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WTATour.com Player of the Week: Justine Henin-Hardenne
ATHENS - Before the start of the Olympic Tennis event in Athens, the biggest
question around the women's event involved world No.1 Justine Henin-Hardenne.
Nearly three months removed from the sport, Henin-Hardenne was making her
Olympic debut without a match under her belt since losing on the clay at Roland
Garros in late May. She hadn't won a match on hard courts since Indian Wells.
The world No.1 had been absent from the center stage of tennis for much of the
last four months while battling and recovering from a viral illness. She had
only started practicing again just three weeks before arriving in Greece and
many questions whether Henin-Hardenne could physically compete with a strong
field that had been playing in tough hard court events for the past five weeks.
But the Belgian showed exactly why she's No.1 in the world, winning six matches
in seven days to claim Olympic Gold in Athens - and this week's WTATour.com
Win of the Week.
"I think I still not realize right now," said Henin-Hardenne during her press
conference after winning the gold. "I need a little bit of time to realize what
happened tonight. But I can tell you it's totally different from a Grand Slam.
I cannot tell you if it's better or not because it's a different feeling. I
think it's been a great atmosphere the whole week.
海寧在她獲得金牌後的記者會說道：「至今我尚未了解今晚發生了啥事，我需要一些時間
來了解今晚到底發生了什麼。但我可以肯定地告訴各位這種感覺和贏得大滿貫賽事是完全
不一樣的。我不能告訴你贏得金牌和奪得大滿貫孰好孰壞，因為這是一種不同的體驗。我
想比賽的這整週都讓我感覺到一種極佳的氣氛。」
"Still, a month ago, I didn't know if I was going to be able to come here, and
now I won the gold medal. Now I can say that a lot of players have to dream
about winning an Olympic gold medal because it's a great moment in your career."
「一個月前，我不知道我是否能前來參賽，然而今日我奪得了金牌。現在我知道了許多運
動員都渴望奪得奧運金牌的原因在於那真的是職業生涯中很棒的一刻。」
It's been a long year for Henin-Hardenne off the court and a successful one
on the court. Prior to Athens, she had compiled a remarkable 27-3 record with
four titles and looked unstoppable while heading into the clay court season
where she was preparing to defend her Roland Garros title.
Then, things took a turn for the worst in her first clay court event. While
competing at Amelia Island, Henin-Hardenne started to feel dizzy at times and
followed by pulling out of Charleston the following week. The viral illness she
had come down with was going to keep her out of action for several weeks, but
Henin-Hardenne was set on a return to Paris and a title defense on the clay she
cherishes the most.
After a routine victory against Sandrine Testud in the first round at Roland
Garros, Henin-Hardenne was stunned in the second round by Tathiana Garbin and
left wondering if she had returned to tennis too quickly.
She then decided that she needed more time for recovery and better preparation
for when she did return to tennis.
After arriving in Athens, Henin-Hardenne began her campaign for an Olympic
medal against Barbora Strycova and landed in the second round with a 63 64
victory. The Belgian appeared to be picking up momentum round by round with a
62 61 victory against Maria Vento-Kabchi in her next match and then landed in
the quarterfinals after a blistering 61 60 thrashing of Australia's Nicole
Pratt.
She faced very little trouble in a 64 64 win against Mary Pierce to reach the
semifinals where she would face No.3 seed Anastasia Myskina. And after a
remarkable comeback from down 1-5 in the third, Henin-Hardenne found herself
in the gold medal match where she woudl face No.2 seed Amelie Mauresmo.
Henin-Hardenne proved to be superior during the week in Athens, defeating
Mauresmo in straight sets in the final and standing on the podium collecting
an Olympic gold medal for Belgium.
Despite very little match play over the last four months, Henin-Hardenne was
able to hold her ground in her return to the sport and said she physically
encountered few problems during the week.
"Physically, I felt fine," Henin-Hardenne said. "I didn't have any really major
physical problems. I think the match yesterday was very difficult, two hours
and 45 minutes, but I managed to recover fine tonight. There were no signs of
fatigue. Now it's up to me not to go too fast. I'm only 22."
And at 22, Henin-Hardenne is an Olympic champion, No.1 in the world and
reintroducing herself to the sport that may have forgotten how good she is over
the course of the last few months.
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