Re: 人氣十足無奈底氣不足 羅迪克要在美網瘋一把！
當我還在想這篇文章真不錯得時候
越讀覺得越"眼熟"
才熊熊發現 這是人家NY Times的文章啦!
所以 應該算是編譯的綜合報導囉!(有加一些其他的東西)
有些地方翻的稍怪
有興趣的人看一下原文吧...會更有感覺
文章小長就是了...Orz
kinda long but a great article from the NY Times by Karen Crouse
The private jet carrying the public face of American tennis was streaking from
Austin, Tex., toward St. Louis, Andy Roddick nestled in luxury's leather lap
with a tennis racket in his hands and an entourage of one by his side.
Slicing the air with his racket, Roddick turned to his sister-in-law, Ginger
Roddick, and said, "Did you ever stop to think I make a living doing this?" He
swung at an imaginary ball. "And this." Another swing. "How crazy is that?"
Roddick does this routinely, stepping outside himself and observing his life as
if it were a cheesy reality show. It makes him laugh, this fame he owes to a
potent forehand and a powerful serve.
"That's the weird part for me," Roddick said last month after landing for a
World Team Tennis appearance with the St. Louis Aces, which first employed him
when he was 17 and still relatively unknown. "Being famous never feels normal.
I don't know if it will ever become normal."
Heading into this year's United States Open, Roddick, who turns 23 tomorrow,
finds himself in an awkward position, the commercial equivalent of being caught
between the baseline and service line.
With Andre Agassi's tennis star dimming, Roddick is becoming the celebrity of
men's tennis stateside, with a new American Express campaign ("Andy and his
mojo" is the theme) making its debut this month and an A-list fan base that
includes the basketball player Amare Stoudemire, the poker player Phil Hellmuth
and the pop icon Elton John.
But Roddick is not the Open's headliner. Roger Federer of Switzerland is the
tournament's defending champion and the No. 1 player, perhaps for the ages.
Since Roddick defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in the 2003 United States Open final
to secure his first Grand Slam title and became, two months later, the youngest
American, at 21 years 2 months, to ascend to No. 1, Federer has won four of his
five Grand Slam titles and 22 ATP Tour events. In the same period, Roddick has
won eight ATP events and no major titles. Roddick lost to Federer, 6-3, 7-5, in
a final in Cincinnati last weekend, and is 1-10 against him.
The 24-year-old Federer, in fact, has overtaken Roddick everywhere but on
Madison Avenue.
Roddick, No. 4 in the world, could shrug all the way to the bank, but his
constitution will not let him. The same sense of fairness that compelled him to
overturn a linesman's call in his favor on match point against Fernando
Verdasco in Rome in May (Verdasco rallied to win the match) also makes him
reluctant about being a billboard-sized face for tennis.
"The powers that be in tennis realize you have to have an American star for the
sport to succeed in this country," he said. "I understand that, too. I realize
I'm kind of the persona of American tennis right now."
Roddick then added, "I kind of know you're only as good as your last result."
The public face of American tennis values achievement over celebrity. In March,
Roddick lost to Ivan Ljubicic in a singles match in Carson, Calif., sealing the
United States' defeat against Croatia in the first round of Davis Cup. Roddick
retreated to the locker room and immediately flipped open his cellphone and
called Ginger, who coordinates his off-court appearances and activities.
Roddick was scheduled to appear on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno the next
night. He didn't want to honor his commitment. "Cancel it," he told Ginger.
"I don't deserve to be on that show."
Ginger pointed out that he would be leaving Leno in the lurch by canceling at
the last minute. Roddick paused. He hadn't considered that.
He showed up on time for the taping the next day.
"It's kind of like a tightrope," Roddick said. "You have a presence because of
what you do between the lines. I don't want people to think I'm just out there
doing things like, 'Look at me: I'm a big deal.' But then you go back and ask
yourself, 'Am I doing enough away from the court to keep the interest there in
the sport?' "
He was a gung-ho soldier on the front lines of fame after his Open victory,
chatting up talk-show hosts, playing host on "Saturday Night Live" and
entertaining myriad endorsement offers.
"You live and learn," said Roddick, who spread himself thinner than skim milk
in projecting his all-American image far and wide.
Ginger said the months after Roddick's Open victory were manic. "There was so
much pressure on him to be the savior of tennis," she said.
Roddick, who passed up college to turn professional at 17, looks at celebrity
the same way he does a tailored suit. It's nice to have and trot out every once
in awhile, but not every day.
It may surprise opponents who look at Roddick's exuberance on the court and see
a showman ready for his close-up, but the public face of American tennis prefers
the anonymity of online poker to the celebrity scene; reading about Harry
Potter to reading about himself; authenticity to image-making; being a great
player to being known as a great player.
"I'm a homebody," Roddick said. "Give me an option of going gallivanting around
New York City or going out on the lake in my boat and listening to music, the
boat is looking good to me."
Last year, Roddick made a concerted effort to expand his game and shrink his
public profile. He broke up with Mandy Moore, the singer/actress he had been
dating for 18 months. He parted with his coach, Brad Gilbert, when Gilbert was
in the middle of a book tour promoting his latest motivational offering, "I've
Got Your Back," and replaced him with the decidedly more low-key Dean Goldfine.
He left Boca Raton, Fla., for Austin because in South Florida, where Roddick
attended junior high and high school and still keeps a house, "I was kind of
known as Boca's Boy," he said. "Everywhere I went, people would ask me about
tennis."
It's a different scene in Austin, home to Longhorns football and Lance
Armstrong. "Austin is a football town and a Lance town," Roddick said. "It's
the place where I go where I'm not watched. Nothing's really expected of me on
a day-to-day basis."
The public face of American tennis attracts people because he does nothing to
repel them. Roddick doesn't travel with bodyguards or let a glower be his
buffer.
The day he traveled to St. Louis, he checked into his hotel and was walking
through the lobby when he was approached by a teenage girl wearing a "Don't
Mess With Andy" T-shirt. She had been waiting for more than an hour to get his
autograph. Roddick stopped and signed an oversize tennis ball for her.
The girl's mother asked if Roddick would pose for a photograph, too. Sure, he
said. The smile stayed on his face even when there was a problem with the
camera, causing a few minutes' delay.
After playing mixed doubles, doubles and singles in his lone W.T.T. appearance
of the year, Roddick signed autographs for nearly an hour. A woman in the
snaking line gave him a Sheaffer pen with "Andy Roddick" engraved on it.
Roddick thanked her and said enthusiastically, "I've always wanted one of
these."
When Roddick saw Ginger a little later, one of the first things he did was show
her the pen. "Isn't it cool?" he said.
Dean Bonham, who runs a sports marketing firm in Denver, said: "Athletes like
Andy Roddick are very appealing to the American public. Parents can point him
out to their sons and daughters and say, 'That's the way to be a champion.' "
A few days after his straight-sets loss to Federer in the Wimbledon final,
Roddick was playing Texas Hold'em online. Other players were sending instant
messages about the bombings in London, which occurred the previous day. London
reminded somebody of Wimbledon, prompting the person to write, "Andy Roddick
got killed by that Swiss guy."
Roddick stared at the screen with a mixture of amusement and annoyance. He said
he was tempted to send back an instant message saying, "I hear that Swiss guy's
pretty good."
The public face of American tennis never planned to be the public face of
American tennis. "I never expected to be a professional at all, much less a
good one," Roddick said. "If you would have given me something to sign as a
13-year-old that said I'd be in the top 40 in the world some day, I would have
signed right there."
The public face of American tennis is not dating the pretty face of tennis.
Roddick and Maria Sharapova hung out at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles last
month because they were tennis players and mostly everybody else was not.
(Serena Williams joined them for a spell, but nobody wrote about that.)
Roddick will never get used to people being interested in his private life.
Dating can be hazardous enough without adding an obstacle as ubiquitous as the
spotlight. Roddick said he had learned something about fame and females: If a
potential girlfriend says she's comfortable with the circus, is that someone
really all right for him?
The rumored Sharapova/Roddick romance would have been a laugh riot to Ginger
had she not been bombarded with e-mail messages from people wanting to know
about Andy's life.
"Oooh!" she exclaimed as she was being driven to the Aces match. "Here's an
invitation for Andy to ride with Dale Earnhardt Jr. at the Indianapolis
Speedway." While nimbly sending a text message, she said: "This is a good day.
I'm going to tell Andy about this right now."
Later, Ginger was asked what constitutes a good day. "A good day," she said,
"is when Andy isn't pulled in a thousand different directions."
The next day, Roddick and Ginger caught a commercial flight to Indianapolis for
the RCA Championships. Roddick, the defending champion, lost in the
quarterfinals to a fellow American, Robby Ginepri, then told reporters he
"didn't come ready to play."
What he meant was that after Wimbledon he hadn't been able to carve out enough
practice time, what with his duties as the preparty host of the ESPYs and his
American Express commercial shoot and his one-match commitment with the Aces.
He pulled out of his next ATP event, in Los Angeles, citing a sore right knee.
A few days later, an e-mail message arrived from Ginger. Roddick's ride with
Earnhardt never happened. They hadn't been able to coordinate their schedules.
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原來Andy跟莎娃被傳在ESPY頒獎典禮過後 相談甚歡 兩個人聊到凌晨的事
人家小威當時也在啊! 媒體喔....嘖嘖...
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