Anastasia Myskina:"It's me or Sharavopa"
Feuding Russians leave Sharapova out in the coldFri 26 November, 2004 19:41
By Gennady Fyodorov
MOSCOW, Nov 26 (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 behaviour 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 jeopardise 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. 嬲佢阿爸o者...唔洗理Maria 都嬲埋掛...
仲要講到有佢冇你...
即係想退隊o者~ :o
雖則Myskina 打波都好勁...但係舒拉o既走勢...冇理由用自己迫個教練唔選佢架喎~ :icon029:
雖則Myskina 打波都好勁...但係舒拉o既走勢...冇理由用自己迫個教練唔選佢架喎~ :icon029:
而家差唔多全部既俄羅斯選手都唔like佢同佢老豆:o 似妒忌多:o 而家差唔多全部既俄羅斯選手都唔like佢同佢老豆:o
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但係我覺得佢老豆真係幾PK 似妒忌多:o
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兩個今年都win一項GS 網球-米斯基娜第二戰擊敗戈洛溫,聯合會杯決賽俄羅斯1-1追平法國
11月 28日 星期日 07:17 更新
路透莫斯科電--米斯基娜(米絲堅娜)在周六的網球聯合會杯(協會杯/聯邦杯)決賽第二場單打較量中，以6-4 7-6擊敗出生在莫斯科的戈洛溫(Tatiana Golovin)，幫助俄羅斯隊以1-1追平衛冕冠軍法國隊。
德齊(德婕)在首場單打比賽中爆冷以3-6 7-6 8-6戰勝美國公開賽冠軍庫茲涅佐娃(古絲妮索娃)，幫助法國隊先拔頭籌。
世界排名第21位的德齊是法國隊中排名最高的選手。她在先失一盤後奮起直追，最終連扳兩盤、用時2小時25分鐘拿下勝利。
「我們知道俄羅斯是奪冠大熱門，她們在各方面都佔優，但我們現在只要再拿下兩分就取勝了，」德齊賽後表示。
俄羅斯隊首戰的失利，讓世界排名第三的米斯基娜上場時壓力陡增。她首盤開局就以0-3落後，但在包括前總統葉利欽(Boris Yeltsin)的主場球迷鼓舞下，很快將比分反超，最終用時1個半小時取勝。
「我開始有些緊張，因為以前從未跟她交過手，不了解她的強項和弱點，」米斯基娜說。(完)
米絲堅娜 :icon023: :icon023: 網球-米斯基娜第二戰擊敗戈洛溫,聯合會杯決賽俄羅斯1-1追平法國
11月 28日 星期日 07:17 更新
路透莫斯科電--米斯基娜(米絲堅娜)在周六的網球聯合會杯(協會杯/聯邦杯)決賽第二場單打較量中，以6-4 7-6擊敗出生在莫斯科的戈洛溫(Tatiana Golovin)，幫助俄羅斯隊以1-1追平衛冕冠軍法國隊。
德齊(德婕)在首場單打比賽中爆冷以3-6 7-6 8-6戰勝美國公開賽冠軍庫茲涅佐娃(古絲妮索娃)，幫助法國隊先拔頭籌。
世界排名第21位的德齊是法國隊中排名最高的選手。她在先失一盤後奮起直追，最終連扳兩盤、用時2小時25分鐘拿下勝利。
「我們知道俄羅斯是奪冠大熱門，她們在各方面都佔優，但我們現在只要再拿下兩分就取勝了，」德齊賽後表示。
俄羅斯隊首戰的失利，讓世界排名第三的米斯基娜上場時壓力陡增。她首盤開局就以0-3落後，但在包括前總統葉利欽(Boris Yeltsin)的主場球迷鼓舞下，很快將比分反超，最終用時1個半小時取勝。
「我開始有些緊張，因為以前從未跟她交過手，不了解她的強項和弱點，」米斯基娜說。(完)
米絲堅娜 :icon023: :icon023:
強者 :o Russia Triumphs in the Doubles to Win First Fed Cup Crown:icon023:
Amid electric scenes in Moscow, Anastasia Myskina and Vera Zvonareva won the decisive doubles to clinch Russia's first Fed Cup title. They defeated Marion Bartoli and Emilie Loit 76(5) 75 to take the third point against France.
In the first Fed Cup Final to be decided by the doubles match for six years, France missed three set points in the opening set, and Bartoli and Loit twice recovered from losing their serve in a nail-biting second set. But the Russians held firm, and cheered on by a delirious crowd they finally got the decisive break in the 11th game, before Zvonareva served out for love.
Myskina was the heroine of the weekend, winning both her singles matches and tasting more glory in the doubles as a last-minute replacement for Elena Likhovtseva. Afterwards she said it was better than winning the Roland Garros title: “Here I have all my friends around me, and I’m definitely more happy here, right now. Here it is for my team, and for my country.”
The atmosphere in the Krylatskoe Ice Stadium was highly charged as the match started, and Russia took first blood, going 3-1 ahead after three breaks of serve in the opening four games. France then got on a roll, winning the next four games.
Bartoli served for the set at 5-4, but with the crowd at fever pitch dropped her serve to love. The 20-year-old Frenchwoman had only made her Fed Cup debut in this week’s semifinal against Spain, and was the weaker link in the French partnership. Even so, she and Loit were pushed all the way by a supremely confident Myskina. The world No. 3, ranked 16 in doubles, found all the gaps in France’s defence.
The French broke in the next game, and served for the set again at 6-5 with Loit serving. With every player at full stretch in the longest game of the match, France had four set points, but after five deuces it was Myskina who levelled on Russia’s third break point to make it 6-6.
In the tiebreak Myskina and Zvonareva pulled back from 4-2 down, with the Russian No. 1 winning the set with a passing shot that was out of Bartoli’s reach.
There were plenty more service breaks in the tense second set, but the teams kept with each other until 3-3 when the Russians broke Loit and finally held serve themselves in the subsequent game, surviving four break points. Bartoli did well to keep France in the match serving at 5-3, as Myskina repeatedly challenged them, and Myskina herself was broken in the next game.
The hosts struck their fatal blow however on Loit’s serve at 5-6, the Frenchwoman’s errors helping them to the break. Then Zvonareva served out for love: fittingly, it was a Myskina volley right to the French lefthander’s body that set up match point, and when Loit sent a return into the net it was all over.
Although both doubles teams had won titles together, neither were regular pairings. The match had been a battle of will and nerve, and the greater experience of the Russian pair saw them through.
With the French team in tears, Myskina and Zvonareva fell into the arms of first their captain Shamil Tarpischev, then Larisa Neiland and the rest of the Russian team. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin came down onto the court to offer his congratulations, just as he had two years ago in Paris when Russia defeated France its their first Davis Cup title.
Tarpischev was later asked, which was sweeter, this first Fed Cup title or that Davis Cup triumph in 2002? He answered, “If I had to measure joy, I can tell you definitely I feel more relieved and fatigued from this Fed Cup.”
Russia becomes the tenth different nation in the history of the competition to lift the Fed Cup trophy, and their triumph caps a dream year after three Russian women secured Grand Slam titles.
http://www.fedcup.com/shared/medialibrary/image/gallery/FC_1597_gallery.JPG Forget to quit as France captain
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Guy Forget has announced he is standing down as France's Fed Cup captain due to his Davis Cup commitments because the dates for the two events clash in 2005.
The ex-France number one had been in charge of the women's team since 1999.
"If the schedules had made it possible, I would have loved to stay as Amelie Mauresmo has decided to commit herself to the Fed Cup," said Forget.
"But leading the two teams at the same time is not reasonable. It would be unfair for the guys and the girls."
Forget guided France to their Fed Cup win in 2003 and their defeat in the final by Russia in November 2004.
The favourites to replace him are Arnaud Boetsch and Georges Goven, with 1983 French Open champion Yannick Noah also mentioned. ...... 原帖由 Zero 於 2007-6-1007:42 PM 發表 http://hkcm.hkehost.net/forum/images/common/back.gif
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兩年多前..;) 原帖由 delpierocheuk 於 2007-6-1008:10 PM 發表 http://www.hkcmforum.com/images/common/back.gif
兩年多前..;)
唔好意思，因為有人只係識得恭喜俄羅斯隊；所以先至等咁耐回應。
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