澳網賽前訪問
Sorry,因為不太有時間翻譯,所以只貼原文。
莎娃談了新教練 Thomas Hogstedt 的事,她跟原本合作多年的
Michael Joyce 目前暫時「take a break」,這次澳網他並沒有
同行。
記者會的照片:
http://www.tennisforum.com/showpost.php?p=18986198&postcount=4927
原文出處:
http://tinyurl.com/4gqrmdk
Q. Compared to a year ago, how would you put your career,
expectations? Roll it back a year and compare that to now.
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Yeah, well, uhm, last year didn't start on
the greatest note here in Australia. Besides that year,
I've always felt really comfortable playing here, have had
really good results. Obviously, it was disappointing to go
out so early. You know, it happens. You move on. You try to
learn as much as you can from it.
Yeah, you know, my ambitions are still very much there. You
know, I've been a competitive girl ever since I was pretty
much born. You know, I love the sport. Whether it's a loss
or a win, you know, I try to move on from that and, uhm,
build on that, whether it's little or big.
Q. How do you feel about your game now, where it is now? Is
it a big improvement from a year ago with all your injuries
behind you?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Well, the tournament hasn't started yet.
This is the time of year where, you know, you really see.
For me it was a longer layoff than some others. It's been a
couple of months. I only played one event since then, since
Beijing.
It's a great place to see for everyone where their game is,
what they need to work on, and try to build on from the
first few rounds.
Q. You ended last season as you began it in the rankings.
Does it surprise you it's taken you so long to get back to
where you used to be?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I didn't know what I would ever be when I
was out of the game for a while. I didn't know if I would
ever be back. That was a challenge in itself, just to try
to get myself, uhm, back to playing the sport again.
To be honest, on the way back, I never really thought about
ranking 'cause every time I stepped on the court when I had
an expectation of when I would be back, I would never reach
that goal.
For me, it was just about going out there. It certainly
took me a lot longer to get back to playing, you know, and
the reaction, all the things that the sport requires you to
do to get that back.
But it's still coming along.
Q. In order for you to attain your goals this year, what
really has to work well?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Uhm, you know, a little bit of everything,
I guess. In terms of the game, I'm not going to change my
game completely to suit certain opponents. I know what my
strengths are; I know what my weaknesses are. I try to work
on the things that need to be improved.
I think one of the things I lost by not playing for a while
is the action/reaction in the game a little bit, almost
like the hand eye coordination, letting things happen a
little bit more by themselves and not worrying about things
that happened maybe three points ago or so on. I think
that's the thing that takes most time.
Yeah, I certainly wish I could have played a little bit
more last year. Those six or seven weeks, uhm, after Indian
Wells, wasn't able to play some of the bigger tournaments.
But, yeah, hopefully this year will be different.
Q. After the season was over, how long did it take you to
actually start looking ahead immediately? How much time did
you spend reflecting on what happened during the year?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Uhm, you know, obviously you look back
through it because you want to make adjustments to make
yourself better, whether you finished the year 100 or
whether you finished it in the top 10. Whatever it is, it's
always been part of me ever since I played. You finish. You
only have a couple weeks off and you look towards something
that's going to make you better, that's going to help you.
There's always things to improve on. I don't think anyone
is perfect. I was sick for a while. I was supposed to play
in Moscow. I really wanted to play there. I came to Asia. I
wasn't feeling that great. Just went home.
Q. What did you learn from Auckland?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Well, one of the things, like I said, it
was great for me to have a little bit of a change. Kind of
had the same routine throughout the years. I played three
matches in quite different conditions. The last one was
tough. My opponent played really good tennis. It wasn't my
best day.
But it was good. I got some good days. It was pretty warm
up there in the first week. I got there a few days before
and was able to train. Much left after Christmas.
Q. What expectations do you have for achieving in this
tournament? Sounds like you don't have high expectations.
Is that fair to say?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: You know, while I'm my biggest fan, I'm
also my biggest critic. I'm not going to sit here and say
what my result is going to be because I don't think anyone
knows, including myself. That's why we play the matches.
That's why the nets go up, the tennis cans are opened with
the balls, you go out and play.
Whether someone has expectations on you, you don't or you
do, it doesn't really matter. It's all about going out
there and trying to win.
Q. Does the fact that you won here before help your
confidence?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Absolutely. No years take away from the
year that you did so well here and you won. I played
extremely great tennis throughout the tournament against
really, really tough opponents. I had one of my toughest
draws in a Grand Slam I ever played and got through it with
really great matches.
Yeah, that's definitely something you look back to,
especially when you go out on that center court. You look
back to the memories and the great times, yeah.
Q. Can you talk about your cooperation with your new coach
and the way he helped Li Na with her serve, did that help
you as well?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Yeah, I was really excited to bring
someone into the team that, uhm, really first of all has a
lot of experience behind his back, someone that's really
professional and goes about his business. I'm a pretty
private person in many things. He sticks to his job. He's
out there to try to make me better in different aspects of
the game. He did a great job with numerous amounts of
players, with Tommy. I got to know him a little bit in
Florida while he was working with Tommy. I knew him a
little bit. My team got to know him. We started working in
November. It's been really good.
I think that his experience can definitely help me, a new
voice. I worked with Michael and my dad for so many years,
I think it's just really positive to bring someone in.
Q. Chinese media said that Li Na saw the news from the
newspaper first and then got the news from Thomas. How did
you get started? Did your team make the approach?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I actually didn't hear anything about it.
He was one of the people that I considered working with.
Michael and my father, you know, wanted to bring in as
well. Yeah, that was pretty much it.
Q. There's always a lot of talk about the women's tour
being 'wide open'. Serena's not here. Is it really wide
open or are there four, five, six players that could
actually win this thing?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I guess you could say it's more open than
some other years, some other fields. You never know. You
can approach someone in the first round that doesn't have a
chance. You go out, they play some of their best tennis in
their life, go on and win the tournament.
I don't know, open or not, I don't think it really matters.
Q. Do you ever hang out with Anna Kournikova?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: You're the guy from New Zealand, huh?
Q. Yes.
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Oh, God, you're stalking me (laughter).
Q. It's not stalking if you love someone.
MARIA SHARAPOVA: It can be slightly, trust me (laughter).
Q. Is there a hot Russians club where you get together?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: No. I didn't know I was part of it. But no.
Q. What do you think of her career? She was photographed a
lot, all that sort of thing. You've also gotten that sort
of attention.
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I think she's achieved incredible things
in her career and brought a lot of attention to the sport,
especially in our country. She was one of the first few
from Russia to rise up and do really well. That brought so
much attention that so many younger players started playing
the sport. She did a tremendous amount of things for the
sport.
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