这篇写出了一点我想说的话，那就是不要再念错Henin的名字了， 所以翻出来大家参考一下。 This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. Justine Henin is not only the best woman tennis player in the world at the moment. She may play one of the most well-rounded games of any champion in the sport's history. Before we go any further, however, I can't help but say that it makes me beyond crazy that none of the myriad of tennis announcers can pronounce her name correctly. They go to great lengths to get the Serbian names right--and they're not easy. Djokovic. Ivanovic. I was going to say that they do well with the Russian names as well, but the truth is they've got many of those wrong, too. They say KuznetSOVA, instead of the proper KuNETSova. They've got it SharaPOVA, instead of the correct SaRAPova. But we Americans are big on the OVA sound for Russians and even the Russians have given in to our malaprops when it comes to their names. But the butchering of Henin's name grates like fingernails down a blackboard to my ears. If you knew you were going to say the Number One player in the world's name for two weeks at a time at the US Open, and you were spending dozens of hours on all kinds of research to be on top of every reportorial detail, wouldn't you consult a French native to get this simple name Henin right? Justine Henin 不仅是目前世界第一的网球选手，也是网坛史上打法最全面的一位冠军， 但在我们开始谈她之前，我忍不住要抱怨，太多运动新闻主播都把她的名字念错了! 大家 会不厌其烦地把塞尔维亚球员的名字念对来，比如说Djokovic、Ivanovic等等，甚至连俄 罗斯人的名字都念得不错，虽然还是有些没念对啦，像重音在中间的KuzNETsova被念成重 音在後的KuznetSOVA，所以也把ShaRAPova念成SharaPOVA，美国人太喜欢把OVA发重音了 ，连俄罗斯人都对我们这种乱念他们名字没辄，乾脆放弃。可是，美国乱念Henin名字已 经到了太夸张的程度，每次我只要听到别人又念错Henin的名字，就好像听到指甲刮黑板 一样那麽刺耳，各位，如果你早知道美网的两周内你会不断提起这个人的名字，而你也花 了大把时间把各个球员的底细摸得一清二楚，难道你不会去问个会说法文的朋友，把这麽 简单的名字Henin念对来吗? But no, they ALL say it wrong. They put the emphasis on the first syllable and then just trail off into a vague, indistinguishable vowel. "Hene. Hene hasn't lost a set the entire tournament. Hene hits a sublime one-handed backhand." Listen up, you tennis experts. It's Henin. Emphasis on the second syllable. And the "nin" is pronounced as in cousin, voisin, tartartin. It's Henin, for God's sake. 嘿，他们就是不会，全部还是说错，他们把重音放在第一个音节，然後尾音用个听起来不 太清楚的母含糊带过，於是他们就播报了：“海宁本公开赛一盘末失…海宁又击出了一记 漂亮的单手反拍…” 停! 你们这些网球专家们，是安娜 (Henin)，重音在後面那个娜上， 然後那个“nin” 的i发音就如同cousin, viosin, tartartin一样，是“安娜”! 你嘛帮帮忙，拜托喔… But I do digress. Back to the tennis this 25 year-old Belgian is playing. Billie Jean King said during Saturday night's final at the US Open that Henin may be the greatest woman athlete she's ever seen. The cold, shy, dry, self-congratulatory, un-engaging personality Henin has displayed while winning seven major titles has kept fans from rising from their seats to cheer her on. Point blank, we haven't been drawn to her much and that lack of popularity has detracted from us noticing just how very impressive she is with a racquet. It's the Ivan Lendl story 30 years later. I admit it's taken me a few years, but this US Open pushed me to a state of heartfelt Justine Henin appreciation. 抱歉，我离题了，回到网球上，上星期六，当这位25岁的比利时球员在美网决赛时，前球 后Billie Jean King说Henin是她生平所仅见，最棒的女子球员了。生性冷淡又害羞，不 轻易流露感情，喜欢沉浸在自己的世界又看起来很疏离的Henin，即使已经嬴了七座大满 贯，美国观众还是甚少起立为她贺彩，她对我们的吸引力实在不大，导致我们忽略了她精 采的球技，就像是30年前的Ivan Lendl一样，像我自己，也是花了好几年的时间才注意到 她，直到这次美国公开赛，才让我对她由衷地赞赏。 Height and power are de rigeur at the upper echelons of today's game. The 5'6" Martina Hingis has been applauded for her comeback, after three years in retirement, but the analysts agree that Hingis is simply too small to handle the big bruising serves of the Williams sisters. 5'10" is no longer considered tall on tour. 5'6" is a serious disability. And truth be told, Henin doesn't quite measure 5'6". She's technically 5' 5-3/4". But she has classic, powerful ground strokes, a serve that doesn't match pace with the big boomers but is effective, and foot speed that makes hitting a winner against her a rare occasion. Henin is even starting to smile occasionally and a big posse of us are at last warming up to the diminutive Belgian. 在目前网坛中，身材和力量绝对是第一优势，退休後又复出的Martina Hingis 5尺6寸已 经无法承受Williams姐妹的强力发球，即使是5尺10寸都不算是高大，5尺6寸根本是某种 程度的残障了，諻论Henin其实只有5尺5又三分之一寸，但是她经典的压迫性击球及虽不 够强力但却有效的发球，再加上她健步如飞的步伐，让她不嬴球也难，现在，场上的 Henin甚至开始笑了，我们也终於敞开心胸为这位娇小的比利时人贺采。 We have been soaking up the genius of World Number One Roger Federer every step of the way toward his twelve Grand Slam titles. Federer once again elegantly took the US Open and I now retract my assertion that we can't totally embrace a champion unless he has a worthy rival to push the limits of his performance. Except for the few occasions on clay against Rafael Nadal, Federer's position is analogous to Tiger's on the golf tour. If you're a golfer in this era, you walk in Tiger's shadow. If you're a top tennis player, you are experiencing the misfortune of peaking simultaneously with the finest player who has ever stepped up to the base line. But for us fans, the players' misfortune is our privilege. 我们长期以来看着网坛天才Roger Federer一路嬴了12座大满贯，这一次，他又以优雅的 姿态再次夺下美网冠军，除非再出现一位对手能对他产生压力，使他更上层楼，除了偶尔 在法网Rafael Nadal能抗衡之外，一直看他嬴很难觉得有什麽感动，他的地位已经像 Tiger Woods在高尔夫球界的地位了，同时也让同期世界顶尖的球员难以超越，算是他们 运气不好吧，不过，对我们球迷而言，球员辛苦的挣札我们才有精彩的球赛可看啊。 his is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and that's The Score. --

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