小威重奪年終第一寶座 - 威廉絲 Williams

自2002之後 小威第二度登上年終球后寶座

Serena Williams assured of world No 1 position as Dinara Safina pulls out

Even before Serena Williams played her group match against her sister, Venus,
at the Sony Ericsson Championships, it was guaranteed that the Californian
would finish the season as the world No 1.

在小威昨天上場打小組賽之前 就已經確定會以世界第一的身分結束本賽季

By then Dinara Safina had retired from her round-robin contest and also
withdrawn from the tournament because of a back injury. Safina's season ended
with the Russian seated on her chair at the Khalifa Tennis Complex, and
crying into a towel, as she had completed just two games, or 12 minutes,
against Jelena Jankovic.

Dinara Safina因背傷在他的第一場小組比賽中退賽 並且退出整個年終賽
Safina今年的賽季以在場邊的椅子上捂著毛巾痛哭作結
他對上Jankovic的比賽只打了兩局 12分鐘

For the first time since 2002, Williams, this season's Australian Open and
Wimbledon champion, will be the year-end No 1. Here in the desert, on what
was her first competitive meeting with Venus since the Wimbledon final, Serena
staved off a match point and then scored the decisive tiebreak, which was
interrupted by a cat running across the court, to win 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 for her
second victory from two appearances in the Maroon Group, while Venus, last
year's champion in Qatar, has lost both her matches so far.

自從2002之後 Serena將以現任澳網溫網雙料冠軍身份重奪年終第一
在這個沙漠城市中他與姐姐在溫網後首度在職業比賽交手
他挽救了一個賽末點並且拿下了決勝盤搶七 中途還有隻貓闖進場中
他目前在小組中兩戰全勝 但去年冠軍Venus卻是兩戰全敗

"It's such a great feeling to finish the year as the world No 1," said Serena,
who added that she was "sorry" about Safina's back condition.

"能以世界第一結束這個賽季真是太棒了" 他接著還說他對於Safina的背傷感到很遺憾

Venus, speaking after the match about Andre Agassi’s drugs admission, said:
“His book will probably sell. It seems very interesting, to say the least.”

Venus在賽後談到了Agassi在自傳中坦承服用禁藥
"他的書也許會熱賣 感覺上是本很有趣的書"

Though Safina had started the tournament as the world No 1 with a small lead
over Serena in the rankings, she had also arrived in the Middle East with pain
in her lower back, having suffered with the injury for three months, and at
1-1, 15-40, she was in so much discomfort that she felt that she could no
longer continue in her White Group match, or in the tournament.

Safina在年終賽開打前在排名方面以微弱優勢領先Serena
他帶著已經承受三個月的背傷來參賽 在1-1 15-40時他說他已經無法撐下去

"My body just gave up," said Safina, and there is now a possibility that she
could skip the first grand slam of next season, January's Australian Open.

"我的身體放棄了" 他甚至還說自己可能會退出一月的澳網

The news that Serena will end the year as the No 1 means that there will be
even greater interest in the findings of the grand slam coordinator, who is
investigating her behaviour at the US Open, where she swore at a line-judge
during her semi-final defeat to Kim Clijsters. An alternate, Russian
Vera Zvonareva, will replace Safina here in the Middle East.

Serena將登上年終第一也代表人們會更關注他正在面臨的調查
他在美網四強對上Kim Clijsters的比賽中對著線審罵髒話
另一方面 第一遞補的Vera Zvonareva將取代Safina參賽


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