Re: [女娃] Safina......

看板ALL-RUSSIANS作者MARSAFIN (Red Blooded Woman)時間21年前 (2004/06/25 15:54)推噓0(0推 0噓 0→)

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A sobbing Dinara Safina followed her older brother's unhappy example with a first round exit from Wimbledon today. The Russian 29th seed retired from The Championships when trailing the Spanish clay court specialist Arantxa Parra Santonja 0-6, 0-2. Conversely it was Parra Santonja who appeared nervous at the outset, having to dive off the court for a lavatory break before the match so much as began. But once the business of the day was underway any such nerves must have been replaced by utter bemusement, as the crowd on Court Three witnessed one of the worst displays of Safina's recent career. Only when eight games of the match had passed without the Russian notching up a single one of them was any explanation forthcoming. The trainer was called to a tearful Safina, and after a brief exchange umpire Fiona Edwards announced to the crowd that the match was over. The precise cause of Safina's inability to continue was not immediately clear. But for the 35 minutes that the match lasted there was no doubt that this was not going to be her day. Given that Parra Santonja was successfully delivering fewer than half her first serves, the score-line looked increasingly bizarre. Moreover, it is not as if the 21-year-old Spaniard has been rocketing up the rankings of late and hence might have been regarded as a dangerous floater. Her ranking has been becalmed in the 60s since this time last year. It is Safina - still only just 18 - who has steadily improved and was seeded at Wimbledon this year for the first time. Written by Kate Battersby -- http://www.wretch.twbbs.org/album/marsafin ◣ ◢ ◢◣ ██◣ ◢◣ ███ █◣◢█ ◢▃◣ █▄█ ◢▃◣ █ █ █ ▋ ▋ █ ◣ ▋ ▋ █ -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 218.175.222.224