TIME MAGAZINE - Andy的10個問題 - 網球

這是我昨天收到的TIME雜誌裡面的文章

打上來跟大家分享一下~

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10 Questions.
America's top tennis player takes the court at the U.S. Open on Aug. 31.

Andy Roddick will now take your questions.

Q1. How exactly does it feel to hit a serve at 240km/h ?

Andy: It's better hitting it than having someone hit it against you. But I'll
take a slow one that wins me the point as opposed to a faster one that
doesn't.


Q2. You definitely had your chances of winning against Roger Federer at this
year's Wimbledon final. What do you think are the things that cost you the
match?

Andy: I don't think there are things. In the end, he put more returns on the
court than I did in the fifth set.


Q3. Do you believe that you are unfortunate to play tennis in the era of
Federer and Rafael Nadal and hence not able to win as many Grand Slam as
you deseve?

Andy: No. You know, I feel fortune that I get to play tennis at all. There have
been great champion in every generation. Maybe not as dominant as Roger
has been, but I'm certainly not going to complain about the hand that
I've been dealt.


Q4. Your famous temper has mellowed. What do you attribute this change to?

Andy: I don't think it's rare for a 26-year-old to be more mature than they
were at 19. I think I've just had an audience for a lot of it. With that
come some good decisions, some bad decisions. I certainly like to think I
learned from majorty of them.


Q5. Why is it that American tennis seems to be unable to produce the tennis
star we used to?

Andy: Well, to me it's pretty obvious. The fact of the matter is, [tennis is]
now pulling from a worldwide talent pool. We're probably the second
biggest sport worldwide, and there's not really a country that's not
involved in tennis right now. So with the growth of the game worldwide,
the talent is going to be a lot more spread out. I think you're seeing
that on a smaller scale with basketball. It used to just be, How much is
the American team going to win? Now the sport has grown so much that the
Olympics are interesting again.


Q6. Who do you really idolize in the world of tennis?

Andy: I was completely lucky and spoiled growing up. I was able to catch the
tail end of John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors and lived through the golden
age of American tennis with Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras and Jim Courier
and Michael Chang. Even cooler than that, I've been able to establish a
relationship with mpst of them. I'm glad that I had those guys to look up
to.


Q7. Which former tennis star woud you like to go up against in their prime?

Andy: It'd probably be Arthur Ashe. It's be great to take Bobby Riggs' spot in
the "battle of the sexes" too and let billie Jean King beat up on me a
little bit.


Q8. I have hardly seen you play tennis without your cap. Is it your lucky
charm?

Andy: No. It's just habit. It's something that I used to do in Florida when I
was younger just because of the heat and sun. To be honest, now it just
feels weird without it.


Q9. Why don't you like chair umpires?

Andy: Because they're the ones who have a lot of the control at our matches,
and if it doesn't go my way, I'm a little annoyed. I talk to them and
they're like "You're fine away from the court, and we actually like you.
But you are evil when you're on the court." They say I'm getting a little
better.


Q10. Is it really true that you lost a match to Serena Williams a long time
ago?
(這個問題又被問了XD)

Andy: Serena and Venus and I, we all grew up together training at the same
place in Florida, and I did lose to Serena when we were 9 or 10 years
old. She is very forthcoming with that result whenever she'd asked about
it. But she won't give me a rematch.



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這都是球迷提問的

我沒有把球迷的姓名打出來就是了~

然後我也無法翻譯 囧

然後time.com/10questions 有這段訪問的影片

雜誌裡面還有一張Andy很帥的照片>///<

ps 這是September 7 , 2009 那一期

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