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第二部分:文集，2011-2016
2016年9月13日
网球大满贯比赛又结束了这一年。
是的，戴维斯杯半决赛将于本周五举行，但对这个网球世界的大多数人来说，美国网球公开赛决赛的最后一分带来了一种深刻的情感释放。
直到今年1月在墨尔本，球迷、作家和广播公司在接下来的8个月里，也只有一次不得不为这只毛茸茸的黄色小球和它的拍手人暂停连续两周的比赛。(有没有人想过，一个大满贯本质上就是一届奥运会，没有其他项目，也没有NBC的延迟录影?)
网球大满贯的历年年底总是讨论大问题在网球的好时候,因为没有“下一个匹配”或“下一个比赛”对球迷的球员对抗,直到ATP世界巡回赛总决赛在伦敦,无论如何。人们会为上海大师赛而打架吗?也许会有一些，但是年终冠军绝对会让人热血沸腾。我跑题了…)
在2016年的大部分时间里，许多球迷最关心的问题并不是这项运动本身的问题(比如医疗暂停、安迪·穆雷(Andy Murray)在网球运动中的地位，或者其他)
受伤，虽然他们都得到了很多关注)，但媒体是如何报道的。
在网球媒体中，没有什么比诺瓦克·德约科维奇的言论更能引起人们的关注了
谁成为男子网球公开赛历史上第二个连续赢得四个大满贯的选手
(罗德·拉沃尔，1969年)——他没有得到应有的荣誉。
德约科维奇可能在美国网球公开赛决赛中输给了斯坦·瓦林卡(Stan Wawrinka)，但当安迪·穆雷(Andy Murray)在四分之一决赛中“出局”时，德约科维奇锁定了2016年美国网球大联盟(tennis大满贯)最佳ATP选手的殊荣(穆雷和瓦林卡分别获得两项冠军)。与其他赛季相比，这可能是安迪·穆雷最好、最令人满意的一个赛季，但德约科维奇在大联盟的这个赛季在经验上仍然更好。
诺勒在2016年取得的主要成就是在法网夺冠，
这让他同时成为四个大满贯的卫冕冠军，这是费德勒(Roger Federer)和拉斐尔?
在网球翻开新的一页，进入2017年之前，让我们花点时间来回答这个问题。2017年将会有很多新的故事情节吸引我们的注意力。

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对德约科维奇比赛的基本欣赏也是德约科维奇最重要的进步
关于德约科维奇四次大满贯的成就，媒体的关注要少得多
这是不应该的。这里是乔·波斯南斯基，现在是美国体育专栏作家
与NBC体育和之前的堪萨斯城明星-展示的情况下给予德约科维奇足够重视。
波斯南斯基让媒体和盛行的网球文化蒙羞，因为他们没有做出回应
更委婉地(在文字上，在欣赏的幅度上)当世界第一完成了诺瓦克大满贯。
(个人信息:我在2016年法国网球公开赛男单决赛的前一天辞去了之前的网球写作工作。
我在朋友的博客上发表了对德约科维奇法网夺冠的两种反应
-这里和这里。你可以根据我的表现来评价我对德约壮举的反应。我不希望这样
隐藏我可能展示的任何缺陷。这是批评的一部分，而不是合法的躲避批评。)
在我的写作中，我没有漏掉诺瓦克大满贯，但我同样清楚地放置了更多。
在德约科维奇获得法网冠军后，人们开始关注职业生涯中的大满贯。
关于诺瓦克大满贯，有两点需要强调，这两点同样重要。
如果一个点在另一个点之前，任何人感知到一个层次结构--
精妙的——也许是极其不幸的——时机安排造成了诺瓦克大满贯的低调。
不管时机是否糟糕，媒体对网球失败的曝光其实并不那么重要
确实提到了德约科维奇，但在谈到费德勒的时候(以及对一个不太了解但略知一二的比如说纳达尔)。
首先，让我们解决第一点，从一些与女性网球有关的历史观点开始
我们很快就会得到直接的答案。

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It is, quite possibly, the single most underappreciated feat in the Open Era: Martina
Navratilova won six straight majors in 1983 and 1984.
Remember: The Australian Open was played in December back then, making it the last major of
the year. (It had been played in January in 1977, and in previous years, it occupied the final days
of December and the first days of January.) The French Open was the first major of the year.
Navratilova won Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian to close 1983. She then won the
French, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open to start 1984, but couldn’t win the 1984 Australian to
seal the true (classic, dictionary-definition) Grand Slam.
Steffi Graf won five straight majors. She also won six straight majors in which she participated
(in 1995 and 1996), but that run included a no-show at an Australian Open which robbed her of a
second “Steffi Slam” in addition to her “Golden Slam” of 1988.
Serena Williams has won four straight majors twice, completing the “Serena Slam.” Yet,
Navratilova’s run of six straight majors exceeds both Serena and Graf. It doesn’t make
Navratilova a better player, but there was no cute nickname for her feat (the “Nav Slam” or the
“Martina Slam”). It’s hard to make a flat declaration of fact, but it’s just as difficult to contest the
notion that in a modern context — roughly a third of a century later — Navratilova’s total
dominance of women’s tennis in 1983 feels underappreciated.
It feels the same for Djokovic today.
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这很可能是开放时代最被低估的成就:玛蒂娜
纳拉蒂诺娃在1983年和1984年连续六次获得大满贯。
记住:澳大利亚网球公开赛那时是在去年12月举行的，这是一年中最后一个大满贯赛事。(它于1977年1月上演，前几年占据了12月的最后几天和1月的第一天。)法国网球公开赛是当年的第一个大满贯赛事。
纳拉蒂洛娃赢得了温布尔登网球公开赛、美国网球公开赛和澳大利亚网球公开赛，并于1983年结束比赛。1984年，她赢得了法网、温布尔登和美国网球公开赛的冠军，但未能赢得1984年澳网的冠军
真正的(经典的，词典定义的)大满贯。
格拉芙连续五次赢得大满贯。她还连续六次获得她参加的大满贯(1995年和1996年)，但她在澳大利亚网球公开赛上的缺席使她失去了继1988年的“金球”之后的第二个“格拉芙大满贯”。
塞雷娜威廉姆斯(Serena Williams)已经连续四次赢得大满贯，完成了“塞雷娜大满贯”。”然而,
纳拉蒂诺娃连续六个大满贯的战绩超过了瑟琳娜和格拉芙。这并不能使娜芙拉蒂诺娃成为一个更好的选手，但她的壮举没有一个可爱的绰号(“Nav Slam”或“Martina Slam”)。很难对事实做出一个明确的声明，但在现代语境中——大约三分之一个世纪后——对纳芙拉蒂诺娃的总数提出质疑也同样困难
1983年女子网球的统治地位没有得到充分的重视。
今天的德约科维奇也是如此。

The complicated — and complicating — part of this discussion is as follows:
As much as non-calendar-year runs of four to six majors (obviously, if one wins seven in a row,
s/he has won the classic Grand Slam…) are historically under-appreciated, there is something to
be said for the idea that the true (“classic”) Grand Slam is a much bigger feat.
We all got a taste of this when Serena Williams came to New York in 2015 with a shot at (a new
layer of) immortality. The pressure, the buzz, the sense of enormity which filled Arthur Ashe
Stadium each time Serena took the court, was a palpable, organic thing. Players who can win
four straight within the calendar year have in fact done something truly remarkable — on a
higher scale than those who win four in a row outside the calendar year. Remember, too, that
since only one major is played in an eight-month span from mid-September through mid-May,
the Australian Open exists on something of an island.
Your mileage may vary, but if a player doesn’t achieve the classic Grand Slam (Graf in 1988,
Margaret Court in 1970, Laver in 1969), it is my belief that the next greatest four-major run is
one in which a player wins the French, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in succession.
Winning those three majors within three and a half months is itself an astonishing feat.
Rafael Nadal did that in his massive 2010 season, capped by a U.S. Open in which he played (for
my money) the best major tournament of any male player in history. Djokovic came close in
2011 and 2015, missing only the French Open. Federer also won two of the three in the same
year, doing so on four occasions. He lacked the French in 2004, 2006 and 2007, missing the U.S.
Open in 2009.
这个讨论的复杂和复杂部分如下:
在非日历年里，有4到6个大满贯(很明显，如果一个大满贯连续赢了7场，
(她/他赢得了经典的大满贯…)从历史上看，人们往往低估了这一点，真正的(“经典的”)大满贯是一个更大的壮举，这一观点是有道理的。
2015年，塞雷娜·威廉姆斯(Serena Williams)带着一种永生的希望来到纽约，我们都曾体验过这种感觉。每当塞雷娜上场时，阿瑟·阿什体育场里就充满了巨大的压力、嘈杂声和巨大感。那些能在一年中连续赢得四连胜的球员实际上已经做了一些真正了不起的事情——比那些在日历年之外连续赢得四场比赛的人规模更大。
记住,由于从9月中旬到5月中旬的8个月时间里，只有一场大满贯澳大利亚网球公开赛，就像存在于一个小岛上。
你的里程可能会有所不同，但如果一个选手没有获得经典的大满贯(格拉芙在1988年，
1970年的玛格丽特·考特(Margaret Court)， 1969年的拉沃尔(Laver))
法国网球公开赛，温布尔登网球公开赛和美国网球公开赛。
在三个半月内拿下这三个大满贯本身就是一个惊人的壮举。
拉斐尔·贝布(Rafael纳达尔)在他2010年的大赛季中做到了这一点，他在美国公开赛上(在我看来)是历史上所有男选手中打得最好的。德约科维奇逼近这一点在2011年和2015年，只错过了法网。费德勒同时也赢得了三个大满贯中的的两个在一年，他这样做到了四次。2004年、2006年和2007年，他没有拿到法网，2009错过了美网。

Yet, let’s immediately step back and re-orient ourselves here:
It is a simple fact that Djokovic won four straight majors, and Nadal and Federer never did. The
immensity of the feat — while less than a classic Grand Slam — still exceeds what Nole’s
legendary peers attained. It deserves an elevated place — in time, it hopefully will.
Why did it not get enough treatment at the time?
Here’s the direct and blunt answer, which fleshes out point number one in this discussion: The
timing was all wrong.
Djokovic fans might see this as an excuse, instead of a reason (which is understandable), but step
back for a moment:
If Djokovic had won a fourth straight non-calendar-year major at the Australian Open or at
Wimbledon instead of the French (obviously, a fourth straight major at the U.S. Open means a
“classic” Grand Slam has been achieved), he would not have completed his career Slam on that
same occasion. Djokovic would have added to his trophy haul in Melbourne or at SW19.
然而，让我们立即后退一步，重新定位我们自己:
这是一个简单的事实，德约科维奇连续赢得了四个大满贯，而纳达尔和费德勒从来没有。
这一壮举的巨大——尽管还不及一个经典的大满贯——仍然超过了德约
传奇的同行。它理应得到一个更高的地位——希望它最终会得到这样的地位。
为什么当时没有得到足够的对待?
这是直接而直接的答案，它充实了这个讨论的第一点:
时机完全错了。
德约科维奇的球迷可能会把这看作一个借口，而不是一个理由(这是可以理解的)，但让我们回过头来看一下:
如果德约科维奇在澳大利亚网球公开赛或温布尔登网球公开赛上，而不是在法国网球公开赛上，连续第四次获得非日历年大满贯(显然，在美国网球公开赛上连续第四次获得大满贯意味着实现了一个“经典”大满贯)，他就不会在同一时刻完成自己的职业生涯大满贯。德约科维奇本可以在墨尔本或西南19区（伦敦）获得更多的奖杯。

The French Open was the ONLY major where Djokovic’s four straight titles could have
coincided with the career Slam. It was the only major Djokovic had not yet won.
Plenty of people will disagree, but for me, a central feature of the drama of tennis is the pursuit
of the career Slam.
Without belaboring the point or repeating myself too much, these quests for completion are
riveting and — moreover — long.
The way Ivan Lendl chased his Wimbledon dream for so many years; the way John McEnroe
was frustrated at the French; the way Bjorn Borg desperately tried to break through in New York
at the U.S. Open; the way Andre Agassi wrestled with Roland Garros — these dramas did not
begin or find resolution (or lack thereof) in a 12-month sequence, which is what happened with
Nole winning four straight majors. These dramas unfolded over seven or more years.
(I say seven or more years because McEnroe started playing the majors in 1977 and met his
devastating heartbreak at the French in the 1984 final against Lendl. Other dramas — Borg
chasing the U.S. Open, Lendl at Wimbledon, Agassi at Roland Garros — lasted longer than
seven years.)
法国网球公开赛是德约科维奇唯一能连续四次夺冠的大满贯赛事
正好赶上职业生涯的大满贯。这是德约科维奇唯一还没有赢过的比赛。
很多人会不同意，但对我来说，网球戏剧的一个核心特征是追求职业生涯大满贯。
没有过多地重复这个观点或重复我自己，这些任务的完成是吸引人的，而且很长。
伊凡·伦德尔多年来追逐温布尔登梦想的方式;约翰·麦肯罗对法网感到的失望;比约·博格拼命想在纽约闯出一条新路
;安德烈·阿加西与罗兰·加洛斯角力的方式——
这些戏剧性的场面没有按照12个月的顺序开始或找到解决方案(或缺乏解决方案)，
这就是所发生的情况德约连续四次赢得大满贯。这些戏剧上演了七年或更久。
(我认为是七年或更久，因为麦肯罗1977年开始在大满贯打球，并认识了他
1984年法国对伦德尔的决赛令人心碎。其他戏剧-博格追逐美网，温布尔登的伦德尔，罗兰加洛斯的阿加西——持续的时间都超过了7年)。

Novak Djokovic’s pursuit of the Roland Garros title did not initially seem as though it would
drag on for nearly a full decade. Djokovic made his first major semifinal at the 2007 French
Open. In his dominant 2011 season, Djokovic entered the Roland Garros semifinals with a 43-
match winning streak. In 2012, Djokovic wasn’t ready for Nadal in his first French Open final,
which obviously felt overwhelming. In 2013, Djokovic — learning from the previous year’s
failure against Nadal — played better against his great Spanish foe. He led Nadal in the fifth set
of the semis, only to touch the net and improbably cost himself a massive match-swinging point.
That net-touching point was a scarring, jarring moment, the kind of episode which tells a player,
“You’re not meant to win this tournament.”
As though haunted by 2013, Djokovic played poorly in the 2014 final against Rafa. The best
male clay-courter who has ever lived seemed destined to haunt Nole to his grave at Roland
Garros… which is why, when Djokovic stepped into Court Philippe Chatrier for the 2015 final
and saw Stan Wawrinka on the other side of the net, he had to feel — at least a part of him —
that his long trek through the parched desert of Paris would finally, blessedly, come to an end.
We know what happened instead.
This drama, this subtext, this backstory — nine very long years of climbing the mountain, only
to somehow get pushed down when so achingly close to the summit — made Djokovic’s pursuit
of the French Open an epic tale, in the very real sense of what the (sometimes-overused) word
“epic” actually means.
As a matter of candid self-analysis, I do think I should have done more to recognize Nole’s four
straight majors. I will just as candidly say that winning the French and completing the career
Slam remain the foremost aspects of Djokovic’s triumph in Paris.
诺瓦克•德约科维奇(Novak Djokovic)对罗兰•加洛斯(Roland Garros)总冠军的追求，起初似乎并不那么容易实现
拖了将近整整十年。德约科维奇在2007年的法网半决赛中第一次进入半决赛。在德约科维奇2011年的赛季中，他以43连胜的成绩进入罗兰加洛斯半决赛。2012年，德约科维奇在他的第一次法网决赛中没有对纳达尔做好准备，
这显然让我感到难以承受。2013年，德约科维奇-吸取前一年对纳达尔的失败的教训-比他的西班牙劲敌做得更好。他在第五盘领先纳达尔在半决赛中，仅仅是触网，他不可思议地失去了一个巨大的比赛转折点。
触网的那一刻是一种伤痕，一种不和谐的时刻，一种告诉玩家，“你不应该赢得这场比赛。”
德约科维奇似乎被2013年所困扰，在2014年对阵拉法的决赛中表现不佳。
历史上最好的红土男选手似乎注定要在罗兰加洛斯阻挡德约的脚步。
这就是为什么德约科维奇在2015年决赛中对阵菲利普·查特里耶(Philippe Chatrier)
看到斯坦·瓦林卡在网的另一边，他必须感觉到——至少是他的一部分——
幸运的是，他在巴黎干燥的沙漠中漫长的跋涉终于结束了。
我们知道发生了什么。
这个戏剧，这个潜台词，这个背景故事——仅仅是攀登这座山的漫长九年
当如此痛苦地接近顶峰时，德约科维奇不知何故被推倒在地——这是德约科维奇的追求
法国网球公开赛是一个史诗般的故事，在真正意义上什么(有时被滥用)的词
“史诗”实际上意味着什么。
坦率地说，我认为我本应该做更多的事情来认识德约的四个连续大满贯。
我将坦率地说，赢得法网并完成职业生涯大满贯仍然是德约科维奇在巴黎夺冠的首要因素。

We now arrive at point number two, which is where Djokovic fans are definitely and profoundly
correct in their critique of the global tennis media at large: The media’s lack of (collective)
effusiveness for Djokovic is not so much damning in itself or on its own terms; it can be
more readily identified and measured in relationship to what the media has said — and
does say — about Djokovic’s great peers, Mr. Federer and Mr. Nadal.
In my time on Twitter, and in my time as a paid tennis writer who hears from management at any
outlet I’ve written for, I can only say this as plainly as possible:
When I write about Roger Federer, I get more clicks, social shares and pageviews than for
anyone else.
When I write about Rafael Nadal, I get fewer clicks/shares/views than Federer, but more than for
anyone else.
This is the dirty little (not-so-) secret of an online content industry [notice that I used that term
and NOT journalism] in which pageviews lie at the heart of the business model and publishers’
expectations: Writers are under pressure to generate pageviews more than anything else. They
are often if not always evaluated by that metric to the diminishment (and perhaps exclusion) of
everything else.
This being the case in the online content industry, it makes sense as an extension of promoting
job security for tennis bloggers to praise Federer and Nadal. In Great Britain, it makes sense to
hype Andy Murray and get excited when Djokovic loses or is on the precipice of losing.
现在我们来到了第二点，这是德约科维奇的球迷们所处的绝对和深刻的位置。
他们对全球网球媒体的批评是正确的:媒体对德约科维奇缺乏(集体)热情，这本身或从其自身的角度来说并不是那么糟糕;它可以更容易地确定和衡量的关系，媒体所说的-的确如此——关于德约科维奇的伟大同行费德勒先生和纳达尔先生。
在我上Twitter的时候，在我作为一名付费网球作家的时候，在任何一家公司，我都能听到管理层的声音
我所写的出路，我只能说，尽可能清楚:
当我写费德勒的时候，我得到的点击量、社交分享和页面浏览量都比别人多。
当我写拉斐尔·纳达尔时，我得到的点击/分享/浏览量比费德勒少，但比任何人都多。
这是在线内容行业肮脏的小秘密(不那么)(注意，我用了这个词)
而不是新闻业。在新闻业中，页面浏览量是商业模式和出版商的核心。
期望:作者面临的最大压力是创造页面浏览量。他们
是否经常(如果不总是)使用该度量进行评估，从而减少(或者排除)
其他的一切。
这是在线内容行业的一个例子，对于网坛博主来说，赞扬费德勒和纳达尔是促进职业安全的一种延伸。在英国，当德约科维奇输球或处于输球边缘时，大肆宣传安迪·穆雷并感到兴奋是有道理的。

Djokovic is unusually and profoundly unlucky to be so stratospherically great, and yet to be third
in his era if measured strictly by major championships and global popularity.
Federer — no matter what you think of him — is the New York Yankees of tennis, Nadal the
Boston Red Sox. Federer and Nadal are the Celtics and Lakers, Real Madrid and Barcelona, the
Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants. They have staked out places as the two most popular and
globally recognizable entities of their time. This might not be fair, and it might not be right, but it
is what it is.
It’s the fault of the online content industry that it uses pageviews as the pillar of its business
model — not journalistic quality.
However, when forced to operate within that flawed model, bloggers and editors — taking cues
from their publishers, the people who write the checks — will preserve themselves. They’ll write
the effusive pieces about Federer or the poignant pieces about Nadal.
They’ll monitor social shares. They’ll look at the analytics reports about traffic and the
comments pages. They won’t write as much about Djokovic, and if they do, they’ll write about
how he’s in peril, not about how remarkable he is.
Yes, Federer and Nadal fans know that the media wrote doom-and-gloom pieces about those two
men at earlier points in their careers. It’s the familiar build-up-to-tear-down dynamic, creating a
maximum of emotional impact to invent a manufactured form of suspense. In 2010 and 2011,
Federer fans had to put up with an absurdly large number of articles about Federer’s “decline,”
and in subsequent years, the idea of Federer retiring gained far more traction in the media than it
ever should have, given the Swiss’ stated intention to keep playing (and his ability to keep
playing extremely well).
德约科维奇在同样层面上如此伟大，但却只能屈居第三，这是非常不幸的
在他的时代，如果严格按照主要大满贯比赛和全球知名度来衡量的话。
费德勒——不管你怎么看他——是纽约扬基队的网球明星，纳达尔是波士顿红袜队。费德勒和纳达尔分别是凯尔特人和湖人，皇家马德里和巴塞罗那，达拉斯牛仔队和纽约巨人队。他们把世界上最受欢迎和最具全球认知度的两个地方标了出来。这可能不公平，也可能不正确，但事实就是这样。
将页面浏览量作为其商业模式的支柱，而不是新闻质量，这是在线内容行业的错。
然而，当被迫在这种有缺陷的模式下运作时，博客作者和编辑——从他们的出版商，也就是写支票的人那里得到暗示——将会保护自己。他们会写关于费德勒的热情洋溢的文章，或者关于纳达尔的辛酸的文章。
他们会监控社交分享。他们会查看流量分析报告和评论页面。他们不会写太多关于德约科维奇的东西，如果他们写了，他们会写他是如何处于危险之中，而不是他有多了不起。
是的，费德勒和纳达尔的球迷们都知道，媒体在他们职业生涯的早期曾写过关于这两人的悲观报道。这是一种常见的由构建到拆卸的动态，创造出一种人为制造的悬念形式，从而产生最大程度的情感冲击。在2010年和2011年，
费德勒的粉丝不得不忍受大量关于费德勒“衰落”的荒唐文章，
在随后的几年里，费德勒退役的想法在媒体上获得了比以往任何时候都要多的关注，因为瑞士人已经表明了继续打球的意愿(以及他保持出色发挥的能力)。

In the past few years, Nadal — while undeniably struggling in the face of injury — has met
many of the same pronouncements Federer once endured: namely, that his game was in an
irrevocable state of decline. Never mind that Nadal won Monte Carlo and could have put up a
fight at Roland Garros this year if his wrist hadn’t suffered; so many pundits just HAD to write
about a Nadalian decline instead of allowing history to run its course. Nadal and Federer fans
have had legitimate complaints to make about the ways in which their players were covered in
the past. The way Nadal was pounced on at the U.S. Open after his loss to Lucas Pouille shows
that he’s still not given as much credit as he fully deserves.
Yet, for all the ways in which Federer and (more so) Nadal have been mistreated by the media at
large, there is zero question that Djokovic has gotten much more of a raw deal over time.
The question isn’t answered by pointing to coverage of Djokovic’s French Open win; it’s best
answered by asking a follow-up question: “What if Federer or Nadal had won four straight
majors?”
Yes, we won’t get to actually see the reaction to that event, but any intellectually honest tennis
blogger (anyone who writes about the sport for a living and has been in the trenches for any
appreciable length of time) knows that Fed or Rafa winning four straight majors would have
become a far bigger deal than what the world witnessed from the tennis press when Nole lifted
the trophy in Paris this past June.
It is a dynamic of media analysis which is subtle and not always easy to see, but it applies
here: Absence, not presence, often emerges as a central point of differentiation between or
among media outlets. It’s not so much what WAS said about Djokovic; it’s what wasn’t said.
More precisely, it’s not even that Djokovic wasn’t praised for what he did in Paris — he was. It’s
simply that praise lacked an electricity, an effusiveness, and a sustained quality which Federer
and Nadal almost certainly would have been accorded.
That’s a very frustrating thing, isn’t it? It’s not that one can point to specific words or pieces of
text to back up the arguments of Djokovic fans. It’s more a matter of the fact that Djokovic isn’t
the recipient of an article such as this one or this one. Djokovic simply isn’t written about as
often — or in similarly reverential tones.
It might not be “wrong” to write (or to have written) about Federer so glowingly, but when one
sees the absence of similar writing about Djokovic, the point becomes clearer… and yet, it still
lacks that “smoking gun” characteristic which makes media critiques that much easier to nail
down for all eternity.
在过去的几年里，纳达尔——尽管不可否认在伤病面前挣扎着——遇到了麻烦
费德勒也曾有过很多类似的言论:即他的比赛是一场完美的比赛
不可逆转的衰退状态。别在意纳达尔赢得了蒙特卡洛，如果他的手腕没有受伤的话，他本可以在今年与罗兰加洛斯一决高下;那么多的专家不得不写关于纳达尔的衰落，而不是让历史顺其自然。
纳达尔和费德勒的粉丝们,
他们有合理的理由抱怨他们的球员在过去被报道的方式。
纳达尔在美国网球公开赛上被卢卡斯·普伊尔击败后受到猛烈抨击，这表明他仍然没有得到应有的信任。
然而，尽管费德勒和(更多的)纳达尔受到了广大媒体的不公正对待，德约科维奇长时间以来受到的不公正待遇远不止这些，这是毫无疑问的。
这个问题并没有通过报道德约科维奇在法网的胜利来回答;最好是他接着问了一个问题:“如果费德勒或纳达尔连续四次赢得大满贯呢?”
是的,我们不会看到事件的反应,但任何智力诚实网球博客(以写运动为生,一直在战壕里任何可观的时间长度)的人都知道,费德勒或拉法赢得连续4个大满贯将成为一个更大的意义比世界目睹了从网球媒体今年6月在巴黎Nole举起奖杯。
这是一种媒体分析的动态过程，它是微妙的，并不总是容易看到，但它适用于这里:缺席，而不是在场，往往成为媒体之间或媒体之间的一个中心区别点。并不是说德约科维奇;没人说过。
更准确地说，甚至不是德约科维奇在巴黎的表现没有受到赞扬，而是他受到了赞扬。这只是因为赞美缺乏激情，没有激情，没有费德勒和纳达尔几乎可以肯定的那种持久的品质。
这是一件非常令人沮丧的事情，不是吗?这并不是说你可以用特定的词语或文字来支持德约科维奇球迷的观点。更重要的是，德约科维奇不是这篇文章或这篇文章的收件人。德约科维奇并不是经常被提及——或者以同样虔诚的语气。
如此热情地评论费德勒(或曾经如此热情地评论费德勒)或许不是“错误的”，但当人们看到关于德约科维奇(Djokovic)的类似文章寥寥无几时，这一点就变得更加清晰了……
然而，它仍然缺乏“确凿证据”的特征，而这一特征使得媒体的批评更容易被永远地确定下来。

*
We have four months until the next tennis major begins in January of 2017.
Maybe by then, we’ll give Novak Djokovic more credit… yet also realize why certain
achievements always exist in tension with others.
It’s complicated — even when various factions of tennis fans have legitimate points to make.
JUNE 7, 2016
Many of us felt it.
Many of us thought it.
Many of us said it.
Now, it’s very hard to deny it: This is the Golden Era of men’s tennis.
It’s still an opinion, but now the subjective statement contains the feel and flavor of an objective
truth.
Novak Djokovic’s capture of his first French Open title on Sunday gave this period of the sport’s
history its latest measure of massive masculine meaning.
Just exactly how can anyone argue against the Golden Era idea at this point?
距离2017年1月下一个网球专业开始还有4个月。
也许到那时，我们会给诺瓦克·德约科维奇更多的信任，同时也会意识到为什么某些成就总是与其他成就相矛盾。
这很复杂——即使不同派别的网球迷有合理的理由。
2016年6月7日
我们很多人都有这种感觉。
我们很多人都这么想。
我们很多人都这么说过。
现在，很难否认:这是男子网球的黄金时代。
它仍然是一种观点，但现在主观陈述包含了客观真理的感觉和味道。
德约科维奇(Novak Djokovic)周日获得了他的首个法网冠军头衔，这让这项运动历史上的这一时期又多了一层男子气概。
在这一点上，谁又能反对黄金时代的观点呢?

*
In terms of entertainment value and newfound commercial respectability, perhaps 1976 through
1984 remains the most significant period in men’s tennis history. The sport — previously
amateur, almost always played on lawns when outdoors, and therefore still tethered to a genteel
identity in the eyes of most (the image persists for some Americans, even today) — became
rough, tough, gruff and highly colorful in the late 1970s.
Borg. Jimbo. Mac. Lendl. Vitas. Splashes of originality, abrasiveness and pugnacity enabled
tennis to come alive. Racquet technology began to evolve. Hardcourts busted up the grass-andclay
singularity of the major tournaments. Television began to give the sport mainstream
visibility in an era before (and during the infant years of) CNN and ESPN. Tennis reached a lot
of fans in that first period. People who might not have given tennis a second thought as a sport
— as a fan, as an aspiring athlete, or as a sportswriter — gravitated to the game in those years.
If your motto is “the first movement is the biggest movement,” perhaps one can say — in a very
narrow and specific context — that 1976-1984 is the greatest era of men’s tennis.
Otherwise, what began in the 2005 Roland Garros semifinals — when a teenage Rafael Nadal
defeated top-ranked Roger Federer and began to build The Citadel known as Court Philippe
Chatrier against his Swiss rival — is the finest and most luminous era men’s tennis has ever
known.
Sunday’s events in Paris — on that same piece of crushed red brick — confirmed the notion.
*
在娱乐价值和新获得的商业声望方面，也许是1976年到1984年仍然是男子网球史上最重要的时期。
体育-前提业余，几乎总是在户外的草坪上玩耍，因此仍然保持着一种绅士风度
大多数人眼中的身份认同(即使在今天，对一些美国人来说，这一形象依然存在)变成了现实
20世纪70年代后期，粗犷、坚韧、粗暴、色彩丰富。
Borg。吉米。Lendl Mac。维塔斯。创意、磨砺和好斗的火花得以迸发
网球要活跃起来。球拍技术开始进化。硬地球场打破了主要赛事的草泥奇点。在CNN和ESPN还处于襁褓期之前，电视就开始让体育成为主流。
在第一个时期，网球就吸引了很多球迷。在那些年里，那些不把网球作为一项运动来考虑的人——作为一个球迷，一个有抱负的运动员，或者一个体育作家——被这项运动所吸引。
如果你的座右铭是“第一乐章是最大的乐章”，也许有人可以说——在一个非常
狭窄而具体的背景——1976-1984是男子网球最伟大的时代。
除此之外，2005年罗兰加洛斯半决赛开始了什么，当十几岁的少年纳达尔击败了世界排名第一的费德勒，并开始在菲利普·查特里尔球场建造城堡，以对抗他的瑞士对手——这是迄今为止最优秀、最辉煌的男子网球时代。
周日在巴黎发生的事件——就在那块碎红砖上——证实了这一观点。

本书的第二部分都是作者当网球记者发表的文章的合集，有空的时候我会挑部分翻译过来，总算在春节前把主要章节翻译完了。祝各位德友春节快乐，让我们共同期待德约再写辉煌！

各位德友情人节快乐，今天德约林又种了一颗胡杨，从去年中秋节到今天，我们德约林已经种了八颗胡杨，两颗樟子松，感谢小伙伴们的付出，一直陪伴着我德的好成绩，好心情！继续支持我们的大众情人--诺瓦克-德约科维奇！


*
The story of the Big Three is not a completed story.
We have seen both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal bounce back from injuries before. Yes, the
older they get, the harder it will be to reclaim past glories, but if nature and luck can conspire to
usher them safely through the next three years, who knows how many delightful surprises they
can provide?
Legends have been known to do things most mortals can’t. It is in the nature of a legend to
transcend ordinary expectations.
Yet, let’s offer — just for the sake of creating parameters — the notion that Federer and Nadal
don’t win another major title.
Even if the two pioneering figures of the Golden Era don’t deliver another large-scale
thunderbolt, this is what we can already say about Roger, Rafa, and the man — Novak Djokovic
— who has both joined and eclipsed them with his championship at Roland Garros:
*
三巨头的故事并不是一个完整的故事。
费德勒和拉斐尔·纳达尔都曾从伤病中恢复过来。
是的，他们年龄越大，就越难收回过去的荣耀，但如果自然和运气能够共同引导他们安全度过接下来的三年，谁知道他们能带来多少惊喜呢?
众所周知，传说中有些事情是大多数人做不到的。超越普通的期望是传奇的本质。
然而，让我们提出——仅仅是为了创造参数——费德勒和纳达尔不会赢得另一个主要冠军的观点。
即使这两位黄金时代的先驱者不能带来另一场惊雷，我们已经可以这样评价罗杰、拉法和德约科维奇
-他加入了三巨头，并在法网夺冠后超越了他们:


（编者注：冥冥之中作者居然也预料到我德的伤病归来吗？）

The Big Three:
All won at least 12 major titles. Moreover, it’s a near lock that Djokovic will make this number
14 in due time. Just contemplate that: Three men will win at least 14 major titles apiece. Three
men will match or exceed Pete Sampras’s major-title haul. Three men — when they retire —
will all share the following distinction: None of their historical predecessors, not one, will own
more major titles.
All won career Grand Slams. Three of the eight men to ever collect championships at all four
majors will have existed in this era, this 12-year period which still has a few years left.
All tied or set the Open Era record for the most championships at one of the four
majors. Djokovic owns the most Australian Opens with six. Nadal claims the most French
Opens with nine. Federer doesn’t own an outright record, but he shares the record for most
Wimbledon (7) and U.S. Open (5) titles in the Open Era.
All set the match-streak record at one major: Djokovic won 25 straight Australian Open
matches; Nadal 39 straight French Open matches; Federer 40 straight U.S. Open matches.
All own or share the record for the most consecutive singles titles won at each of the four
majors: Djokovic (Australian); Nadal (French); Federer (tie, Wimbledon, and tie, U.S. Open).


三巨头:
他们都赢得了至少12个大满贯。此外，德约科维奇几乎锁定了这个数字14在适当的时候。
试想一下:三个人每人将赢得至少14个主要奖项。
三名选手的战绩将与桑普拉斯(Pete Sampras)持平或超过后者。（译者：现在都超过了）三个人——当他们退休时——都将分享以下的不同之处:他们的历史上的前辈，没有一个，将拥有这些更主要的大满贯记录。
他们都赢得了职业生涯的全满贯。在拿到全满贯的8个冠军得主中，有3个已经在这个时代存在了，这个12年的时代还剩下几年。
他们都平了或者创造了四大满贯的开放时代的冠军纪录。德约科维奇拥有最多的澳大利亚公开赛六场。纳达尔宣称法国开局最多，有9个。费德勒并没有个人突出的记录，但是他和温网和美网公开赛的记录一样多。
所有这些都在一个主要赛事中创造了连胜纪录:德约科维奇连续25场赢得澳网冠军;纳达尔连续39场法网比赛;费德勒在美网连续40场比赛。
所有人都拥有或分享在四个大满贯中连续赢得最多单打冠军的记录:德约科维奇(澳大利亚人);纳达尔(法国);费德勒(温网、美网平)。

None of this includes some of the titanic matches in the sport’s history — Wimbledon 2008
(Federer-Nadal), U.S. Open 2010 (Djokovic against both Federer and Nadal), U.S. Open 2011
(Djokovic against both Federer and Nadal), Roland Garros 2013 (Djokovic-Nadal), and
Wimbledon 2014 (Djokovic-Federer).
This is an unofficial statistic more than an official one, but if roughly two-thirds of the planet
Earth are covered by water, roughly two-thirds of the book of tennis records have been covered
by the Big Three since this era began… and that book will only acquire dozens of additional
records in the years ahead.
Borg and Connors and McEnroe and Lendl knew how to fight and entertain, but the best player
of the lot (Borg) didn’t stick around long enough to establish his legend in the stratosphere.
Lendl is an historically underrated player, but he did lose all those major finals while enduring
his Wimbledon curse. McEnroe burned out, an artist whose creativity was as fragile as it was
brilliant once he reached a certain point in his career. As remarkable as he in fact was, Connors
won only three majors outside New York and the U.S. Open. Even though he didn’t travel to
Australia for a tournament whose prestige didn’t rise to a higher level until 1988, Connors still
missed out a lot on the French Open and Wimbledon.


这些都不包括体育史上的一些重大比赛——温布尔登2008
2010年美国网球公开赛(德约科维奇对阵费德勒和纳达尔)，2011年美国网球公开赛
(德约科维奇对阵费德勒和纳达尔)，罗兰加洛斯2013(德约科维奇-纳达尔)，以及
2014年温布尔登网球公开赛(Djokovic-Federer)。


这是一个非官方的统计量超过一个官方统计,但如果大约三分之二的地球被水覆盖,大约三分之二的网球记录的书已经被三巨头这个时代以来,这本书只会获得许多额外的记录在未来几年。


博格、康纳斯、麦肯罗和伦德尔知道如何战斗和娱乐，但他们当中最好的球员博格并没有在圈内停留足够长的时间来建立他的传奇。伦德尔是一个历史上被低估的球员，但他确实在忍受温布尔登诅咒的同时输掉了所有那些重要的决赛。麦肯罗精力耗尽了，他的创造力是脆弱的，但一旦他达到事业的某个阶段，他的创造力就会变得辉煌。事实上，尽管康纳斯很了不起，但他在纽约和美国网球公开赛之外只赢得了三个大满贯。尽管康纳斯没有去澳大利亚参加直到1988年才上升到更高水平的赛事，但他仍然在法国网球公开赛和温布尔登网球公开赛上错失了很多机会。

Never before has men’s tennis featured such dominance — primarily at the majors, but also in its
second tier of tournaments — among a small group at the top. Never before has this sport formed
such a brick wall, keeping underdogs out of the premises with near-total regularity. If one or two
members of this Big Three faltered or suffered an injury, the other was there to hold the fort.
Each player could retire as the historical leader on one surface. Rafa is “El Rey de Clay,” Federer
the top brass on grass, Djokovic poised to become the Elite of Concrete if he can stack together
just a few more hardcourt majors in the coming years.
Getting tired of all these milestones?
They do all tend to blur together, don’t they?
Yet, that’s precisely the point: It’s impossible to keep track.


男子网球从来没有像现在这样在顶尖的一小群人当中占据如此重要的地位——主要是在大满贯比赛中，但也包括在次一级赛事中。这项运动从未形成过这样的一堵砖墙，几乎完全有规律地将弱者挡在场地之外。如果这三巨头中的一两个成员动摇或受伤，另一个人就会守住阵地。
在一个层面上，每个玩家都可以作为历史领袖退休。拉法是“红土之王”，费德勒是草地上最重要的人物，德约科维奇准备成为硬地领袖，如果他能在未来几年再积累几个硬地大满贯。
厌倦了所有这些里程碑?
它们总是会模糊在一起，不是吗?
然而，这正是问题的关键:不可能跟踪记录。

We were dazzled by Borg and McEnroe and Lendl and Connors 35 years ago, but we weren’t
bewildered by the extent to which they swallowed up the record book.
Maybe the tennis fan of 2016 lives with a mindset that’s different from the tennis fan of 1981,
but if the record books define a sport’s history, this era of men’s tennis has defined the
profession with a sweep and scope we’ve never seen before… and won’t soon see again.
This is the Golden Era — no, it’s not a fact, but if ever an opinion felt like a fact, it does today,
after Novak Djokovic completed one of this group’s final (and few) historical loopholes.
35年前，博格、麦肯罗、伦德尔和康纳斯让我们眼花缭乱，
但我们并没有被他们吞噬世界纪录的程度所迷惑。
也许2016年的网球迷与1981年的网球迷有着不同的心态，
但是，如果说记录簿定义了一项运动的历史，那么这个男子网球的时代以一种前所未有的广度和广度定义了这项职业，而且这种情况不会很快再次出现。
这是一个黄金时代——不，这不是事实，但如果有什么观点让人觉得是事实，那就是今天，
在诺瓦克·德约科维奇(Novak Djokovic)完成这一组决赛中(也是为数不多的)历史漏洞之一后。

Q: 那么你认为谁是史上最伟大球员？
A: 这是整个体育界都在讨论的问题。你如何定义“史上最佳”？如今我们倾向于用数字来定义，但我可以解释为何数字不是最关键的。在夺得了11座大满贯冠军后，比约·博格于26岁退役。他拿下了六个法网，还有温网五连冠，第六次也几乎夺得冠军。
而当澳网还在草地举行时，他有十次未参赛，只打过一次。所以，谁知道呢？不过他对参加澳网并没兴趣。伦德尔也曾三次跳过法网，因为他想拿一座温网冠军。（因此）数字不能成为唯一标准。它固然能说明问题，可看看这三位球员要面对的对手吧：费德勒战胜过我、罗迪克、休伊特等人，这些是他早期夺得大满贯时击败的对手。拉法出现后，他要击败费德勒和德约科维奇才能赢得大满贯。到了诺瓦克，他要越过罗杰与拉法这两座大山。
作为一位网球人士，无论是隔网而立还是作为看客，在我看来，假如以打出自己最棒的网球（和史上最佳不同）为标准，那么明确地说，我所见过的最高水平的网球，是诺瓦克发挥最佳状态时打出的。
以我对网球的理解而言，诺瓦克的水平，是所有单打球员都想达到的高度。这不意味着诺瓦克已经挖掘了自己的全部潜能，他还没有停下脚步。我觉得罗杰是最能自我挖潜的球员，也是最全面的。或许他能只依靠发球上网便拿下大满贯，就算被禁止上网，他仍旧能想到别的办法。而拉法，他的成就已说明了一切。


阿加西最近接受采访的话，和这本书作者观点一致！