Marat Safin tennisist biography

Today, the photos of these and other victories of Marat Safin are already historical chronicle and an important milestone in his biography. Marat Safin is the winner of the Australian Open Championship: Ap 3 childhood and youth of Marat Safina Marat Safin was born and raised in a family with rich sports traditions, in a real sports dynasty, which undoubtedly influenced his biography.

His mother Rausa Safin was considered one of the most successful tennis players of his generation in the Soviet Union, and Father Mubin Safin worked in the Spartak sports society in an administrative position. Mom often took the boy with her for training, from the age of six, Marat himself began to engage in tennis at the school where his father worked, and showed success.

At that time, the young athlete fascinated football much more much more than a young athlete, but every year tennis was more and more captured by Safin. Rausa was the first coach of the boy and his younger sister - also in the future of a successful tennis player Dinara Safina. The guys learned the basics of tennis along with Anna Kurnikova, also in the future of a famous and successful Russian athlete.

When Marat was 10 years old, the company of children went to the United States to Nick Bolletier's tennis school, but only Kournikov was able to get there after watching there. Marat returned to Russia for training, but briefly - two years later the athlete nevertheless left for Spain. Two years later, he got to the Academy of Pancho Alvarin. This became possible thanks to the Spanish sponsors.

Safin tried to meet expectations assigned to him and progressed - the first title came to him already at the age of 17. Then Marat Safin began to perform in a tour among professionals. He obeyed the first "challenger". From that moment on, a smooth climb of the Russian began in the ranking of athletes. There were two more finals of ATP tournaments, so Safin could immediately break into the top rating.

The next year, the successes were brighter - the first ATP title in the Wed Career in Boston, the final of the Masters in Paris and the top of the best tennis players in the world. In the year, Safin held a good series of soil tournaments: he won in Barcelona and Malorca, played in the final of Masters in Hamburg, reached the quarterfinals of Roland Garros. In the same year, Marat submitted another “Masters” - in Toronto the victory over Samprass, but the coolest achievement at that time was a victory at the opening of the United States.

In the final, the legendary Samps was again beaten. Victories in Tashkent and St. Petersburg, won by Masters in Paris, together with previous triumphs, brought Marat the title of first racket of the world. He stayed with the leader for only 9 weeks, but this does not detract from the athlete's merits. A year later, a decline came. Marat often lost in the early stages, injured his back in the final of the tournament in Dubai.

Only two titles per year and departure of dozens of the best tennis players. Gradually, Safin lost his position, and he finished the year outside the top but already returned to the top five. Safin's career resembles an American slide. In the year, he again won the Grand helmet tournament, becoming the best in Australia, but then the fall and loss in the early stages of the tournament began again.

The trauma of the knee intervened, because of which he missed the ending of the season. Marat did not win more large tournaments, left the limits of the first hundred rating and only twice was able to reach the final of the Kremlin Cup and once on the final of the Hall tournament. But in the main matches, inevitably, was inferior. The Safin prevented the Safin's input and lack of stability.

Despite this, it is Marat - one of the three greatest tennis players in Russia. In his biography, personal life is blanks for headlines of fashion magazines: novels with famous persons, an illegitimate child and at the same time freedom from obligations. His only family is the parents and younger sister of Dinara. But the athlete’s novels often caused a violent discussion in the press.

In the middle of the "zero" potential bride of Safin was designer Dasha Zhukova, who eventually chose Roman Abramovich. Marat met with the famous Russian actress Elena Korikova. The athlete’s mother prevented their union, the whole thing is that Korikova is 8 years older than Safin. Relations with Valeria Yakubovskaya were also unsuccessful. The couple broke up in the year, and the girl Eve was born, whom Marat never recognized as his daughter.

He helped the ex -girlfriend financially until she married a lawyer and millionaire Dmitry Yakubovsky. It was he who took care of the child, he did not deny her anything. Today, a summer girl Eva is actively publishing photos on social networks, in his free time he is engaged in tennis. Whether she is the daughter of Safin or does he still have no children, as if we are unlikely to find out.

Perhaps someday Marat will write his autobiography, where the secret will become obvious. Marat himself admitted in an interview that he did not need a long relationship with girls, and he alone feels much more comfortable. Although it refers to a hobby skeptical. Already after the end of his career in the year, the athlete said that these are new -fashioned, even “glossy” elements of life.And he does not want to come up with a hobby and look like an elevated professional in drawing or anywhere else.

Then Safin served as vice president of the Russian tennis Federation, was engaged in the development and popularization of sports in the regions of the country. In the same interview, Marat noted that he likes to change the situation, so his hobbies can probably be attributed to travel. In general, it turns out that his main feature is inconstancy. Already in Marat, he tried to build a career in politics.

He passed the mandate of the deputy only in the year, after which he continued to deal with his business, sometimes flickering on television. In the year, he even acted as a commentator on the US Open finals, where young Daniil Medvedev tried to beat Raphael Nadal unfortunately, unsuccessfully. The emotional during his career Safin is now periodically consulting domestic athletes - recently began to help Andrei Rublev.

As the tennis player says, Marat helped him understand a lot about himself and the behavior on the court. So, Safin became the gentleman of the Order of Honor. He largely received the state award for the successes on the court and the next work on the popularization of tennis. Marat Safin took 15 titles in total. There could be more victories in his biography, if not for injuries.

In Barcelona, ​​the rival of the Russian became Juan Carlos Ferrero. The Spaniard lost in three sets -, a year later, however, Safin could not protect the title, and Ferherro reached the main match and won. The winner of the Masters “Masters” Safin loved almost as much as competitions in which he could get points for victory. At once, Marat won three titles in Paris on hard courts in, and for the first time the title on Master was taken in Toronto, also in the year.

Another “thousand -year -old” Safin took in Madrid a year. Safin began the tournament in the rank of the 7th racket of the world. Despite this, Marat hardly passed the starting rounds. In the second and third circles, he played all five sets. The Frenchman Sebastian Grozhans was beaten only on a tie-break. Four sets with Nicholas Kifer in the quarterfinals were also difficult. Loss in the second set, swinging in the first and third.

Against this background, the finale and the semifinals came out unique. A step up to the title of Safin in three sets knocked out Todd Martin, and in the final he did something legendary at all, in an hour and a half, having dealt with the samples by a multiple winner of the large helmet tournaments. Only Daniil Medvedev was able to repeat his achievement after 21 years.

At that time, Marat was already exhausted by injuries and lost the status of the best tennis player in the world, but still remained dangerous on the court and periodically occupied a high place in the ranking. In the first round of the tournament, Safin was not anyone, but an absolute legend and record holder Novak Djokovic. True, at that time, the Serb just made his debut at such a large tournament and lost our legend without a chance-, Jokovic’s records came later in Australia later.

The second circle of Safin also passed without problems and won with Ulitrakh. In the third round from the racket of Marat “Pal” Anchich, in the fourth - Rochus. In the quarterfinals, Safin coped with the Slovak Dominic Hrbata. The tennis is considered the duel of Safin and Federrera, who happened in the semifinals of the competition. A year before, tennis players already opposed each other on the “US Open”, but in the final match.

After the first three sets, Safin lost his federrere even had a matchball match in the fourth party, but did not break Safin. The Russian won the final set with the score and went to the final, where he beat Hughitt a little less dramatically; ; ; Safin in paired tournaments won the victories in the paired category - in paired with Roger Federrer, he was able to become the best in competitions in Switzerland, and six years later he won the Kremlin's Cup with Dmitry Tursunov.

The winner of the Davis Cup is in the biography of the Russian and the victory with the national team. Safin took this cup with the national team twice. In the year, his teammates were Evgeny Kafelnikov and Mikhail Yuzhny, they won France in the final. Member of the International Hall of Tennis Glory in the year of Marat for successes on the court brought tennis glory to the hall.

He became the first Russian with such an honorable achievement. In the year, his success was repeated by Evgeny Kafelnikov, Maria Sharapova will also enter there in the year.

In such an early farewell to sports he was pushed by injuries.