Re: ACE 的 Henin 訪問

看板NED-BEL-LUX作者Architect (A talented idiot)時間22年前 (2003/11/01 01:37)推噓3(3推 0噓 0→)

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(續前.....) For the first six months of her life she lived in the town of Han-sur-Lesse. Then, for work reasons, her family moved to Manhay, but continued to return to Han-sur-Lesse at weekends. Justine was partly brought up by her nanny Josianne. When she was two-and-a-half years old, the family moved to Rochefort, a small town just inside the French border. They all lived in a flat above the post office where Jose Henin worked and a stone's throw from the school where her mother Francoise taught French and history. Life was quiet, and for much of the time 'La petite Juju', as she was known, had to amuse herself. One day, at the age of 4, she followed her brothers into the games room at the back of the post office. In the middle of the room was a table tennis table, used by postal workers during their breaks. The first time her brothers let her play she became hooked. "I remember straight away loving the game," she remembers. "I barely missed the ball, even the first few times I played. It was then that my parents first realised that I had an eye for the ball." She was a natural and it wasn't long before she was hitting tennis balls at the Tennis Club de Rochefort where her father and two brothers were members. The courts were just 300 yards from her front door. "I remember my first racket," Justine recalls in her autobiography. "It was a grey Donnay. I can still picture it now. I loved tennis so nuch from the minute I'd first tried it...from that moment on I wouldn't let go of my racket. Even at home I used to knock balls against the kitchen wall. My mother said tho my father that they'd better let me join the club quickly otherwise the house would fall apart." So at the age of 5 Justine became an official member of the Tennis Club de Rochefort. "I was never at home except to eat," she says. "I was continually pestering all the other members to play with me." A year later Justine discovered football. She was an exceptionally gifited player in this sport too, and she was soon playing centre forward for a boys' team. During one she remembers scoring eight goals. The opposing team's goal- -keeper was so humiliated at conceding so many goals to a girl that he started crying and ran off the pitch to his mother. Justine performed well academically, too. She says that she was always very "serious and conscientious" about her studies. "I loved school. I was a very good pupil. I hated failure and I didn't experience it much because I always gave maximum effort. Since my mother was a teacher there she always wanted me to succeed as well." Justine was so dedicated to her schoolwork that, in 1997, when she won the French Open junior title, she was back studying for a chemistry exam the next day. But at school she wasn't popular. "I was really very shy," she recalls. "So much so that I didn't have many friends. There was also a lot of jealousy among some of my peers who didn't like the fact that, from the age of 9, I was travelling around the world to exotic places like Florida." "Also, because I was into football and tennis, I didn't have a lot in common with girls of my age. I was so different from them. It's true that, deep down , I haven't really changed since then." Justine was a tomboy through and through. She admits that, until her early adolescence, with her short hair, the baggy shirts she wore for tennis and her love of football, most people at first took her for a boy. At the age of 12 she made conscious effort to shed this tomboy image. "I tried to bring out the young girl inside me," she reveals. "Obviously it wasn't something I could do in a single day, but around the age of 14 or 15 my metamor-phosis was complete. Yet I kept my fighting spirit and my drive and I don't think I've ever been a girly girl." Soon Justine's parents had enlisted her at a bigger tennis club with a major junior coaching programme - the Tennis Club St Gilles de Ciney. Her parents had to drive her there every day and Justine remembers eating her dinner and doing her homework in the back of the car every evening. She trained at other clubs, too, and was taught by several coaches, including Luc Bodart, Jean-Pierred Collot, Gabriel Gonzalez and Michel Mouillard. Like all champions she ate, drank and slept tennis, but it was a visit to the French Open in 1992 that set her on a tennis career. "I was ten years old," Justine recalls. "I had won a prize at school to go to the French Open...which was a big treat for me. Even at that young age, I knew it was a great match - Monica Seles against Steffi Graf, 10-8 in the third set." Halfway through the final Justine turned to her mother and made a solemn pro- -mise. She vowed that one day she herself would be playing on the Court Central. 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