Seles d Graf Event 1992 Rolland Garros Final

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原文是 Battles of the Gods From the November/December 2003 issue of TENNIS Magazine Monica Seles d. Steffi Graf EVENT: 1992 Roland Garros final SCORE: 6-2, 3-6, 10-8 This was supposed to be the match that set the tone for a rivalry that would pick up where Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova had left off. Instead, it now stands as a melancholy reminder of all that was lost to tennis when, fewer than 12 months after this championship match at Roland Garros, Seles was stabbed by a deranged Graf fan, left the game for 28 months, and never played at the same level again. Still, at least we have this one. It was a battle between belter and runner. Graf, the nimble, leggy, blond pride of tennis-mad Germany, had dominated the game in the late 1980s. Then Seles, built like Olive Oyl but armed with the power of Popeye, emerged from Yugoslavia, via Bradenton, Fla., and Nick Bollettieri’s academy, to mount a serious assault on Graf’s reign, earning her first major title at Graf’s expense at Roland Garros in 1990 and taking the No. 1 ranking from her in ‘91. As the two women prepared for the 1992 final in Paris, Graf still led 5-2 in head-to-head matches, but it had been a year since they had played. To reach the final, Seles had battled back from a 1-4 third-set deficit to beat Akiko Kijimuta of Japan in the fourth round and then recovered to win from a 2-4 deficit in the third against Gabriela Sabatini. In the first set, Seles attacked Graf’s strength, her forehand, and broke it down. But Graf lifted her game, using that forehand to drive Seles back from the baseline and win the second set. The third set provided some of the most entertaining tennis ever seen, an endless back and forth between two unyielding champions. There were break points reached and break points dismissed, winners that answered apparent winners, and errors that were not flubs but bold statements that fell just short of making their point. Ultimately, Graf fended off five match points, but she couldn’t wrest control from Seles. It seemed only fitting that the match ended when Graf unloaded one of her famous forehands, which smacked the tape and seemed to hang in the air forever before it fell back on her side of the net. “It definitely was a special match,” Graf said afterward, unable to know that Paris would never be quite as magical a place for them to meet again. --Peter Bodo 以下是我急就章的亂翻, 翻的不是很好可是希望拋磚引玉讓更多大哥大姐小弟小妹都能多提供一些小莎莎的文章如果嫌我翻的礙眼就直接看英文部分就好了! 如果想偷懶不想花腦筋的人可以看一下我的翻譯! 這是自那拉提洛娃與艾芙特之間經典對戰之後所選出來的另一場經典對戰. 除此之外,這也是一場回想起來事後網壇極大的損失的悲劇開端. 令人感傷的是就再這場冠軍賽後不到一年的時間, 莎莉絲就被葛拉芙瘋狂而憤怒的球迷刺傷, 而暫別了網壇幾乎有 28個月之久, 球技再也無法回到當年顛峰時的層次. 儘管如此, 我們仍曾經擁有在猛擊與快速奔跑間兩種不同風格的決鬥. 德國網壇的的驕傲, 金髮美女葛拉芙靈巧跑動與敏捷的反應稱霸了整個80年代後期. 接者莎莉絲出現了, 一個外型如同大力水手卜派的女友奧莉薇一般瘦弱的小女孩，卻有著卜派般強大的力量. 從南斯拉夫開始展露頭角, 經由radenton, Fla與尼克訓練營的歷練，激烈的攻擊撼動了葛拉芙的王朝。在1990年時在羅蘭蓋洛從葛拉芙手中贏得了他的第一個大滿貫頭銜, 並在 1991年登上了世界第一。在一整年的征戰後,進軍1992年巴黎女子年終大賽前，葛拉芙還以生涯對戰5勝二負的戰績領先，在晉級決賽的過程中，莎莉絲先是在第三盤1:4的狀況下逆轉打敗了 Akiko Kijimuta(這是伊達公子嗎?)接下來在第四輪再一次以2:4的局數落後下第三盤後來居上打敗了莎芭提妮，贏的了生涯的第三次對戰。決賽第一盤莎莉絲猛攻並破解了葛拉芙強大的正拍。但葛拉芙第二盤時提升了正拍的威力調動莎莉絲在底線邊來回奔跑並贏了第二盤。第三盤則是有史以來最具可看性的一場精采網球比賽，兩位頑強冠軍不斷的的在底線重抽攻擊，不斷的擁有破發點又錯失機會，兩人的致勝球你來我往互不相讓的勁飆，而失誤球的出現也是因為她們勇敢的嘗試著強迫取分。最後, 葛拉芙躲過了五個賽末點，但仍無法扭轉游莎莉絲掌控的局面。最後一球葛拉芙著名的正拍攻擊出手後，球打在網帶上並緩緩的落在葛拉芙的場區中，比賽結束。「這的確是一場特別的比賽」葛拉芙賽後說，但並沒有預料到日後她們再也不會在巴黎打出如此絕妙的比賽了。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 61.231.95.161