[KIM]Inside the Women's Tour

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這篇不是新聞已經有一段時間了(八月底的文章吧?!) 但也不算是舊聞因為它不是有時效性的東西內容主要是講2004的腕傷 2005的復出、美網冠軍和那筆兩百萬的巨額獎金改變了Kim很多從一個tennis player到一個celebrity 但更多的是她找到了關於自己的其他可能覺得Kim願意年紀輕輕就說要離開是因為她知道她的快樂不一定要在球場上 2004年的一切不順利帶給她的是她學習到了如何在球賽與生活間取得平衡她懂得了如何在未來少掉一部份重心的生活裡尋找其他的新重心記得看過一篇文章也是說2004年當醫生說她可能再也無法回到球場上時 Kim開始嘗試許多過去她沒有嘗試過的事情也仔細思考過不打球後的她想過怎樣的生活 2004年看起來是那麼地的不順利但這個勇敢的女孩卻硬是讓2004年變得有意義了 --摘錄裡頭關於Kim的部份-- Inside the Women’s Tour (WT) By Eleanor Preston Kim Clijsters People say that fame usually happens to those who are thinking about something else, and Kim Clijsters would probably agree. Clijsters has had far more to worry about over the last two years than being a celebrity, but her day-to-day life has changed since she won the US Open last summer—pulling off one of greatest comeback stories in the history of the sport as well as pocketing the biggest prize-money check in the history of women’s sport in the process. “It’s definitely changed in America,” said the 22-year-old Belgian. “If I would go to New York maybe two years ago and play, people would know that there is a tournament on and so they know you are a player, but I realized that now they recognize me a lot more. I think the fact that I won the $2 million is the thing that people in the States latched on to, but also there is a big difference from being the runner-up in a Grand Slam to being the winner.” Clijsters should be used to sporting fame, given that her dad, Leo, was a superstar of Belgian soccer and was once voted European Footballer of the Year, but she said she never paid much attention as a child. “You don’t think about it. I never thought ‘Oh, my dad’s famous,’ I just thought, because he was a soccer player, that people liked the way he played,” she said. “It was never in my head that I would be famous. I remember in the school holidays I would be watching the French Open and watching Steffi Graf, and I never thought of what was going on behind the scenes, I was just overwhelmed by seeing her play. That was all I thought of, not the celebrity part, not at all. “I still find it tough to deal with. I do what I have to do, but I’m not the type of person that, when I’m home or when I’ve got two months off, I have to do a TV interview every week to have the attention. I’m not a show-off. I like to be with my friends and family, and that’s it.” Whether she likes it or not, Clijsters compiled achievements in 2005 that were worthy of stardom. Having spent almost all of 2004 nursing a wrist injury so bad that doctors warned she might never play at the top level again, she returned in March and, despite being ranked No. 133 in the world, went on a tear. She ended up winning nine titles, including, of course, the US Open, her first Grand Slam victory after losing four finals. The contrast between the professional and personal low of 2004 (which also saw her go through a high-profile breakup from then fiance Lleyton Hewitt) and the high of 2005 couldn’t be greater. “I don’t know if 2004 hadn’t happened whether I would have won a Slam, it’s so hard to say. I think everything, the whole situation with Lleyton, the media attention that I got with that, it all made me stronger,” Clijsters said, now happily settled with U.S. basketball pro Brian Lynch. “I think you enjoy your job more if you are happy in the rest of your life,” she continued. “For me personally, being a tennis player, it’s not all about what you do on the court, it is also about going to the gym, traveling around, and if you don’t have the right balance in your personal life, then it’s very tough to just sit in a hotel room all day and having to worry about something all the time. It’s good now because I know when I’m at a tournament that I focus on my tennis, and I focus on what I have to do in the gym and looking after my body; but when I’m home, I don’t think about tennis. I just go to the bakery every day, go to the supermarket, do things like that. And with Brian, I want to go to basketball and do things for him when he’s playing and take care of him. It’s nice to have to switch.” Now that she has found happiness on and off the court, Clijsters might just have to get used to being famous. -- 球場上的Kim總是很勇敢很暴力她很少想很多那是Kim的網球球場下的Kim真的想了很多很多但卻同樣勇敢那是Kim的人生不管是她的網球還是她的生命她總是以一個為自己負責的態度做好一切 -- -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 218.169.83.23