↑The Big Mac Interviewのマチガイ。
タイムズ紙の今日のTHE BIG INTERVIEWは、テニス界のKING・ジョン・マッケンロー。
過去ではなく現在のテニス界に興味のある私にとって、大部分は読む価値がないんだけど、切り抜いたあたりは現在のテニス界に関係ある話なので興味を惹いた。
マッケンローは、上からの締めつけが強化されてテニスがつまらなくなり、マーケティングに支配されるスポーツに成り下がった、と言う。「が、しかし希望はある。ジョコビッチは大したキャラクターだし、フェデラーのボルグ風の優雅なプレイ、そして体力が続くか心配だけどナダル。」
ワイルドでいたずらっ子だったマッケンロー世代なんかからすると、今のテニス選手たちは飼い馴らされちゃってるように見えるのかな。
“That’s what the sport didn’t realise, or maybe they did, when they changed
all of the rules and tightened it up on me and Jimmy. It was, ‘Let’s drain
as much personality out of the sport as possible’. And I give them credit,
they blew everything else but got the one thing they shouldn’t have gotten
right, right . . . I mean, you talk about a horrendously marketed sport. The
good news is that there seems to be some hope; [Novak] Djokovic has got some
personality; [Roger] Federer plays with a wonderful grace, à la Borg,
and [Rafael] Nadal, though I’m concerned about his physical ability to keep
this up.”
“But they don’t have the demons that you guys had,” I suggest. “Yeah, I don’t
know why that is,” he agrees. “We had a different . . . we came at a time
when the money was just coming into the sport but there was still a sense of
. . . You still enjoyed yourself and went out and had fun.
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