Sharapova, Foot in Door at Wimbledon, Awaits Approval to Play French Open https://nyti.ms/2qkDk2p By Ben Rothenberg MAY 15, 2017 ROME — Since her return from a 15-month suspension for a positive doping test, Maria Sharapova has had to rely on the generosity of tournament directors for wild-card entries while she rebuilt her ranking. On Monday, she reached a significant milestone en route to guaranteeing her right to compete. By winning her first-round match at the Italian Open, 6-4, 6-2, against Christina McHale, Sharapova will move far enough inside the top 200 of the WTA rankings to at least secure direct entry into the qualifying draw of Wimbledon in June. 罗马第一轮过关，即时排名在200名内， 让莎娃可以获得进入温网会外赛的机会。 But Sharapova still needs a wild-card entry to the French Open, the coming Grand Slam event on the calendar. She will learn her fate for that event on Tuesday in an announcement that will be streamed live on Facebook by the French Federation of Tennis at 1 p.m. Eastern. Thirty minutes later, she will take the court for her second-round match against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. 莎娃如要参加法网，则需要外卡。 今天FFT会在脸书直播宣布莎娃命运。 (在罗马第二轮比赛前会得知) But Sharapova is not painstakingly tracking her progress toward being able to qualify — far from it, actually. “Will I?” she said after her victory Monday. “I don’t know how the Wimbledon qualifying works or the rankings — I’m not really aware of that.” Once the math was explained, Sharapova showed some sign of appreciating her achievement. “Listen, winning matches will get me places,” she said. “So if that’s where it got me today, then I will take it.” She added, “I think maybe you guys assume that I know these things, but I genuinely want to take care of each and every single week, and every single match is a priority for me.” 莎娃：「真的吗？我不知道温网会外赛的排名。 我没特别注意。 一场场胜利会让我回到位置上， 如果可以，那我会接受。 我想你们认为我应该知道， 但我只想好好打比赛， 对我而言比赛才是重要的。」 Although Sharapova said she was unaware of her status for Wimbledon, the tournament’s officials have apparently been highly aware of her potential presence at its qualifying event. Since 1925, qualifiers have been held not at the All England Club but at the small Bank of England club in the nearby suburb of Roehampton, with open admission. This year, the qualifying tournament will be a ticketed event, with attendance capped at 1,000 people. Wimbledon’s chief executive, Richard Lewis, said the possibility of Sharapova ’s descending onto the small facility in the same year was a mere coincidence. “I know it does seem very convenient timing, but it is actually unrelated, genuinely unrelated,” Lewis said, according to the BBC. Sharapova could still avoid Wimbledon qualifying altogether by reaching the semifinals here and landing inside (or close to) the top 100. To get there, Sharapova might have to face top-seeded Angelique Kerber in the third round and sixth-seeded Simona Halep in the quarterfinals. 如果要进入温网会内名单， 罗马站需要打进四强(第100名内左右)。 莎娃可能第三轮会对上Kerber， 八强可能会对上Halep。 Her second-round opponent, Lucic-Baroni, whom Sharapova beat in three sets in the opening round of Madrid last week, will be the first player to face Sharapova twice since her comeback. The 35-year-old Lucic-Baroni, who made a surprise run to the semifinals of the Australian Open in January, made it clear how she feels about Sharapova’s continued presence at tournaments via wild cards. “I’m kind of tired answering these questions; she can answer questions for herself,” she said. “I feel the same way everybody else feels: You know the drill, you know what happened, you know what it is. Some people are forcing us to say everything is great, and blah blah, but it is what it is. I don’t much care for it.” Lucic-Baroni declined to say who was forcing her to say everything was “ great.” ”I’m not going to say those things because then I’m going to get in trouble,” she said. “No, no — nobody is pressuring us to say anything.” But Lucic-Baroni said she understood why players like Kristina Mladenovic have been repeatedly critical of Sharapova. “She should be,” Lucic-Baroni said of Mladenovic. “Every player who isn’t doping is against it. I mean, it’s not surprising. I don’t care for these things. I know the way the real world works, and this is the way the real world works. Money and everything speaks for itself. Maybe they should give a wild card to Lance Armstrong, too? He’s won the Tour de France a few times. How is it any different?” Lucic：「有点厌倦回答类似问题， 莎娃可以自己回答。 我和其他人有一样感觉： 都知道发生什麽事。 有些人让我们去说很棒很好， 但事实就是如此。 我不想管。 我不想说那些是因为我不想惹麻烦。 没人强迫我们去说什麽。」 Lucic了解像Mladenovic的球员们对莎娃的看法。 「每一位没用禁药的球员都反对外卡。 我的意思是，这不让人意外。 我不在乎这些事。 现实就是如此，钱会说话。 他们或许也该给Lance Armstrong外卡？ 他是数次环法冠军。 这有什麽不同？」 Lucic-Baroni was making a comparison between Armstrong, who was banned from Olympic sports for life for a sophisticated and extensive doping scheme, and Sharapova, whose doping violation was ruled unintentional because she was not aware the drug Meldonium had recently been banned. Lucic拿阿姆斯壮和莎娃相比， 前者遭终身禁赛是因为密集用药， 後者则是疏忽而违反禁药规定。 Since her return, Sharapova has gone 5-2 — the two losses coming against two of her most vocal critics, Mladenovic and Eugenie Bouchard. Though she had not heard Lucic-Baroni’s comments, Sharapova insisted that such criticism did not distract her on the court. ”I have had to face a lot of, as you say, distractions or opinions or judgment since I was 17 years old,” Sharapova said. “And, you know, I play tennis for a lot of things, and those are just not them anymore.” 莎娃复出後的胜败为5-2， 败场对手是对她批评为甚的Mladenovic和Bouchard。 莎娃：「从我十七开始，我面对很多的批评指教。 我打网球为的不是他们。」 -- 其实拿阿姆斯壮跟莎娃相比很怪... 希望有好消息 --

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