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標題: Re: [轉錄]Re: Tennis 雜誌所選的開放年代十大經ꠠ…
時間: Sat Nov 15 17:58:26 2003
轉錄http://www.tennis.com/progame/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=45462&itype=1296
BATTLES OF THE GODS 諸神的戰爭
THE GREATEST MATCHES OF THE OPEN ERA 開放年代以來10場最佳比賽
When you’ve been fortunate enough to witness a truly great tennis
match, you know it---one that pits two players of consummate skill and
fierce wills in a clash whose outcome is
anyone’s guess until the last ball is struck. At which point the fans,
as drained emotionally as the players are physically, exhale a bitter
sweet sigh of relief while the players
meet at the net, wearily acknowledging their shared accomplishment.
Though one of them may be crushed by the final score, he or she can take
solace knowing that, over time, the historic matches attain their status
by transcending the question of which player held up the trophy.
Since the advent of Open tennis in 1968, there have been hundreds of
classic confrontations, from which we’ve attempted to select the very
best. Besides the obvious criteria of quality of play, occasion, historical
context, and the stature of the participants, we asked ourselves, which
matches have stayed with us over the years? Which are already legendary,
or are destined to become so? After weeks of discussion (and a round
of last-minute squabbling to decide some close calls), here are---ta da!
---the 10 greatest matches of the Open era. --The Editors
(以下順序是按照年代先後排序)
1.Margaret Smith Court d. Billie Jean King
EVENT: 1970 Wimbledon final
SCORE: 14-12, 11-9
It was eerie, almost as if Margaret Smith Court and Billie Jean King
felt obliged to give the new Open game a gift from the women, one
that would match the marathon between Pancho Gonzalez and Charlie Pasarell
on the same lawn the year before. In completing the mission, Court and King
set the bar for generations of women to come.
Court was the top player in the world. A shy, tall (5-foot-9), and
soft-spoken Australian, she had a lean physique and
erect carriage. She was consumed by one goal: Becoming the second woman
in history to complete a Grand Slam. With the first two legs, the Australian
Open and French Open, in hand, Court was halfway there.
Court’s opponent was in many ways her opposite: Billie Jean King was
just over 5-feet-4 and bouncy, outgoing, and fond of the spotlight. And
King, playing in her fifth straight Wimbledon final, was the only player
capable of beating Court. At that time, the British weren’t enamored
of the outspoken Yankee. They far preferred Court, who showed proper
deference to Wimbledon and its traditions.
Each woman was injured. Court, nursing a sprained ankle, was injected
with an anesthetic shortly before the match. King had an aching knee;
she would have surgery a few weeks later. The first set was a see-saw
battle, each woman serving and volleying almost exclusively. Three times---
at 5-4, 7-6, and 8-7---King served for the set. Each time, Court broke.
The next nine games were holds. Serving at 12-13, after having brushed
aside a set point in her previous service game, King blinked. Court won
the longest first set in a Wimbledon singles final, 14-12.
In the second set, Court took command and King had to fight to stay in
the match. At 9-10, King served to save the match for a sixth time, but
Court relentlessly pressed the advantage, taking King to match point
five times before finally converting for the title. The shy Aussie had
shown her inner
steel. And later that year, at Forest Hills, she would complete the first
Grand Slam since Maureen Connolly’s in 1953.
--Tony Lance
2.Pancho Gonzalez d. Charlie Pasarell
EVENT: 1969 Wimbledon first round
SCORE: 22-24, 1-6, 16-14, 6-3, 11-9
In 1968, as the major tennis events began a new era by opening up to professionals, Peter O’Toole appeared on
-screen in The Lion in Winter, the story of an aging king who can’t
stop fighting. A year later, Pancho Gonzalez enacted the on-court version
at Wimbledon and, with former understudy Charlie Pasarell, gave the new
game its first legendary match.
Gonzalez was 41 as he walked onto Centre Court, but it was
only his third Wimbledon appearance in 20 years. After turning pro in
1949, he was banned during his prime. Even now, though, the “Lone Wolf
” had his powerful serve and even more powerful will to win.
Pasarell, 25, was a U.S. Davis Cup stalwart who had studied with Gonzalez;
now he faced the master. Their clash would be the longest in Grand
Slam history in games played--112, a
record that, with the institution of the tiebreaker, will almost surely
never be broken.
The first set was a match in itself. The two held serve 45
times, until Pasarell finally hoisted up a lob winner on his 12th set
point. The light was dying, but the umpire ignored Gonzalez’s requests
to stop play. Angry and dispirited, Gonzalez lost the second set 6-1.
After play was postponed, he skipped the customary bow to the Royal Box
and was booed as he stalked off.
When play resumed the next day, the sun was out and Gonzalez had
gathered himself. The two began by holding 29 times before Gonzalez hit a
forehand pass to break Pasarell and win
the set 16-14.
Gonzalez continued his excellent play in the fourth set, but Pasarell
began to match him again in the fifth. Gonzalez,
exhausted, was leaning on his racquet between points. At 4-5, he went
down 0-40, triple match point for Pasarell. But he narrowly missed two
lobs and Gonzalez eventually held. At 6-5, Pasarell again reached
0-40. Gonzalez--steadily making first serves--came back to hold. At 7-8,
Pasarell had another match point; again, Gonzalez saved it. The score went
to 9-9 and Pasarell finally buckled, losing serve at love.
Gonzalez staggered to a hold in the 112th game. As Pasarell’s lob on
match point went long, the older man smiled wearily and the crowd stood.
Though he would go on to lose to Arthur Ashe in the quarterfinals, the
king had survived 20 years in exile to rule tennis’ greatest stage on
this afternoon. --Stephen Tignor
3.Ken Rosewall d. Rod Laver
EVENT: 1972 WCT Final, Dallas
SCORE: 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5)
The 1973 Battle of the Sexes in Houston between
Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs is
often cited as the match that put tennis on the general public’s radar
screen. Actually, it had happened in Texas a year earlier, when two
Australian legends labored for five sets on behalf of a fledgling
professional circuit called World Championship Tennis (WCT).
The WCT Final in 1972 featured perhaps the greatest player
of all time, Rod Laver, against the most underrated, Ken Rosewall.
They squared off in Dallas’s sweltering Moody Coliseum before 9,500 fans
and a television audience that would grow to an unprecedented 21 million
viewers before the final ball was struck.
Although Rosewall was 37, he still had an effortless, energy-efficient
style. Laver, 33, who had already won two Grand
Slams, was bowlegged, scuttled across the court like a crab, and had
a racquet arm that hung beside his otherwise small
body like a lobster claw. A year earlier, Rosewall had snatched the
first WCT Final from him. In ‘72, Laver was out for revenge.
The match started inauspiciously, with each man playing well in streaks
--Laver broke out to a 4-0 lead in the first set, then Rosewall came back
and coasted through the second.
But by the end of the third set, the level of play was off
the charts, and it would stay that way for the rest of the night. In
the final set, Rosewall used his backhand, one of the game’s most
celebrated strokes, to build a 4-2 lead, only to see Laver wipe it away with
a series of furious topspin forehands and superb volleys. Ultimately,
Rosewall reached
a match point with Laver serving at 4-5, 30-40, but the Rocket dismissed
it with an ace.
A match-deciding tiebreaker was inevitable. When it arrived, Laver see
med to have more energy left. He jumped out to a
3-1 lead but then double-faulted to let Rosewall back in at
3-3. Still, at 5-4, with two serves to come, Laver had the match, and
the championship, on his racquet. In typical Laver fashion, he went right
at his opponent’s stronger side. But Rosewall was up to the challenge,
cracking a pair of backhand returns to win the next two points.
At 5-6, Laver smacked Rosewall’s next serve into the net.
The match was over--and men’s professional tennis was on the American
sports map. --Peter Bodo
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獲得他人注意的方法很多
但建立名聲與尊敬的最佳途徑便是通過歲月的考驗
你的名字最後是無人可以抹滅與忘記的！
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標題: Re: [轉錄]Re: Tennis 雜誌所選的開放年代十大經ꠠ…
時間: Sat Nov 15 18:22:00 2003
4.Jimmy Connors d. Adriano Panatta
EVENT: 1978 U.S. Open fourth round
SCORE: 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 7-5
It took the USTA National Tennis Center, the
new home of the U.S. Open, just four rounds to produce a signature match.
To no one’s surprise, it featured Jimmy Connors.
Heading into his round-of-16 encounter with Italy’s Adriano Panatta,
the second-seeded Connors was in a bit of a slump. A year earlier he had
lost his Open title to Guillermo Vilas, and that summer he had suffered
a straight-set loss to arch-rival Bjorn Borg in the Wimbledon final.
But a victory on the hard courts at Flushing Meadows would
enable Connors to complete a unique triple---winning the U.S. Open on
three different surfaces (he had won on grass in 1974 and clay in ‘76)
. First, though, he would have to get by Panatta, and that was no sure
thing. The Italian had beaten Connors once before, had won the French
Open two years earlier, and his combination of touch and power could be
lethal on any given day.
This was one of those days. As the match unfolded, it became apparent
that the streaky Panatta had brought his A game.
The men split the first four sets, and Panatta served for the match
at 5-4 in the fifth. But from 30-30 in that game, Connors broke and then
held easily for 6-5. He smelled blood.
Panatta fell behind 0-40 on his serve but saved all three match points
. He staved off another match point with an ace.
On the second deuce of the game, Connors fired tennis’ version of
the “shot heard round the world.” Flying forward and wide toward Panatta
’s sharply angled volley, Connors stretched and hit a one-handed
backhand that never went over the net---it whistled past the netpost and
landed just inside the singles sideline for an astonishing winner.
A shaken Panatta double-faulted to lose the match. From there, Connors
would go on to win the tournament without dropping another set. After
the match, Panatta summed up his opponent: “In Italy we have a saying
that means ‘He does not want to die.’ That is Jimmy.” --David Rosenberg
5.Bjorn Borg d. John McEnroe
EVENT: 1980 Wimbledon final
SCORE: 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (16), 8-6
Eighteen-sixteen. The numbers are burned in the mind of every tennis fan.
They are, of course, the score of the most famous tiebreaker in the
game’s history, the battle that would help make the first Grand Slam war
between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe into a classic.
This was a match that Don King might have promoted the way
he had the Ali-Frazier bouts of the 1970s. It was the two best players
in the world bringing their contrasting styles to the game’s biggest
stage: the baseliner Borg against the serving-and-volleying McEnroe, the
aloof Swede versus the Superbrat from New York.
They jabbed from across the court with probing serves, sharply angled
volleys, and dipping passing shots, hoping to find and exploit a weakness.
When the four-time defending champion Borg took a two-sets-to-one lead,
he seemed poised to deliver the knockout punch as he had on this court
so many times before. Then, once McEnroe won the endless tiebreaker af
ter saving five match points, it was impossible to imagine how Borg would
rally.
But rally he did. Despite the disappointment of the fourth
set, Borg remained uncannily cool in the fifth, winning 28 of 29 points
on his serve and finally passing McEnroe cleanly on his eighth match
point. In classic Borg fashion, the winner failed to show even a flicker
of emotion until the conclusion of the match, when he collapsed to his
knees in his signature gesture of victory. Afterward, he told NBC’s Bud
Collins, “That was probably the best match that I’ve ever played at
Wimbledon.”
Even the loser remembers the day fondly. During McEnroe’s
induction into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999, he declared
that among all the matches he had played, this one meant the most. “
The vibrations and goodwill that I get from people
from that match are incredible,” Mac said. “It’s far and
away my most talked-about match.” --James Martin
6.John McEnroe d. Mats Wilander
EVENT: 1982 Davis Cup quarterfinal, St. Louis
SCORE: 9-7, 6-2, 15-17, 3-6, 8-6
Bjorn Borg
dropped out of the game in 1982, but John McEnroe wasn’t off the hook.
That summer, he and a new stoical Swede, 17-year-old Mats Wilander, began
their own rivalry by playing the longest singles match in history.
At the time, nobody would have predicted it. Going into the fifth and
decisive match in this U.S. vs. Sweden Davis Cup
tie, McEnroe was the prohibitive favorite. He had represented the U.S
. in Davis Cup since 1978 and led the team to victories in ‘79 and ‘81
; he had won four majors; and the surface in St. Louis was a fast indoor
carpet that suited his attacking style.
Wilander, by contrast, was a rookie who had won his first pro title a
few weeks earlier. OK, so that title happened to
be the French Open. But while he was consistent and mentally tough,
Wilander would have to fend off the world’s best before a U.S. crowd.
While McEnroe won the first set 9-7, the tone for the match was set by
Wilander. His willingness to retrieve any ball and ability to hit
precise passing shots let everyone in the
building know that this was going to be a long night.
The momentum didn’t begin to shift until the third set. Down two sets
to love, Wilander hung in for two and a half hours and 32 games to
wrest away the third set. He took control in the fourth and suddenly the
most talented player in the
world seemed on the verge of succumbing to a teenage grinder.
The final set proved once again that McEnroe could play his best even
when he was at his worst. In the first game, he was hit with a point
penalty for swatting a ball at an official to protest a call. But Mac
settled down and won the game
anyway. From there, both players held steady until Wilander, finally
feeling the pressure, served at 6-7 and fell behind 15-40, two match
points for McEnroe. The Swede saved one, then rushed on the next point and
missed a crosscourt forehand. It was an anticlimactic end, but at six
and a half hours, the seeming mismatch had given fans more great tennis
than they could ever have expected. --James Martin
7.Chris Evert d. Martina Navratilova
EVENT: 1985 Roland Garros final
SCORE: 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-5
These tennis icons of the 1980s tangled 80 times,
creating one of the greatest rivalries in the history of any sport
(Navratilova held the final edge, 43-37). Many of those matches were memorable,
but their 1985 final at Roland Garros produced the ultimate in drama,
significance, and entertainment.Navratilova came into Paris
for their 65th meeting with a slim 33-31 lead in the series, but she
had won 14 of their last 15 matches, including a 6-3, 6-1 demolition of
Evert in the previous year’s French final. That was a particularly galling
loss for Evert because
clay was her favorite surface, and she conceded after that debacle that
the rivalry was becoming embarrassingly one-sided.
Still, as a five-time French champion, Evert knew that if Navratilova
was vulnerable on any surface it was clay. And Evert was further encouraged
when the conditions on the morning of the final were wet and windy.
She was a counterpuncher
who had grown up playing on clay in Florida, where the weather is often
unpredictable. Navratilova, who played a precise serve-and-volley game,
preferred more stable conditions and could be thrown off her game under
pressure.
Evert reeled off three games to start the match, surrendered three, and
took the set by winning the next three. She broke to a 4-2 lead in the
second set and ultimately served for the match, but Navratilova rallied
and brought the set to a tiebreaker, which she won 7-4, forcing a deciding
third set.
Evert immediately rallied, bolting to a 2-0 lead in the third, and at
5-3 she found herself again serving for the match. Again she was broken.
Navratilova then held and ran out to a 0-40 lead in Evert’s next service
game. Somehow, though, Evert clawed her way back to hold for 6-5. With N
avratilova serving, Evert finally got to match point--and cashed in with
a remarkable winner, a down-the-line backhand passing shot on the run.
“Chris played well. No question,” Navratilova recalled. “But that
was one match [coach] Mike Estep and I overcooked. We went overboard on
strategy and I didn’t let my instincts play any role. I just kept
reacting and didn’t create.”
Evert later confessed that at the time she was beginning to doubt her
ability to keep pace with Navratilova. The win, which gave her a record
sixth French Open title (with yet another to come in 1986), was more
satisfying than any other major title in her career. --Jon Levey
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作者: yevgeny (ありがとう、今) 看板: Graf
標題: Re: Tennis 雜誌所選的開放年代十大經典球賽
時間: Wed Nov 12 04:27:16 2003
※ 引述《Architect (Suede 解散!!!)》之銘言：
: '92 年的法網決賽又入選了.
請問一下另外九場是哪九場啊???
: 這場我沒看過.
: (我從 '92 年 Wimbledon 開始看 Graf 打球的,又 '92 法網決賽 Graf 輸球所以沒去借錄
: 影帶來看.....)
: 很好奇,想請問看過的朋友:真的那麼精彩嗎?
92年法網台灣好像沒撥 不過93年好像就有 這是題外話
不過我好像有在某一場比賽之前的空檔 看到回顧92年法網決賽的最後一局
如同大家知道的第三盤比數 10:8
其實在8:8的時候是Graf先發球(在之前兩人好像有互保也有互破)
但是很不幸的Graf再次被破
所以我看到的時候是Seles以9:8領先然後輪到她發球
其實就如同她們往常的打法一樣
兩個人的角度都打的非常非常的開 而且幾乎都砸在底線上
我只記得兩個人一直調動對方 然後一直被對方調動
整局幾乎沒有一球是好好站著打的(除了接發球) 大部分時間都是在跑動
就看兩人在紅土的底線上左右奔跑 只能說還沒被刺的Seles速度真的很快
腳步的小跳躍不斷 其實不輸Graf
然後即使前一局被破的Graf也毫不手軟
再來就到了最令人印象深刻的賽末點 兩人來回了非常多拍 而且都壓著底線
當Graf打了一個正拍大斜線 球到了Seles場是左撇子Seles的反拍
沒想到Seles到位之後也來一個反拍大斜線打回Graf的正拍
而且那個落點很深而且力道很強的的反拍大斜線 好像有點擠到Graf的正拍
當Graf正拍出拍的時候 動作有點用撈的 打回直線也就是Seles的正拍
不過因為Graf出拍很快 即使那個被擠到的直線球其實Seles有點來不及到位
就在那個球在Seles眼前落地的時候 線審和Seles也看到了那是一個稍微出界的界外球
(但是應該很接近 進了的話Seles應該打不回去)
於是Seles興奮地小跳躍到網前與Graf握手 忘記有沒有親了 XD 應該是有 冷漠的親臉頰
那時候的Graf其實沒什麼變 還是一樣很冷靜 表情沒寫在臉上
倒是我覺得Seles比91年好 我看一些91年的照片
她是捲捲的金短髮 然後衣服穿的很鬆 又沒紮到裙子裡 感覺真的很南斯拉夫 XD
不過92年好多了 染了棕髮 然後髮型是白巾包包頭 衣服也有紮了 感覺典雅多了
而且跟穩重的Graf在一起 好像小妹妹和大姐姐 -.-
雖然我是Seles的球迷 但是看Graf的比賽應該比看Seles的多吧
(我妹超愛Graf 我剛好相反 我喜歡Seles和Hingis 以前都和她狂吵)
其實我覺得當兩人都在最佳顛峰狀況的時候 其實Graf是能擊敗Seles的
兩人的實力差不多是10比9.5 其實Graf的強力正拍仍然相當讓Seles困擾
當她站的穩穩的打出正拍的時候 我覺得Seles仍然難以招架
但是重點是Seles不會讓她站穩穩的打正拍
所以在91 92年的時候 其實Seles全年幾乎都是很穩定的保持在9.5
反觀Graf卻無法持續的保持超過9.5的最佳狀況 甚至跌到9
就會先輸給其他狀況超過9的球員
93年澳網決賽也是個好例子 當第一盤Seles角度沒打開的時候
Graf以多球正手拍發威 6:4取勝
但是接下來的二三盤 Seles幾乎是眼睛裡好像只有Graf場的兩個對角 對著兩個角落在打
最常見的模式 就是Seles一個很深的重球槌到Graf的反拍
當Graf的反拍只是防禦性切球回去 很短被攻擊是正常的
Seles大拍一揮到Graf正拍 Graf跑不到位變成winner
但是連切回去很深貼在底線的切球 Seles照樣沒有困難地大角度打回Graf的正拍大對角
當Graf跑不回去又是一個winner
因為那時候Seles擊球重心都蹲的很低 第一時間快速擊球 這是她贏分的模式
我記得93年澳網決賽 當Seles打的順的時候 幾乎是winner連發
不過要是沒有抓好角度 當Seles的回球讓Graf的正拍能到位
無論是站的穩穩的或是奔跑到位 Graf那一記用掃的正拍
Seles幾乎就會失去所有的優勢 之前的調動全部付諸流水......
所以很有趣 兩人的打法似乎有剋到
Graf的強力正拍和反拍低切球在Seles狀況不好的時候似乎能打亂Seles的節奏
(92溫布頓決賽) 這幾乎是當時其他球員對戰Seles時無法辦到的
像Seles的招牌叫聲 一聲接著一聲很流暢 節奏都掌握在自己手裡
不過遇上Graf 我覺得很多時候她的叫聲好像都還要用大腦想一想才能叫出來 有點紊亂 :P
但是Seles的左右大角度攻擊剛好又能在Graf狀況不好的時候讓她吃足苦頭
(93年澳網決賽) 這也幾乎是其他球員對戰Graf時無法辦到的
像以Graf的腳程和前一球的威力 對手回球要變成winner幾乎是不可能的事
不過遇上Seles 她的速度和角度給予Graf的winners應該是前無古人後無來者的
很奇妙的 兩人剛好可以互相痛擊對方的弱點
沒有人像Graf那麼能變化擊球節奏 也沒有人能像Seles那麼能拉開角度
所以兩人的比賽真的非常之精采 絕對是女網之最 真的有"世紀對決"的那種氣勢
張力之高絕對是現在女網所沒有的
因為兩人都有非常鮮明的武器 感覺她們不是在打球 而是在揮灑球技 表演球技
真正能左右勝負的只有兩人臨場的狀態
可惜的是 最精采的對決就那麼短短幾場 就像曇花的生命短促一樣......
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