ACE 的 Henin 訪問

看板NED-BEL-LUX作者Architect (A talented idiot)時間22年前 (2003/10/30 20:32)推噓7(7推 0噓 0→)

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前言:版主大哥/大姊~~ 這篇文章沒有網路版啊! 我必須要"一個字一個字"慢慢打上來耶! :P (可是我還是打了..... :PPP) JUSTINE'S TIME As Justine Henin-Hardenne's new authorised biography makes clear, she has not had an easy life. But the loss of her mother at an early age and estrangement from the rest of her family have made her all the more determined to succeed. Dominic Bliss charts her meteoric rise to become French and US Open Champion. "It's no secret," Justine Henin-Hardenne told ACE when we met her earlier in the year. "If you want to do well, you must be prepared to work hard, both on and off the cour, be able to accept defeats in the same way you accept wins. But I think the key is hard work...you are never sure when you will arrive at the top." The remark proved prophetic. Just a few weeks later, Justine reached the top. In a famously acrimonious semi-final in Paris, the Belgian toppled Serena Williams from her throne, and went on to win her first Grand Slam title. And now, she has a second. But hard work isn't all that lies behind her success. Justine's is a story of determination against the odds. Today she plays poetic tennis with - in her flowing, single-handed backhand - one of the game's most beautiful shots. If, however, there is a steeliness in her manner that marks her out as different from her talented compatriot, the effervescent Kim Clijsters, then it perhaps shouldn't come as a surprise. Still only 21, Justine's early life was remarkably hard even by the exaggerated standards of tennis upbringings. Before Justine was born, her parents' first daughter Florence was killed by a drunk driver right before their eyes. She was only two-and-a-half years old. When she was 12, Justine lost her mother Francoise to cancer. Francoise's own mother had succumbed to the same illness when Francoise was only 15. In 1993 Justine's close friend and tennis coach Jean-Pierre Collot died suddenly. Then, in an almost unbelievably sad twist, soon after she had reached her first Grand Slam final (at Wimbledon in 2001) her grandfather 'Papy Georges' died of a heart attack. Justine had been closer to him than to her own father. Many would crumble beneath the weight of such tragedy. But Justine is stronger than most. Of course she grieved like anyone else, but after the tears, her character became tougher. Anyone who witnessed her amazing victory at the French Open this year will vouch for that. After her mother died, however, she nearly gave up tennis for good. "I thought tennis was finished for me because I no longer saw any reasons to fight," she writes in [JUSTINE HENIN-HARDENNE:Le Bonheur Au Bout Du Court], a book which is part official biography, part autobiography, "Life was just too unfair to me. I no longer enjoyed being out on the court." But slowly, after a few months, she managed to make sense of her situation. It was then that she realised she could turn her tragedy to her own benefit. "I have never forgotten my mother," she writes. "She's always right beside me. At difficult moments I think of her a lot. She gave me so much love and so much optimism. When I find myself in a complated situation I think back to the good times and the bad times. I think of her illness and of how she had to leave us. Even today she is fundamental to my being because everything she accomplished in her life gives me more reason to carry on fighting." Challenged to take on a maternal role in the family, Justine found it incredibly difficult to combine her domestic duties with her need to conti- -nually train for tennis. Her father Jose, who worked at the local post office, became her coach. But she soon realised that she couldn't be both home-maker and tennis player. Eventually, at the age of 17, she left her father, two elder brothers, David and Thomas, and her younger sister Sarah, and moved in with her long-term boyfriend Pierre-Yves Hardenne. The couple are now married. But there is a deep rift between Justine, her father, and the rest of her family. Neither Jose or her two brothers were at Roland Garros to witness her first Grand Slam triumph. "I am happy they didn't come," Justine told the SUNDAY TIMES once the euphoria of her life-changing had sunk in. "At last they are giving me the respect I asked for. They are giving me the space th lead my life the way I want. They refused to understand my ambitions and my determination to become a top tennis player. They could not understand the time and dedication it takes and they hurt me very nuch." There wasn't always a feud. Before Justine's mother was diagnosed with cancer in the early 1990s, the Henin family was a happy one. Jose Henin married Francoise Rosiere in the 1970s. Their first child was David, followed closely by Thomas. Then on June 1, 1982, little Justine came into the world. "I had very big eyes as a baby," Justine says in her autobiography. "Everyone who saw me back then remembers how I always had my eyes open and that I followed everything going on around me, never crying. I was curious about everthing. A bit like I am today." -- 好累喔!!!還有 4 面!!! 剩下的明天再 post ..... (當成連載好了.....) -- /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: 218.166.40.118