question: (CNN) -- Maria Sharapova has pulled out of the season-ending WTA Championships in Istanbul after suffering successive straight-sets defeats.

The Russian lost to China's Li Na 7-6 (7-4) 6-4, who had herself not won a match, or even a set, since August.

It was a match that ebbed and flowed as Li came from 2-4 down in the first set to force a tie-break, which she won despite losing the first four points.

Li, who this year became the first Asian Grand Slam winner after victory in the French Open, then fought off a late Sharapova surge when 5-2 up to take the second set 6-4. The defeat followed Sharapova's capitulation against U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur 6-1, 7-5 on Wednesday.

"I really wasn't thinking about too much during the match," Li was quoted as saying on the WTA's official website after the match.

"I'm so happy I was able to beat Maria because she's a top player, and also today was my first match ever at the Championships, so I want to thank all the crowd here for supporting me."

But for Sharapova, who has struggled with an ankle injury but had the chance to become world number one with victory in Istanbul, there were some positives to be taken from two defeats in two days.

"I just have to be pleased that I recovered quickly enough to allow myself a chance of playing here," she told AFP.

World number one Caroline Wozniacki crashed to defeat in her second red group match, losing 6-2 4-6 6-3 to Russia's Vera Zvonareva.
1. Where is Sharapova from?
2. What Championship was she in?
3. Did she quit?
4. What kind of defeat made her quit?
5. How many wins did Li Na have?
6. When was the last time she won?
7. Who was the U.S. Open winner?
8. When did Sharapova play them?
9. What is Li the first of?
10. What kind of injury did Sharapova have?
11. How many times did she lose in two day?
12. Where were they playing?
13. What is Caroline Wozniacki ranked?
14. Who beat her?
15. In which match?
16. Was it her first?
17. Which one was it?
18. What were the scores?
19. How did Li feel about winning agaist Sharapova?
20. Why?
****
answer: 1. Russia
2. WTA Championships
3. Yes
4. lost to China's Li Na
5. 7-6 (7-4) 6-4
6. August
7. Sam Stosur
8. Wednesday
9. first Asian Grand Slam winner
10. ankle injury
11. Two
12. Istanbul
13. World number one
14. Vera Zvonareva
15. red group match
16. No
17. second
18. 6-2-4-6-6-3
19. so happy
20. first match ever at the Championships

question: (CNN)For a group of radical anti-Western militants, ISIS is pretty good at luring Westerners to its ranks.

The latest is an American teen from suburban Chicago who was allegedly on his way to join ISIS. Mohammed Hamzah Khan was stopped just before he was supposed to board a plane to Turkey, authorities said.

But he's far from alone.

Last month, U.S. authorities detailed their case against a New York food store owner accused of funding ISIS and plotting to gun down American troops who had served in Iraq.

And a French man told his mother that he and his half-brother were going on vacation -- only to tell her later that they were fighting in Syria.

"Some of the foreign fighters may not return as terrorists to their respective countries, but all of them will have been exposed to an environment of sustained radicalization and violence with unknowable but worrying consequences," Richard Barrett of The Soufan Group wrote in a report called "Foreign fighters in Syria" this summer.

So what is it about ISIS and its uncanny ability to recruit Westerners? Here are five methods the group employs:

It preys on a recruit's sense of identity

The recruits are often young -- sometimes disillusioned teenagers trying to find purpose and make their mark.

For many, it boils down to a lack of a sense of identity or belonging, Barrett said.

"The general picture provided by foreign fighters of their lives in Syria suggests camaraderie, good morale and purposeful activity, all mixed in with a sense of understated heroism, designed to attract their friends as well as to boost their own self-esteem," he wrote.
1. Where was Mohammed Hamzah Khan going?
2. How was he going to travel
3. What was he planning to do?
4. Is he a youngster?
5. From where?
6. Does he live in the inner city?
7. Which part then?
8. How many ways are known for ISIS to gather recruits?
9. Do they go after older people
10. What group do they try to get?
11. What are they counting on them lacking?
12. What group of people is ISIS against?
13. Do they let them join?
14. Where was a food store owner from that tried to help ISIS?
15. What was he accused of?
16. Was he going to attack anyone?
17. Who
18. Which ones?
19. Is this problem only in the U.S.?
20. What other country has it?
****
answer: 1. Turkey
2. by plane
3. join ISIS
4. yes
5. Chicago
6. no
7. the suburbs
8. five
9. no
10. disillusioned teenagers
11. a sense of identity or belonging
12. Westerners
13. yes
14. New York
15. funding ISIS
16. yes
17. American Troops
18. who had served in Iraq.
19. no
20. France

question: Paul had just left college and was offered an interview for a position in a company in New York. As he needed to move from Texas to New York if he got the job, he wanted to talk about the decision with someone before accepting it. But his parents had died. He remembered that his father had suggested he should turn to an old friend of his family if he needed advice. The older man said, "Go to New York and have the interview. But I want you to go on a train and I want you to get a private compartment . Don't take anything to write with, anything to listen to or anything to read, and don't talk to anybody except when you order the meal. Call me when you get to New York and I will tell you what to do next." At first, Paul followed the advice closely. The trip took two days. As he had brought along nothing to do, he quickly became bored. He realized he was being forced into quite time - he could do nothing but think. About three hours outside New York City he broke the rules, asked for a pencil and paper and kept writing down the thoughts until the train arrived in New York. Paul called the family friend from the train station. "Thank you, Uncle I know what you wanted. You wanted me to think. And now I know what to do.""I guessed you could understand my idea, Paul," came the reply, "Good luck." Now, years later, Paul runs a company in New York. And he always spends a couple of days being alone with no phone, no television and no people to think quietly.
1. How long has Paul worked in New York?
2. Where did he live before?
3. What was he offered after college?
4. Where was the job?
5. Would he have to move there?
6. Who did he talk to about it?
7. Why not his parents/
8. So did the friend think he should go?
9. How did he tell him to get there?
10. Where should he sit?
11. What should he take?
12. Nothing to read even?
13. What about some music?
14. How long was the trip?
15. Did he talk to anyone?
16. Was he bored?
17. How much of the trip was left when he requested something?
18. What was it?
19. What did he tell the friend?
20. What did the friend tell him?
****
answer:
1. years
2. Texas
3. an interview
4. New York
5. yes
6. an old friend of his family
7. his parents had died.
8. yes
9. on a train
10. a private compartment .
11. nothing
12. no
13. no
14. two days.
15. no
16. yes
17. three hours
18. a pencil and paper
19. Thank you
20. Good luck