Katrina颶風不只給美國南方造成嚴重災情，連美網都受影響
昨天的風速讓比賽變成雙誤的一天 XD~
莎娃前兩次發球就有三次雙誤，
她笑說幸好前一晚吃了巧克力蛋糕，讓她重了點，不然會被風吹走 (￣▽￣＃)﹏﹏
這是ESPN的新聞
完整的賽後訪問：
http://0rz.net/f30FH
(上面寫有Video，但我開不了 ╮(╯◇╰)╭)
Updated: Aug. 31, 2005, 8:47 PM ET
Sharapova moves on 6-1, 6-0
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Wispy Maria Sharapova was one strong gust away from getting
knocked over, though not out, at the U.S. Open.
It seemed that Sharapova had more trouble with the gusting wind than her
opponent.
"I'm really glad I had a piece of chocolate cake last night," she joked,
"otherwise I would have been blown away. It made me heavier."
Nearly as thin as her racket, the top-seeded Sharapova had more trouble
with gales up to 36 mph playing tricks with the balls than she did with
any of the shots by Dally Randriantefy in a 6-1, 6-0 rout Wednesday that
took all of 49 minutes.
"The first few games I was serving 69 miles per hour," Sharapova said.
"It's pretty funny. I think it's even funnier from TV because they can't
see the wind. These people probably think we look like beginners. That's
the sad part."
A trailing front from remnants of Hurricane Katrina blew through the Open,
the sun played peekaboo all day, dark clouds came and went after morning
rain, and the lingering heat and humidity continued to test the mettle of
players.
Paper and plastic scudded across the courts, umpires' microphones rumbled
with the sound of the wind, and the jets that are often diverted away from
the National Tennis Center roared constantly overhead to and from nearby
LaGuardia Airport. Lobs that looked as if they were perfect sometimes
sailed long, sometimes flew back toward the net. It was a day for
double-faults, a day for muttered curses.
Not surprisingly, the top players handled the shifting conditions better.
A day after former champion Andy Roddick fell in the first round, there
were no major upsets.
No. 4 Kim Clijsters, bidding for her first major title, won again in straight
sets, as did two-time former champion and No. 10 seed Venus Williams.
"It was deathly windy," Williams said, exaggerating a bit after beating
Russian Maria Kirilenko 6-1, 6-3. "It didn't choose a direction. It was
just swirling at random. I tried to add more spin, take some off the
serve, try to get the first serve in. Not go for too much, but still
play the right shots, try to move forward and be aggressive.
"It's easy to fumble and easy to self-destruct in those kind of conditions."
Sharapova, 18, kidded about gaining weight from a piece of cake but she
was serious when asked if she can feel herself growing taller.
"Yeah, I actually do," she said.
She started the year listed as a 6-footer in the WTA Tour guide, had that
changed later to 6-1 in her bio on the tour's Web site, and recently owned
up to being 6-1½. Vanity is keeping her from changing that to what might
be closer to the truth -- 6-2 or 6-3.
"No, I'm not going to admit it, even if I am," she said.
She's been listed at 130 pounds all year and said she wouldn't mind adding
to that a bit.
"Definitely not fat or cellulite," she said. "I'd prefer muscle."
Clijsters, built lower to the ground and a little more solidly at 5-8½, 150,
ran her record for the year to 51-6 as she seeks her seventh title of the
season and first Grand Slam championship. She missed the Open last year after
wrist surgery.
"Even when I was injured last year, when I started playing again, you get
motivated," she said. "It motivates you to work hard because you know that
those girls, they're working every day hard to get back, to be strong.
"I knew I had to put in twice the effort if I wanted to come back. It's not
just one player. It's the whole group that keeps you motivated and hungry to
play tennis."
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/usopen05/news/story?id=2147953
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