Marat Safin
Marat Safin
Marat Mubinovich Safinis a Russian retired tennis player and politician. Safin won two Grand Slam tournaments and reached the world no. 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin is the older brother of former world No. 1 WTA player, Dinara Safina. They are the first and only brother–sister tandem in tennis history who have both achieved no. 1 rankings...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth27 January 1980
CityMoscow, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
I fought until the last point and that's something I'm satisfied with. My game was not 100 percent when I needed it to be. It's tough but life goes on.
I don't understand what Ferrero was complaining about,
I don't know why I would not be serene.
I am happy. I mean, playing Fabrice is not so nice for me... he was leading 7-1 in matches we'd played, so I am happy to be back and to win.
I am going to try to play New Haven probably because I need to play a couple more matches to get used to it, work on my fitness and get my rhythm back.
I am totally against it. I think it will destroy the game. It will slow it down, lose the momentum and the motion of the game. Who was the genius who came up with this stupid idea? They are looking for solutions on how to save the game and this is not it.
I am very sad that I cannot go to the Australian Open to defend my title. I have been working very hard and it is a lot better.
I am very sad I cannot go to the Australian Open to defend my title as champion.
But it was still a great match. I don't know the last time I played such great tennis. It was probably my best match ever on grass.
But, despite all that, I have a lot more good memories than bad of being here and I would love to come back next year.
I would have loved to win here in Moscow playing for the first time in front of so many Russian fans and of course I'm disappointed by losing,
I have been working very hard and my knee is a lot better but it would not be right to go to a Grand Slam and test my knee right now. I am sorry to all my Australian fans but I will be back next year.
I was ill the last two days. I was still a bit weak. I wasn't ready for this.
Of course, it's very frustrating to see the umpire making a clear mistake but he doesn't want to change his mind no matter what.