Pirms chempja sākuma bija Former US Open Chempion balle. Marats kā zināms uzvarēja US Open 2000.gadā. Šāds viņš ieradās uz baļļuku un māja publikai.

nu tad tā - šobrīd Marats spelē Maskavā, krmeļa Turnīrā - vienīgais tenisa turnīrs Krievijā ATP tūres oficiālais. Marats katru gadu te spelē savai publikai, kura viņu reali mīl. Nu pagājušogad ar Tursunovu viņš dubultspelēs uzvareja, bet sogad dubultspelēs jau pirmajā raundā zaudēja. Vienspeles smagā 1.raunda trīs setu spēlē uzvareja un līdzīgi arī otrā raundā, kur nu muļķīgi otro setu pakāsa, jo vienkārsi uz brīdi bija totāli koncentrāciju zaudējis un var teikt, ka nespeleja, bet trešajā setā atkal savācās. Krievu kanāls sport Planeta rādīa šito speli  - es te visa uz nerviem sēdeju. Nu vot - tas bija šodien 9.oktobrī. Pēc spēles viņš atkal tribīnēs parādījās un skatījās. Neredzēju, bet nu tā tipa bijis, jo pa to kanālu vairak spēļu pēc Marata spēles nerādīja, tik Davidenko speles atkārtojumu.

Rīt 17 ir Marata ceturtdaļspēle pret Davidenko un Marats pateica, ka necer uzvarēt un ka Koļam daudz vairāk uzvaru gribas, jo Koļa grib cik var punktu savākt, lai būtu pirmajā pasaules astotniekā un spelētu Novembrī Šanhajā Masters finālā. kur sacenšas 8 labākie pasaules tenisist. Ak, atceros, kad arī Marats tur speleja - sen tas bija....

Intervija pēc 2.raunda uzvaras pār Benneteau.

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Moscow, Kremlin Cup

Saturday, October the 11th, 2008

by Alexandra Cardoso

I met Marat Safin shortly after the withdrawal of Mischa Zverev had been announced, which put him directly in the final, and he agreed on doing a small interview. Just some words about general topics on tennis and life.

AC: Is it a relief that it happened this way [Zverev retiring] or would you’d rather have played?

MS: It was ok either way, but I prefer it like this.

AC: After all these years on the tour do you see things differently from when you were younger? Has the way you go about your objectives changed?

MS: Well, tennis is a bit different; it has evolved so much and there is a different atmosphere, but in the end it’s only the best that stay, so that part is the same. You have to work hard all the same to keep up.

AC: Is the atmosphere better or worse?

MS: Not better and not worse, it’s just different. People have left, good people, but then other new guys have come.

AC: Do you care about the attention everybody pays you?

MS: I don’t care what people say about me. Everybody always has an opinion but you cannot live your life thinking about that, about what others think about you. You just have to be yourself. My friends and my family know me, the people who know me know who I am and that’s what matters.

AC: What do you think about fame? Many people these days seem to think first about being famous and then pick up a profession to help them get there. What is your opinion?

MS: Well, you can’t do that. You have to be good at something, whatever you chose to do, because otherwise it’s fake. If you do it for the fame that’s an empty thing, you can never be really good at it and you also can’t become someone of value as a person.

AC: Whenever you want to do something do you think about what others might say, or do you just do it anyway?

MS: Of course! You cannot think about that, you have to live your life. If I want to do something all I care is if I think I should do it. It doesn’t matter what others say, you have to be yourself.

AC: Sometimes in your interviews you talk about your past, where you came from to get to where you are now. Is it important to you to remember that, to keep your feet on the ground?

MS: Yes, it is important to know who you are and where you came from. Those are your roots and you should not forget them. That’s what made you the person you are now.

There was a TV in the background showing the other quarter final with F. Santoro vs I. Kunytsin, and Marat was looking at it.

AC: What do you feel about playing possibly Santoro in the final?

MS: I’ll have to play one of them either way so it’s ok.

AC: Do you already know the Madrid draw? (a)

MS: Yes.

AC: How do you feel about playing Kolya again?

MS: I have to pass Llodra first and he is a very tricky player.

AC: Are you a person that makes plans? Or do you prefer to adjust more as things go?

MS: Well, you can make plans, but you can’t live your life just by them alone because then something happens like today [Zverev retiring] and your plans go down the drain. You have to take things as they come.

AC: Do you have any specific advice, or any lesson life taught you that you feel it’s important to follow?

MS: Well, everybody gives advice, but advices don’t really matter. What I think it’s most important is just to live everyday as it comes because life is only 4 days. Every moment is important and so you have to be careful not to miss any of them.

It had been a long day with lots of twists and turns and Marat probably still had more commitments to attend so I finished the interview and thanked him for his time. He said a brief ‘ciao’ and then left swiftly.

(a) At that point Marat had received a WC into the main draw of the Madrid Masters. His withdrawal was announced later, after the Kremlin Cup final.

Izcēlu to citātu, kas man patika vislabāk - Marats to vienmēr saka un jau daudzas reizes teicis un es viņam simtprocentīgi piekrītu. Galvenais, ka savejie zina un saprot, bet pārējie, lai domā ko grib. Iebažt šo domu savā galvā vajadzētu daudziem cilvekiem, dažiem arī no šī foruma.

Australian Open 2009 - izskatās, ka pēdējais Marata Australian Open. Un te raksts pirms trešā raunda spēles pret Rožē Federeru.

Safin steels himself for ultimate test

Wednesday 21 January 2009
By Alix Ramsay
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Cast your mind back. It is 2005, and the majestic Fed is marching towards the business end of the Australian Open in search of his fifth Grand Slam title. Standing in his way in the semifinals is the mercurial Marat Safin, the runner-up from 2004. Safin is a great player, but surely he cannot stop the champion from reaching another final. Oh, but he did – 9-7 in the fifth.

Come the final Sunday, Safin went on to break a million Australian hearts by beating Lleyton Hewitt and claiming the second Grand Slam trophy of his career. Happy days.

Since then, Federer and Safin's careers could not have been any more different. The record books will show that the Swiss has carved himself a place in history by winning almost everything in sight. Meanwhile, the world looks at Safin and sighs over what might have been.

Of all the players who could have challenged Federer's dominance at the top of the game, Safin had the talent to do it. A bear of a man, he had the raw power to make the Swiss sit up and take notice - and he was perhaps the only player who could match him for sublime talent.

Safin's game is not as silky smooth or as fluid as Federer's, but he can do almost anything he likes with the ball. He has the ability to invent shots on the fly and has the muscle power to turn a lost cause into an outrageous winner with a flick of the wrist – but it is not enough.

His career has been interrupted with monotonous regularity by a combination of injury and life. He reached the 2004 final on the back of a serious wrist injury and, after winning the title in 2005, had his progress curtailed by a long-term knee problem. And when his body was not breaking down, his mind was playing tricks with him.

Never happy in his role as one of the tour's celebrities, the pressure of being a huge talent with a massive personality wore him down. Wherever he went and whenever he played, someone wanted more from him. Safin has won two Grand Slam titles - and yet he is often viewed as a wasted talent. He likes to entertain the crowd and play his game his way, and yet his detractors accuse of him of lacking focus. The poor bloke cannot do right for doing wrong.

"What does it mean: "star"?" he once said. "There is no explanation for a star. A star is in the sky, and that's it.

"I'm living my life; I'm not living the life of anybody else. I want to live my life and I'm enjoying it very much and I'm doing well and I'm playing tennis and I'm having fun and I think I have a great life. At least I made it this way. I've been trying to live this life for a long time, so why I have to change something which is not broken?"

By the end of last year, as his results see-sawed madly from final here to first round loss there, Safin talked of retirement - and he looked thoroughly fed up with life. Luckily, he had time to cheer up over the winter break and now here he is again, into the third round after easing past Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-5 6-2 6-2, and waiting to meet that man Federer for the 12th time in his career.

The two old rivals have met three times since that heady night here in 2005, and Federer has won every time. Then again, those matches were all played on grass, a surface Safin finds to be both strange and unreliable. But the last showdown was in the semifinals at Wimbledon 2008 – and that was a meeting that Safin pulled out of the hat having not got beyond the fourth round of a Grand Slam since winning in Melbourne in 2005. Now, the Russian has the chance to turn the clock back four years and see if he can cause another upset.

"His life also changed," Safin said of Federer. "Didn't go too bad. He won a couple of Grand Slams afterwards. And me, I got injured. I had to recover from the injuries, so we went in different ways. He got much more confident throughout the years, and I had to recover from injury. So I want to be in his shoes. But, anyway, it's our lives."

Standing on the wrong end of a 9-2 losing record against Federer and with no real form coming into the Open, few would have been willing to out their money on Safin. But as the Russian pointed out, "We know each other pretty well. He knows how to play against me; I know how to play against him. Whatever comes, comes."

That is one of the greatest weapons in Safin's arsenal – with Marat, you just never know.

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