Marat Safin

Marat Mikhailovich Safin (Russian: Марат Михайлович Сафин) (Moscow, 27 January 1980) is a former Russian tennis player, who joined in 1997 the rows of professionals. He has the nickname Mad Marat due to its highly flammable nature. He is the brother of the former world number one Dinara Safina in the women.

Marat Safin was born in Moscow, but enjoyed much of his tennis training in Spain.

He is a Russian Tatar Muslim and of descent (a nation that lives in Russia and Uzbekistan, among others). He also wears a chain with almost every match a 'Aya' (verse) from the Quran.

Safin won two Grand Slam singles tournamentsin his career, the 2000 US Open, by defeating Pete Sampras in the final, and the Australian Open in 2005 by home playerLleyton Hewitt in four sets to beat.

He made one more start 2009 season announced that he would go through with tennis. [1]  On the BNP Paribas masters on 11 november 2009, Safin off his pro career in tennis when he was in the second round by Juan Martín del Potro lost. [2]



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 * 1.1 singles
 * 1.2 doubles
 * 2 singles performance timeline
 * 2.1 singles
 * 3 grand slam doubles performance timeline
 * 4 external links