Russia is known to produce world class athletes, in 2007 they had a staggering 12 of the best 50 women tennis players (Dementieva, Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetzova, Nadia Petrova and Dinara Safina). Spartak Tennis Club in Moscow is a club where they have produced 3 of the top 6 Russian women tennis players. The article goes on about how these players were formed, they say that practicing daily is how these players become professional. The article also says that parents take their little girls to the club at an early age in hopes of tranforming them into professional athletes. Usually families who are poor do this beause Anna Kournikova came from a poor area and she became a superstar in her short athletic career. Russia is a country who does not have a problem with women participating in sports, they always have women competing in global events and in the olympics. I think it's interesting because we heard about the controversy over chinese gymnastic girls being to young. The chinese are using the same methods as the Russians in producing world class athletes.
Lorenzo Gonzalez
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