マイアミニミニュース ３

M Safin (RUS) d I Labadze (GEO) 64 26 76(5)
惜敗ラバーゼ、ラケット投げつけはモチロン、スタンドにラケット投げ入れ(２回)、
ウォーター・クーラー蹴飛ばし、と大荒れ。さらに自分のシャツを引き裂いた模様。

試合後のインタビューで、帰りの飛行機の中で何を考えますかと聞かれたラバーゼ。
まず「バックハンド」と答え、さらに「きっと自分の体型について考えるよ。
テニス選手のようには見えないだろう(笑)。全然だよね。相撲レスラーみたいだ。」
　
相撲取りに見えますか？　Photo from Yahoo





マッチポイントを３つ握りながらモヤに負けたブレイク。
試合後のインタビューでモヤはブレイクにはトップ２０に入る力があると言ってます。
(ブレイクの最高ランキングは２００３年５月の２２位)
ブレイクもインタビューで調子が戻りつつあるのは認めてますが、ランキングが
下がったためチャレンジャーを回ることになるかもしれないとのこと。
身体面では、ものがかすんで見えるなどの後遺症も今はないそうで、もう大丈夫
と言ってます。

「気分は最高だ。健康なだけでとてもうれしい。去年だったらこういうゲームは
堪えただろうし、たぶんラケットの２、３本は折っていただろう。....(中略) ....
それに素晴しいゲームができたからあまり文句は言えない。楽しかったし。
勝てたらよかったんだけど。....(以下省略)」(ブレイク)
　　


フェデラーも髪を切ってポニーテイルにおさらばしたし、というわけでは
ないでしょうけど、フィッシュも全豪で長い髪を切りました。
フィッシュと仲の良いロディックによると、
「ジムで一緒にトレーニングしてたんだけど、彼はいきなり出て行ったかと思うと
頭を剃って戻ってきた。ボーズにするなんて僕には一言も言わなかった。」

フィッシュはかなりハードなフィジカル・トレーニングをしていて、その成果か
炎天下２時間半の試合なのにそんなに疲れなかったそうです。



クレイシーズン目前
全仏前週に開催されるワールドチームカップ参加選手が決まりつつあります。

ドイツ：　キーファー、ハース
スウェーデン：　ヨアキム・ヨハンソン、トーマス・ヨハンソン
アルゼンチン：　コリア、ナルバンディアン、ガウディオ
チリ：　チリサイトの様子からすると今年もあの２人(マスー＆ゴンサレス)が出る模様
　　　　「チ、チ、チ、レ、レ、レ、散れ、散れ・・・」なんて言っちゃいけませんよね(反省)

ただし、この大会は毎年ドタキャン＆ドタエントリーがとても多いので
フタをあけるまでは誰が出るのかはっきりしません。
コリアについては、「それまでに十分試合ができれば休むつもり(欠場)。
そうでなければ出場について検討する。」(コリア・コーチ)とのこと。



クレイシーズン目前
ご存知岩佐徹さんの「岩佐 徹のon-air / off-air」の３月１０日付アラカルトで
ナダルのいい話を読まれた方も多いと思います。
アウトと判定された相手のボールを自分の目でチェックし、シューズで
そのボール跡を消した - つまりイン＝相手のポイントであると認めたそうです。
さらにそれについて「特別なことをしたわけではない」と語ったとか。

たしかにそんなに特別なことではありません。
少なくとも、そういうことをしているのはナダルだけではありません。
選手にもよると思いますが、クレイの大会では主審・線審そこのけで
選手同士が「今のアウトかい？」「うん、ほんのちょっとだけどね」
という感じのやりとりをしてることがあります。

去年のシュトゥットガルトでのガウディオｘノバク。
ノバクサーブのゲームポイント。サーブがアウトと判定されました。
(うろ覚えですが、たぶんセカンドサーブ＝ダブルフォルトになった)
ノバクも特にそれに疑問なし。しかし、ガウディオはボール跡を
見に行って「アウト」というジェスチャー、ボール跡をシューズで消し、
スタコラサッサと自分のベンチに向かったのです。
ノバク応援団から「サンキュー、ガウディオ！」という声がかかりました。

これもいい話ですよね～　ね？　
でも、ラファだと「かくありたし」と平伏したくなるのに
ガトだとそーゆー気分になれないのはナゼ？



ガト＠２回戦(Photo from Yahoo)



Photos from ESPN
ガト＠２回戦


ガト＠たぶん２、３日前




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"I've really worked hard off the court, so it's nice to see it
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"I don't know if there's anything that's more frustrating than
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Roddick said. "It's a pretty frustrating scenario to be in."


ラバーゼ　インタビュー
Q. What things will you really think about on the plane tomorrow?
What are those, specific points?

IRAKLI LABADZE: No, I'm pretty happy with my game. But just definitely
I'm going to think about my backhand, so how can I improve my backhand.
Definitely I'm going to think about my physical shape, you know. I don't
look like a tennis player (smiling). That's for sure. Sumo wrestler.


ブレイク　インタビュー
Q. Is that fair to say that's the most unusual post‑match
handshake you've ever been involved in?

JAMES BLAKE: I've had some other pretty strange ones, too.
I've had a cramping issue. When I first started I actually had ‑‑
when I first started on tour, I had a couple cramping issues.
So I'm not sure. Have a memory of one time of a player ‑‑
I didn't shake a player's hand, and that was it. So this one,
this one ranks up there when I'm on the ground.

Yeah, at least ‑‑ I mean, I couldn't lose to a nicer guy.
He came over, was offering his help to take me off the court
and to wait for me. He really is a great champion and a great guy.
So I wish I could have gotten up to tell him congratulations
more sincerely, but I was, you know ‑‑ I told him since then,
so it's all right.

Q. He made a good comment about you: He said you belong in
the Top 20. What do you think you have to do to be there?

JAMES BLAKE: Well, I definitely feel like my game is getting
back to there. I think I can get there, but it's going to be
frustrating and it's going to take some time because my ranking
is so low now thanks to not playing all last year that I might
even have to drop down to challengers.

But I think the more matches I play like this, the more I'm
going to win of them. You know, to know that I can play with
a Top 5 player and, you know, last week in Indian Wells I think
I beat a Top 20 player, I've beaten a few other guys ranked
around 50, so I don't feel like I'm ranked 150 in the world or
whatever I am. I definitely feel like I'm playing a level that's
up there ‑ maybe in the Top 20; I can't say for sure because
the highest I ever made it I think was 20.

I feel like I'm playing better than I was then, but I just
want to make sure it's consistent and I can keep doing it.
It's a compliment coming from him because he's been in the
Top 20 for many years and knows what it takes. He also has
a game very similar to mine. If he says I'm going to be in
the Top 20, I take that as a pretty big compliment, and hopefully
I can live up to his prediction.

Q. How are you feeling physically? Is it "zoster,"
am I saying it right?

JAMES BLAKE: Yeah, that's I think 100% now. Doctors really
have a tough time telling when it's 100% healed because I'm
not sure if all the muscles right around my eye and all the
muscles on the left side of my face are 100%. But I feel good.
I don't have dizzy spells. I don't have blurred vision or anything
on the court anymore. I don't have anything like that.
I feel okay. I never know if, you know, a night match is going
to change, you know ‑‑ something's going on in my eye.

But I feel great right now. I'm so happy just to be healthy.
Every match like this, you know, last year I would have gone
home and probably broken a few racquets. Now I know, you know,
I get to go home ‑ although I'm a little tight, banged up
from cramping and everything ‑ but I'm going to go home and
I'm going to be healthy tomorrow hopefully, and I can't complain
too much because I played a great match. I had some fun. I wish
I had won. I'm going to learn from this. I think a different
perspective has helped me, and I think it will help me to
possibly get to the Top 20 and maybe even further.

Q. Is that caused by stress?

JAMES BLAKE: Yeah. I mean, there are other causes for it,
but in my case it was definitely stress‑related.


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