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INTRO | | Tennis player Goran Ivanisevic’s victory at Wimbledon this week was a surprise to everybody as he hadn’t even qualified for the tournament through the normal processes. Nicholas Woods reports on the massive reaction to the win in his home country of Croatia. |
IN FULL | |  | Listen to the report in full |
 |  | 11th July 2001
Goran Ivanisevic wins Wimbledon |
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NEWS 1 | | | Listen to the first part of the report |
| | | Like tennis critics across the world most Croats had written off Goran Ivanisevic. It was with some surprise then that people greeted his entry into the Wimbledon finals. The news was big enough to merit a picture on the front pages of several newspapers.
This has been all the more surprising at a time when most headlines have been dominated by a political crisis prompted by a government decision to hand over war crime suspects to the UN tribunal in the Hague. For several hours though most Croats forgot about politics. They’ve been glued to their television sets. |
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WORDS | | written off - decided that he was likely to fail
to merit - to deserve
dominated - heavily influenced
prompted by - caused by
hand over - give
glued to their television sets - giving their televisions their full attention |
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| NEWS 2 | | | Listen to the second part of the report |
| | | Cafes and bars have been filled with enthusiasts who’ve never shown much interest in tennis and finally when the outsiderclinched his final set the reaction could be heard across the city. Cars have been tooting their horns and people have been setting off fire crackers.
So distracted was one driver listening to his radio he crashed his car at a Zagreb traffic junction. Now Goran Ivanisevic is guaranteed to be remembered as a national hero. |
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| WORDS | | enthusiasts - people who are very interested
outsider - person who is not considered as having a good chance of winning
clinched - succeeded in winning
tooting - sounding
distracted - unable to concentrate
Zagreb - capital of Croatia |
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| | | Read about the background to this story in BBC News Online |
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