Tennis 雜誌所選的開放年代十大經典球賽

看板Graf作者Architect (Suede 解散!!!)時間21年前 (2003/11/11 18:24)推噓1(1推 0噓 0→)

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'92 年的法網決賽又入選了. 這場我沒看過. (我從 '92 年 Wimbledon 開始看 Graf 打球的,又 '92 法網決賽 Graf 輸球所以沒去借錄影帶來看.....) 很好奇,想請問看過的朋友:真的那麼精彩嗎? Tennis 雜誌裡的文章: Monica Seles def. Steffi Graf Event: 1992 Roland Garros final Score: 6-2 3-6 10-8 By Peter Bodo This was supposed to be the match that set tone for a rivalry that would pick up where Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova had left off. Instead, it now stands as a melancholy reminder of all that was lost to tennis when, fewer than 12 months after this championship match at Roland Garros, Seles was stabbed by a deranged Graf fan, left the game for 28 months, and never played at the same level again. Still, at least we have this one. It was a battle between belter and runner. Graf, the nimble, leggy, blond pride of tennis-mad Germany, had dominated the game in the late 1980s. Then Seles, built like Olive Oyl but armed with the power of Popeye, emerged from Yugoslavia, via Bradenton, Fla.,and Nick Bollettieri's academy, to mount a serious assault on Graf's reign, earning her first major title at Graf's expense at Roland Garros in 1990 and taking the No. 1 ranking from her in '91. As the two women prepared for the 1992 final in Paris, Graf still led 5-2 in head-to-head matches, but it had been a year since they had played. To reach the final, Seles had battled back from a 1-4 third-set deficit to beat Akiko Kijimuta of Japan in the fourth round and then recovered to win from a 2-4 deficit in the third against Gabriela Sabatini. In the first set, Seles attacked Graf's strength, her forehand, and broke it down. But Graf lifted her game, using that forehand to drive Seles back from the baseline and win the second set. The third set provided some of the most entertaining tennis ever seen, an endless back and forth between two unyield- -ing champions. There were break points reached and break points dismissed, winners that answered apparent winners, and errors that were not flubs but bold statements that fell just short of making their point. (Architect 曰:我很喜歡這一段描寫球賽精彩狀況的筆觸. :) ) Ultimately, Graf fended off five match points, but she couldn't wrest control from Seles. It seemed only fitting that the match ended when Graf unloaded one of her famous forehands, which smacked the tape and seemed to hang in the air forever before it fell back on her side of the net. "It definitely was a special match," Graf said afterward, unable to know that Paris would never be quite as magical a place for them to meet again. -- 最後一段很感傷的感覺..... -- /SG\ / / /Sg/ /Sg/ / G SgS S S S GS S s /GSGSG/ /S\ /SGSGSG/ /SGSGSG/ / s G S S / S S S SG S G sgs/ G G G / \SG/ S/ Sgs/ S S S/ IS THE BEST !!! -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 218.166.38.128