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'''Marat Mikhailovich Safin''' ({{lang-tt|Марат Мөбин улы Сафин, Marat Möbin ulı Safin}}; {{lang-ru|Мара́т Миха́йлович (Муби́нович) Са́фин}} {{IPA|/mɑ.ˈrɑt.ˈsɑ.fɪn/}}; born January 27, 1980 in [[Moscow]]) is a [[Russia|Russian]] former [[List of ATP number 1 ranked players|World No. 1]] tennis player. He is the older brother of current world number one [[Women's Tennis Association|WTA]] player [[Dinara Safina]].
'''Marat Mikhailovich Safin''' ({{lang-tt|Марат Мөбин улы Сафин, Marat Möbin ulı Safin}}; {{lang-ru|Мара́т Миха́йлович (Муби́нович) Са́фин}} {{IPA|/mɑ.ˈrɑt.ˈsɑ.fɪn/}}; born January 27, 1980 in [[Moscow]]) is a [[Russia|Russian]] former [[List of ATP number 1 ranked players|World No. 1]] tennis player. He is the older brother of current world number one [[Women's Tennis Association|WTA]] player [[Dinara Safina]].


Safin began his professional career in 1997 and held the No. 1 world ranking for a total of 9 weeks between November 2000 and April 2001. He achieved his first Grand Slam title at the [[2000 U.S. Open (tennis)|2000 U.S. Open]] after defeating [[Pete Sampras]], and won the [[2005 Australian Open]], defeating [[Lleyton Hewitt]]. Safin helped lead [[Russia Davis Cup team|Russia]] to [[Davis Cup]] victories in 2002 and 2006. Despite his dislike of grass courts, he became the first Russian man to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon at the [[2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles|2008 Wimbledon Championships]]. Marat Safin is currently ranked no. 23 in the official world men's tennis rankings season.<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090123/wl_asia_afp/tennisopenausfederer_20090123203417</ref> [[Marat Safin]] is one of few players, to beat both [[Pete Sampras]] and [[Roger Federer]] in a Grand Slam during their peaks.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/5488471/Wimbledon-2009-Marat-Safin-ready-for-smashing-send-off.html</ref>
Safin began his professional career in 1997 and held the No. 1 world ranking for a total of 9 weeks between November 2000 and April 2001. He achieved his first Grand Slam title at the [[2000 U.S. Open (tennis)|2000 U.S. Open]] after defeating [[Pete Sampras]], and won the [[2005 Australian Open]], defeating [[Lleyton Hewitt]]. Safin helped lead [[Russia Davis Cup team|Russia]] to [[Davis Cup]] victories in 2002 and 2006. Despite his dislike of grass courts, he became the first Russian man to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon at the [[2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles|2008 Wimbledon Championships]]. Marat Safin is currently ranked no. 23 in the official world men's tennis rankings season.<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090123/wl_asia_afp/tennisopenausfederer_20090123203417</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==

Revision as of 20:40, 18 June 2009

Marat Safin
Country (sports) Russia
ResidenceMonte Carlo, Monaco
Moscow, Russia
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro1997
PlaysRight-handed; two-handed backhand
Prize moneyUS$13,890,562
Singles
Career record405–246
Career titles15
Highest rankingNo. 1 (November 20, 2000)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (2005)
French OpenSF (2002)
WimbledonSF (2008)
US OpenW (2000)
Doubles
Career record91–107
Career titles2
Highest rankingNo. 71 (April 22, 2002)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open1R (2000, 2009)
French Open1R (2001)
Wimbledon3R (2001)
US Open-
Last updated on: March 5, 2009.

Marat Mikhailovich Safin (Tatar: Марат Мөбин улы Сафин, Marat Möbin ulı Safin; Russian: Мара́т Миха́йлович (Муби́нович) Са́фин /mɑ.ˈrɑt.ˈsɑ.fɪn/; born January 27, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian former World No. 1 tennis player. He is the older brother of current world number one WTA player Dinara Safina.

Safin began his professional career in 1997 and held the No. 1 world ranking for a total of 9 weeks between November 2000 and April 2001. He achieved his first Grand Slam title at the 2000 U.S. Open after defeating Pete Sampras, and won the 2005 Australian Open, defeating Lleyton Hewitt. Safin helped lead Russia to Davis Cup victories in 2002 and 2006. Despite his dislike of grass courts, he became the first Russian man to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. Marat Safin is currently ranked no. 23 in the official world men's tennis rankings season.[2]

Early life

Marat Safin was born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia), to Mikhail Safin and Rauza Islanova, an ethnic Tatar family, Safin describes himself as a non-practicing Muslim.[3] He speaks Russian, English and Spanish. His parents were former tennis players and coaches. His younger sister, Dinara Safina,[4] is a professional tennis player and silver medalist at the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. Safin's father managed the local Spartak Tennis Club where Safin trained in his youth alongside several tennis players, including Anna Kournikova, Elena Dementieva, and Anastasia Myskina.

At age fourteen he moved to Valencia, Spain, to gain access to advanced tennis training programs which were not available in Russia.[5] Safin says he grew up "very fast...with no muscles" and that he moved to Spain because clay courts were "better for the knees".[5] Safin speaks fluent Spanish as a result.[6]

Tennis career

Safin started his professional career in 1997. In 1998, Safin consecutively defeated Andre Agassi and defending champion Gustavo Kuerten at the French Open.[7]

World No. 1 and Grand Slam history

Safin held the No. 1 ATP ranking for 9 weeks during 2000 when he won his first Grand Slam tournament at the US Open, by defeating Pete Sampras in straight sets.[4] However, a succession of injuries hindered his progress and Safin missed the majority of the season in 2003 as a result.[8]

Safin reached the final round in three more Grand Slam tournaments, all in the Australian Open in 2002, 2004, and 2005. He has cited nervousness as the reason for his loss in the 2002 event, and physical exhaustion for the 2004 loss.[9] He defeated home-country favorite Lleyton Hewitt in the 2005 finals to secure his second Grand Slam in five years. En route to this final, he defeated top-ranked Roger Federer in a five-set semi-final match.[10] After ending Federer's 26-match winning streak over top-10 players, Safin described the match as "a brain fight."[11]

His best result at Wimbledon is reaching the semifinals in 2008 often losing in the first or second rounds in other years; he was defeated by Roger Federer in 2008, 6–3 7-6(4) 6–4.

Masters Series

Safin has won five ATP Tennis Masters Series titles during his career. His first was in 2000 when he won the title in Toronto, Canada. He holds a record-tying three (2000, 2002, and 2004) wins in Paris, France, and one in 2004 in Madrid, Spain.

Tennis Masters Cup

In 2004, Safin reached the semi-final of the Tennis Masters Cup in Houston, where he was defeated by Roger Federer, 6–3, 7–6(18). The second-set tiebreak (20–18) was the third longest tiebreak in the Open Era. Safin also reached the semi-finals in 2000.

Davis Cup

Marat Safin helped Russia achieve its first Davis Cup victory in 2002, with a 3–2 tie-breaking win against France in the final round at the Palais Omnisports Paris Bercy. His Russian team included Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Mikhail Youzhny, Andrei Stoliarov, and team captain Shamil Tarpischev.[12] The team made Davis Cup history by being the second to win the event after losing the doubles tie-breaker, and becoming the first team to win a (live-televised) five-set finals match by coming back from a two-set deficit. Safin also helped Russia to win the Davis Cup in 2006. After a straight sets defeat by David Nalbandian in his first match, his doubles victory (partnering Dmitry Tursunov) against Nalbandian and Agustín Calleri and singles victory against José Acasuso drove Russia to victory.

2005

After winning the 2005 Australian Open, Safin attributed his recent revival and more consistent performance to the calming presence of his new coach Peter Lundgren, saying that "I never believed in myself before at all, until I started to work with him." Lundgren had been Federer's coach, until parting ways at the end of 2003; Safin hired Lundgren the following year. He was later defeated in the early rounds of each of the seven tournaments he played between the Australian Open and the French Open. In June 2005, shortly after his unsuccessful French Open campaign, Safin made a surprise finals appearance at the Wimbledon tune-up tournament in Halle on grass. He lost the final narrowly to the defending champion, Roger Federer.

2006

Safin at the Nasdaq 100 Open 2006.

Although a serious knee-injury hampered Safin's progression and rankings within the ATP (he missed the 2005 US Open and 2006 Australian Open), Safin made appearances at the 2006 ATP Masters tournaments at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Rome and Hamburg.

On August 17, 2006, after a disappointing year during which Safin suffered injuries and his ranking plummeted to as low as 104, Safin temporarily parted ways with coach Peter Lundgren. [13]

At the 2006 US Open, Safin defeated David Nalbandian, who was then World #4, in the 2nd Round in a 5th Set tiebreaker, but lost at the 4th Round to former world #2 Tommy Haas, also on a 5th set tiebreaker.

Safin helped Russia beat the USA 3–2 to gain a place in the finals in December 2006, and secondly with a good run at the start of the indoor season the Thailand Open where he was narrowly edged out by #7 seed, James Blake.

On October 14, 2006, Safin made it to his first final in a year-and-a-half at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, the first all Russian final at that event, losing to Nikolay Davydenko.

On December 3, 2006, Safin defeated José Acasuso 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 7–6 (5) in the 5th rubber of the 2006 Davis Cup, winning the cup for Russia. He had previously lost 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 to David Nalbandian in his first match. In the doubles match, he teamed with Dmitry Tursunov to win against Nalbandian and Agustín Calleri in straight sets.

2007

Safin practicing at the 2007 US Open

Safin played no warm-up tournaments in the run up to the Australian Open. As Safin was forced to miss the tournament in 2006 due to injury, 2007 was his first Australian Open since he captured the title in 2005. Safin lost against sixth seed Andy Roddick in the third round match by 6–7, 6–2, 4–6, 6–7 in a grueling 3-hour match. Roddick commented after the match, "With Marat you know you are going to get an emotional roller-coaster. You just have to try and focus on yourself and I was able to do that tonight. [14]

In April, Marat won the deciding quarter-final Davis Cup rubber against France, beating Paul-Henri Mathieu in straight sets.[15]

Safin reached the third round at Wimbledon, before falling to the defending champion Roger Federer.[16] In July, Safin announced that he and his coach Alexander Volkov were parting and that his new coach would be former pro Hernán Gumy.

Safin won the doubles title at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow in October, his first ATP-level title since the 2005 Australian Open. [17]

2008

Safin prepared for the Australian Open at the invitational exhibition tournament, the AAMI Kooyong Classic in Melbourne. Other players in the field were Roddick, Fernando González, Nikolay Davydenko, Marcos Baghdatis, Ivan Ljubičić and Andy Murray. Safin was victorious in his opening match, defeating Andy Murray 6–1, 6–4[18] before falling to defeat in his second match to Andy Roddick 6–3, 6–3.[19] In the 3rd place play-off, Safin rebounded from the Roddick loss and overpowered last year's Australian Open runner up Fernando González winning the match 6–3, 6–3.[20] Safin won his first round match at the Australian Open against Ernests Gulbis in straight sets - 6–0, 6–4, 7–6(2). He was ousted in the 2nd round after a grueling five set match against Baghdatis - 6–4, 6–4 2–6, 3–6, 6–2.[21]

In February, Safin was granted wildcards into the tournaments at Memphis and Las Vegas. In Memphis, he was edged out by his 2002 Australian Open opponent, Thomas Johansson, 7–6, 7–6 in the first round. In Las Vegas he was defeated by Lleyton Hewitt during the semi-finals round in 2007 7–5, 6–1.[22][23] Safin was defeated by Hewitt once again by 6–2, 6–1 in 58 minutes.[24]

In March, Safin lost in the first round of Indian Wells and Miami, to Jürgen Melzer and qualifier Bobby Reynolds respectively. In the Davis Cup between Russia and the Czech Republic, Safin defeated world no. 9 Tomáš Berdych in a five set encounter, after being two sets down, 6–7, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–4. This was the first time in his career that he has come back to win a match after being down two sets. Safin said that he hoped that this would be a turnaround in his form.[25]

Safin's next tournament was in Valencia. He defeated former World No. 1 and number 4 seed Juan Carlos Ferrero 6–3, 5–7, 6–4. He played Dutch teenager Robin Haase in the next round. He won the first set 6–2 and was up 4–2 in the 2nd set. However, Haase broke back to take it to a tiebreak. Safin had 4 match points, including one on his serve, but lost this tiebreak, and eventually the match.[citation needed]

In the Monte Carlo Masters, Safin defeated Xavier Malisse 6–3, 6–2, but then lost to No. 5 David Ferrer 6–2, 6–3. He then entered the 2008 BMW Open in Munich, Germany, where his first round opponent was Carlos Berlocq. Safin won 6–3, 3–6, 6–4. In the second round he edged out Michael Berrer 7–6(4), 6–7(5), 6–3, but lost to Fernando González 7–5, 6–3 in his first quarterfinal of the year, and the first since June 2007 at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, D.C.[26][27]

Safin also entered the 2008 French Open but was eliminated in the second round by countryman and No. 4 seed Nikolay Davydenko, in straight sets, 7–6, 6–2, 6–2.

Safin at Canadian Masters 2008

Ranked at No. 75, Safin entered the 2008 Wimbledon Championships where he defeated Fabio Fognini 6–1, 6–2, 7–6(3) in the first round. In the second round he defeated No. 3 player and 2008 Australian Open Champion Novak Djokovic 6–4, 7–6(3), 6–2. Safin's victory came as a shock as Djokovic was described as a "serious contender" to win the tournament.[28] In the third round, he played Italian Andreas Seppi (29th seed) and beat him 7–6, 3–6, 7–6, 6–4. In the Round of 16 came Stanislas Wawrinka who he defeated 6–4, 6–3, 5–7, 6–1. This was the first time he had reached the quarter-finals in a major tournament since the 2005 Australian Open. Safin went on to defeat Feliciano López 3–6, 7–5, 7–6(1), 6–3 in the quarterfinals to set up a semifinal clash with defending champion Roger Federer. Safin lost the match 6–3, 7–6(3), 6–4. His run to the semi-finals was his best record in Wimbledon and made him the first Russian man to ever reach a Wimbledon semi-final.[29] Safin then played at the Swedish Open, on clay, in Båstad against Marc López, winning 7–6, 7–5 in the first round. He lost his second round match against Potito Starace.

Safin was awarded a wild card into the Rogers Cup Masters tournament in Toronto. He played Sam Querrey in the first round, winning 6–3, 6–3. Due to rain delays, he had to play his next match against Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka on the same day.[30] He lost that match 6–3, 6–4. Safin was seeded fifth for his next tournament, the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles. He defeated Americans John Isner 6–3, 6–4 and Wayne Odesnik 6–3, 6–2 in the first and second rounds respectively to advance to the quarterfinals, where he was defeated by Denis Gremelmayr 3–6, 6–3, 6–2.

In the US Open, Marat Safin lost in the second round to Tommy Robredo 4–6, 7–6, 6–4, 6–0.

At the Moscow Kremlin Cup, he defeated Noam Okun, Julien Benneteau, and fellow countrymen Nikolay Davydenko and Mischa Zverev only to lose to another compatriot Igor Kunitsyn 7–6, 6–7, 6–3 in the final. It was Safin's first final appearance since 2006, in the same event. Following the Kremlin Cup, Safin withdrew from the Madrid Masters event with a shoulder injury cited as the reason.

His next event was the St. Petersburg Open at which he lost in the 2nd round. He then lost his first round match at the final ATP tournament of the calendar: the Paris Masters. He lost the match to Juan Mónaco 6–0 7-6. In the post-match conference, he raised the possibility of his retirement from the sport. Via a message posted on his official website, he said he was going to take a holiday and then seriously consider his options regarding his future in tennis. He finished the year 2008 ranked at #29.

2009

Safin returning a shot.

Safin started the 2009 season by playing in the Hopman Cup event in Perth with his sister, Dinara Safina. He arrived at the event sporting a bandaged right thumb, two black eyes, a blood-filled left eye and a cut near his right eye, all suffered in a fight several weeks earlier in Moscow.[31]

In the 2009 Hopman Cup, teaming with sister, Dinara, the pair played off in the Final representing Russia, but each was defeated in the singles rubbers. Safin withdrew from the Kooyong Classic tournament due to a shoulder injury, but recovered to play his first round Australian Open match, which he won in straight sets over Ivan Navarro of Spain. In the second round, Safin defeated another Spanish player, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. In the third round he came up against Roger Federer and lost in straight sets. His next tournament was the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships. He exited in the 1st round to Richard Gasquet and exited in the semi-finals in doubles with David Ferrer. In March Marat helped Russia advance to the Davis Cup quarterfinals by beating Victor Crivoi of Romania in the first rubber in straight sets.

So far this season Safin has steadily progressed in the ATP mens rankings. Starting at 29 in the world, he is now placed at 20. This is the first time Safin has been in the top 20 since the end of January 2006. His doubles ranking has also increased this year from 300 to 195.[32]

Characteristics

Safin is known for his emotional outbursts during matches, and has smashed numerous rackets.[33][34][35] Safin is estimated to have smashed 48 racquets in 1999.[35] As of 2005, Safin estimated that he has broken about 300.[4]

Playing style

Lack of consistency has been described as Safin's ultimate weakness, since 2005.[36][37][38][39] Safin considers grass to be his least favorite playing surface, even though other opponents with similar playing styles generally dominate on it.[5][40] Safin had his best performance at Wimbledon in 2008, where he reached the semi finals. Safin dismissed his performance in the 2001 tournament, in which he reached the quarter finals, as a result of luck.[41] Safin says that "It's difficult to [break serve]. It's difficult to play off the baseline because [of] a lot of bad bounces."[41]. With Safin's semi final performance at Wimbledon in 2008, he became the fourth of five active players to reach the semifinals in all four grand slams joining Roger Federer, David Nalbandian, Novak Djokovic, and later, Rafael Nadal.

Equipment

Safin has used the Head Prestige classic 600 since '97 and has a paintjob of the Microgel Prestige for marketing purposes.

His racquets used to be strung using Babolat VS Natural Team Gut 17L gauge. He now uses Luxilon Big Banger Original at 62 to 64 pounds.[42] His clothing and shoe sponsor has been Adidas for the last decade.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 4 (2-2)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
Winner 2000 US Open Hard United States Pete Sampras 6–4, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up 2002 Australian Open Hard Sweden Thomas Johansson 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6
Runner-up 2004 Australian Open Hard Switzerland Roger Federer 7–6, 6–4, 6–2
Winner 2005 Australian Open Hard Australia Lleyton Hewitt 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4

Masters Series finals

Singles: 8 (5-3)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 1999 Paris Hard (i) United States Andre Agassi 7–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up 2000 Hamburg Clay Brazil Gustavo Kuerten 6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 5–7, 7–6
Winner 2000 Canada (Toronto) Hard Israel Harel Levy 6–2, 6–3
Winner 2000 Paris Hard (i) Australia Mark Philippoussis 3–6, 7–6(7), 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(8)
Runner-up 2002 Hamburg Clay Switzerland Roger Federer 6–1, 6–3, 6–4
Winner 2002 Paris Hard (i) Australia Lleyton Hewitt 7–6, 6–0, 6–4
Winner 2004 Madrid Hard (i) Argentina David Nalbandian 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
Winner 2004 Paris Hard (i) Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek 6–3, 7–6, 6–3

Career finals

Singles: 27 (15-12)

Wins (15)
Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (2)
Tennis Masters Cup /
ATP World Tour Finals (0)
ATP Masters Series /
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (5)
ATP International Series Gold /
ATP World Tour 500 Series (1)
ATP International Series /
ATP World Tour 250 Series (7)
Titles by Surface
Hard (10)
Clay (2)
Grass (0)
Carpet (3)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. August 23, 1999 Boston, USA Hard United Kingdom Greg Rusedski 6–4, 7–6(11)
2. April 24, 2000 Barcelona, Spain Clay Spain Juan Carlos Ferrero 6–3, 6–3, 6–4
3. May 1, 2000 Majorca, Spain Clay Sweden Mikael Tillström 6–4, 6–3
4. July 31, 2000 Toronto, Canada Hard Israel Harel Levy 6–2, 6–3
5. August 28, 2000 US Open, New York City, USA Hard United States Pete Sampras 6–4, 6–3, 6–3
6. September 11, 2000 Tashkent, Uzbekistan Hard Italy Davide Sanguinetti 6–3, 6–4
7. November 6, 2000 St. Petersburg, Russia Hard (i) Slovakia Dominik Hrbatý 2–6, 6–4, 6–4
8. November 13, 2000 Paris, France Carpet (i) Australia Mark Philippoussis 3–6, 7–6(7), 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(8)
9. September 10, 2001 Tashkent, Uzbekistan Hard Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6–2, 6–2
10. October 22, 2001 St. Petersburg, Russia Hard (i) Germany Rainer Schüttler 3–6, 6–3, 6–3
11. October 28, 2002 Paris, France Carpet (i) Australia Lleyton Hewitt 7–6(4), 6–0, 6–4
12. September 13, 2004 Beijing, China Hard Russia Mikhail Youzhny 7–6(4), 7–5
13. October 18, 2004 Madrid, Spain Hard (i) Argentina David Nalbandian 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
14. November 1, 2004 Paris, France Carpet (i) Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek 6–3, 7–6(5), 6–3
15. January 17, 2005 Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard Australia Lleyton Hewitt 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-ups (12)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. 7 November, 1999 Paris, France Carpet (i) United States Andre Agassi 7–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4
2. 21 May, 2000 Hamburg, Germany Clay Brazil Gustavo Kuerten 6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 5–7, 7–6
3. 20 August, 2000 Indianapolis, USA Hard Brazil Gustavo Kuerten 3–6, 7–6, 7–6
4. 4 February, 2001 Dubai, UAE Hard Spain Juan Carlos Ferrero 6–2, 6–3
5. 27 January, 2002 Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard Sweden Thomas Johansson 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 7–6
6. 19 May, 2002 Hamburg, Germany Clay Switzerland Roger Federer 6–1, 6–3, 6–4
7. 27 April, 2003 Barcelona, Spain Clay Spain Carlos Moyà 5–7, 6–2, 6–2, 3–0 retired
8. 1 February, 2004 Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard Switzerland Roger Federer 7–6, 6–4, 6–2
9. 18 April, 2004 Estoril, Portugal Clay Argentina Juan Ignacio Chela 6–7, 6–3, 6–3
10. 12 June, 2005 Halle, Germany Grass Switzerland Roger Federer 6–4, 6–7, 6–4
11. 9 October, 2006 Moscow, Russia Hard (i) Russia Nikolay Davydenko 6–4, 5–7, 6–4
12. 4 October, 2008 Moscow, Russia Hard (i) Russia Igor Kunitsyn 7–6(6), 6–7(4), 6–3

Doubles: 6 (2-4)

Wins (2)
No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. 2001 Gstaad, Switzerland Clay Switzerland Roger Federer Australia Michael Hill
United States Jeff Tarango 		0–1, retired
2. 2007 Moscow, Russia Carpet Russia Dmitry Tursunov Czech Republic Tomáš Cibulec
Croatia Lovro Zovko 		6–4, 6–2
Runner-ups (4)
No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. 1999 Moscow, Russia Carpet Ukraine Andrei Medvedev United States Justin Gimelstob
Czech Republic Daniel Vacek 		6–2, 6–1
2. 2001 St. Petersburg, Russia Hard (i) Georgia (country) Irakli Labadze Russia Denis Golovanov
Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 		7–5, 6–4
3. 2002 St. Petersburg, Russia Hard (i) Georgia (country) Irakli Labadze South Africa David Adams
United States Jared Palmer 		7–6, 6–3
4. 2005 Halle, Germany Grass Sweden Joachim Johansson Switzerland Yves Allegro
Switzerland Roger Federer 		7–5, 6–7, 6–3

Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics. This table is current through the 2009 Miami Masters.

Tournament 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Career SR Career win–loss
Australian Open A A 3R 1R 4R F 3R F W A 3R 2R 3R 1 / 10 31–8
French Open A 4R 4R QF 3R SF A 4R 4R 1R 2R 2R 2R 0 / 11 26–11
Wimbledon A 1R A 2R QF 1R A 1R 3R 2R 3R SF 0 / 8 14–8
U.S. Open A 4R 2R W SF 2R A 1R A 4R 2R 2R 1 / 9 22–8
Grand Slam SR 0 / 0 0 / 3 0 / 3 1 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 1 0 / 4 1 / 3 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 2 2 / 38 93–35
Grand Slam Win–Loss1 0–0 6–3 6–3 12–3 14–4 13–4 2–0 9–4 12–2 4–3 6–4 8–4 3–2 93–35
Tennis Masters Cup A A A SF A RR A SF A A A A 0 / 3 4–7
ATP Masters Series1
Indian Wells Masters A A 3R 2R 1R 3R 3R 3R 3R 4R 2R 1R 3R 0 / 10 13–11
Miami Masters A A 4R 2R 2R QF 2R 2R 3R 1R 2R 1R 3R 0 / 10 17–11
Monte Carlo Masters A A 1R 1R 1R QF A SF 3R 1R 2R 2R 2R 0 / 9 11–9
Rome Masters A A 2R 2R 2R 2R A 3R 2R 2R 2R 1R 1R 0 / 9 9–10
Hamburg Masters A A 2R F 2R F A 3R 2R 1R 2R 3R 0 / 9 19–9
Canada Masters A A A W 1R QF A 1R A 1R 2R 2R 1 / 7 11–6
Cincinnati Masters A A 1R 3R 1R 1R A QF QF 1R 1R 1R 0 / 9 8–9
Madrid Masters (Stuttgart) A A 2R 3R 2R 2R 1R W A QF 1R A 1 / 8 10–7
Paris Masters A A F W 3R W A W A QF A 1R 3 / 7 23–4
Total Titles 0 0 1 7 2 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 15 N/A
Overall Win–Loss 0–1 17–18 39–32 73–27 45–27 56–26 12–11 52–23 27–11 35–25 13–11 24–24 4–3 407–248
Year End Ranking 203 49 23 2 11 3 77 4 12 26 58 29 N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

1The win and loss totals do not include walkovers.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Marat Safin". ATP Profile. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
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