That year — 1999 — is, however, another inescapable subject. Lining a wall of the room where we talk are many trophies, but the one that Djokovic jumps up to show me is an odd-looking gold-plated spire that he received after playing a local charity match. "Do you see this tower?" he asks. "It's called Avala Tower. This tower is a symbol for Belgrade. Whenever you come to the city from the south, you see this. It was the biggest radio and TV transmitter in our country, and NATO forces, they crushed it. Now they're planning to build a beautiful, even taller one, so we were playing a charity exhibition to raise money for the rebuilding." Djokovic relates this story without rancor. War happens; it's horrific; he's just doing his bit for his town. 1999那年一件不可避免的事情发生了.....(应该就是指庆生到一半被炸弹轰炸的事情...) 在墙内的一个充满各式奖盃的房间......... Nole却兴奋跳着跟我介绍一个看起来很奇怪的镀金的锥形体.... 这是他在一个当地的慈善表演赛後得到的..他兴奋的问说: "你有没有看到这个塔?这叫做Avala塔.这是Belgrade的象徵.... 当你从南边来到这个城市的时候你就会看到它. 那里有我们国家最大的广播电台和电视讯号发送台,但NATO军队摧毁了这一切. 现在他们打算建造一个更漂亮更高的塔,所以我们都会打一些表演赛来募款重建." (想不到Nole真的很爱国耶...比赛这麽多了还打表演赛帮国家募款....翻译兼帮擦汗XD) Nole一点也没有仇恨的叙说着这段故事..真恐怖..他才刚刚为他的家乡尽一份绵薄之力 The Serbian Tennis Federation has no courts, no training facilities. So how did the country, with less than 10 million people and no strong tennis tradition, suddenly begin producing world-class players? Dusan Orlandic, the Federation's general manager, told me, "It's like we had a garage for a Yugo, which was the world's worst car, and then one day we get up and find parked in there a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, and a Formula One car." Janko Tipsarevic, another young pro from Belgrade, reckons it may have been something in the depleted uranium of all those NATO bombs. 这个塞尔维亚的网球联盟没有球场,没有训练设备. 所以这个不到一千万并且也没有网球传统的小国家怎麽忽然产生这麽多世界级的选手勒? 这个联盟的总经理Dusan Orlandic告诉我: "这就像是我们有一个给Yugo这种烂车的车库.... 某天醒来忽然发现那里停着法拉利,蓝宝监尼,和F1跑车" (什麽怪比喻阿??翻译也生气..) 而眼镜兄....是另外一个来自Belgrade的职业选手... 他则认为这可能是某些在NATO铀化的炸弹里存在的东西吧... (这个比喻虽然也怪但是眼镜兄说的就可以理解....偏心的翻译XDD) Djokovic says he started playing tennis only because, when he was four years old, somebody built three courts across the road from his family's pizzeria in a ski village. Nobody else in his family played, but he would carry beers from the restaurant to the builders, and when the courts were finished they let him knock a ball around. "It was really like a destiny," he says. Jelena Genc?ic, the godmother of Yugoslav tennis, who is now in her seventies, took him on as a student. She found him unusually serious, and remembers him declaring, at the age of six or seven, on a local children's TV program, his determination to become the top tennis player in the world. (So that schtick started early.) When, at the age of 12, he ran out of useful competition in wartime Serbia, Genc?i? sent him to a top-flight tennis academy in Munich, where he flourished. Djokovi?'s parents shared a cramped flat with three sons and borrowed privately to pay for more stints in Germany. Nole说他开始打网球只是因为他四岁的时候有人在他家的披萨店附近盖了三个球场, 虽然没有人可以跟他一起打网球...... 可是他可以从餐厅带啤酒去给建球场的工人... 等球场盖好了以後那些工人就让他在里面打球. (从小就古灵精怪知道要贿赂阿XDDD) Nole说:"这就好像是命中注定一样..." (跟我会当你的球迷一样命中注定吗?>//////<) Jelena Genc?ic这个名字有问号还显示不出来的人是Yugoslav 的网球教母 现在已经年过七旬了,她发现Nole总是很认真.... 还记得他六七岁的时候就在当地的一个儿童电视台表演 并且从此决定要当一个世界顶尖的网球选手..... (学我用括号的记者说):"所以很早就开始搞笑了麻." 当他12岁的时候,因为塞尔维亚战正处於乱期间导致Nole无法有效的比赛竞争. Genc?ic便把他送到慕尼黑的顶尖网球协会练球,Nole在那里大放异彩! Nole的父母和三个儿子挤在德国的一层小公寓里, 并私下借钱来支付延长在德国的工作时间. (Nole爸Nole妈为了小孩真是辛苦啦......翻译感激你们让Nole到外地学网球阿...) These days, with the winnings from their big gamble rolling in — Novak earned almost $4 million last year in prize money — those friends who helped the family have been repaid with interest. According to Genc?ic, though, the Djokovices "can no longer answer their phones. So many people asking for money." They've created a charity focused on helping Serbian children in Kosovo, and while I was in town they held a giant fund-raiser for the children's wing of a hospital there, hiring Belgrade Arena, one of the largest indoor venues in Europe, for a mixed-doubles exhibition starring Djokovic and the other Serbian pros. Family Sport, the Djokovices' sports-marketing business, organized the event, and Novak's uncle Goran — a tall, friendly, ungainly guy with a permanently ringing cellphone — was in charge of logistics. 这些日子以来,他们投资在Nole身上的赌注开始回本了..... Nole去年赚了将近四百万的比赛奖金.... Nole一家把钱连本带利的还给了那些当初借钱给他们的朋友. 而根据Genc?ic(Nole的启蒙教练)的说法: "Nole家再也不用回电话了..所以很多人打来要求捐钱" (感谢M大给了一个正确答案....虽然我翻起来还是卡卡的= ="能力真的很不足的翻译) 总之Nole一家最後成立了专门帮助在 Kosovo的塞国儿童的基金会.... 我在那里的时候,这个基金会正在举办募款活动,为当地的儿童兴建医院.... 这个募款活动在Belgrade一个大型的室内竞技场举行 Nole和其他塞国专业网球选手出席打混双表演赛. 这些都是Nole家一手包办的,并由Nole的叔叔Goran负责幕後运筹.... 他是一个又高又亲切又有点笨拙的人,而且手机永远响不停. (想不到Nole的叔叔竟然跟伊凡同名...叫这名字的人都又高又亲切又有点笨拙吗??XDDD) --

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