作者JustinWang (J'adore Henin.)
看板Henin
标题[新闻] Little girl, found (好文!)
时间Thu Jun 28 23:18:05 2007
http://0rz.tw/392NH
Little girl, found
It's been Henin against the world, and she's winning
Who is the toughest cookie, the hardest case in sports today?
I'm not so sure that it is some 300-pound demon of a football player or some
death-defying racecar driver, but, instead, a little brittle bit of a woman,
who, in the old boxing parlance, is pound-for-pound the best, as good as she
is determined, as intriguing as she is distant.
The pounds only add up to 125 ... maybe. At 5-foot-5, she stands across the
net from women who tower over her. She has been a single-minded package of
torment.
For much of her life she has been a virtual orphan. Her mother, whom she
adored, died when she was 12, and soon she was estranged from the rest of her
family.
Each year she retreated deeper into her sport, but only as a competitor. She
would be alone in the crowded locker room -- however briefly she would stay
there. Some of her implacable actions upon the court -- selfish, they seemed;
even unsporting and certainly unladylike -- only added to the resentment from
her bigger rivals.
But if she would not mix with the other players, and if she did break with
her family, she did find love away from the game with an early marriage --
yet that too has now shredded.
So often has it been Justine Henin against the world, and most often the
world has been bested.
She now comes to Wimbledon after winning her third straight French Open. The
25-year-old has also won Grand Slams in the U.S. and Australia and an Olympic
gold medal. Four years ago, when she captured her U.S. Open, she did it only
a few hours after she won a long, excruciating, come-from-behind semifinal
that lasted well past midnight and forced her, in victory, into the hospital,
where she needed treatment for exhaustion and dehydration. It was the kind of
epic courage that many men would never credit a woman.
At a time when athletes, men and women alike, loom taller and more muscular,
the little Belgian is like some throwback to another time. So, too, in her
sport, in an age of two-handed backhands, her one-handed shot:
She strikes it
with a power and glory that seem even to overwhelm the memory of backhands
past. It is as beautiful as it is devastating, even more classic than Roger
Federer's.
What makes Henin even more interesting right now is that she is trying to
open up and find a joy that her coach says he has not seen in her since she
was 11 -- before her mother died. Since the break-up of her marriage a few
months ago, Justine has turned back to her family, reunited with her father
and her brothers and sister.
Her game is not best-suited to grass, but she has twice gone three sets
before losing in the finals at Wimbledon -- the only major championship she
has not won. Now, contentment does not necessarily equate with victory. In
fact, all sorts of athletes with personal troubles have found sanctuary upon
the field of play. A whole heart doesn't necessarily make up for a weak
second serve.
Still, should Henin win Wimbledon and complete the cycle of Grand Slam
championships, it would not be so much a happy ending as it would be a new
chapter.
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这篇文章写的无敌好阿 尤其是说他的反拍甚至比费神还经典
真是心有戚戚焉 ~
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※ 编辑: JustinWang 来自: 61.217.194.184 (06/28 23:20)
1F:推 mitiemu:我觉得赢在动作很有特色.. 而且隐蔽性超好 06/28 23:26
2F:→ shaubye:不太想慢慢翻字典看英文 麻烦哪一位大大强者翻一下 06/28 23:26
3F:推 football:03年美网准决赛果然还是经典的逆转之战 06/28 23:34
4F:推 JustinWang:基本上就是很有特色啦 单反就算了 动作有时看来不协调 06/28 23:36
5F:推 JustinWang:却又很有威力和变化 赞啦! 06/28 23:37
6F:推 JustinWang:昨天英文播报员有提到 Henin成名前以前打一个大学的 06/28 23:37
7F:推 football:费神的手腕是刚腕 那juju的是....? 06/28 23:38
8F:推 JustinWang:还是什麽小比赛 结果打到後来很多人召集其他人来看他 06/28 23:38
9F:推 JustinWang:的单反 ...so cool... 06/28 23:39
10F:推 JustinWang:翻译可以期待新浪 哈哈... 06/28 23:43
11F:推 redzon:不知道我的认知有没有错 其实我以为海宁成名之初的反拍杀伤 06/28 23:44
12F:→ redzon:力更强 总是在反拍位置打出更大角度的球(跑动中) 不过当딠 06/28 23:45
13F:→ redzon:然没现在这麽稳 而她的切球慢慢进步 慢慢可以控制以後 06/28 23:46
14F:→ redzon:她的反拍抽球其实反而没有以前这麽令人惊艳 06/28 23:47
15F:→ redzon:因为她反拍切球的比例大增 但到也成为她的武器之一 06/28 23:47
16F:→ redzon:变的能切能抽 反而更为全面 06/28 23:48
17F:推 LUCKLYYUN:以前反拍往往是在被压迫的时候能打出令人赞叹的球 06/29 01:03
18F:→ LUCKLYYUN:至於现在反拍好像变的比较凶猛 以前倒是速度没那麽快 06/29 01:04
19F:推 linlingraf07:反拍还是超棒 ,没人比的上啦 !呵 ~~ 06/29 03:06