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March 27, 2008
因傷所困的克羅埃西亞選手Sanda Mamic最近復出(將近兩年半沒參加比賽),WTA官網寫了一
篇訪問,其中談了她的傷勢,手腕傷還有mono(恐怖的病),在養病期間她到大學學了網頁設計
並且去朋友開的公司幫忙.因為這段時間不能打球,也讓她多了很多時間,作一些平常的嗜好
,騎馬和看足球賽等等
復出後的影響? 過去擅打強力平擊球,但是因為手腕受傷後,她在球路上增加更多旋轉來
保護手腕. 至於目標,她最大希望是免於受傷,以及回到Top200.
過去她和Jankovic的交情不錯,彼此的哥哥也是好朋友.
Three years ago Sanda Mamic was one of the brightest young stars on the Sony
Ericsson WTA Tour, reaching quarterfinals at Budapest and Seoul on her way to
cracking the Top 100 by the end of 2004. However, disaster soon struck the
young Croat, as a spate of injuries put her fledgling career on hold for the
best part of three seasons. At the beginning of this month she made her
long-awaited return to action on Tour at the Canara Bank Bangalore Open,
winning her first round match before falling to No.1 seed Jelena Jankovic in
the last 16.
You spent a few years away from the Tour, how does it feel to be back?
Two and a half years away was pretty tough and at the moment it's kind of
hard to enjoy being back as I'm still trying to adjust my head to playing
competitive tennis after so long away. It's like a totally different world as
there are so many new faces since I last played in Portoroz at the end of
2005.
How did the injury come about?
Well, back in 2005 I played pretty much the entire season with pain in my
wrist and even after going to the doctor many times, they couldn't find
anything. The more I played, the more pain I felt and it distracted me from
my game so much that I was thinking of stopping tennis because there seemed
to be no fix.
Eventually I found a good doctor in Austria and he found there was a problem
with my nerve jumping around and he cut the nerve ending, but when I returned
to playing again there was still more pain. Then I had another surgery
because a cyst had developed, so I had to have my arm cut open again. I hoped
this was the end of it, but then after all this work my immune system must
have taken a hit and I got mono and I had to just stay in bed for a few
months.
What did you get up to during your time away from the game?
Well after these endless visits to surgery, I decided I couldn't force it.
Just take it one step at a time. Play occasionally and just try to ease
myself back. But there was also a long time when I couldn't lift a bag, let
alone hit a serve, so I lived a totally different life for a while. Like I
started studying IT at university and got really into web design and worked
for my friend who set a company up in that.
Did your injury break give you time to do some other things perhaps you
wouldn't have done if you had been playing tennis?
Well of course it is a totally different life off Tour. As well as my
studies, I got up to so many cool things. Like I did loads of horseback
riding and got to follow football which I also really like to do. It gave me
time to focus on things away from tennis for a while, maybe just live the
normal life of a young person. Although at the same time it was so difficult
to be away from tennis, as I love the sport so much and I always have such
fun on court and it was hard to live without this for so long.
How has the injury affected your game?
I have had to adapt my game since coming back. I used to have very flat
powerful forehand, but now I hit with much more spin so as to protect the
wrist. Coming back is difficult and I have had to try and stay positive and
build up my self-confidence again.
What are your goals for the season?
I'm not sure, after experiencing the last few years like I have, life is
tough to predict. All I can promise is that I will give my all and hope to
stay injury free. Me and my brother, who is also my coach, have set an aim at
getting back into the Top 200, so anything better than that would be amazing.
Obviously to be out for so long is frustrating, but I just have to work hard
to get back in shape, go to the gym to get completely fit. Maybe I also need
to play smarter tennis as being so tall and thin I think I'm pretty fragile!
Are you still friends with any players from your first stint on Tour?
While I was away I didn't have much contact with girls. But I was quite
close to Jelena [Jankovic] before I got injured as we are from the same part
of the world, the same age and our brothers are also friends. I'm a pretty
outgoing and friendly person so I'm hoping it won't be too difficult for me
to fit it and make friends on Tour.
Croatia and Serbia have both had a lot of success in tennis recently. What
do you think is the reason behind the success?
It's strange, as Croatia and Serbia are both pretty small countries. I mean
Croatia's population is just 4 million people, but we won the Davis Cup and
have always had good players, especially in mens tennis, like Goran
[Ivanisevic] and [Ivan] Ljubicic. I don't know if there is any one reason,
but we are strong at most sports. Maybe it is something in the air!
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