Sportski događaj meseca / Sporting event of the month
Tekst / Words: Jelena Medić Fotografije / Photography: Profimedia.rs A ustralijan open nema eleganciju pariskog Ro- lan Garosa, nema tradi- ciju londonskog Vim- bldona, niti tribine pune slavnih ljudi kao US Open u Njujorku. Ali zato ima energiju i vrelinu zbog koje najbolji teniseri i teniserke sveta obožavaju da se svakog ja- nuara vrate u Melburn. Tamo ih čeka vruće leto, pa No- vak Đoković i njegova ekipa rado beže iz ledene Evrope. Neki igrači odlučuju da još u decembru odu u
T he Australian Open doesn’t have the elegance of Paris’s Roland Garros, the tradition of London’s Wimbledon or terraces packed with famous people like the U.S. Open in New York. But what it does have is the energy and guaranteed heat that ensures the world’s best male and female tennis players love to return to Melbourne every January. They are awaited there by the southern hemisphere summer, which means Novak Đoković and his team are happy to flee Europe in its coldest month. Some players even decide to go to Australia in December and stay there un- til the end of January, such is the royal welcome they receive. - Tennis players are like art- ists. Look at everything they can do with a racket and work in- credibly hard. That’s why the top players must receive the best treatment, say the tournament’s courteous organisers. And that royal treatment in- cludes, among other things, the official hairstylist, Giget Ricca, who has spent 17 years working on the players’ hairstyles. She recounts an anecdote with Novak Đoković. “He was sitting in my salon and I was in the middle of cutting his hair and one of the organisers ran in and asked him if he was ready to go on court. I look at him and asked if he was supposed to be playing. He replied: “Yes, on cen- tre court”. I could’t believe how calm he had been. I watched the match on TV and he still had hairs on the collar of his shirt”, said Ms Ricca. When they have sorted out their hairstyles, the players must also eat. At the tennis complex that is the concern of Markus Verner, whose restaurant pro- vides dishes from all over the world “I remember an interest- ing occurrence a few years ago when a player requested a spe- cial German dish. I spent time
Australiju i ostaju do kra- ja januara. Nije ni čudo što je tako, jer ih čeka kraljev- ski doček. „Teniseri su umetnici. Pogledajte šta sve umeju sa reketom i kako napor- no vežbaju da to postignu. Zato moraju da imaju odli- čan tretman“, poručuju ga- lantni organizatori turnira. A kraljevski tretman iz- među ostalog podrazume- va i frizerku koja se zove Gidžet Rika i koja više od 17 godina ugađa teniseri- ma i teniserkama, tačnije njihovim frizurama. Ona je jednom prilikom ispričala anegdotu u vezi sa ulepšavanjem Novaka Đokovića pre meča. „Novak je sedeo kod me- ne, šišala sam ga kada je u salon utrčao jedan od orga- nizatora i pitao ga da li je spreman. Gledam u Đoko- vića i pitam ga da li treba da igra. On odgovara: „Da, na centralnom terenu.“ Ni- sam mogla da verujem ko- liko je bio smiren. Gleda- la sam meč na televiziji, a on je na kragni imao dlači- ce od šišanja“, ispričala je Gidžet Rika. Kada srede frizuru, igra- či moraju nešto i da jedu. Za to se u kompleksu brine Markus Verner, koji se tru- di da na meniju budu jela iz svih delova sveta. „Sećam se zanimljivog
Teniseri su umetnici. Pogledajte šta sve umeju sa reketom. Zato moraju da imaju odličan tretman, poručuju galantni organizatori Tennis players are artists. Look at everything they’re able to do with a racket. That’s why they have to have excellent treatment, say the tournament’s
courteous organisers
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