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The document discusses the early life and tennis career of Serena Williams. It states that she was born in Michigan but her father took her and her four sisters to grow up in the poor and violent neighborhood of Compton, California in hopes that involvement in sports could provide a way out. Serena began playing tennis at courts in Compton from a young age to avoid bullets, winning her first tournament at age four and a half and entering many more tournaments as a child, winning most of them.

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The document discusses the early life and tennis career of Serena Williams. It states that she was born in Michigan but her father took her and her four sisters to grow up in the poor and violent neighborhood of Compton, California in hopes that involvement in sports could provide a way out. Serena began playing tennis at courts in Compton from a young age to avoid bullets, winning her first tournament at age four and a half and entering many more tournaments as a child, winning most of them.

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Nama: Firhan Maulana Sopian

Kelas: XII TEI-1


Absen: 14

Task 1 (Biography)

ASSIGNMENT OF BIOGRAPHY

Serena Williams was born September 26, 1981in Saginaw, Michigan and when she and her
four sisters were young, their parents, Richard and Oracene, or Brandy, took them to the
poor and sometimes violent Los Angeles suburb of Compton. There, her father dreamed of
making at least one of his daughters a tennis superstar, hoping that involvement in sports
would give them a way out of that neighborhood.

Both Serena Williams and her sister, Venus would be taken to Compton area public
tennis courts to practice when they were young, and they had to avoid bullets many times
during the early practice days. When Serena was four and a half, she won her first
tournament, and she entered 49 tournaments before the age of 10, winning 46 of them. At
one point, she replaced Sister Venus as the number one ranked tennis player aged 12 or
under in California.

1. Who is mainly talked by the speaker?


=The speaker is mainly talking about Serena Williams.

2. Why did Serena’s father expect her daughter to be a tennis superstar?


=Serena's father, Richard Williams, expected his daughter to become a tennis superstar
because he hoped that involvement in sports, particularly tennis, would provide them with a
way out of the poor and sometimes violent neighborhood of Compton.

3. How old was Serena when she won her first tournament?
=Serena was four and a half years old when she won her first tournament.

4. Where did her father take her?


=Serena's father took her and her sister, Venus, to public tennis courts in the poor and
sometimes violent Los Angeles suburb of Compton to practice.

5. What does the word ‘them’ refer to in paragraph one?


=The word 'them' in paragraph one refers to Serena and her four sisters.

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