マリア・シャラポワへのロシアの女子選手の反感は
やはり相当なものらしい。
今日の日記は、残念ながらシャラポワへの悪口みたいなコメントが多くなることを
まずは了解していただきたく。
先日紹介したミスキナの発言は、水曜日のフェドカップでのもの。
その翌日もミスキナは
「どうして昨日言ったことを申し訳なく思う必要があるっていうの？
1人の人間として私に敬意を払わない人とは一緒にいたくない。それだけ。」
と話した。
ロシアのフェドカップの監督であるタルピスチェフ氏は
「事態はすぐに落ち着いて、ミスキナ、シャラポワ、クズネツォワらが一緒に
ロシアのためにプレイすることになると思う。」
と楽観的だが、あるフェドカップの関係者は
「シャラポワと他の選手の間の溝は、見た目よりもずっと深い」と話す。
「彼女たちは、シャラポワの急成長と高額のスポンサー契約に嫉妬している。」
クズネツォワら他のフェドカップ代表選手は、
公式の場ではミスキナの発言から距離を置いた立場を取っているが
実際にはみなミスキナを支持している。
ミスキナとシャラポワの対立に関してコメントを求められたクズネツォワは
「今年のフェドカップのチームの雰囲気は最高。みんなお互いに助け合っているしね。
でも（シャラポワが入ってきたら）将来も同じように高い士気を持てるかはわからないわ。」
と答えている。
クズネツォワはクレムリンカップの際にも「ロシアで最も人気のある選手は誰？」と質問されて
「もちろんシャラポワでしょ。でも彼女をロシア人と呼べるのかわかんないけど。」と
皮肉たっぷりの笑顔で言っている。
また、すでに夏ごろから、ミスキナやデメンティエワは
あまりにもアメリカナイズされたシャラポワについて
「彼女はロシア人ではない」と繰り返し発言していた。
7才の時にアメリカに移って以来、シャラポワはほとんどロシアには戻っていないらしい。
また、ロシア人であることを強調しているシャラポワだが
彼女の話すロシア語が外国人なまりがとても強いことや、
ロシアでの大会に出場しないことなどが、本国のファンをがっかりさせているようだ。
この状況を「クルニコワの時に似ている」という関係者もいる。
クルニコワもアメリカで成長して世界的に注目されたが、
本国ロシアではあまり人気が出なかった。
クルニコワがフェドカップの代表になるのを拒否していたのも１つの理由らしい。
シャラポワの場合は、代表になりたくても
他の選手との関係から選ばれないかもしれないという
もっとつらい状況にあるように思う。
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ロイター通信の記事
Feuding Russians Leave Sharapova Out in the Cold
Fri Nov 26, 2004 02:47 PM ET
By Gennady Fyodorov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Anastasia Myskina lashed out at fellow Russian Maria Sharapova and her father this week, accusing them of being disrespectful to her, it was just the latest spat in a long-running saga of "us v them."
Myskina said she would stop playing for Russia in the Fed Cup if the 17-year-old Wimbledon champion was invited to join the team next year.
"If she (Sharapova) joins our team next season you won't see me there for sure," said the French Open champion, who is spearheading Russia's challenge for their first Fed Cup title against France this weekend.
"I don't want to be on the same team with people who don't show respect to me as a person. End of story."
Myskina was angry at Sharapova's father Yuri for his behavior during their match at this month's WTA Tour Championships in Los Angeles. Sharapova beat Myskina in the semi-finals on her way to capturing the season-ending title.
On the surface at least, the feud between Russia's top two players appears to be pure sport -- everyone wants to be number one in their own back yard.
But in Russia the battle for the supremacy in women's tennis is as fierce as one can find in any sport, with four Russians among the top six in the world and three more in the top 15.
But several people close to the Russian team say the divide is actually much deeper than it seems at first glance.
"They (the players) are just jealous of Sharapova," a source within the Russian tennis federation told Reuters. "They resent her sudden fame and fortune."
RUSSIAN HERITAGE
While U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and the rest of Russia's Fed Cup team have publicly distanced themselves from the controversy, privately they all supported Myskina.
"I think this year's team has a great spirit and all the girls are very supportive of each other," said Kuznetsova when asked to comment on the Myskina v Sharapova standoff. "I don't know if we're going to have the same camaraderie in the future."
Sharapova has been kept out of this year's team by Myskina and Kuznetsova, but Russia Fed Cup captain Shamil Tarpishchev said he would welcome the Florida-based Russian next season.
Kuznetsova herself acknowledged her dislike of Sharapova at last month's Kremlin Cup.
When asked who is the most popular Russian player worldwide, the world number five said with a wry grin: "Sharapova of course -- but I don't know if you would call her Russian though."
The Siberian blonde left Russia at the age of seven to train at the famous Nick Bollettieri academy and has rarely been back to her homeland since.
Despite repeatedly pointing to her Russian heritage, Sharapova speaks the mother tongue with a heavy foreign accent and disappoints local fans by choosing not to play in Russia.
Tarpishchev tried to play down the latest controversy, which could jeopardize his team's chances of capturing the Fed Cup crown, but others see it as a case of deja vu for Russia.
"Things like this happen all the time," said the source at the Russian tennis federation. "When you have so many talented girls on the same team and every one of them sees herself as a future star in her own mind, you're bound to have ego clashes."
LEFT COUNTRY
Ever since some Russian players, like Anna Kournikova, left the country at an early age to learn their trade elsewhere, the ones who stayed behind have shown their resentment toward those who quit.
Kournikova was the first Russian in the post-Soviet era to make headway on the WTA Tour when as a 16-year-old she reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 1997.
But despite her photogenic looks, worldwide appeal and multi-million bank account, the Russian blonde has never been very popular with fans or fellow players back home.
When another long-legged Russian, Elena Dementieva, followed Kournikova on to the international stage, she resisted any comparison.
When asked about her relationship with Kournikova several years ago, Dementieva said: "We hardly see each other. I live in Moscow and she lives in the United States.
"And I've never refused to represent my country," added Dementieva, taking another swipe at Kournikova, who has repeatedly turned down a chance to play for Russia in Fed Cup.
イギリスBBCの報道
Myskina stands by Fed Cup threat
Anastasia Myskina has repeated her insistence that she will stop playing for Russia's Fed Cup team if Maria Sharapova joins the set-up in 2005.
Myskina said on Wednesday that she is unhappy with the courtside behaviour of Sharapova's father Yuri Sharapov.
And on Thursday, Myskina added: "Why should I feel sorry for what I said yesterday?"
"I don't want to be on the same team with people who don't show respect to me as a person. End of story."
The French Open champion ignited the row after the first day of play at the Fed Cup semi-finals on Wednesday.
"If she joins our team next season you won't see me there for sure," said Myskina.
"His behaviour is totally incorrect, simply rude. I don't want to be around people like him."
Sharapova has been kept out of this year's team by Myskina and US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Larisa Neiland, assistant to Russia Fed Cup captain Shamil Tarpishchev, said: "Maria's main problem is her father and I just don't see how he would co-exist with other girls' parents and team officials."
Referring to the season-ending WTA Tour Championships, won by Florida-based Sharapova in Los Angeles, Neiland said: "Every time Maria was playing a Russian girl, her father's behaviour was simply outrageous.
"I just don't see how he could work with the rest of us."
After losing to Sharapova in the semi-finals, Myskina said: "He was just yelling and screaming instructions to her and I thought he just might jump right on the court at one point in the match."
Sharapov received a warning from the chair umpire for coaching his daughter during the Myskina match.
Fed Cup captain Tarpishchev has tried to play down the situation.
"(Yuri) Sharapov has a strange, quickly-changing nervous system. It often leads to stressful situations," Tarpishchev said.
"I must say that parents often interfere with the team's process. It gives us an extra headache but they are not the ones who decide the make-up of the team.
"I feel that things will calm down soon and we'll have Myskina, Sharapova, Kuznetsova and everyone else playing for Russia.
"In my 30 years as team captain I've seen a lot worse situations and we've managed to survive all of them."
やはり相当なものらしい。
今日の日記は、残念ながらシャラポワへの悪口みたいなコメントが多くなることを
まずは了解していただきたく。
先日紹介したミスキナの発言は、水曜日のフェドカップでのもの。
その翌日もミスキナは
「どうして昨日言ったことを申し訳なく思う必要があるっていうの？
1人の人間として私に敬意を払わない人とは一緒にいたくない。それだけ。」
と話した。
ロシアのフェドカップの監督であるタルピスチェフ氏は
「事態はすぐに落ち着いて、ミスキナ、シャラポワ、クズネツォワらが一緒に
ロシアのためにプレイすることになると思う。」
と楽観的だが、あるフェドカップの関係者は
「シャラポワと他の選手の間の溝は、見た目よりもずっと深い」と話す。
「彼女たちは、シャラポワの急成長と高額のスポンサー契約に嫉妬している。」
クズネツォワら他のフェドカップ代表選手は、
公式の場ではミスキナの発言から距離を置いた立場を取っているが
実際にはみなミスキナを支持している。
ミスキナとシャラポワの対立に関してコメントを求められたクズネツォワは
「今年のフェドカップのチームの雰囲気は最高。みんなお互いに助け合っているしね。
でも（シャラポワが入ってきたら）将来も同じように高い士気を持てるかはわからないわ。」
と答えている。
クズネツォワはクレムリンカップの際にも「ロシアで最も人気のある選手は誰？」と質問されて
「もちろんシャラポワでしょ。でも彼女をロシア人と呼べるのかわかんないけど。」と
皮肉たっぷりの笑顔で言っている。
また、すでに夏ごろから、ミスキナやデメンティエワは
あまりにもアメリカナイズされたシャラポワについて
「彼女はロシア人ではない」と繰り返し発言していた。
7才の時にアメリカに移って以来、シャラポワはほとんどロシアには戻っていないらしい。
また、ロシア人であることを強調しているシャラポワだが
彼女の話すロシア語が外国人なまりがとても強いことや、
ロシアでの大会に出場しないことなどが、本国のファンをがっかりさせているようだ。
この状況を「クルニコワの時に似ている」という関係者もいる。
クルニコワもアメリカで成長して世界的に注目されたが、
本国ロシアではあまり人気が出なかった。
クルニコワがフェドカップの代表になるのを拒否していたのも１つの理由らしい。
シャラポワの場合は、代表になりたくても
他の選手との関係から選ばれないかもしれないという
もっとつらい状況にあるように思う。
----------------------------------
ロイター通信の記事
Feuding Russians Leave Sharapova Out in the Cold
Fri Nov 26, 2004 02:47 PM ET
By Gennady Fyodorov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Anastasia Myskina lashed out at fellow Russian Maria Sharapova and her father this week, accusing them of being disrespectful to her, it was just the latest spat in a long-running saga of "us v them."
Myskina said she would stop playing for Russia in the Fed Cup if the 17-year-old Wimbledon champion was invited to join the team next year.
"If she (Sharapova) joins our team next season you won't see me there for sure," said the French Open champion, who is spearheading Russia's challenge for their first Fed Cup title against France this weekend.
"I don't want to be on the same team with people who don't show respect to me as a person. End of story."
Myskina was angry at Sharapova's father Yuri for his behavior during their match at this month's WTA Tour Championships in Los Angeles. Sharapova beat Myskina in the semi-finals on her way to capturing the season-ending title.
On the surface at least, the feud between Russia's top two players appears to be pure sport -- everyone wants to be number one in their own back yard.
But in Russia the battle for the supremacy in women's tennis is as fierce as one can find in any sport, with four Russians among the top six in the world and three more in the top 15.
But several people close to the Russian team say the divide is actually much deeper than it seems at first glance.
"They (the players) are just jealous of Sharapova," a source within the Russian tennis federation told Reuters. "They resent her sudden fame and fortune."
RUSSIAN HERITAGE
While U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and the rest of Russia's Fed Cup team have publicly distanced themselves from the controversy, privately they all supported Myskina.
"I think this year's team has a great spirit and all the girls are very supportive of each other," said Kuznetsova when asked to comment on the Myskina v Sharapova standoff. "I don't know if we're going to have the same camaraderie in the future."
Sharapova has been kept out of this year's team by Myskina and Kuznetsova, but Russia Fed Cup captain Shamil Tarpishchev said he would welcome the Florida-based Russian next season.
Kuznetsova herself acknowledged her dislike of Sharapova at last month's Kremlin Cup.
When asked who is the most popular Russian player worldwide, the world number five said with a wry grin: "Sharapova of course -- but I don't know if you would call her Russian though."
The Siberian blonde left Russia at the age of seven to train at the famous Nick Bollettieri academy and has rarely been back to her homeland since.
Despite repeatedly pointing to her Russian heritage, Sharapova speaks the mother tongue with a heavy foreign accent and disappoints local fans by choosing not to play in Russia.
Tarpishchev tried to play down the latest controversy, which could jeopardize his team's chances of capturing the Fed Cup crown, but others see it as a case of deja vu for Russia.
"Things like this happen all the time," said the source at the Russian tennis federation. "When you have so many talented girls on the same team and every one of them sees herself as a future star in her own mind, you're bound to have ego clashes."
LEFT COUNTRY
Ever since some Russian players, like Anna Kournikova, left the country at an early age to learn their trade elsewhere, the ones who stayed behind have shown their resentment toward those who quit.
Kournikova was the first Russian in the post-Soviet era to make headway on the WTA Tour when as a 16-year-old she reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 1997.
But despite her photogenic looks, worldwide appeal and multi-million bank account, the Russian blonde has never been very popular with fans or fellow players back home.
When another long-legged Russian, Elena Dementieva, followed Kournikova on to the international stage, she resisted any comparison.
When asked about her relationship with Kournikova several years ago, Dementieva said: "We hardly see each other. I live in Moscow and she lives in the United States.
"And I've never refused to represent my country," added Dementieva, taking another swipe at Kournikova, who has repeatedly turned down a chance to play for Russia in Fed Cup.
イギリスBBCの報道
Myskina stands by Fed Cup threat
Anastasia Myskina has repeated her insistence that she will stop playing for Russia's Fed Cup team if Maria Sharapova joins the set-up in 2005.
Myskina said on Wednesday that she is unhappy with the courtside behaviour of Sharapova's father Yuri Sharapov.
And on Thursday, Myskina added: "Why should I feel sorry for what I said yesterday?"
"I don't want to be on the same team with people who don't show respect to me as a person. End of story."
The French Open champion ignited the row after the first day of play at the Fed Cup semi-finals on Wednesday.
"If she joins our team next season you won't see me there for sure," said Myskina.
"His behaviour is totally incorrect, simply rude. I don't want to be around people like him."
Sharapova has been kept out of this year's team by Myskina and US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Larisa Neiland, assistant to Russia Fed Cup captain Shamil Tarpishchev, said: "Maria's main problem is her father and I just don't see how he would co-exist with other girls' parents and team officials."
Referring to the season-ending WTA Tour Championships, won by Florida-based Sharapova in Los Angeles, Neiland said: "Every time Maria was playing a Russian girl, her father's behaviour was simply outrageous.
"I just don't see how he could work with the rest of us."
After losing to Sharapova in the semi-finals, Myskina said: "He was just yelling and screaming instructions to her and I thought he just might jump right on the court at one point in the match."
Sharapov received a warning from the chair umpire for coaching his daughter during the Myskina match.
Fed Cup captain Tarpishchev has tried to play down the situation.
"(Yuri) Sharapov has a strange, quickly-changing nervous system. It often leads to stressful situations," Tarpishchev said.
"I must say that parents often interfere with the team's process. It gives us an extra headache but they are not the ones who decide the make-up of the team.
"I feel that things will calm down soon and we'll have Myskina, Sharapova, Kuznetsova and everyone else playing for Russia.
"In my 30 years as team captain I've seen a lot worse situations and we've managed to survive all of them."
