[情報] Rios Retires With Final Win
Rios Retires With Final Win
Photo By Susan Mullane By Tennis Week
12/26/2004
Marcelo Rios went out a winner last week. The former No. 1 thrilled 13,000
fans in his hometown of Santiago, Chile in scoring a 6-4, 7-5, victory over
Roland Garros runner-up Guillermo Coria in a tribute match to officially
conclude a career marked by periods of brilliant play and sustained stretches
of uninspired underachievement.
The talented, temperamental Chilean, who celebrated his 29th birthday on
December 26th, initially announced his retirement in July, but made it
official with the tribute match.
The seventh-ranked Coria praised Rios as a gifted player who could humble
opponents at his best.
"With this talent, he should still be winning tournaments," Coria said. "He
was a much-respected player. Nobody wanted to play against him because he was
able to make you feel embarrassed on the court."
Voted the greatest Chilean athlete of the 20th century, Rios paved the path
for countrymen Nicolas Massu and Fernando Gonzalez, who partnered to win the
Olympic gold medal in doubles before Massu captured the gold in singles as
well.
Rios’ legacy will include 18 tournament titles and 12 other appearances in
tournament finals. But the numbers don't come close to revealing the
spectacular style of tennis this man would play when moved to make the
effort.
Rios’ ability to take the ball early, generate tremendous racquet-head speed
with a relatively short backswing and deliver drives deceptively difficult to
read drew comparison to another former No. 1 — Andre Agassi. Rios won two of
his three meetings with Agassi, including a 7-5, 6-3, 6-4, triumph in the
1998 Key Biscayne final that vaulted him to the top of the ATP rankings. In
an interview with Tennis Week earlier this month, Agassi’s father and coach,
Mike Agassi, said Rios’ style reminded him of his son.
"Rios was like (Andre)," Mike Agassi told Tennis Week. "He reminds me of
Andre and in one way he was something better than Andre: you couldn’t read
his contact point and direction of the ball. Do you know the beauty of a
mirror? If you throw light at a mirror at five degrees, then the light comes
back five degrees the other side, correct? Now if the ball comes at your hand
and if you meet the ball with an angle on the racquet then they cannot read
your shot and where the ball is coming."
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