Zheng Qinwen, the tennis player, flies into the quarter-finals at the | Beginner Italian class Nº056

Today's story: Zheng Qinwen, the tennis player, flies into the quarter-finals at the US Open. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Italian: Zheng Qinwen, tennista, vola ai quarti agli US Open
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:35) Three more stories today
(01:55) Today's headline, slowly
(02:52) The verb to beat
(03:22) Winning and losing positions
(04:00) Taking something in sport
(04:47) Today's grammar point
(05:20) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
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TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT
Zheng Qinwen, tennista, vola ai quarti agli US Open
Zheng Qinwen batte Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-3 e va ai quarti degli US Open.
Nel primo set era sotto 5-0.
Poi ha vinto sette game di fila.
Ha preso il set.
Zheng ha detto di aver perso per un momento il conto del punteggio.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (battere)
- vocabulary (sotto)
- vocabulary (di fila)
- vocabulary (preso)
- vocabulary (il conto)
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