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
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've slightly changed my action and movement and tonight it really worked well for me.
I've played him many times, six times, but the way he is playing this year, with confidence, to beat him will be very tough. A little bit of luck would be great.
I've been playing non-stop for several weeks and obviously I'm getting tired both physically and mentally. I tried but it wasn't enough.
I've been out for one month and a half and I didn't really practice before the tournament,
We have eyes, and we see that not many people are interested in the sports.
Everything worked out. I'm satisfied with my game today. If it goes like this, I have good chances to play well in this tournament,
To be honest I think he ran out of gas. When I broke him in the third set I think his belief went. He was missing that extra step and he could not cope.