[小威] 2007澳網四強訪問

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一樣先翻一半 S. WILLIAMS/N. Vaidisova 7-6, 6-4 An interview with: SERENA WILLIAMS THE MODERATOR: Questions, please. Q. It's been a long time since we've seen you so excited after a match. How much did that mean to you? 好久沒看到你比賽後這麼激動了這場對你有什麼意義? SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, I was pretty excited after Shahar Peer, and I think I was pretty excited after a couple matches. It meant a lot to me obviously to be in the final. 我打完Peer也很激動一直都這樣我想進決賽對我意義當然很重大 Q. How did you win it? Where were you better than Nicole? 你怎麼贏的? 你贏V娃贏在哪? SERENA WILLIAMS: I think I might have been -- I don't know. I have to think about it. 不知道我得想想 Q. How much difference does experience make in a match like this? Does experience stay with you if you go through a tough patch or do you have to relearn it? 經驗對這場比賽有多少影響? 打完很辛苦的比賽會累積經驗還是每場都要重新學習? SERENA WILLIAMS: I don't necessarily go back and dwell on those experiences. For instance, when I was in the match and this was tight I didn't think, Okay, I've been in this situation four times or five times or however many times I have been in that situation. I never thought about that. I just thought about more or less thinking rational and staying calm more than anything. 不是一定啦舉例好了我打一場很緊的比賽的時候我不會想說我曾經碰到這種情形好幾次我不會想那些我只是想理性.冷靜一點 Q. Do you regard it as an astonishing achievement to be in a Grand Slam final? 你覺得打進大滿貫決賽是驚人成就嗎? SERENA WILLIAMS: I wouldn't say for me it's an astonishing achievement. I would say I am happy more than anything. It's not astonishing or surprising. Definitely something I have always expected. 我不會這樣說我會說我很快樂這並不驚人絕對是我預期到的 Q. I didn't see Hobart, but your level first match in Hobart to now, how much higher is it? 我沒看你在Hobart的比賽你現在比在Hobart第一場好多少? SERENA WILLIAMS: No comparison. I was really excited that I went ahead to play Hobart because I was really rusty and I can see the rust shedding from my game literally. It was a great event for me to play. And I'm excited that I went there because I would have hated to start those two or three matches the way I did in Hobart here. 不想去比較我對打Hobart很興奮因為我當時球技生鏽了我可以看到自己正在退掉這層鏽對我是很棒的比賽我也很高興去那裡打因為我不想看到我在Hobart打的那三場在這發生 Q. Seemed that you got Nicole stretched out to be in command of the points. 看起來V娃讓你贏的很辛苦 SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah. Like I said, she's been on the tour for a little while, and I've seen her play a lot. So she seemed to have a plan against me as well, and we both just kind of had plans. 對啊他打WTA有陣子了很常看他打球他看起來對我有備而來我們雙方都有準備 Q. When the third match point went by, did you start saying, How long is this going on? Did you think about the gagarooney, as you put it? 當錯過第三個賽末點時你說"還有多久啊?" SERENA WILLIAMS: The gagarooney. No, not at that point. I just thought -- at that point I think she rushed me a little bit and I should have taken sometime to think about it. You know, I should have just walked back and took a few seconds. And I didn't do that. I thought about that after the fact. I couldn't think about that too much. I had to pretty much focus on other things. Q. You've been to many Grand Slam finals. Where does this one rate in the actual achievement of getting to a final, having played so little last year and all you had to go through at the end of last year? Where does it rate in your list of achievements? 你打了這麼多大滿貫決賽你怎麼評價這次? 你去年打這麼少又克服這麼多問題你怎麼在你的成就清單上評價這場? SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, it rates really high in my list much achievements, especially with my ranking. I think this is the lowest I've been ranked getting into a Grand Slam final. I think more than anything that's really exciting. I just love the competition and love the game. 蠻高的喔特別因為我的排名是我排最低的一次闖到決賽我想很刺激因為我喜歡競爭 Q. The second time you stop and when you come back for injury problems, you come back and you go to final to finals again. You are still at the level of the first players in the world. What it means that you are so stronger to the other players? You are a champion that's able in every case to come back and play at this level? 這是第二次你剛養好傷就闖進決賽你還是在頂尖之列是表示對其他選手來說你太強了? 還是因為你是一個冠軍所以你處於這樣的狀態就可以在剛復出處理任何情況? SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, I've always been mentally strong, I think probably mentally stronger than a lot of players on the tour. I think for me tennis has always been 80% mental. I think if you can get a grasp on that, then I've always had a grasp on that. Like I always say, I've believed in myself more than anyone. Even though it was hard, I really believed in me and in my game. 我一直都保持很高的心理素質我想可能比很多選手做的都好我想對我來說網球80%都是關於心理如果可以掌握住-我一直都有掌握好就跟我說過的一樣我比任何人都相信我自己不管情況多糟我都相信自己跟我的網球 No matter what, if I'm playing right it's hard for anyone to beat me on the women's tour. And that's if I'm doing the right things, it's really, really difficult, and I always believe that. That's still the way it is. 不管怎樣只要我打的好對任何人來說都很難擊敗我一直都相信是這樣 Q. In a match like this, how much time do you spend before the match going over kind of a mental checklist of what she does well, what you're going to need to do to beat her? 在這樣的比賽你花多少時間確認自己除了心理都準備好了? 包括他哪打的好要怎麼贏他 SERENA WILLIAMS: I approach the game different. I focus on me. I know maybe what are my opponent's weaknesses are going into the match. But I don't focus, Okay, I'm going to hit three balls to the backhand and I'm going to hit one over here. I don't do that. That's too much thinking in it. Serena Williams is not a thinker; Serena Williams is a tennis player. Got that? And that's what I do best. 我只專注在自己我知道大概對手弱點在哪但我不會專注在喔我要這樣然後怎樣怎樣我沒這麼無聊這樣想太多了小威不是一個思想家小威是個網球選手 Q. Explain that more. 多解釋一下 SERENA WILLIAMS: Actually I got that out of the Ricky Bobby movie. "Ricky Bobby is not a thinker, Ricky Bobby is a driver." 其實這句是抄Ricky Bobby的電影台詞啦 Q. So are you saying you're a little more reactive to the situation? 所以你的意思說你對情況比較敏銳? SERENA WILLIAMS: I definitely am. And I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. I kind of adapt to all situations. For me, it's always been important to play my match and my game. Like I said, I think if I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, and if I play well and do the things I need to do, it's really hard for anyone on the women's tour to beat me. 對啊我也很善變不管情況怎樣都可以改變對我來說打出自己的球才是最重要的就像我說過的只要我打的很好別人就很難贏我 Q. Do you think you intimidate other women out there because of what you have achieved? Where they take up, at that point you seem to let rip? SERENA WILLIAMS: I never thought about that. Maybe. I mean, that could be a possibility. Q. You've had tight matches all the way through here. Match points against you. But at that point, you seem to just shake off a change and away you go. SERENA WILLIAMS: Like I said, I don't think I had any actual match points. But I just relax when I get down. You know, I just like I become really calm more than anything. And I just play some of my best tennis. And sometimes I try to pretend that I'm down, even though it really never works, so I can get into that mental space that I'm in when I am down. Q. Could you have done this at the US Open if things had broken differently or are you better now than you were last fall? SERENA WILLIAMS: To be honest, I believed I was playing better at the US Open. I believed my strokes -- I just felt the ball better. I really believe I was really playing well there. I just think in some matches I got a little overconfident and things didn't happen the way they should have. But I believe now I'm -- I don't know the difference. I do believe that I was playing really well at the Open. Maybe my mind wasn't as well as it is now. Q. Do you think that actually the ability to play your way into form is a skill that you've acquired in the last couple years? SERENA WILLIAMS: I definitely think it's a skill that I've acquired. I think -- although I think it's something that I pretty much I think I have always had. Q. You've beaten more inexperienced seeded players on the way to where you are now. Kim or Maria next. How much more difficult will that be? SERENA WILLIAMS: Is that another shot at me being in the finals? Q. No. I am just saying they are more experienced than what you have come up against. SERENA WILLIAMS: I think Petrova was really experienced. And you might not know it, but these girls play a lot more tournaments than I play. Like Vaidisova, I think she has been in a semifinal before and she has played probably twice as many tournaments last year alone than I have in the past two years. Petrova obviously is No. 5. She's played really well. Shahar Peer who honestly played me so tough. She's played so many tournaments. Trust me, she has a lot of experience. Q. But in terms of finals experience. SERENA WILLIAMS: I'm getting there. In general, all the players I have played, I think they have had a lot of experience and they are good players. They weren't easy pushovers. Obviously, Jelena Jankovic, she's been having some great results. It hasn't been an easy road. I've only played one player that wasn't seeded. So finals experience, I think they have had opportunities to be in the finals just like I have. I just make that extra step to get there. Q. Has being out of the game increased your enthusiasm for the game? SERENA WILLIAMS: I didn't hear the first part. Q. If being out with injury recently, has that renewed your enthusiasm for the game? If so, if you stay healthy, will we see Serena full time on the tour this year? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah. My body feels really good. I have my schedule laid out and planned out. One of my goals is to play the tournaments that I need to play this year. Q. There is an awful lot of drama around you these days. Do you thrive on that? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah. You know, whatever I do, it's dramatic or it's in the papers or it's positive or it's negative or it's funny or it's not. I guess, you know, some people are just like that. Like I said, I don't really read articles. I just -- so I don't really know what's going on and being said. Just only things that I hear and people tell me. And I always try to tell people not to say things but you always have one little birdie that doesn't listen. I don't know if I even answered your question. Q. Do you enjoy having all the drama and people that are second-guessing you or confronting you with what issues people are talking about? SERENA WILLIAMS: I love doubters. You know, I have a lot of people even close to me who doubt. I love doubters. More than anything what I love, besides obviously winning, is proving people wrong. Ever since I was young, even when I came on tour, it was, Venus, Venus, Venus, Venus. Oh, and the little sister. My whole goal in life was just to prove people wrong. And that's one thing I enjoy so much. Q. Your father did say at the outset look at the younger sister. SERENA WILLIAMS: I told you, my dad is my No. 1 fan. Q. He did say that though. SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah. Like I said, I just like -- I don't know. I think that's something that I thrive on, people that don't believe. I think it just gives me strength or whatever the case. It is something that helps me. At the end of the day, it is something that helps. At the end of the day, it just helps me, which is awesome. Q. What does it prove that you can get through to a Grand Slam final when by your own admission you don't feel like you're playing your best just right now? SERENA WILLIAMS: It just proves that I have a lot more to work on and that I haven't peaked, that there is a lot of space for improvement. No matter what happens, I feel like I can improve and I can play better. I definitely felt like I could have played better today, which is for me really encouraging, that I know I can do better than what I'm doing now. Q. I think Vaidisova was serving 5-6 to stay in the tiebreak, set point. On your return, you let out this amazing blood-curdling yell. How much of that is involuntary or how much is that sending a statement to Vaidisova on the other side of the net? SERENA WILLIAMS: I don't necessarily purposely go out and do that. I just think it's kind of like just comes out of me, because at some point you get so intense and you really want to win. You know your opponent wants to win. It's like you're fighting those elements and you just go for it. Q. What's the prevailing emotion? It is rage or something else? SERENA WILLIAMS: Definitely not rage. I don't have too much rage in me. I don't know. I think it is more or less letting go. Especially if I am not doing what I want to do, and I finally do it at that one point, I'm like, Finally. It's like I've finally done it. Q. Looking at the results of last year, which one in your opinion was the really No. 1? Because you know Mauresmo won two Grand Slam finals, and Henin was playing, and then Maria. Which one in your opinion was the real No. 1? 關於去年的結果你覺得誰該是第一? momo贏了兩個大滿貫 Henin跟Maria也表現很好你覺得誰該是第一? SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, I think Justine, did she get to like four Grand Slam finals? That's pretty stellar. And she deserved to be No. 1 at the end of year. That's no easy accomplishment at all. Yeah, very impressive. 我覺得是Justine 他進了四大滿貫決賽他值得球后寶座那些成就很難達到 Q. Can you just break down Kim and Maria individually and what kind of challenges they will present to you? 你能分別談一下Kim跟Maria以及他們會帶給你的挑戰嗎? SERENA WILLIAMS: Actually both of them get a lot of balls back, Kim because she's so fast, and Maria because she's so tall. She reminds me of Venus because she just reaches balls. It's kind of unfair because they just got that extra height. 兩個人都很能回球 Kim速度很快 Maria長很高他常讓我想起Venus 能長這麼高真不公平 I think they both have really solid serves. You know, they're both very mentally tough. 我想他們發球都很讚心理也都不錯 Q. Do you think Maria is a better player this year? 你覺得莎娃比前幾年更好嗎? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, I hear she's winning. Is she a better player this year? 是啊他最近贏了不少變的更好? Q. Getting better and better as she goes along? 打的越來越好 SERENA WILLIAMS: Absolutely. And that's the way it should be. 應該要這樣沒錯 Q. Will you be watching tonight? 你今晚會看嗎? SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah. I'll definitely be watching. It's going to be a really intense match. 會啊應該會很激烈 Q. Do you think Andy has got a better crack this year? 你覺得Andy今年會打爆發嗎? SERENA WILLIAMS: Who knows? Definitely going to be watching. 誰知道? 等著看吧 Q. Commentary on Channel 7, an allegation that someone in your box using the reflection from their watch in the sunlight to try and distract your opponent. It was something that Nicole has denied. What was your response to it? 澳洲第七電台說有人在你的包廂拿手表去反射光在V娃眼睛 V娃說沒這回事你覺得? SERENA WILLIAMS: "Ha-ha-ha-ha." That's the most outrageous thing I've ever heard. As if anyone would do that on purpose. I think everyone wears watches these days, except for me. Most people do. So, yeah, ha-a-ha, like I said. That's so funny. 如果有人想這樣做太可恥了吧大家最近都戴起手表除了我以外這很好笑 -- -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 61.57.85.165