例のミスキナ発言の結果、ついにこんな見出しの記事が。
イギリスのザ・ガーディアン紙
"Sharapova may swap Russia for US team place"
(シャラポワ、ロシアではなくアメリカ代表入りの可能性)
肝心の記事を読んでみたけど、別にマリア・シャラポワが
そのようなことを口にしたとかいうことではなく
アメリカに長く生活するシャラポワならそれを選ぶこともできるのではないか、
可能性がないこともない、というただそれだけの模様。
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英国ザ・ガーディアン紙の記事
Sharapova may swap Russia for US team place
Myskina's wrath leaves Wimbledon champion with an identity crisis
Richard Jago in Moscow
Saturday November 27, 2004
The Guardian
Russia's attempt to win the women's world team championship for the first time will take place over the next two days against a distracting background row over the future of the Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova.
Anastasia Myskina is so incensed at the possibility of Sharapova joining next year's Fed Cup team that she is suggesting Russia's historic final against France, the defending champions, could be her last match for the motherland.
This has left the captain Shamil Tarpischev with a worrisome diplomatic task and even raised the distant but still more unpleasant possibility that the Florida-domiciled Sharapova might solve the problem by electing to play for the United States instead.
Though the vastly experienced Tarpischev is capable of finding the solution, the timing could not have been worse. Instead of helping everyone to focus on an occasion which some may see as a liberation from decades of depression, Myskina has become side-tracked into pistol-pointing.
"I don't want to be on the same team as people who won't show me respect," the French Open champion has said several times, eventually following it up with "I won't renounce what I've said" and an emphatic "end of story".
Her team-mate Svetlana Kuznetsova, the US Open champion, had already made it clear that winning the Fed Cup would be more important to her than anything she has done but Myskina may not agree. She certainly will not if Sharapova's father turns up, as reportedly he plans to do.
It was Yuri Sharapov's behaviour while his daughter was winning the WTA Championships in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago - allegedly involving a finger gesture, a lot of eccentric behaviour and verbal insults - which has triggered Myskina's ire.
But in the problem Tarpischev sees the ingredients of the solution: it is not the player who is causing the impasse but the father. "He is very emotional," said Tarpischev. "He has a very fragile psychological system, a strange, quick-changing nervous system, and he may say lots of things.
"Parents often interfere with the process. But they are not the ones who decide. This is more serious than small personal differences. It's another headache but it's not a conflict. There couldn't be any argument with Sharapova. I think she would make a very good team player. The problem is just relations with her dad."
It may be a sensible way to deal with it, except that not only does Myskina disagree, she claims others do, too. "She [Sharapova] will never be among us because she's on bad terms with the team," Myskina insisted. "What Sharapova's father is doing is beyond education," she added, suggesting that whatever faults the 17-year-old has are incorrigible.
Tarpischev knows that things could get worse. Children who leave Russia, and particularly those who become Americanised, are often regarded as a scar on the soul, and deep feelings can well up.
"She went out of Russia when she was very small and it was not her choice," he said. "Now it's her time to make her choice. But I think if she was to make a choice in favour of becoming American, she wouldn't be on such good terms with [President] Putin, or with me. And her father comes here to spend his vacation. So I think they feel their roots. Usually in a situation where a person wants to change citizenship they are not so open."
Tarpischev will not need reminding that this situation is unusual. He is also acutely aware that the more pressing job is to ensure that this cloud over the future does not become a cloud over the present. Although Russia are the strong favourites to beat a French team which is without both Amélie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce, not too much can be taken for granted against Nathalie Dechy, the world No21, nor Tatiana Golovin, the Moscow-born 16-year-old.
Russia v France
(Russian names first)
Today
Svetlana Kuznetsova v Nathalie Dechy
Anastasia Myskina v Tatiana Golovin
Tomorrow
Reverse singles
Anastasia Myskina v Nathalie Dechy
Svetlana Kuznetsova v Tatiana Golovin
Doubles
Vera Zvonareva/Elena Likhovtseva v Emilie Loit/Marion Bartoli
イギリスのザ・ガーディアン紙
"Sharapova may swap Russia for US team place"
(シャラポワ、ロシアではなくアメリカ代表入りの可能性)
肝心の記事を読んでみたけど、別にマリア・シャラポワが
そのようなことを口にしたとかいうことではなく
アメリカに長く生活するシャラポワならそれを選ぶこともできるのではないか、
可能性がないこともない、というただそれだけの模様。
---------------------------------
英国ザ・ガーディアン紙の記事
Sharapova may swap Russia for US team place
Myskina's wrath leaves Wimbledon champion with an identity crisis
Richard Jago in Moscow
Saturday November 27, 2004
The Guardian
Russia's attempt to win the women's world team championship for the first time will take place over the next two days against a distracting background row over the future of the Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova.
Anastasia Myskina is so incensed at the possibility of Sharapova joining next year's Fed Cup team that she is suggesting Russia's historic final against France, the defending champions, could be her last match for the motherland.
This has left the captain Shamil Tarpischev with a worrisome diplomatic task and even raised the distant but still more unpleasant possibility that the Florida-domiciled Sharapova might solve the problem by electing to play for the United States instead.
Though the vastly experienced Tarpischev is capable of finding the solution, the timing could not have been worse. Instead of helping everyone to focus on an occasion which some may see as a liberation from decades of depression, Myskina has become side-tracked into pistol-pointing.
"I don't want to be on the same team as people who won't show me respect," the French Open champion has said several times, eventually following it up with "I won't renounce what I've said" and an emphatic "end of story".
Her team-mate Svetlana Kuznetsova, the US Open champion, had already made it clear that winning the Fed Cup would be more important to her than anything she has done but Myskina may not agree. She certainly will not if Sharapova's father turns up, as reportedly he plans to do.
It was Yuri Sharapov's behaviour while his daughter was winning the WTA Championships in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago - allegedly involving a finger gesture, a lot of eccentric behaviour and verbal insults - which has triggered Myskina's ire.
But in the problem Tarpischev sees the ingredients of the solution: it is not the player who is causing the impasse but the father. "He is very emotional," said Tarpischev. "He has a very fragile psychological system, a strange, quick-changing nervous system, and he may say lots of things.
"Parents often interfere with the process. But they are not the ones who decide. This is more serious than small personal differences. It's another headache but it's not a conflict. There couldn't be any argument with Sharapova. I think she would make a very good team player. The problem is just relations with her dad."
It may be a sensible way to deal with it, except that not only does Myskina disagree, she claims others do, too. "She [Sharapova] will never be among us because she's on bad terms with the team," Myskina insisted. "What Sharapova's father is doing is beyond education," she added, suggesting that whatever faults the 17-year-old has are incorrigible.
Tarpischev knows that things could get worse. Children who leave Russia, and particularly those who become Americanised, are often regarded as a scar on the soul, and deep feelings can well up.
"She went out of Russia when she was very small and it was not her choice," he said. "Now it's her time to make her choice. But I think if she was to make a choice in favour of becoming American, she wouldn't be on such good terms with [President] Putin, or with me. And her father comes here to spend his vacation. So I think they feel their roots. Usually in a situation where a person wants to change citizenship they are not so open."
Tarpischev will not need reminding that this situation is unusual. He is also acutely aware that the more pressing job is to ensure that this cloud over the future does not become a cloud over the present. Although Russia are the strong favourites to beat a French team which is without both Amélie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce, not too much can be taken for granted against Nathalie Dechy, the world No21, nor Tatiana Golovin, the Moscow-born 16-year-old.
Russia v France
(Russian names first)
Today
Svetlana Kuznetsova v Nathalie Dechy
Anastasia Myskina v Tatiana Golovin
Tomorrow
Reverse singles
Anastasia Myskina v Nathalie Dechy
Svetlana Kuznetsova v Tatiana Golovin
Doubles
Vera Zvonareva/Elena Likhovtseva v Emilie Loit/Marion Bartoli