Seles在過去40年最優秀的網球員中排名第13位...

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報導在八月號的Tennis雜誌 Seles排名第13位以下是文章裡對Monica Seles的描述 (網站還沒更新可是我辛苦逐字逐句打上來的啊^^) 最後幾句滿讓人感傷的... 13. Monica Seles When Monica Seles was a girl, her father, Karolj, a cartoonist, encouraged her to play tennis by drawing characters on the balls. Perhaps that's why the woman with the Olive Oyl hairdo, Woody Woodpecker laugh, and superhero grunt ended up with a bang-'em-on-the-head game straight out of Looney Tunes. Nobody accused Seles of playing artistically. But the ferocity and accuracy of her ground storkes- struck with two hands on both sides-- more than compensated for her lack of imagination. She played the game with the mind-set of a sharpshooter, cleaning lines and scoring bull's-eye winners that even the most talented retrievers (Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario) or fleet atheltics (Steffi Graf) couldn't run down. Seles' game was so effective that when she won the 1993 Australian Open she had just turned 19 and was champion at eight of the previous 12 majors. She was on her way to tearing up the record books when, just months later during a match in Hamburg, Germany, she was stabbed in the back by a madman. Although the wound wasn't life-threthening, she was sidelined for more than two years, during which time the hellbent little was transformed into a philosophical woman. While she added one more Grand Slam title (the 1996 Australian Open) and a dozen more quarterfinals of her resume, she never dominated again. Her fans will always be left wondering, "What If?" by Tony Lance -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.115.204.49