http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/columns/story?columnist=tandon_ kamakshi&id=6635112 Is less more for Roger Federer? 对 Rog 而言，少即是多吗？ It was the third set of his French Open final against Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer was looking pretty good. He was likely thinking that Nadal was showing signs of tiring, while he still had some energy to burn. 法网决赛第三盘，Rog 看起来挺好的。他可能想说 Nadal 看起来有点累的样子，而自己 还有点体力。 Not bad for a 29-year-old playing a guy who just turned 25. True, the Spaniard had been doing more running in the match, but Federer had been through a long and arduous four-setter with Novak Djokovic a couple of days before. 这对一个29岁打的是刚满25岁的人来说还不赖。不错，Nadal 都是比赛中跑最多的，但 Rog 才在一天前跟小德打了一场艰辛的四盘大战。 Of course, we all know what happened in the fourth set -- Nadal clawed back from a 0-40 deficit in the first game to win six of the next seven games, romping home to his sixth French Open title. 当然我们也知道第四盘花生了省魔术。Nadal第一局就挽救了三个破发点，并再接下来七局 里赢了六局，也带走了第六座法网冠军。 Still, that third-set feeling was not something Federer expected coming into the tournament. In the three months leading up to the French Open, he played 24 matches in six tournaments, taking part in the Dubai tournament and the nonmandatory Monte Carlo Masters in addition to Masters events at Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Rome. Last year, he played 14 matches in five events in this period. 但第三盘那种还有体力的感觉不是 Rog 在法网开始前所期待的。法网前的三个月 Rog 打 了六个锦标、24场比赛：Rog 参加了杜拜、非强制参赛的蒙地卡罗、印地安泉、迈阿密、 马德里跟罗马大师赛。去年同时期 Rog 只打了五个锦标14场比赛。 "I was really tired after Rome," Federer told reporters in French after the final in Paris on Sunday. "Sometimes after Miami I'd take ten days off in the past, but this year I didn't. 决赛後记者会 Rog 说「打完罗马我真的有点累。过去迈阿密後我习惯休息十天，但今年 没有。」 "I've trained and practiced a lot after Monte Carlo. I decided to play Monte Carlo because I was fit. I played a lot from Dubai until Rome. I didn't take a longer break." 「蒙地卡罗後我练球练很多。我决定打蒙地卡罗是因为我觉得体力还很够，杜拜到罗马我 打了很多比赛，并没有休息太多。」 He arrived in Paris feeling the effects. "I hoped I could practice more here, but I was so tired that I said, 'OK, I'll practice just what is enough,'" he said. "I could never hear the alarm clock in the morning ringing, I was so tired. 抵达巴黎时他就感到有後遗症了。「我希望能在这里再多练习一些，但我实在太累了，所 以想说『那就适可而止就好。』。」Rog 说。「早上我都听不到闹钟，我很累。」 "At the beginning of the tournament, I didn't think I could manage this way, but after two matches, I thought, OK, I feel better. I'm in the tournament." 「法网刚开始时我不觉得自己能这样安排，但两场比赛後我想这样OK，我觉得好多了， 我现在进入状况了。」 The rest was (almost) history; a reminder of what the 16-time Grand Slam champion can still produce. And for Federer and his camp, perhaps an encouraging sign that doing "just what is enough" remains enough. 剩下的（几乎）都後话了。提醒你一下一位16届大满贯冠军还能打。而对 Rog 跟他的团队 来说最振奋人心的是「适可而止」还真的就够了。 "Overall, I thought it [the final] was a very high level match," said Federer's co-coach, Paul Annacone, in an interview with ESPN.com. "Rafa, you have to give him credit. He did what he always does on clay. Makes you hit one extra ball, and puts the ball [in] parts of the court where it's very difficult to attack." Rog 的教练 Paul Annacone 说：「总的来说决赛是场非常高水准的比赛。你必须称赞拉 发，他打的就是他平常在红土打的，总是让你多打一球，把所有球都捞回去，这样让人 很难攻击。」 The win over Djokovic in the semifinals was even more satisfying. "Everyone's talking about how that's one of the highest level matches they've ever seen," Annacone added. "So, I feel good about it. And I think that proves he's still there, and he's worked really hard to stay there and maintain that level, so I don't think there's any reason why he can't keep repeating that." 四强对小德的胜利更是令人满足。「大家都在说这是他们所看过水准最高的比赛。」 Annacone提到。「所以我感觉挺不错的，而且我认为这证明他还是在那，而且他非常努力 地维持这种水准。所以我想不到任何理由他不能再如法炮制。」 The well-respected coach, who also saw Pete Sampras through the late stages of his career, challenges the assumption that Federer's age spells physical decline. "I think a lot of that is a fallacy, too," he said."The strength and conditioning people, if you talk to [them] -- at 29 years old, he can still do it. There's no question." 这位备受敬重的教练，也曾陪伴 Sampras 度过他的职业晚期，挑战Rog年纪大体力就变差 的这个假设。「我想很大一部分这也是个谬误。有在打球、作训练的人29岁还是可以的， 这无庸置疑的。」 But, he added, "I think it's harder to do it for 40 weeks, over 11 months. 但他又说到「我想比较难的是40个礼拜、超过11个月都维持着高水平。」 "The idea is to structure your schedule so you're playing your best tennis here, and in Wimbledon, New York, and you know, if you do that, things will go just right. So, it's a matter of trying to manage all that stuff, which he does really well." 「重点是安排自己的行程，所以才能在这里、温布顿、纽约拿出最佳状态，然後一切就会 对了。所以就是试着把所有都安排好，这点 Rog 做得非常好。」 Grand Slams also pose different challenges from regular tournaments because the matches are longer -- best-of-five sets rather than best-of-three -- but players get days off between matches because the event lasts two weeks instead of one. Recovery, not endurance, is often the biggest issue for players as they get older. 大满贯的难度比一盘巡回赛高，因为比赛比较长是五盘三胜制，而非三盘两胜，但球员在 每轮间有一天休息时间。所以对老球员来说恢复比续航力还重要。 "It's better for the body to recover, but it's three out of five sets. So, it's a longer workload over a longer period of time," Annacone said of the Slams. "But it's always nice to have a day off." 「最好让身体恢复，但要赢三盘，所以这是长时间工作量也比较大。」Annacone是这样说 大满贯的。「但多一天休息总是好的。」 Even with the day off and his comments about feeling physically good in the final, Federer felt his French Open campaign took enough of a toll for him to pull out of his regular grass-court event in Halle, Germany, this week. "My body and especially my groin need a rest after the French Open," he said in a statement. "After talking with my team this morning, I feel that it is too big a risk to take a chance and aggravate it before Wimbledon." 虽然有多休一天，Rog也说决赛体力还不错，但 Rog 感觉法网真是让他累坏了所以要退出 草地热身赛。 In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper last month, Federer also indicated that he might pare down his schedule next season. After saying he opts to play nearly all the Masters events instead of more smaller events because "it's good for tennis," he added, "But I wonder if I'll be back at Indian Wells next year or go directly to Miami." 上月跟 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 的访问 Rog有暗示下个赛季他可能削减自己 的赛程。他说他选择都打大师赛而非小比赛，因为这样对网球比较好。「但我怀疑自己是 否明年会打印地安泉或就直接去打迈阿密。」 Federer, whose twin daughters are now almost 2, later continued, "I see myself mentally capable of playing for many years. … For me, it's just important to keep a balance between training, matches, holidays, family life." Rog的双胞胎今年快满两岁了。「我觉得自己心态上还可打好几年，就我来说重要的是保 持训练、比赛、休假与家庭生活间的平衡。」 With the ascendancy of Nadal and now Djokovic, Federer's mindset is also changing. For perhaps the first time since he became a top-flight player, Federer went into his semifinal against Djokovic saying he didn't have much to lose. "Sure, I'd love to be again in the Grand Slam final because I haven't achieved that in a few slams," he said. "But nothing major for me as long as I keep on giving myself chances." 随着 Nadal 与 小德的崛起，Rog 的心态也在改变。也许自曾为顶尖球员以来，Rog 第一 次带着没啥好输的心情去跟小德打半决赛。「我当然想再进入大满贯决赛一次，因为之前 几次叩关都失败。但没什麽比我给自己机会重要了。」Rog 说。 This more selective and opportunistic approach means the tennis world might be seeing less of the Swiss maestro in the seasons to come. But, as at the French Open, less could turn out to be more. Rog 更选择性打比赛意味着我们之後看到他的机会就更少了。但在法网，少即是多罗～ PS 翻完才发现通篇都是明摆着的废话 XD 但提醒大家真的要冲现场的要快了 大概只有大满贯跟 Basel 是必打的 其他我看不出没有退出的理由 XDDD --

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