Stosur eyes greater heights in 2013
Gold Coast, Australia, 09 November 2012 | AAP
Despite falling short of her goals during 2012, Sam Stosur will be gunning
for more Grand Slam glory and a world top three ranking within the next 12
months.
It would mean improving the world No.9′s losing record in finals or adding
another grand slam to her US Open victory in 2011.
Sam下一季的目標是改善在決賽中的軟手症
希望能再次問鼎大滿貫
“Overall, finishing No.9 in the world, it’s still pretty good,” said the
28-year-old Queenslander during a break from her grinding tennis schedule.
“It’s not as high as I wanted it to be, that’s for sure. But taking a
break and reflecting, parts of my game have improved and others can still
improve.”
" 總結來說，以第九名結束賽季也算不錯。縱使這排名和我的期望有落差，
但事過境遷後回想，我在某些部分已經有改進，當然還有其他待改進的。"
Stosur, who said a top-three ranking was achievable, wants to especially
improve on her poor Australian summer. This year, she was bundled out of the
Brisbane and Sydney Internationals in the second and first rounds
respectively.
Stosur then suffered a straight-sets first-round loss at the Australian Open,
a tournament where she has only twice progressed beyond the third round.
Sam覺得排名提升至前三名是有可能的，但她特別想在慘淡的澳洲賽季取得好成績。
今年她分別在布里斯本及雪梨賽的第二輪和首輪出局。接著澳網以直落二敗北，
她過去最好的成績只有兩次超過第三輪。
“The last couple of months, I’ve lost a lot of really close matches 7-5 in
the third (or) 7-6 in the third,” she said.
“I’m right there. If you win half of those, all of a sudden your year looks
a lot better and you’ve won a couple of tournaments.
“I put far too much pressure on myself in the Aussie summer because I
really, really wanted to do well. You only get the opportunity to play at
home for a few weeks and I probably built it up too big and didn’t handle
the occasions on court very well at all.”
" 過去兩個月，我輸掉很多比分接近的比賽，像第三盤的7-5或7-6。要是我當初贏下
來，整個賽季成績看起來就好看多了，還能拿兩個冠軍頭銜。"
" 我在澳洲賽季給自己很多壓力，我真的很想在這裡有好成績。因為只有一年當中只
有幾週的機會能在自家比賽，我可能想的太遠，在場上沒能掌控情勢。"
Stosur won 44 of her 66 matches in 2012 and senses she is still capable of
capturing another Grand Slam title.
Sam今年參加66場比賽，贏下其中的44場，這讓她感覺仍有能力挑戰大滿貫。
“Now that I’ve done it once, you have to think ‘why can’t it happen again?
’,” she said.
“It was a great two weeks, I played unbelievable tennis and obviously that
final (against Serena Williams in New York) was everything you want a Grand
Slam final to be.
“You do it once, you want to believe you can do it again.”
" 我已經拿過大滿貫，我會告訴自己，沒理由不再拿一次。去年美網是很棒的兩週，
我打的不可思議，美網決賽的態勢，完全就是我想要的樣子。我曾成就一回，我想
相信還有第二次的機會。"
Stosur returned to her former school on the Gold Coast on Friday, where about
600 excited students from Gaven State High at Oxenford formed a guard of
honour.
She was able to draw on personal examples while speaking to the crowd about
setting goals and achieving them.
Sam上週五回到她在Gold Coast的母校，有六百名的學生歡迎她的到來，她向學生們
分享自己的目標，以及如何成就它。
Being a foundation student when the school opened in 1995, Stosur’s goals
were placed in a time capsule which was opened a few years ago.
Her goals included being a professional tennis player by 2010 and playing in
a grand slam, travelling the world, being world No.1 (she has been as high as
fourth) and playing at the Olympics (which she has done three times).
她小時候放在時光膠囊裡的願望，在幾年前被打開，她當時的目標包括
成為排名第一的職業網球手(最高排名來到世界第四)，參加大滿貫，在
世界各地旅行，以及征戰奧運(目前已參加三次)。
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