"Stress is a privilege." Djokovic said after winning the first round of the U.S. Open.
As he uttered these words, a scene he saw when he entered Arthur Ashe Stadium must have flashed in his mind. On a wall at the end of the players' tunnel, the original text of the phrase," "Pressure is a privilege," was prominently written on it to alert every player who entered.
The signature under this sentence is the American tennis legend Billy Jane King, and the US Open is named after her. In tennis circles, Billy Jonkin's famous quote has been repeatedly mentioned by players, coaches, journalists and commentators.
When I first heard this sentence, I found it difficult to understand, how can stress and privilege be linked, and how can they be equated?
The initial speculation was that this sentence lost or distorted the key information in the process of English-Chinese translation, and there would be no mistake in translating it literally, but it obviously did not express the rich connotation of this sentence in a complete and accurate manner.
In order to understand the original meaning of this sentence, we need to look for the answer in Billy Jane's original words.
"Usually, if you're under a lot of pressure, it's because the opportunity comes." Billy Jonkin clearly remembers the scene when she stood at Wimbledon Centre Court, the privilege of standing here, to be noticed by thousands of people, representing the highest honor of tennis, the rose dew tray stands there, and she is now one last hill left to make history - turn over you successfully, harvest countless flowers and applause, and once knocked down, it leaves eternal regrets.
That's the pressure.
From another perspective, not everyone can have this pressure, countless people fell before the final, they have no chance to experience what it would be like to play the final at Wimbledon Centre Court, and they cannot feel the pressure.
In this sense, stress is indeed a privilege that is different.
The elimination system best reflects the cruelty of tennis matches. As long as you lose one game, you have to roll up and go home. Even if you win, you have no time to celebrate and slack off, you have to quickly get into the next round of fighting, and no one can guarantee that you will win next.
Winning seven consecutive Grand Slams is one of humanity's toughest tasks, no less difficult than guessing the front and back of a coin seven times in a row.
Winning six games in a row to reach the final is due to your strength, but it doesn't completely exclude the element of luck. By the time it comes to the final, will you still have the same amazing performances as you did in the previous games? Will good luck continue?
The deeper the round, the higher the level of your opponent, he may play as smoothly as you, and the state and feel are also in the excellent stage - people block killing, Buddha blocks killing Buddha.
Even in the first round of the US Open, even against an unknown qualifier, world number one Djokovic still said that "pressure is a privilege". It can be seen that pressure does not only exist in the peak of the duel, it is almost everywhere in the game, and the slightest inattention will come out to challenge you.
This is more pronounced and more frequent in tennis matches. With only four points in one set, if you are not careful you will face a break point, even if you take a 40-0 lead in the set, you must not take it lightly, the players seem to be under pressure all the time.
At noon Beijing time yesterday, Manarino took a 40-0 lead in the second set of the 4th set. It stands to reason that the pressure on both sides at this time is completely different - Mannarino is in complete control. The result of this set was that Tsitsipas scored five consecutive points to complete the break, which led to Manarino's mental breakdown, and then lost the last set 0-6.
That was the watershed of the whole race. In the face of pressure, Tsitsipas eventually turned the impossible into a possibility, while Manarino chose to escape and give up, and he coped with it haphazardly in the final stages, ending hastily, completely losing morale and sportsmanship.
If need is the mother of invention, then pressure is the mother of performance. In the face of pressure, are you knocked down by it, like Mannarino as a shameful deserter, or are you pushed out of your comfort zone by it to make yourself a better person?
Facing difficulties and resisting pressure, everyone understands this truth. The crux of the matter is, if there is no guarantee of success, if failure cannot be escaped through all efforts, then what is the point of perseverance and effort?
Truman Capote famously said, "Failure is the spice that gives success a taste." "If you haven't experienced those painful failures, then success won't be so sweet." If the climb were too easy, would we still be amazed by the beauty of the summit? If success is always at your fingertips, is there still a celebration of falling to the ground after winning the championship? Will there still be tears in the eyes when you lift the trophy?
Even the big three that have monopolized the men's tennis scene for nearly 20 years have said more than once after winning the championship, "It's not easy." ”
The soldiers were not afraid to fight, they got up to meet the battle, this is their chance to put the exercise into actual combat. Doctors face life and death every day, they never shy away, as long as they follow the scientific norms of operation, life is in their own hands. Tennis players are born to compete and should go brave enough to meet the challenge of pressure, no one will laugh at the loser who tries their best, people will only laugh at the cowards who escape.
Billy Jonkin said: "I'm going to go all out to win the next point, not take the initiative to make a double mistake." Please give me the ball, I'm going to throw myself into battle. ”
"Stress is a privilege." Billy Jankin said this and then said, "It belongs only to those who work hard." (Source: Tennis House Author: Yun Cirrus YunShu)
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