3 impressionable father 3. When she stopped playing tennis, she was pleased 4 stormy — d childhood becailse she 5 tated ee 2 had put her amazing talent to good use. a retirement b had achieved her ambition of beating Billie-lean King. com pevnys. -_- no longer enjoyed the applause. B protracted h relationship 4 could do something diferent with her life 5 SEENON worktn pairs. Retell the story of ego's ie so far 4 What did Andrea Jaeger keep secret for nearly sing the collocations from exercise 4. twenty years? 2 her frequent arguments with her father 6 Look at the example ofa reduced relative clause from the b the fact that she deliberately lost an important match text. Expand itinto a full relative clause. € a close fendship with Martina Navratilova Jaeger lacked the killer instinct required of great champions. d her ambition to do something different with her life 5 When jaeger looks back at the past, she a believes she could have won a lot of Grand Slams. bb wuriders how successful sie ilght have become, 7 Find three more examples of reduced relative clauses inthe text (lines 15-18, 25-29, 60-65) and expand them into full relative clauses. © has no regrets, BBD GRAMMAR BUILDER 4.2: REDUCED RELATIVE 4 wishes she hadn't been injured. CLAUSES: PAGE 121 9 6 When Jaeger returned to Wimbledon, she a was surprised that the guards didn't know who 8 [STEIN Work in pairs. Answer the questions. sho was, 4. Do you auimire Andrea Jaeger? Why?/Why not? b was overwhelmed by the fact that the guards treated 2 Why don't more famous people devote their lives to her like royalty. good causes? & ap Litter abu the faut tat she had wasted 3. Do you think that you would be willing to give up tame her youth, and fortune and devote your life to people less fortunate d was delighted at the way that the guards treated the than yourself? Why?/Why not? children she was with, 4 ‘Kids should be driven by their own goals and their own passion, not by someone else's. That's when it becomes Aangernnis.* To what extent do yout agree n° disagree with Jaeger’s view? Unit 4 © Changes‘f Little stars 7 Andrea Jaeger was a tormented teenager lost in the ‘orld of professional tennis. Now she's at peace with verseff ‘A: the age of 47 and more than two decades after her -=sforced retirement from the game, Jaeger now runs a ‘that she set up to help chiloren with cancer. tras along, sometimes tortuous, often uplifting journey “cf sacrifice an tha road tna destiny sha dimly glimpsed _=5an impressionable teenager lost in an aduit world. "Along the way she had to reconcile a stormy relationship her overbearing father, Roland, and admit to losing shes on purpose, among them the Wimbledon final 4863. Through a painful and all too brief childhood, + discovered she had few equals at hitting teni But lacked the kllr Instinct required UF yreat ‘pions. In the women's locker-room, inhabited by Evet,Bille-Jean King and Martina Navratiova, the year-old found herself out of step with a ruthlessly tive environment. ‘Gan't join the circuit to be number one’, she says. ‘I because | was good enough to.’ She also played game to please her parents. ‘Kids should be driven by Sr own goals and their own passion, not by someone 's. THal's when it becomes dangerous,’ she says. took the first opportunity offered to her by a F Injury, Sustained at the Frenicti Opes in 1984, to othe life that secretly she had always been wanting seed Sha set up the | itl Star Foundation ~ initially rer career earnings of $1.98m - to help children with cor at risk in the community | got injured, to be honest, | was relieved’, she ins. ‘Everyone was applauding me for playing out when I was injured | thought, “Finally, can go ‘52 me.” | was given a gift to play tennis, but it wasn't ight to say wivell ie I ta it for five years 50 years. Bilie-Jean King on Centre Court at Wimbledon ~ any people can even say they played Wimbledon? ad was a briliant coach and my mum enjoyed how “== 2 wore doing. My sister was at Stanford and I was citting in my hotol room all night, going, “Well, everybody thinks I'm great because | won the match, but what about the person | beat? How's she feeling?” She minded losing less than her opponents did. Only in 2008, though, did Jaeger admit to deliberately losing the final of the ‘1983 Wimbledon Championships, a tournament she had blasted through without losing a set. On the eve of the final, after a protracted row with her father, she was shut out of the family’s rented house in Wimbledon. Jaeger ‘went to knock on the door of the only person she knew in the street, which happened to be Navratiova, The next day the three-time champion finished Jaeger off in 54 minutes, “I never looked back on my tennis career unti this year and I've never wondered now good | could nave neen, she says. ‘IfI'd stayed out there for ten years and not been injured! and won all the Grand Slams, | think | would have lost a bit of my soul, Professional tennis was my teenage calling; this is my adult calling. When my teenage years were done, it was time to move on to something else.’ ‘Success is now measured in less stark ways than the numbers on a scoreboard. Raising money for her charity requires preparation and isciptine, qualities easily transferable rom the tennis court, burt the sound Cf laughter coming from the children on holiday at the foundation's ranch near Aspen in Colorado echoes through each day. Many of them have never seen a mountain, let alone experienced rafting down the Roaring Fork River, with Jaeger as guide. Recently she was recognised by a fellow passenger on a plane not for boeing a former tennis champian, but for running a sanger charity. That pleased her, a sign of progress in her own life too. ‘A few years ago Jaeger returned to Wimbledon with some of her terminally il kids and the guards on the gate not only recognised her but gave the children bags of sweets. ‘There were these guards all dressed in uniform practically saluting the kids. My kids thought they were the king and queen of England,’ Jaeger says. If it took all those hours of trining and discipline, all the anguish, to get to this, it was worth it. | didn’t lose anything by losing @ Wimbledon final.” Unita = Changes | ma