[薩芬]法網第一輪訪問

看板ALL-RUSSIANS作者MARSAFIN (Close To You)時間21年前 (2004/05/27 04:57)推噓0(0推 0噓 0→)

留言0則, 0人參與討論串1/1

Q. Are you happy you didn't stay home and maybe retire from tennis? MARAT SAFIN: I didn't say I'm gonna retire, I'm just -- I'm happy that I had to play all the match all the way through, because I was missing a little bit of confidence. I was absolutley tired. So now it's completely different story. Q. Is there any chance this could be like Australia, where you come in and people don't think you're much of a factor, then you start playing better and better and who knows what can happen? MARAT SAFIN: That's always the best. Also it's very good to have a little bit quite strong draw so every match is important one and you don't lose today - how you say - when you have easy draw, you can lose to anybody. But once you have a strong draw, you motivate yourself. So you start to play automatically well. That's the case, because I have quite very tough draw. Calleri, Mantilla, then if I go through, it's Grosjean, so it's tough ones. So I hope it will be like in Australia, I will start to get better and better and I will have my chance. Q. How far away do you think you are from your peak form? MARAT SAFIN: How many times they ask me this question, far away. I'm far away. I'm far away. I still have to work on little things and I'm definitely not in the best shape right now. I'm missing a little bit of the confidence, but that's coming back. Just I totally can get better from now on. Q. When you went home after Hamburg, did you ever think that you would not play here? Did you think you'd get a little bit of a break? MARAT SAFIN: I need some kind of a -- just get out of tennis, because it was getting too much on my nerves and I was getting too -- I've been for a long time traveling from tournament to tournament, so I needed some time off. Took like five days off, I didn't touch the racquet, I enjoyed my friends and just did normal stuff that people do, and it helped. So I come back here, I practice for four days, it was enough for me. And now I get motivation to move on. That's what I needed, you know, because it was a really difficult schedule. I mean all the months, we had like three Masters Series tournaments, then you have to make the preparation before the tournaments so it's a little bit too much of tennis for me. Q. I think in '98 you beat Agassi and Kuerten, right? MARAT SAFIN: Yep. Q. Does that seem a long, long, long, long time ago? MARAT SAFIN: Very long time ago. Q. Marat Safin has changed very much since then? MARAT SAFIN: Well, yeah. Quite a lot. But it's really long time ago. But six years, but it was like for me was like it was yesterday. But I played so many years afterwards and I get more experience, I get much more, I think, clever. Of course if I would have the same brain as I have right now back then, it would be much easier, with the confidence that I got in that time, I was playing great. But I didn't know how to manage to win the tournament, and I was really playing well. Great performance from me, great thing. Q. You were briefly at the top of the world. In your generation, the top players have succeeded each other very quickly, Ferrero, Federer. Is it impossible to stay at the top for a few months given the demands of the game now? MARAT SAFIN: Well, Federer, he managed to stay there for quite a long time. Q. Months. MARAT SAFIN: Months. He was there for much more. From January he became No. 1? Still not bad. He has the game, he has the power to be there. Like I said, because of the schedule and because of the tournaments are so tough and the level of the players outside of Top 10 and outside of Top 20 is much, much stronger than it used to be, so basically every match you are playing on the tournament, and any tournaments is a tough one. Yeah, especially the schedule, the schedule is very tough. It's tournament after tournament. So if you have two straight Masters Series tournaments in a row, you can't play and win them all. You have to be really, really lucky with the draw and really, really full of confidence to do it, and also in great physical shape. But now it seems like it's almost impossible. Q. You won the US Open, you were at your peak. Do you have to do some more work to reach that level? MARAT SAFIN: Of course I have to work, but that was probably a mistake to win the tournament. Probably if I would not win US Open, I would have won another Grand Slams and much more than one. So it's also -- it's two-side story. But I was playing really well and I was just lucky to win the tournament. Q. Do you have a court that you prefer? Do you prefer the clay or the hard surface? MARAT SAFIN: I think at the beginning I used to like only clay because it was where I grew up. I spent several years in Spain and I learn how to play on clay and it was my surface. Now I like to play on hard courts. Hard courts and clay is my favorite ones. Grass, a little bit too difficult. And, well, indoors, indoors depends of the surface also. -- 果然草地是弱點= = -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.119.151.38 ※ 編輯: MARSAFIN 來自: 140.119.151.38 (05/26 21:06)