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Alice and Rasha are at The Wimbledon Tennis Championships today. They are talking about players from Serbia.

The rise of the super-Serbs is this year's hot story from Wimbledon. The Serbian players have been photographed by lots of paparazzi this week.

The top-seeded female player this year is Ana Ivanovic, and the number two seed is Jelena Jankovic, both Serbian.

Another Serbian, Novak Djokovic, is the male number three seed.

Serbia is a small country, but it has a lot of tennis talent. So why are they producing such good players?

Ana Ivanovic herself doesn't know why the Serbs are doing so well. She says it's very hard to explain how it happened. They don't have good facilities, very good coaches or many sponsors.

But even during difficult times in Serbia, during the NATO bombing of Belgrade in the 1990s, Ana Ivanovic was determined to succeed.

She trained in an old swimming-pool which was converted to tennis courts because it was too expensive to heat.

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The Wimbledon Tennis Championships
بطولات ويمبلدون للتنس

The rise of the super-Serbs
صعود الصرب

hot story
قصة الموسم

paparazzi
مصورو المشاهير

The top-seeded female player
اللاعبة الأولى

the number two seed
اللاعبة التي تأتي في المركز الثاني

good facilities
تسهيلات جيدة

sponsors
الرعاة

determined to succeed
مصرون على النجاح

converted
تحولت

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