Tennis.com 的Q & A 分析这次事件。 Maria Sharapova created a buzz last week when she wrote on her website objecting to a spate of fines she's facing from the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Here are some of the questions it generated. By Kamakshi Tandon Q. Why is Sharapova getting all these fines? Sharapova is facing fines on two separate counts. The first is for her withdrawal from Berlin, the second if she opts to miss a WTA photo shoot designed to promote the Sony Ericsson year-end Championships in Doha this November. 罚金怎麽来的。 一是柏林退赛，二是她不参加杜哈年终赛的宣传拍摄。 Q. Why is she being fined $125,000 for missing Berlin? Again, there are two separate penalties in play. Firstly, as one of the WTA's top players, Sharapova has to play a certain number of events in return for a share of the bonus pool at the end of the year. Berlin was one of Sharapova's required seven Tier I events, and falling short by one would cost her 25% of her $500,000 bonus - $125,000. Strictly speaking, this isn't money Sharapova is having taken away from her, it's just money that was available but she won't be getting. Secondly, there are the standard WTA fines for pulling out of a tournament, which vary according to the player's star power ('gold exempt' rating) and her track record of withdrawals during the season, as well as the timing of the withdrawal. For a player of Sharapova's status, these begin at $10,000 and go up to $80,000 for multiple last-minute withdrawals. But in this specific case, the WTA confirmed in an email that Sharapova won't have to pay because she did decide to cite a medical reason for missing Berlin. 柏林退赛为啥要发十二万五千美金？ 也是有两块，这其实是从 Bonus Pool 里面扣的，严格来说也不是真 的从她荷包拿钱(所以之前莎娃官网有强调拍照罚金是真罚金)。 再者是 WTA 对於球员等级的标准罚则，还有她这季的退赛纪录、时 机等等。以莎娃的状况，假使最後才退赛，罚金是少则一万、多则八 万。不过以柏林来说，因为“伤退”的理由，所以不用付罚金。 Q. Does the WTA 'force' players to cite injuries in order to avoid fines? No, but it allows them avoid or reduce their penalties if they show that an injury or illness is keeping them from playing. Players can withdraw from two events a year for medical reasons without getting fined. (Withdrawals at which the player shows up and does a press conference, as Sharapova did in Dubai and Miami earlier this year, are not counted in this quota.) But while the objective of the rule is to give some amnesty to players who are genuinely hurt, it also creates an incentive for players to fake or exaggerate an injury when they simply don't want to play. If, as Sharapova says, she's basically healthy, she had two choices: go the truthful route and be penalized, or produce a doctor's note and get a pass. Her point: don't put players in this situation. WTA 迫使球员得编造受伤当藉口？ 算是让他们能减少受罚。一年可以有两次因伤退赛不受罚的机会。 (退赛後去参加当地记者会，像是莎娃今年在杜拜与迈阿密那样，就 不会算在内。) 但当这规则让受伤球员可以获得赦免时，也让球员在纯粹不想出赛时 ，会去假造或夸大伤病。 如莎娃所说，她基本上是健康的，她有两条路可走：老实但是被重罚 ，不然就找个伤退藉口。 她的重点是…别让球员处在这种进退两难的处境。 Q. Will next year's WTA Roadmap changes 'solve all these problems'? In a sense, but not in a way that benefits Sharapova. The exact rules are still under discussion, but it looks increasingly like the issue of injury will become irrelevant when it comes to penalties for pulling out of the very biggest WTA events. So not showing up at a big tournament like Miami next year would see Sharapova get fined regardless of whether she was injured, plus get her some sort of suspension as well. (This is and will continue to be waived if the player shows up at the tournament to do a press conference). On the plus side for her, players will be able to get away with playing one or two tournaments less than under the current setup. 明年的赛程改变会解决问题吗？ 某方面是，但可能并非对莎娃有益的，搞不好还会让这问题严重化。 比如说要是莎娃明年不参加迈阿密这样的大赛，那不管她届时是因受 伤与否，都会被罚、还会有禁赛的惩罚。 (现在跟以後都是，但只要球员去参加该赛是的记者会就不会罚。) 但对她有利的一面是，原本的设定可以有一两项比赛的弹性。 Q. If she's healthy, why isn't Sharapova playing Berlin? Top players like Sharapova have to set their schedules well in advance - her schedule for the first half of this year would have been fixed last October. The original plan was something like this: Australian Open,FedCup_Doha,Dubai_IndianWells,Miami_Berlin,Rome This is what she's ended up playing: Australian Open,FedCup_Doha_IndianWells_Amelia Island,Charleston_Berlin Rome Originally, Sharapova would have had four weeks' break from competition before playing back-to-back weeks in Berlin and Rome. But after hitting the wall in Indian Wells, she missed Miami and played the green clay events and Amelia Island and Charleston instead. Berlin, which comes two weeks after Charleston, didn't fit into the rejigged schedule. 那为啥健康的莎娃不参加柏林？ 对莎娃来说，她原本预计在柏林跟罗马之前会有四周休息时间， 但因为她错过迈阿密，後来改去参加两项绿土赛。柏林距离家庭 生活圈盃两周之遥，不符合重新上紧发条的时程。 Q. Why doesn't she want to do the photo shoot at Rome? Sharapova says she doesn't do photo shoots before a big event. It could also mean getting there earlier than she had planned - the shoot can be done any day from Sunday-Tuesday, and top players with a first-round bye don't have to start till Wednesday. 为啥她不想参与罗马的拍照？ 一是她不想在大赛前拍照。二她有首轮轮空的资格，周三前都不 会有比赛，拍照意味着她得提早抵达当地，。 Q. Can the WTA 'force' her to do the photo shoot? Sort of, in the sense that it's part of the rules and they can fine her if she doesn't: "All players are required, if requested, to participate in one (1) activity per year (not to exceed five [5] hours, including travel time) for major marketing or publicity purposes for the WTA and/or a WTA Tour sponsor that takes place in or around a tournament..." WTA 能强迫她去拍吗？ 算是，某个如果她没照做就会受罚的规则：所有球员每年得参加 一个包括旅行时间不超过五小时的重要官方、赞助商宣传活动。 Q. Why are the fines so enormous? Sharapova cited a fine of $300,000 for not doing a shoot, and was later quoted saying it could go as high as $700,000. That's about 40% of her prize money so far this year. Okay, so ti works about to only about 2% of her total annual income, but that's quite a lot to lose over a photo shoot that only lasts a few hours. The tour's normal fines for not fulfilling on-court obligations are significant but not outsized, topping out at $10,000 per missed commitment (though more in some cases for something as major as this shoot). Sharapova's figures are in a different league because, like other Nike players, she doesn't wear the Sony Ericsson WTA sponsor patch on her clothing. Once a tournament is into the quarterfinals, not wearing the patch for a televised match means a fine of $50,000 each time. When you win as much as Sharapova has this year, that adds up very quickly. What does that have to do with this photo shoot? Well, in order for a player to avoid the patch fines, "the WTA may require her to provide the sponsor and/or the WTA with benefits commensurate with the value of wearing the patch." In Sharapova's case, says the WTA, the photo shoot is her "make good" activity. Serena Williams may be in the same situation. 为什麽罚金会这麽多？ 她可能要被罚七十万美金，平常的罚款是一次一万美金。 但莎娃是 NIKE 赞助的球员，身上不会穿戴官方贴布，只要打进八 强、有转播的比赛，每场就是五万美金，当你像莎娃今年赢这麽多 ，那罚金就会迅速增加。 那跟这拍照有啥关系？ 为了让球员可以不要受罚，WTA 就要求他们给予等值得回报，以莎 娃的例子而言，WTA 说这是“为了她好”的活动，小威可能也是同 样处境。 Q. Has Sharapova speaking out on her website got a lot of attention? A fair amount, yes. It's not unprecedented for players to complain about the tours on their sites, but the combination of Sharapova, a photo shoot, six-figure sums and words like "boycott" gave it some good bounce. It certainly got more play than the WTA tournaments in Prague or Fes. Late last year, both Serena Williams and Andy Roddick also complained about rules related to pullouts. "I need to go to my doctor in the U.S.A to make sure I am ok but what u guys don't know is that I have to go to a mandatory player party on Saturday night," wrote Serena after pulling out of her first match at the year-end championships in Madrid. "It's kinda ironic and unfair that I can't go get healthy because of a party. I mean who in their right mind made up these rules." "So I have a little bit of a problem that has been bothering me - interested to know other people's thoughts," wrote Roddick about his withdrawal from the Paris Masters. "I got fined 20 grand for not going to Paris. In order to avoid the fine I would have had to stay in France for 4 or 5 days to fulfill media obligations for the tourney [...] I read 3 days later that Nikolay Davydenko has been fined 2 grand for not trying in a match…I AM NOT here to say he did or did not try in that match…I didn’t see it…just heard about it…the thing that got me was the 2 grand fine [...] taking care of injuries and health to be prepared for their event= 20 grand…not trying= 2 grand…anyone else see a problem with this??” Maybe it's time for an online petition. 莎娃这次公开炮轰有引起注目吗？ 有呀，其实球员也不是头一遭抱怨这个了，但莎娃跟事件本身的组 合，确实吸引较多讨论。 去年小威跟 Roddick 都抱怨过退赛的机制。(略) 也许是时候试试网路请愿了。 Q. What happens now? In some ways, Sharapova has placed herself in an awkward no-win situation: she'll have to either pay a huge fine or back down and do the shoot. But the WTA may find a way to accommodate her somehow, which they certainly have incentive to do., even if just to get her to stop writing that the tour's executives "just do whatever they want and tell us what to do and how to do it. And on top of that walk around like they're the stars"... One thing's for sure - this photo campaign will be getting more attention than anyone could previously have dreamed of. 现在的状况？ 某方面来说，莎娃把自己摆在双输的境地：要嘛付钱、要嘛乖乖拍 照。但 WTA 应会想办法通融一下，也得这麽做，就算只是让她别 再开炮都好。 但有件事情是确定的…这次事件已经让这宣传活动获得他们做梦都 想不到的关注了。 ---- 大概速翻一下，因为有讲解一些状况，一起了解一下状况， 因为是概略翻，有些还是看原文比较好啦。 --

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