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 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,
It wasn't my day today on the serve, Gisela was returning winners on my serve so it was kind of embarrassing for me,
You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.
I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.
The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.
If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?
I'm really happy with the way I played, definitely my best since Melbourne last year.
It's still very painful, I have to think about every movement on the court, cannot hit the balls as I would like to,
I'm just hoping to play as many tournaments I can to get my ranking back.
I'm taking this tournament very seriously and in this sort of match you have to take your opportunities when they come.
It was not enough matches, so many mistakes. Like I've said, you need to get the rhythm back. It doesn't come straight away. It's still a long way and I have many things to work on. I hope it will come back soon.